Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-08-28
NEWS IN ABRIDGED FORM


| termed Germans were shipped from
Canada to Rotterdam last week.
The 1850 bank clerks of Boston are
organizing union, following the re-
. cent lead of the bank workers in New
York city.
Increased wages for all postal en-
ployees will be authorized by the
house at Washington within the next
two weeks
Pullman company for an annual rental
Washington signed II contract with the
Pullman company for an ANIMAL rental
of 100000.
ROumania can export over 1OO,UO
truckloads of corn in 1919, according
to an announcement Of the RoHman-
ian press bureau in Berne.
State Representative w. III. III. Mil
Ter of Champaign, Ill.,. announced that
he would be a candidate for state
treasurer at the next general election.
Prohibition scored again. The SEN
ate at Washington passed Il bill pro-
m5iting the sale and use of intOXicat-
ing liquors in the Panama canal zone.
Increases of approximately 100 per
cent in the prices OF raisins were
made public by the directors of the
California Associated Raisin company
at Fresno, Ci..
The federal trade commission at
Washington has begun an investiga-
Of loi ohor ui
the sale of wildcat" oil stocks in the
Texas oil fields.
The army transport Dix, carrying
1000 troops for Siberian replacement,
is swinging idly at army docks at San
Francisco, her departure delayed by a
| strike of her crew.
A Paris dispatch says Cadi Cher
chell Taleb HOhammed has been ap-
pointed French envoy plenipotentiary
to the king of HedjaZ and will leave
Algiers for Beirut.
EnricO Caruso, the tenor, who will
arrive at New York in few days
from Naples, will be met with an Of
fer of $4,000 night for ten nights
AAOLu I11C Olty VI McAlCO.
Four Columbus (Ohio) baking COM
panies, together with five officials Of the
companies, were indicted for violating
the Valentine antitrust law by the
Franklin county grand jury.
The Siberian army is retiring and
forming behind the Tobol to give a
warm reception to venturesOme In
vaders Admiral Kolchak is visiting
the lines, according to an Omsk dis
patch.
VladivOstOk is surrounded by in
surgents and the town is filled with
refugees, according to a bOlshevik
wireless received at London. 1t states
that japanese squadron has arrived
at Vladivostok.
A walkout of the stage hands and
musicians, ordered in sympathy with
the striking actors, made performances
an impossibility at Chicago. Every
theater was closed, except vaudeville,
burlesque and movie houses.
A meeting at st. Louis of general
chairmen and officers of the Order of
Railroad Telegl aphers to formulate de-
mands for increased wages will be
held September 1. The organization
has membership of $4,000 railroad
telegraphers.
Without any change more important
| than the insertion Of a. semicOlOn, the
federal food control act was passed
by the house at Washington as pro-
posed by the attorney general. There
was no roll call on any of it's provi-
sions. A penalty of $4,000 fine or two
years. Imprisonment is provided.
Rioting broke out at Pittsburgh, Pa,
when the receivers of the Pittsburgh
Railways company began operating
trolley cars for the first time since the
Garments strike began IL days ago.
Three cars, the only ones to leave the
| barns, were stoned and windows
smashed. Rioters in automobile
| trucks fired into crowds.
American aviators made Jesus Rem
terra, bandit leader, pay in full for his
| treatment of Lieuts. Peterson and
Davis, held for ransom by the Mexican,
| when Lieut.. r. H. Cooper killed Rem
| terra from an airplane, according to
statements made at Maria, Tex, by
Maj. James P. Yancey, commander of
| the United States punitive expedition.
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