Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-08-07
BRIEF ITEMS OF THE NEWS

1tiotous crowds were driven from
the streets of Liverpool by troops
charging with fixed bayonets.
More than 100000 railroad shopmen
in Chicago and the district embraced
in q 20O-mile radius were called on
strike.
Roumanian troops have entered the
suburbs Of Budapest, according to
dispatch received at Paris from Vi
emma.
Bella Kun, who resigned his virtual
dictatorship of Hungary, is said to
have arrived at Vienna as fireman on
a freight train.
George Layer of Cedar Rapids, Ia,
died of broken neck, received when
he dove into the Mississippi river from
diving board at East Lynne.
Henry Ford in an interview at SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, said: II will make ma
chinery next which will boil down a
years work on the farm to 20 days."
A Helsingfors dispatch says Vas
netsOv, the famous Russian artist, has
been shot by the bolshevists at Mos
COW. He was seventy-eight years old.
Manitowos (Wis.) brewers will COM
mence brewing real beer as soon as
licenses are granted them from the in
ternal revenue department at Milwau-
kee.
Oscar Hammerstein, theater builder
and pioneer Of grand opera, died in
a hospital at New York of a compli-
cation of diseases after an illness Of
several days.
Five persons were killed at Basic,
Switzerland, during the recent strike
riots there, according to official reports
on the disorders. Fifteen persons
were wounded.
A German wireless dispatch to Cob
LEM says that according to Reval
newspapers British supervision over
that part of Estland (Esthonia) near
the province of Petrograd, has been
decided on.
A New York dispatch says President
Wilson will not be a candidate for a
third term, in the opinion of Frederick
B. Lynch of Minnesota, chairman of
the executive committee of the Demo
cratic national committee.
A committee to conduct an investi-
cation of the high cost of living and
report to President Wilson was ap-
pointed at the conference of cabinet
officers at the office of Attorney Gener-
al Palmer at Washington.
1t took Cook county's prosecuting
machinery just one week to sufficient
ly unravel the tangled evidence in the
Chicago race riots to indict II negroes
on specific charges of murder, assault
to kill, conspiracy to riot, etc.
Exports from the United States dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 80
reached the record-breaking total of
1925, 0S4, 257, the department of COM
merce at Washington reports, against
$5,919, III, 81, the record in 1918.
Miss Anna Adams Gordon of Evans
ton, ILL.,, president of the w. G. T. o.,
admitted that her organization is con-
Quoting campaign for an amend
ment to the Constitution to prohibit
the manufacture and sale of tobacco.
The Chicago street car strike came
to an end when the men voted, by a
small majority, to accept the compro.
mise proposition suggested by Gov
ernor Lovelen, which includes a wage
of IS cents an hour and an eight-hOur
day.
Maintenance of one field army with
a war strength of 100000 men is pro-
posed in a bill establishing a perma-
nent military policy which was sent to
congress at Washington by Secretary
Baker. The active force of this army
would be $4,000 regulars
Local officials all over the nation
are lining up to support the govern
ment in the fight against high prices
now being planned by Attorney Gen
eral Palmer at Washington. Investi-
cations are beginning in many sections
to determine production costs and
wholesale and retail profits. Governors,
mayors and grand juries are ordering
searching probes.