Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-05-15
WURLD'S NEWS IN TABLOIDS

Government troops have occupied
Leipzig. it was announced at Berlin.
Premier Chamorro Of Nicaragua has
been warned by the American govern
ment against attempting any invasion
OF Costa RIGA.
designations of the members of the
industrial board of the department of
commerce were accepted by Secretary
Redfield at Washington.
Tentative arrangements are being
made at Archangel to begin the with
drawal of American troops from
North Russia early in June. :
A Rome dispatch says that, by min
isterial decree, workers on the Italian
railways are to have an eight-hour
day, with one day off duty weekly.
Hard, but just" is the way Will
liam Jennings Bryan, engaged by the
American Biblical alliance to speak at
Green Bay, Wis, characterized the
peace terms.
The Victory loan committee at San
Juan reported total subscriptions OF
S1,5O0,OO0. 1t is announced that there
is an increasing interest in the loan
in Porto Rico.
A Berlin dispatch says sentiment
throughout Germany is solid against
signing the peace. The treaty is de-
nounced as leaving Germany nothing
but skeleton. !:
The trial of the alleged murderers
Of Dr. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Lux
emburg. the radical socialist leaders,,
was begun at Berlin, with Gen. Won
HOFFMAN, presiding.
A Berlin dispatch says big demon
STATIONS against the signing of the
peace treaty by Germany were held in
Berlin, Breslau, Danzig, Koenigsberg,
Cassel, Bochum and other places. !.
The cost of the essentials of life
which has assumed such proportions
of Oppresiveness will soon be reduced,
according to a statement issued ut;
New York by Julius Barnes, United
States wheat director. !
Appropriations by the American Red
Cross during the year ended June. 80,
1918, for it's work overseas and at
home totaled $1O7, 716 .348, according
to the annual report of the society sub
mitted to Secretary Baker at Wash
ington.
Germany's reply to the terms of
a proposal ''for peace Of right on the
basis Of lasting peace Of the nations"
according to proclamation to the
German people issued at Berlin by
President Ebert.
A Washington dispatch says perma-
nent acquisition of the 80 former Ger
man ships under the Paris agreement
secures the position Of the United
States as the second maritime power
in the world. Great Britain, of course,
ranks first, and Japan is third.
With the number of applicants for
European passports increasing daily,
the state department at Washington
has issued a statement reiteratfng that
passports would be refused to all per-
sons whose applications the depart
ment believes were not made In good
faith
A method of disposing of about
1O0OO0,00O cans Of beef and Of more
than 100000 pounds of bacon in
Guided in the surplus food stocks Of
the army has been agreed upon be-
tween the war department at Wash
ington and representatives of the
packing industry.
Ten thousand bOlshevik war prison.
ers, 80 guns and 26O machine guns
have been captured by Admiral Kol-
chak's Siberian army in the latest
burst of fighting west of Ufa, the
Omsk Siberian government announced.
In addition two armOred trains, so
locomotives and 200 river craft of va
riOus kind were seized.