Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-08-05
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Percy SholtO Douglas, ninth mar
quis of Queensberry, is dead at johann
nesburg, South Africa.
Flour took a further drop Of so
cents a barrel at the principal mills at
Minneapolis, MINI.
Recognition Of the government of
Costa Rico by the United States was
announced DIT the state department at
Washington.
paign for the presidency opened at
Marion, o., with an address to a dele
cation from Mansfield. O.
A Panama dispatch says DR.. D. Per-
ras, candidate Of the liberal conserv-
auye party, was elected president of
the Republic Of Panama.
William G. McAdoo, former secre-
tary OF the treasury, announced at
New York that he had consented to
deliver speeches in behalf of Governor
Cox.
Thomas L. KEENAN,, the oldest prac-
ticing attorney in Wisconsin, died at
Milwaukee, Mr.. KEENAN,. who was nine
tythree, was also one of the states
veteran Masons.
Peace, progress, prosperity" will be
the three-word slogan of the Demo
cratic campaigners, said Chairman
George White of the national commit
tee at Washington.
Grave statements concerning Italy'S
food position were made in the cham
Der at Rome by Signor Soleri, the food
commissioner. The harvest was dis
appointing he reported.
Mrs. Lottia Smith Rupp, motion pic
ture actress, younger sister to Mrs.
Mary Pickford Fairbanks, has filed
suit for divorce in the superior court
at Los Angeles. Cal.
Increase of more than a million
bales In the prospective production OF
cotton over the indicated yield a
month ago was forecast by the depart.
ment of agriculture at Washington.
President Wilson at Washington
has decided to retire from the sheep
business. The White House flock of
lawns cut for three summers, is to be
sold.
James Scott, chief engineer at the
Soldiers and Sailors home at Quincy,
ILL.,, is in the ahOme hospital with two
bullets in his body as the result Of an
alteration with Dan Guthrie, a mem.
Der of the home.
Polish forces, comprised of 40 off
GERS and 1000 men, crossed the East
Prussian frontier according to dis.
patches published in the London Elk.
press. The Poles were disarmed and
interned, according to advices.
Hailstones seven inches in cireum-
ference, according to G. d. Peterson,
United States weather fOrecaster, fell
in a storm which swept Wichita
Kan, and vicinity, doing damage es-
timated at between 100000 and $780,
900.
Dispatches received at the Polish le-
cation confirm reports that on the
Marienwerder frontier of East Prus-
STA, German and bolshevik troops are
In contact and are fraternizing with
out showing any apparent signs Of hos
tility.
The Japanese government at To-
kyo has received communication
from the United States pointing out,
among other things, that the United
States is unable to recognize Japan's
occupation of the northern half of the
island of Sakhalin.
New trials were denied to A. G.
Townley, president Of the National
Nonpartisan league, and Joseph Gill
bert, former league organizer at Fair
mont, MINI. They were convicted on
charges of conspiracy to encourage dis
loyalty during the war.
Wheat from last years crop carried
over into 1920 totaled 1O9,31S,OO0 BUSH
els on July 1, compared with 1885,,
600 bushels of the 1918 crop on hand
the corresponding day last year, said
an announcement by the department of