Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-01-23
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

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teen years Old
Disorders in Hamburg, in which sew
eral persons were killed and others
wounded, are reported from Zurich.
White Russia has proclaimed its
union with the Russian soviet republic,
according to a dispatch from Kev.
The German armistice has been ex-
tended one month by tie commission
ers, who have concluded their session
at Treves.
Frederick Layton, one hundred years
old, committed suicide by hanging
himself with a rope made from a bed
sheet at his home in Philadelphia.
The name of the next war loan Will
be "the Victory Liberty loan," Secre-
tary Glass announced at Washington.
The exact date has not been fixed.
A London dispatch says an outbreak
Of cholera in Hamburg is reported by
the Exchange Telegraph correspond
emf. Seventy fatal cases have occur
red.
The bill designating the California
giant redwood district as "RooseVelt
National park" was passed unanimous
~ by the senate at Washington, ana
now goes to the house.
A Denver (Colo.) dispatch says 80
Presbyterian elders and clergymen
have adopted a report declaring the
Tiff School of Theology and Denver
university to be "hotbeds of infidelity."
An Amsterdam dispatch says the
Lokal Anzieger Of Berlin says 1t
learns the Ebert-Scheldemann govern
ment has finally decided not to hold
the national assembly, for which cleo
tons are going on.
President Wilson cabled to Secretary
Tumulty at Washington his approval
of the proposal to hold Roosevelt me-
mortal meetings throughout the coun-
try on February 9, simultaneously with
the joint memorial services in con-
gress.
A Berne dispatch says the German
military command, in announcing the
said that the advancing Russians also
had occupied Boheljdhi, Schaulan, Tux
KUN and Golduz, in the region west
and southwest of Riga.
President Wilson was the guest of
the French senate at luncheon at
Paris. He was greeted by AntOnin
DubOst, president of the senate, who
made an eulogistic address, in which
he said that the senate welcomed the
American president and his ideas.
Many British soldiers homeward
bound from German prison camps are
frightfully emaciated from the bad
treatment they have received, and
many will never see their homes, &C.
cording to a dispatch received from
Copenhagen. Nineteen were buried in
Danish graves.
A mob gathered at the Jail at Hills
boro, Tex, battered down the doors,
took Bragg Williams, negro, to the
corner Of the public square and burned
him to<death. Williams was sentenced
to be hanged February p for the MUIR
der of Mrs. George Wells and her child
December 2, 1918.
Grave election riots took place in
Germany, where the people were vot-
ing to choose members of the national
assembly. A general strike has been
declared at Leipsic, which is without
gas and water, according to Copen-
hagen advices to the London Exchange
Telegraph company.
The "big ive"-American, Britain,
France, Italy and Japan-will be the
dominating powwers at the peace con-
ference, says a Paris dispatch. They
will take part in all meetings and COM
missions. The other powers actively
engaged in the war against the cen
trail powers will attend sittings at
which questions concerning them are
discussed Among these nations are
Belgium, Brazil, China, Greece, Poland,
Portugal, Roumania, Serbia and the
Czecho-Slovaks.