Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-04-17
WORLDS NEWS IN TABL0lDS

The Interallied club will hold re'
ception at Paris In honor OF MIS-
Woodrow Wilson.
A Millen (Ga.) dispatch says seven
fatalities were reported in race riots
at Buckhead Church.
The grave diggers in Stettin nave
gone On strike. AS consequence
many bodies remain unburied.
The French liner ROchambeau and
the American transport FlOridian ar
rived at New York with 2,461 troops.
The bolshevik forces On the Muir
mansk front have retreated from the
Urod district, a Moscow wireless mes
sage picked up at London admits.
Word has been received at Third
army headquarters at Coblenz that
Lieut.. Gen. Hunter. L. Eiggett's First
army will be dissolved on April 20.
A New York report that the British
government had acquired control OF
the Cowdray oil interests in Mexico is
met with a denial issued by Reuters,
Ltd.
A London dispatch says the Paris
correspondent of the Mail reported
that France will get 70 per cent OF the
total reparations collected from Ger
many.
Premier Lloyd George, leaving
Paris for London, said that "every-
thing is going ahead" and that he is
swell pleased with what has been &C.
cOmplished."
The imperial treasury at Berlin Is
paying an average of 1O9,00OOOO marks
($27 ,OOO,0OO) monthly to maintain the
armies of occupation, it was an
nounced here.
Government troops are reported at
Berlin to have entered Essen and to
have occupied the Krupp plant, which,
according to previous reports had
been seized by the Essen strikers.
The advance of the bOlshevik1 Is
likely to force the allies to evacuate
SebastOpol, on the Black sea, near the
southern extremity of the Crimea, &C
cording to the Paris Instransigeant.
Militant suffragists added their
voice to demands for immediate call
ing of an extra session Of congress
when they announced at Washington
that they will picket the White House.
-Four American missionaries IN
Seoul. capital of Korea, have been ar
rested by the Japanese in connection
with the Korean revolution, according
to information received at San Fran
cisco.
A SalOnilIi dispatch says Greeks en-
gagged in demonstrations near the city
Of Strumnitza have been fired upon by
Bulgarian police sent from that place,
according to reports reaching this city.
No details as to the casualties have
been learned.
A reduction of working hours in or
der to provide work for the unem-
ployed is recommended by the Trades
Hall council of Melbourne. The or
ganization has inaugurated a move
hour week in all industries in Austria
liza.
The first official figures of the Ger
man losses during the war have been
made public by Doctor Rubner, privy
councillor Of Prussia, at Berlin. The
number Of soldiers killed outright or
died of wounds was 1,486,952. Soldiers
who died of sickness total 134OS2.
The total number of civilians who died
from sickness due to malnutritiOn was
500 100.
The Atlantic fleet, comprising in
ships and tonnage the greater part OF
the "Victory Armada" ordered to New
York to give 10000 sailors and ma
rines vacation on home shores,
steamed into the harbor. With it's ar
rival the greatest assemblage of war
craft ever seen in an American port
1913 vessels-rode at anchor in the
North river.
A Copenhagen dispatch says Herr
Mourning, war minister in the govern
mcnt of Saxony, was killed at Dresden
by disgruntled soldiers to whom the
minister had refused a hearing. The
war ministry was stormed by demon
strators, who dragged out Herr Neur-
ing and threw him into the Elbe,
where he was shot and killed as he
tried to swim to the bank.