Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-02-12
WORLD HAPPENINGS IN BRIEF


Tor g cents, the lowest point ever
reached.
confidence in the government was
voted by the chamber of deputies at
Paris. The vote was 513 to IS.
bolsheviki troops have victoriously
entered Odessa, according to a wire
less message sent out by the soviet
government at Moscow.
haid Gen. Sir Harry MacLean. who
nas mad picturesque career in Moroc-
co IN the service of the British gov
efnment, died at Tangier.
Exports from soviet Russia began
Sunday. They were initiated by the
arrival at Ravel, Esthonia, of two car
loads of flax, outward bound.
Democrats of the house in caucus
at Washington went On record as op-
posed to compulsory military training
or service at the present time.
because of the soaring exchange
fafes Toronto theaters are faced with
the necessity of canceling their con-
States.
A Washington dispatch says three OF
the four high-poWer naval radio sta
tons on the Atlantic coast were cut of
commission as the result of the recent
storm.
Several bathing pavilions were
swept away at Coney Island and the
hrst floor of the big Shelburne hotel
at Brighton Beach was flooded during
a storm.
Benjamin Gitlow, former Bronx as
semblyman, was found guilty of crimi-
nal anarchy by jury in the criminal
branch of the state supreme court at
New York.
Secretary Lane rendered his resig-
nation as secretary of the interior de-
partment at Washington. Some time
ago it was known that he had intend
ed to resign when convenient.
The heavy demand for pennies,
nickels and dimes is keeping Uncle
Sans money mills running at top
speed. Director of the Mint Baker at
Washington reports an unprecedented
British warships have begun the
bombardment of Odessa, the big Black
sea port recently captured by the Rus
sian soviet forces from the Ukrain-
ians, according to Moscow wireless
dispatches.
Union wage scales in the general
trades in 1919 averaged II per cent
higher than in 1918 and So per cent
higher than in 1913, according to a
summary issued by the bureau of la
Dor statistics at Washington.
Four persons, including A. P. War
rensslsheriff of the county, were arrest
ed atsRN1cMinnvil1e, Tenn, in connec-
ton with investigation of the death of
Fred Murphy, prisoner in the county
Jail who was found hanging in his cell
/ Herbert Hoover issued a statement
at New York defining his attitude to-
that he is not a candidate. If the
League of Nations is made an issue in
the election he says he will vote for
the party that stands for the league.
Representative of bituminous oper-
ators in Montana and Washington
told the coal strike settlement com
mission at Washington that perma-
nent, application of the recent IA per
cent wage advance to coal miners
might force them to close their mines.
The second officer and five men of
the crew of the British steamship
Oxonian perished when attempting to
save the crew of the British steamer
Bradboyne when it was abandoned off
the coast of Newfoundland, according
to radio messages received at Halifax,
N. S.
Handcuffed and accompanied by a
strong military squad, 20 Sim Feiners
who had been secretly removed from
prison in Cork were put aboard Brit
ish warships at Queenstown at mid
night and begai4 an involuntary voyage
to England, where the. will be re-
Jailed.