Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-08-19
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press rates was authorized by the in
terstate commerce commission at
Washington.
Reports of maternity hospitals st
New York showed that since 1916 the
average per capita cost of stork visits
has increased from $3549 to $1,000.
George A. Lawo of Memphis, Tenn,
was elected president of the Retail
Credit Mems National association at
the annual convention at Detroit,
Mich.
A minimum wage of $1S weekly was
set for women and minors in Califor-
MIA factories, except beginners, by the
state industrial welfare commission at
Sacramento.
Miss Anne Martin filed with Sec
rotary of State Brodigan at Reno,
New, her petition of nomination as an
independent candidate for the United
States senate.
Arrivals at Dawson, Y. T., from the
head Of Polly river, 200 miles north
of Fort Selkirk, bring word that stores
in that district have had no sugar
since christmas.
Great Britain took nearly half Of
the 6915,4O8 bales of cotton exported
by the United States during the fiscal
year 1920, the. department Of COM
merce at Washington announced.
Details of plots Of the soviet gov
eminent to foment economic discOrd
in the United States this fall and win
ter are in possession of the intelligence
branches Of this government at Wash
ingtOh.
Joseph LHkatich, Thomas O'Brien
and c. w. Stevens, all hoilermakers
from Chicago, were killed atfWhiting,
Ind, when a scaffold on an oil tank
they were building crashed to the
ground.
A Helsngfors dispatch says that as
consequence Of the decentralization
of the bolshevist fleet the naval COM
missary has dismissed all Of the high
err officials and replaced them with
women.
Leo Diegel Of Chicago cracked un-
der the strain Of his first big tourna-
ment at Toledo, O., and let the Ameri
can open golf championship go back
to England, with Ted Ray Of Oxey,
the new titlehOlder.
Honorable prevention of war by "the
arbitrament of reason RATHER than of
force" was urged by Governor Cox
in an address opening the Democratic
presidential nominees national speak
ing tour at Camp Perry, O.
A three-pfy suit of chain armor
worn beneath the shirt of Eleuthorlca
VeniZelOs, premier of Greece, was re-
spOnsible for the failure of his would
be aSSaSSinS to kill him when they
fired five shots point blank as he was
leaving the Lyons railway station in
Paris.
Short a polo pony that was needed
for game to be started in mid after
noon, Sir Phillip Sassoon at noon tele-
graphed to London to send pony by
airplane The animal was delivered
in time to be used. The game was
played at Sir Phillips estate at
Lympne.
Manhattan, Kan, has been selected
for the next meeting of the midwest
farm bureau, September q and p.
The bureau comprises presidents and
secretaries of state farm bureaus in
Iowa, North and South Dakota, Ne
braska, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois
and Ohio
Mrs. Anna Burian, one hundred and
four years old, the oldest Chicago
resident listed in the last census, died
at the home Of her grandson, James
LbOtak, 2313 West Fiftieth place.
Eleven grandchildren and forty great
grandchildren gathered at the home
for the wake.
Charles S. Brightwell, president,
and Raymond Meyers and Charles c.
Myers described as secretary ;ld
manager respectively Of the Old Col
Ony Foreign Exchange company at
Boston, were arrested charged with
conspiracy to defraud as a result Of
the investigation of sensational finan-
cial methods which started with the
inquiry into operations of the Securi-
ties Exchange company of which
Charles Ponzi was the leading figure.
Lifts Ban on Argentina Cattle.
Madrid, Spain, Aug PA royal or
der, issued by the ministry of public
WORKS, annuls the order prohibiting the
importation Of Argentine live stock.