Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-01-30
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Complete failure of the rOyalist riS-
ing in Portugal is now established, ac-
cording to latest word from Lisbon.
A Managua dispatch says many peo-
pie were killed and injured in a rail
road accident near Masaya, Nicaragua.
Gen. D. Won Winterfeldt, member Of
the German armistice commission, has
resigned, according to advices from
Berlin.
French and Roumanian troops have
entered Kiev, the capital of Ukrainia,
according to a dispatch received at
Vienna.
Vivo, Spain, reports that former King
Manuel entered Portugal at six o'clock
Sunday morning, having crossed the
Mimic river at Caminha1
Czech troops have captured Oder
berg from the Poles after sangulnary
fighting, according to a dispatch from
the Breslau national council.
Hurled 800 feet, Paul Whistler, en-
gineer of Western Pacific freight To-
comotive~ was killed when the boiler
exploded near Portola, Cal.
The bodies of DR.. Karl Liebknecht
and 33 other Spartacans killed during
the recent disorders were buried at
F'riedrichsfelde, near Berlin, Saturday.
A Copenhagen dispatch says fresh
strikes have broken out in Germany.
The railway service is practically at
standstill and a huge industrial tie
up is threatened.
A Washington dispatch says on the
day that the armistice was signed the
American army on the western front
was second in strength only to that or
France itself.
With the announcement that they
had more flour on hand at present than
can be sold, the Pillsbury flour mills at
Minneapolis, Mimi, shut down for the
first time in months.
An Amsterdam dispatch says Brit
ish forces have advanced from Baku
and occupied the Trans Caucasian rail-
way, also occupying Petroysk and AS
trakhan, at the mouth Of the Volga.
To solve the problem of unemployed
discharged soldiers, the war depart
ment at Washington has ordered that
no man be discharged from the army
against his desire until such time as
he can obtain employment in civil life.
Revocation of President Wilson's
power to return railroads under gov
eminent control to their private own
ers at any time within q months after
peace is declared was proposed in a
bill introduced at Washington by Senae
tor Cummins of Iowa.
Gen. Won Hoetzendorff, former Aus
TRAN chief of staff, said in an inter
view at Vienna that he was forced to
relihquish his command because he in
sisted that all military efforts be con-
centrated against Italy. 'rThe defeat
of. Italy would have meant the col
lapse of the entente" he declared.
A Berlin dispatch says the New Ber-
liner Zeitung says it learns the gov
eminent is actually occupied with mill
tary preparations for an expected boil
shevik invasion early in the spring and
that it expects to receive the necessary
added authority from the national as
sembly to mobilize two effective armies
which are to be sent to East Prussia
and Silesia.
Savings of more than $4,000, 100000
in the contemplated war expenditures
of the war and navy departments were
reported to congress at Washington in
q bill framed by the house appropria-
tons committee. The measure pro-
vides for the cancellation of army and
navy contracts aggregating $7,179, 1885,
GA and for the withdrawal of author
ity for the departments to obligate the
government for 1921 ,O29,294 addi-
tional.