Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-07-24
NEWS FROM FAR AND NEAR


cuts half dollar in Rockford Qll.)
shops, beginning August 1.
Records to date show that 23O,66
men and 1902 officers have been han.
died by the discharge mill at Camp
Grant.
1t is reported from Piura, Peru, that
yellow fever has broken out there
There have been many victims of the
disease.
The interallied council at Paris re
fused Italy's request that the Austrian
concession at Tientsin, China. be
transferred to her.
In a vote in the chamber of deputies
at Paris, following interpretations on
the high cost of living, the government
was in the minority by IA votes.
The telephone strike which has tied
up service in San Francisco and every
city along the Pacific coast for five
weeks, has been officially ended.
By vote of 165 to 1913 the house at
Washington struck out from the re-
the rider repeating daylight saving.
The government last year sold more
than $1OOO,OOO,OOO Of War Savings
stamps, or the equivalent of $40 pei
capita, says a Washington dispatch.
Jimmy Wilde, the British fyweight
champion, won a decision against Pa
Moore, the American bantam, or
points in their 2O-round bout at Lon
don.
James Bradley Orman, former gov.
ernOr of Colorado and a pioneer ir
Western railroad and irrigation pro
jects, died at Pueblo, aged siXty-nine
years.
The electoral committee of the sen,
ate at Paris decided to report unfa
vOrably the bill adopted by the cham
Der of deputies giving the vote to
women.
James A. Hart, for many years pres
ident of the Chicago National League
Baseball club and life member of the
National league, died at his home in
Chicago.
Seven hundred and sixty-eight bot
ties of homemade beer and eighteen
pints of whisky were confscated fol
lowing a raid on a cottage at Michigan
Center Mich.
The state of siege in Pomerania has
been raised, according to advices re
ceived at Copenhagen. from Stettin
The cOunter-strike of citizens in Stet
tin has ended.
Wage increases to 1925 day, which
was the scale paid before a cut in pay
last winter, were announced at Wal
lace, IdahO by metal mines of the
Occur d'Alene district.
President Wilson at Washington
signed an executive order increasing
the guaranteed price for the 1915
wheat crop to $3.50 a bushel at Gal.
weston and New Orleans.
Workers on the surface, elevated
and subway car lines, and also cleo.
tricianS and gas workers at Berlin
went on strike in sympathy with the
international demonstration.
Negroes in riots at Washington shot
and killed a detective and wounded
marine within a stones throw of the
White House. Several of the blacks
were wounded in different clashes.
Carrying increased appropriations
for the rehabilitation of disabled SOL
diers, sailors and marines, the $685.
100000 sundry civil appropriation bill
was passed by the senate at Wash
lngtOn.
The Mexican government has in
formed the state department at Wash
ingtOn that it will exhaust all means
to prosecute and punish the bandits
who murdered John w. Correll, an
American citizen.
Officials of the federal prison at
Leavenworth will begin thorough in
vestigatiOn of the fire which damaged
the west cell wing Saturday night, be-
lieving that the fire was Of incendiary
origin. The damage is estimated at
100000.
German espionage is reported from
Warsaw to be thriving throughout Po-
and. The Polish government has for
hidden the sale of German newspapers
and also has prohibited the publica-
ton of personal and family announce
ments, except death notices.