Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-04-24
WORLDS NEWS IN TABLOIDS

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baseball and moving picture shows.
The United States transport George
Washington, W hich sailed from New
; York for France on the orders of Pres
1dent Wilson, has arrived at Brest.
Des lIoines, Ia. was selected for the
next meeting place of the general con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church at a session of the book COM
mittee at Cincinnati.
A Paris dispatch says the grave of
Lieut.. Victor Chapman, the first Amer
lean killed in the French air service in
the early days of the war, has been
located at Haumont, north of Verdun.
German troops have attacked the
American Red Cross mission at Kov-
no, Lithuania, according to a cable
gram received at New York by the
Lithuanian national council from its
Paris representative.
Every German town and city which
had its own garrison, of which it has
been proud for decades, has been Off
c;ally notified by the national assem-.
bly, that it has been decided to dis
band the German army.
A Seaplane used in the Victory loan
campaign plunged into Lake Michigan
off Chicago, as it's pilot was trying to
make a landing. The aviator, Lieu
tenant Brown, and his mechanic, Rob
ert Lee, were both rescued.
A Paris dispatch says military ex-
perts under the direction of Marshal
Foch have been charged with the
drafting of report on what should be
done in the event that Germany re-
fuses to sign the treaty of peace.
Five persons, comprising an entire
family, were found dead in their home
on the West Side at Detroit, Mich, APP
parently as the result of ptomaine poi
soning. The dead are James Deluvio,
his wife, infant son, brother and aged
father.
The first days sales in Chicago of
the ''best bond ever offered anywhere"
the Victory bond, amounted to more
than $17,5O0,O0O, or almost twice the
daily quota necessary to gather in 20
days the total subscription of $780,
225,OGO.
More than $16,OOOOOO worth of re-
turned checks are now in the hands of
the war risk bureau at Washington,
many of them marked unknown" or
unclaimed" as the result of the fail
ure of allottees to notify the bureau
of changed addresses.
Belgiums war damages, for which
it is contended an indemnity should be
collected from Germany, are placed at
$7,O0O,00O,OO0 in a report made by the
central industrial committee at Brus-
sells, which has completed an investi-
cation of the subject
A Paris dispatch says the council of
four has notified Germany that the as
ISOLATED powers cannot receive mes
senger representatives at Versailles
who are merely messengers. The Ger
man government must appoint repre-
sentatives with plenipotentiary pow
ers
Control Of Vienna has been taken
over by the soldiers council Quiet
prevails, but commanding of the prop
erty Of those unable to resist has been
begun. 1t is possible there will be no
change in the name of the govern
ment, but it will be bolshevistic in pur-
pose.
The first gun in the long advertised
campaign of bOlshevism in Britain was
fired at Sheffield, where the British So
cialists' annual convention, at it's open
ing session, passed resolution urg
ing the establishment of a British
soviet government, says London dis
patch.
Detroit claims the honor of being
the first large city to exceed it's Vic
tory loan quota, the figures reaching
100000 at 4 10 o'clock Monday
afternoon against a quota of $50, 4O4,-
is, it was announced officially. An,
effort will be made to double the
quota.
The general strike at Limerick, Ire
land, incident to the proclamation of
Limerick as a military area, assumed
a new and interesting phase, when the
finance commission of the Limerick
trades and labor council announced
that it was preparing to issue it's own
money.