Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-09-25
NEWS OF WORLD EPITOMIZED

Fifty thousand iron foundry workers
went on strike at London.
The Japanese embassy at Rome de-
MED reports that a secret treaty be-
tween Germany and Japan exists.
A Dublin dispatch says fairs. mar
kets and professions have been forbid
den In Counties Tipperary and Galway.
st. Paul won the American asSOcia-
ton pennant by taking one game of
the double-header with Columbus Mon
day.
Houston Thompson of Colorado was
reappointed by President Wilson as a
member of the federal trade commits
sion at Washington.
Reports from IS state organizations
received at headquarters of the Ameri-
can Legion at New York showed to-
tai membership of 100000.
Lady Beatty, formerly Ethel Field
of Chicago, has begun campaign for
a 100000 maternity home for the
wives of British sailors at London.
William FL. Frank, millionaire brew
er a...d former mayor of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, announced his intention of going
to Switzerland to escape prohibition.
D. A. Gwartney and Edwin Birnie,
both of Long Beach, were killed when
the airplane in which they were flying
near Long Beach. CAL, crashed to the
earth.
The Polish bureau at Berne an
nouhces that the Polish army has
achieved Il complete victory over the
bolsheviki after ten days battle on
the Duna river.
Reynolds newspaper OF London
which frequently gets exclusive tips"
Of important society doings, prints a
report that General Pershing is en-
gagged to an American woman.
Agricultural interests are organic
ing for determined drive ION con-
gress, at Washington for the, passage
of the Capper-Hersman bill permitting
collective bargaining by farmers.
The rush of applications by Ger
mans for passage to South America
is so great that announcement has
just been made at Berlin that passage
facilities are taken up to February.
Cincinnati won the toss for the
opening game of the world series at
the meeting of the national baseball
Nh0 f1scsf
game Will be played Wednesday, Octo'
Der 1.
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan
iels, who has been with the Pacific fleet
for about six weeks, returned to Wash
ington from Seattle. Wash. Mr.. Dan.
iels will resume charge at the navy
department.
The city of Corpus Christi and
Neches, San Patricio and Arkansas coun-
ties, which were swept by the tropical
hurricane, were placed under martial
law by proclamation of Gov. w. P.
Hobby at Austin.
An order providing for the discon-
tinuance Of night studying at home by
pupils of Kansas public schools has
been issuedsby Miss Lorraine q. Woo.
ster, state superintendent of public In
struction, at Topeka.
The committee on foreign affairs OF
the national assembly has decided, ac-
cording to the Berlin Tageblatt, to null
lily article 81 Of the constitution by
which Austria would be given repre-.
sentation in the German reichstag.
Fiume Is isolated from the rest OF
the world. All telegraph and telephone
wires are out, italian warships are
blockading the port. The censorship
is in force again and most of the round
about news from Fiume is being sup.
pressed, says Rome dispatch.
The Spanish passenger steamer Val
banera. bound from Spain to Havana
and missing since the gulf hurricane,
sank in 40 feet of water after going
aground in quicksand at Half Moon
Key, reports received at Key West,
Fla, stated. The fate of the passen-
gers, said to number 300, and the crew
Of $50 has not been learned.
A Kingsville, Tex dispatch says
food conditions along the lower course
of the Rio Grande for a distance of
more than 100 miles are the worst in
the history of that cratic stream. The
river is 40 to so miles wide and has
inundated all Of the towns and vii
lagos on both sides except those stu.
ated upon comparatively high ground.