Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-05-22
WORLDS NEWS IN TABLOlDS

An Athens dispatch says Greek
forces landed at Smyrna. The news
was received there with great enthusi-
aSm.
A Paris dispatch says Japan was re-
ported to have recognized the Omsk
government, headed by Admiral Kol-
c5ak.
The Berlin government expects to
collect $S00O,OOO,OO0 in taxes on the
fortunes of great capitalists. The i'm
post becomes operative December 81,
1919.
A COnstantinople dispatch says
that in the fighting which took place
after the landing of Greek troops at
Smyrna on Thursday 800 Turks and
lOO Greeks were killed.
Rev. c. P. Burkholder of Upland,
Pa, was elected moderator Of the
Brethren in Christ church at the gen
eral conference in Antrim church,
near Chambersburg, Pa.
Pilot Max Miller of the air mail
service established record when he
arrived at Chicago after having flown
from Bryan, O., q distance Of $50
miles, in 20, an average speed of 40
miles an hour
Through the efforts of member Of
the federal war tabor board the strike
at Madison, Wis, which started on
! April 1, involving six industrial plants,
was ended at mass meeting by
vote of 478 to 21O
The British forces in AfghaniStan
have occupied Bakka fort, defeating
The Afghans, says a London dispatch.
The capture of tl.e fort has stopped
the menace to LundikOtal and is a
great blow to Afghan prestige.
Fifty-seven cases of influenza, which
developed after the vessel sailed from
Pauillac, France, on May Z, were
brought to Newport News, Va, aboard
the transport Martha Washington,
which arrived with 3,O13 soldiers.
! The jury in the trial at Fand du
Lac, Wis.,, of Raleigh P. Ives, charged
with first degree murder for killing
Herbert Loehr on March 25, reported
dict. Judge Fowler discharged the
jurors.
Twenty million dollars in gifts and
signed pledges of the $1O5,OOO,OOO
sought in the Methodist centenary
campaign have already been received,
it was announced by Charles Sumner
Ward of New York, director general
of the campaign.
The war risk insurance bureau at
Washington, through which 100000
soldiers or their dependents receive
payments of insurance, allotments Or
compensation. is in process of reor-
ganizatiOn through the appointment of
r. A. Cholmley-JOnes, formerly a New
York insurance man.
Sales of surplus subsistence supplies
| held by the army overseas have tOtaled
| $4,000, 600, the war department at
Washington announced. The American
relief commission took goods valued at
$1O,O0O,0O0, the Czecho-Slovak govern
ment $16C00,O0O, Roumania, $14,O0O,-
600, and Poland $1O,O00,OO0.
| carrying unllS OF the Inlfly -SecOnu
diAision, mostly Michigan National
| Guardsmen, the battleship Rhode
Island arrived at Boston. Mayor c.. B.
Brown of Ypsilanti, Mich, headed a
large delegation of Michigan people
who went down the harbOr and gave
the troops big homecoming welcome.
Orders have been issued preparatory
| to the abandonment of the American
eXpeditiOnary force general headquar-
! ters at ChaumOnt, France, the move
ment for the removal Of which is al
ready under way. All the departments
have been ordered to prepare their
records and files for shipment to the
United States.
Washington dispatch says follow
ing his warning that the administra-
| ton of soldiers and sailors insurance,
compensation, allowances and allot-
ments is ION the verge Of breakdown
and failure" Col. Henry D. Lindsey
resigned as director of the bureau of
war risk insurance at the request Of
Secretary of the Treasury Glass.