Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-02-26
WORLD HAPPENINGS in BRIEF


in a fire which swept the home for
aged women at Lynn, Mass.
One-cent postage for local or drop
letters was approved by the senate
post Office committee at Washington.
The pope has increased the pensions
OF Vatican employees at Rome 10 to
20 per cent, owing to the high cost of
living.
Fighting has been in progress on
the Amur river in Siberia between In
surgent forces and Japanese, Mos
COW wireless message states.
Mrs. Albert McCauley of Battle
Creek, Mich, bride of three days, was
the victim of an ak murder at her
home. Her husband is missing.
Negotiations for shipping 100000
pounds of Danish sugar to the United
States are under way, according to the
National Tidende at Copenhagen.
A British battle squadron of five
dreadnaughts and four destrOyers ar
rived at Constantinople and anchored
in the Bosphorus near the parliament
buildings.
All facilities have been afforded for
! the reopening of bona fide trading
with the Russian people, it was official
ly announced in the house Of commons
at London.
President Holden Evans of the Bal
timore Railway Docks company served
notice that he will operate absolutely
open shop from now on or will close
down the yards.
Warning against speculation in the
EsthOnian mark has been issued by
the government at Reval. It's an
nouncement says that offenders will be
punished by death.
"Bat" Nelson, former lightweight
champion, was named chief beneficiary
In the will disposing Of the $25O,OOO
estate of his father, which was filed
for probate at Chicago.
A. L. st. Clair, constable at Deeth,
New, was shot and killed, and George
Requa, deputy sheriff 1T Wells, was in
jured, probably fatally, in a running
gun battle with bandits.
American farmers are asked by
Secretary Of Agriculture Meredith at
Washington to give their heartyv~co-
operation in securing a full and &C
curate census of the farms.
The recapture from the bOlsheviki Of
Rostov-on-Don by the Russian vOlun-
q VT OF ho
is reported to London by the British
military mission in south Russia.
A Cincinnati dispatch says r. e.
Stewart, multimillionaire Kentucky
manufacturer awarded series Of cash
prizes to be given to mothers who
bring male children into the world.
Sir Martin Conway said at London
that because IF the enormous number
of Americans coming to Europe this
year it was computed they would
spend $8OO,OOO,OOO in England and
France
That it now appears certain esti-
mates for annual appropriations will
be reduced by congress at least ST.
OO0,OOOOOO was asserted by Repub-
lican Leader Mondell in the house at
Washington.
A Neenah (Wis.) dispatch says
about 80 per cent of the employees of
the Kimberly Clark chain Of paper
mills voted in favor Of the mill coun-
Gil plan of management, which will be
mt info nffnct at Onca
Efforts of the government at Wash
ington to force down the high cost Of
living are still futile, the bureau of la
Dor statistics announcing that retail
prices advanced 2 per cent between
December Is, 1919, and January Is,
1920.
Federal CONSUMPTION in Britain will
officially come to an end March 81,
War Minister Churchill announced in
the house Of commons at London.
Thereafter the peace strength of the
British army will be 10000, not in
Guiding the forces necessary for India.
Mustapha Renal Pasha, leader of
the Turkish nationalists in Asia Minor,
has given orders that all Americans in
that region must be respected and re-
ceive protection, according to a dis
patch received at Constantinople from
Angora. the present capital of Ana
tOlia.