Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-03-04
WORLD HAPPENINGS IN BRIEF

be continued for five years more.
Charles FL. Weeghman, former Chi
cago baseball magnate and restaurant
owner, is being sued for divorce.
George w. P. Hunt of Arizona was
nominated by President Wilson at
Washington to be minister to Siam.
Mrs. M. Gregory and her four chill
dren were burned to death in a fire
which destroyed their home at Mon
treal.
Paris dispatch says Aviator Casale
set new record when he attained
speed of 2S3 kilometers (about 1873
miles, an hour.
G.. w. Rye, night Waterman at
Plano. near Dallas, Tex, was shot and
Killed by robbers he discovered in the
Plano National bank.
ratification of the woman suffrage
amendment was refused by the West
Virginia senate at Charleston w. Va,
the vote being IA to A. :
Eighty-five guests at the Mudlavia
san1tarium at Kramer, Ind, narrowly
escaped fire which destroyed the en-
tire group of structures.
President Lefevre of Panama was
received On board Admiral Wilson's
flagship and was given the highest
hOnOrs ever accorded a Panama exec
utive.
Food riots are reported at Ludwigs-
haven. Mobs are said to be plumber
ing shops. Numerous arrests have
been made, according to advices re-
ceived at Berlin.
Fire, believed to have been caused
by defective wiring, destroyed the
large Wellington Glass company's
plant at Cumberland, Md. The loss is
estimated at $25O,OO0.
Negotiations for floating a loan of
100000 for the Polish government
in the United States have been con-
Guided, it was announced at the Polish
legation at Washington.
Soviet Russia's proposal to the Uni
ted States for peace will receive no
consideration~from the American gov
eminent, it was said at the state de-
partment at Washington.
More than 100000 children now are
being cared for by government aid, &C.
cordng to reports submitted to the
"Save the Children" congress, which
has just closed at Geneva.
The announcement at Washington
of the population of Lima, O., 41,3O6;
of Paducah, KY, "a, 1876, and of Halle
ton, Pa, 32,267, was the second issue
of statistics of the fourteenth census.
The government at Rome has or
ing of the people than during the war,
because of diminished importations.
Two meatless days have been ordered.
AS a result of a collision between a
crowd and the police at Milan Sunday,
in which the officers fired on the mob
and two civilians were mortally wound
ed, a general strike was declared and
work was suspended in the city.
| Orders not to make any arrests
without proper warrants, or arrests
without sufficient evidence, or searches
in private homes, were received by the
United States district attorney at Chi
cago from Attorney General Pal
| mer.
Manufacture and sale of 2.5 per cent
| beer in Wisconsin was legaliZed in a
decision handed down by Federal
Judge Geiger at Milwaukee, in the test
case brought by the ManitowOc Prod
ucts company for an injunction to halt
| enforcement of the VOlstead act
Details of the massacre of 5000
Armenians in Marash, which are just
beginning to filter in at CONSTANT
nople, say that an Armenian girls
home, conducted by Americans, was
burned. Eighty-fve of the inmates
were massacred and half the city is
| reported destroyed.