Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-10-30
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Four American torpedo boats, Nos.
Ill, 1873, 137 and 167, have arrived
at Messina, Italy.
President Karl Seitz of the Austrian
republic signed the treaty OF peace
with the allied and associated govern
ments at Vienna.
| Sir Ernest Albert Waterlow, former
president of the Royal Society OF
Painters in Water Colors, died at
Hampstead, England.
Expenses of the international labor
conference at Washington are being
| paid directly out of the treasury OF
| the League of Nations.
Governor Lowden of Illinois issued
statement at Springfield indorslng
President Wilson's. stand in reference
to the threatened coal strike.
Official statistics at Paris show that
an average of 100000 month has
! changed, hands at the French race
| courses since the signing of the arms
| tice.
Whisky valued at $4,000 was stolen
| at st. Louis. Robbers entered the
government bonded warehouse ana,
according to police, carted away many
| barrels.
Pierre Lenoir, convicted of having
| reasonable dealings with the Germans
during the war, was executed at Paris.
He was shot as he sat in chair, being
| too i'll to stand.
Hiram ]. Dunlap, aged seventy
| eight, formerly in the United States
consular service and prominent in pol
itics and journalism in Illinois, died at
his home at Kankakee, I'll.
Scores of persons were injured in a
| pitched battle between 1000 striking
longshoremen and several hundred
| men who were on their way to work
| at the Bush Terminal docks in Brook
Ign.
The monitor Erebus is bombarding
the fortress of Kronstadt and Kras-
| palaGorka with 15-inch shells weigh
| ing two tons each from 16-mile
| range, according to a Helsingfors dis
| patch.
King Albert visited the grave Of
Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, n.
7. Kneeling in the graveyard near
! the Roosevelt home, the king bowed
his head and placed wreath upon
| the mound.
| Governor Cox of Ohio suspended
Charles e. Pooriman of Canton, for
alleged inefficiency in handling steel
| strike riots and appealed to a commit
tee of business men to support Vice
Mayor Schrantz.
The former Nancy Langhorne of
Virginia, now Viscountess Astor, will be
candidate for election to seat in
the British parliament, representing
Plymouth. What is more, she will
doubtless be elected.
Portugal has made no concession for
naval base to the United States in
the Azores, as stated at Lisbon, says
Secretary Daniels at Washington, and
the navy department has no intention
Of establishing one there.
More than 1900 members of the
| American Iron and Steel institute at q
meeting at New York unanimously
adopted a resolution indorsing the
stand taken by Ebert II. Gary at the
Washington industrial conference.
With 60 woman volunteers acting as
pickets about the Gary plants, the rail
mill of the Indiana steel works COM
menced operations for the first time
since the strike started. Damages
which were discovered in it's machin-
cry were repaired.
William o. Jenkins, the American
consular agent at Puebla, who was
kidnapped October 10 by Mexican
bandits, was released after payment
of ransom, the state department at
Washington was advised by the Amer
lean embassy at Mexico City.
Holding that Representative-elect
Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin was dis
loyal and gave aid and comfort to the
enemy of the United States, the special
committee of the house for investiga-
ton of his title to his seat at Wash
ington recommended that he be ex-
Guided.