Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-04-08
WORLD NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

! The Socialists carried the Daven-
port (1a.) city election, electing all
city officers and five out of eight alder
men.
/ Two thousand miners employed at
ten mines in the Kansas coal fields
are on strike, it was announced at
Pittsburg.
A Honolulu dispatch says Premier
Hara of Japan has officially announced
tnat Japanese forces in Siberia will
not be withdrawn.
Famine prevails in Slovakia, accord
ing to reports received at Vienna. 1t is
reported many are dropping in the
streets from hunger.
Two hundred soldiers were killed
and many wounded in mutiny Of the
troops of Anhui province, according to
adVlces received at Annoy, China.
Demands of turn shoe workers for
increased wages will tie up the shoe
industry at Marblehead, Mass, accord
ing to announcement by manufacture
erS.
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair
banks, moving picture stars, were
married secretly at the home of Rev.
}. Whitcomb Brougher, at Los An
geles.
canon de Valera, president of the
Irish republic" is reported by the
London Weekly Dispatch to be about
to return to Ireland from the United
States.
Settlement of the clerks strike in
the Chicago city hall was effected at
conference between Mayor Thompson
and James Flynn, president of the
clerks union.
An uninstructed delegation to the
Republican national convention was
elected at Providence, r. l., without
opposition by state and district Repub-
lican conventions.
Organization of a worldwide May 1
demonstration in the form of a general
24-hour strike will be undertaken by
the national confederated committee
of labor at Paris.
Sir Hamar Greenwood, underSecre-
tary for home affairs at London, has
been appointed chief secretary for Ire
land. Sir Hamar succeeds Ian Mac
Pherson, who resigned.
One hundred and lightweight casu-
alties, mostly slight, occurred as re-
suit of conflict at Jerusalem on
Easter Sunday. The military are in
control of the situation.
Redding (Cal.) dispatch says Las
sen Peak was in eruption for brief
period. Columns Of smoke or steam
assembled from the south end of the
crater for about 80 minutes.
A Trieste dispatch says the Italian
government has notified Gabrielle dan
nunzio that it will have to accept Pres
ident Wilson's project for the settle
ment Of the Adriatic question.
The engagement of Miss Helen Taft,
daughter of former President Taft,
and Prof. Frederick j. Manning of
Yale university, was formally an
nounced at New Haven, Conn.
IG lCSlSl1dJIOlS I,LOO OlllCdSO
firemen, filed with Fire Marshal
Thomas O'Connor Saturday night,
were ordered withdrawn at a meeting
of members of the organization.
DR.. William Martin, seventy-one,
medical Inspector of the United States
navy, retired, and noted for his work
in combating yellow fever in Florida
and Louisiana, died at San Francisco.
A Geneva dispatch says thousands
of German refugees, the majority Of
them wealthy are gathering on the
northern Swiss frontier and unsuccess-
fully demanding entrance into Switz-
erland'
August Mailer, a medical student,
fell into the bear pit at the geological
gardens at Berne while he was throw
ing carrots to the bears. His left leg
and left arm were entirely torn off by
the beasts.
On the Caucasian front the boil
sheviki are advancing along the Black
sea toward NohOugskala, northwest of
Touapse, according to an official state
ment sent out by the soviet govern
ment at Moscow.
Prohibition agents in Montana have
been asked by Washington officials to
keep a lookout for an airplane which
nightly flies over the Canadian border
and drops a parachute supposed to
carry whisky.