Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-09-04
VIEWS IN ABRIDGED FORM

Andrew Sockalexis, famous Indian
runner, dieds> at Oxford, Me-, from
tubercular meningitis.
Twenty thefts of automobiles dur
, Tag "A hours were reported to the de-
tective bureau at Chicago.
The Poles have captured the forti-
fed town Of Bobruisk, So miles south
east Of Minsk, land 500 prisoners. says
Polish Official bulletin.
Gen. John J. Pershing, commander
of the American evolutionary forces,
sailed from Brest on the transport Lee
viathan for the United States.
Forty thousand Italian soldiers SEN
fenced to long periods of Imprisonment
during the war, were granted amnesty
by King Victor Emmanuel at Rome.
President Wilson will visit 80 cities
during HIS tour of the country in the
interest of the peace treaty and will
be absent from Washington until Sep
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Reports fromsBudapest say that the
! crops in Roumania are the largest in
70 years. The Germans are already
offering 10000 marks a carload of 20
tons of wheat.
Carl A. Larson, widely known as
referee of wrestling matches, was killed
at Rockford, ILL.,, when an automobile
in which he was riding crashed into
horse and carriage.
Deposits in the savings banks of ST.
IBERIA continue to increase. During
the month of July the increase
amounted to 25OOO,OOO ru6les, accord
ing to an Omsk dispatch.
A Paris dispatch says a German
army of 10000 men, with modern
equipment and 300 airplanes, has as
sembled in Lithuania to march into
Russia to help Admiral Kolchak
Return of the giant transport Levia-
than to the shipping board for use in
the transatlantic freight and passen-
ger trade is being considered by the
war department at Washington.
The prince of Wales may not reach
Washington until the middle of Novem-
Der, the state department announced,
because Of the extended program for
his entertainment in Canada.
Favorable report without amend
men was ordered by the senate judi
ciary committee at Washington upon
the house hill providing for the in
corporation of the American Legion.
Plans for an organized tour of Re-
publican speakers in the wake of Pres
dent Wilson's transcOntinental tour
were abandoned at a conference of
Republican senator's at Washington.
A Berlin dispatch says DR.. Haniel
Won Haimhausen, former counselor of
the German embassy at Washington,
has been selected for appointment as
German ambassador to the United
States.
An American army citation for
prompt and intelligent action" in a
.rOOp train wreck in France has been
awarded Miss Anna P. Whelpley Of
Caldwell, N. j., an American Red
Cross nurse.
President Wilson at Washington de-
lined to give the senate foreign rela-
ions committee the tentative drafts
# treaties with Austria, Hungary.
turkey and Bulgaria, as requested by
he committee.
A Coblenz dispatch says French
roOps are in complete control of the
ituation at Ludwigshaven, where an
lttempt to establish an Independent
epublic in the Palatinate appears to
lave come to a head.
The task of paying the $50 bonus to
discharged soldiers is 90 per cent. COM
,lete, it was announced at Washing
on. Payments have been made to
,574,O00 soldiers who were dis
harged without having received it.
Robin J. Cooper, Nashville (Tenn.)
awyer, who was acquitted Of the MUIR
Ter of former Senator Edward w.
Carmack in 1908, after a sensational
rial, was found dead in Richland
reek, near his home in Belle Mende
park.
Suspension of all strikes throughout
he United States and the declaration
# a labor truce on the basis Of the
tatus quo for six months or more is
recommended in a report of a COM
nittee Of the New York State Fedora
ion Of Labor made public at New