Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-03-13
TABLOIDS OF WORLDS NEWS

Brewers Of Boston are planning to-
become candy makers after July 1.
a movement to introduce divorce IN
Italy was defeated in the chamber of
deputies at Rome by large majority.
Future credits to the allies now are
limited to $1,158,OOO,OOO, the unused
portion of the $4,000, 100000 appropri-
ated. according to report issued by
the treasury at Washington.
High explosives worth S100OO,OO0
and consisting largely of T. n. T. have
been turned over by the Washington
war department to the interior depart
ment for construction purposes.
A New York dispatch says Maj.
Reuben F. Fleet and Capt. Earl f.
White hold new American aviation
record for speed, having covered 664
miles in hours and 33 minutes.
Secretary of War Baker will sail
eOr France about April 1, to be absent
month, it was learned authoritative
ly, in order to close up the business
operations of the expeditionary forces.
Statistics compiled by the war de-
partment at Washington show that
from the date of the entry Of the
United States into the war to Febru-
airy q, 1919, there were $50 suicides in
the army.
A Washington dispatch says Liberia
has advised the American government
that the former Germman wireless
station at Monrovia has been opened
with Liberian staff for general pub
lie service.
The bandit who held up the Silver
Lake (Wis.) bank shortly after noon
Monday, locking the cashier and book
keeper in the vault, and escaped with
$4,000, was shot and killed by posse
under Sheriff Joseph Meyer of Keno
sha, Wis.
Moscow, under the bolsheviks, is de-
scribed by travellers arriving at Berne
from the East as IAN abode Of mani
acs." The bourgeois prisoners are led
from prisons by their bolshevik jail
ers and shot in public for the amuse.
| ment of the mobs.
Five hundred and thirteen persons
accused Of violating the federal law
prohibiting the transportation Of in
toxicating liquor from wet territory Of
Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky, into dry
Indiana were arraigned in United
States district court at Indianapolis.
Two hundred Spartacans taken pris-
oner in the past weeks rebellion were
summarily executed at Berlin by gov
eminent troops. They were lined up
against the wall one by one. 1t was
the grimmest and most grewsome
wholesale execution in German history.
The Tidewater Boatman's union of
New York, whose membership is $500,
accepted the railroad administrations
terms and declared the harbor strike
off, so far as it was concerned. The
men will receive $110 a month, a pay
increase of about 500 as against $50
demanded.
Secretary Daniels at Washington
directed suspension of work on the
six great battle-cruisers authorized in
1916 until he and the American naval
experts have decided on the future
type of American capital ships in the
light of information they will obtain
on their projected trip to Great Brit
ain, France and Italy.
Admiral Sims, commander of the
American naval forces in European
waters, in talking Of the incident at
the Eagle hut at London which result
ed in fighting between United States
sailors and London police, was in
clined to deprecate the affair and to
regard it as a sporadic occurrence
without significance.