Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-08-21

led shortly.
Frederick Layton, aged ninety-two,
the oldest meat packer in the county,
died at Milwaukee following a weeks
illness.
Washington dispatch says the
Carranza government will not be per-
mitted to import further arms and mu-
nitions from the United States for the
present.
Motormen and conductors of the
East st. Louis & Suburban Railway
company and subsidiary lines went on
strike, tying up street car service in
Ii nearby Illinois towns.
The seizure at Kansas City, Mo-, of
$4,000 pounds of beans, said by fed
eral authorities to have been stored
throughout the war; was ordered by
District Attorney Wilson.
Two stills, one of which was warm
from recent operations, were raided in
the basement of the new S1,OOO,OOO
post office now being built at Birming
ham, Ala.
Two automobile bandits held up
Miss Augusta X. Limack, bookkeep-
Ell for a fruit company at Cleveland,
O., and escaped with a $4,000 pay roll
she carried.
A contingent of the CZecho-Slovak
forces that fought with the Italian
army during the war began leaving
Italy for Bohemia, says a Rome dis
patch.
The Canadian wheat board has de-
clded to fix 1926 as the minimum price
fol the 1919 wheat crop, it has been
learned from an unofficial source at
Winnipeg
Records made public at Washing
ton show war contracts still awaiting
liquidation amount to more than $2,-
0OO,O0O,O00, although 80 per cent of
the emergency commitments of the
government have been settled.
Mrs. Freeman Hicks of Joliet, ILL.,,
and her three-year-old son, George,
were drowned in the Illinois and Mich
igan canal ten miles southwest of
Joliet when an automobile in which
they were passengers skidded.
Agents of the investigation branch
of the department of justice at De-
trOit said that in one cOld-StOrage
plant visited a frozen hog was found
which they were told had been in
storage 25 years.
The first of the giants of the trans
atlantic fleet to return to regular pas
senger service, La France of the
French line, arrived at New York from
Havre. La France brought 458 first
class, All second-class and 253 steer
age passengers.
Arthur Hayday, Labor M. P. for
West Nottingham, who was cheered
by the admiring house of commons at
London when he stated that he was
the prouo father of 16 children, has
just been presented with No. II, a
fine, healthy girl.
Twenty million pounds of meats
were reported seized when federal au-
thorities raided the Booth Cold Stor-
age company at st. Louis. Large
stocks of eggs, cheese and other food
stuffs were said to have been located.
The allied governments, according to
a dispatch from Innsbruck have in
formed the Austrian government that
it will be held responsible for Bella
Kun, the Hungarian communist leader,
and for his delivery later for trial for
hanging and shooting Hungarians dur
ing his control in Budapest
MilitarizatiOn of German police, con-
trary to the terms of the treaty of
peace, has already begun, according
to information reaching the American
authorities at Coblenz. In the city of
Cssel the police were recently COM
pletely organized on military lines by
the Prussian government, and are now
equipped with steel helmets and rifles
and follow the routine of a military
company in their barracks