Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-08-14
BRIEF ITEMS OF THE NEWS

Three men held up the State bank
at Lake Elmo. Mimi. ana escaped
with $4,000.
A decree prohibiting the expectation
of sugar was promulgated by the Ar
gentine government AT Buenos Aires,
The strike on the tramways of Liver
pool was Sestled. Work was resumed
at once.
The chamber of deputies ut Brussels
| unanimously ratified the peace treaty
with Germany.
A Lisbon dispatch says Antonio Al
media was elected president of the
Portuguese republic.
British destroyers have sunk boil
shevist submarine in the Baltic. the
admiralty at London announced.
The allies mission in Budapest dele
gated governmental authority to Arch
duke Joseph when the Peidil govern
ment resigned.
Between sixty and eighty soldiers
were killed and 200 wounded in the
fighting during food riots at Chemnitz,
! SaXony.
Peace has been made between Great
Britain and Afghanistan. peace
agreement was signed al London, 1t is
officially announced.
Joe Ridgeway, who was severely
cut in the street car riots Tuesday
night at Muskegon, Mich. died. the
first victim of the disorder.
A resolution setting forth Chile's
acceptance of the League OF Nations
covenant was approved by the senate
at Santiago de Chila without dis
senting vote.
About 600 employees of Cudahy
Bros company packing plant at Mil
waukee went on strike demanding rec
oemition of their union. the mems lead
ers announced.
H. j. Brown and Arthur ]. Clements,
} charged with embezzlement of $4,000
from the Alamo National bank, were
held at San Antonio, Tex. under $10,-
600 bond each
A Liverpool dispatch says the Brit
ish government has Communicated all
stocks of bacon, lard and hams and
has reimposed the control Of al pro-
vision prices.
Scott Ferris representative in con.
gress for 13 years, has announced at
! Oklahoma City he will be a candidate
for senator in 1920 to succeed Thomas
1 f. Gore.
Ninety per cent of the striking min
ers in the Belleville district returned
to work, Frank Harrington president
of the Illinois Mine Workers, an
nounced at Springfield, III.
Governor Philip mt Madison. Wis.
issued a proclamation to the people of
! the state asking that dealers In the
necessities Of life desist from charging
abnormal prices.
Negroes employed on paving work
a. Lexington, IT'S miles west of Lin
coin. Neb., were forced to leave town
by white mob. A negro shack was
riddled with bullets.
A $l0000,000 program of construc-
ton was decided on by the municipal
council of Santiago, Chile, in order to
/ give work to the unemployed and al
leyiate the social unrest.
Mr.. and Mrs. George NJ. McMasters
We're instantly killed and Mr. and Mrs.
John Conda were seriously injured
when a Chicago, Burlington < Quincy
train crashed into their automobile a
few miles from Kewanee, III.
Hoarded food stocks will be taken
over by the government and placed
upon the market TO help re-establish
the operation of the law OF supply and
! demand. the department of justice
made known at Washington.
The country's corn crop showed a
decrease of 27,052,0O0 bushels as a re-
suit of weather and other conditions
during July, according to report is
sued by the department of agriculture
at Washington.