Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-13
lots OF NEWS IN GENERAL

Henry Labarre Jayne, lawyer and
leader in political reform movements,
died at Philadelphia, aged sixty-three.
Census figures made public at Wash
lngton include: Newark, N. j., no.
6O9, an increase of 6S,1 40 or 1915 per
cent.
The Krupp works at Essen still are
manufacturing artillery, according to
aoVlceS reaching Paris from western
Germany.
Germany's military air service has
been disbanded under the terms of the
versailles treaty, according to a semi
omclal announcement made at Berlin.
An official telegram from Vera Cruz
received at the state department at
washington says that General Obre-
Mexico City.
Capt. Lowell Smith broke the
worlds record for altitude in an air
plane carrying a pilot and three pas
sengers, when he ascended 17,1OO feet
at El Centro, Cal.
President CarranZa, his son-in-law,
Gen. Candido Aguilar, and Francisco
Murguia have been assassinated, it
was reported in an unconfirmed dis
patch from HermOsillo.
An attempt was made upon the life
OF Damad Ferld Pasha, the grand
yizier at his home at COnstantinople.
Thraa shots uoro firnd q him mono of
which, however, took effect.
investigation of all presidential cam
paign expenditures, Republican and
Democratic, was proposed in a reso-
luton introduced at Washington by
Senator Borah (Rep.) of Idaho.
= Anarchists have gained the upper
hand in several districts in Italy, and
disorders have occurred, especially in
Leghorn, where two persons were
killed and more than thirty wounded.
A bandit chieftain named Abrahim
has been arrested in Aleppo, Syria,
charged with the murder Of James
Perry and Frank Johnson, two Ameri-
can Y. M. G. A. men, near AiAtab, on
sFebruary 4.
-Four of the destroyers sent from
New York to Key West for precau-
tiOnary reasons with reference to the
Mexican situation, were given orders
from Washington to proceed at once
to Tampico.
A mutiny broke out in Fiume and a
fierce battle between the carabineers
and the arditi developed. Twelve men
were killed and so others wounded in
the struggle. The troops involved are
those of Gabrielle d'Annunzio's forces.
Census reports issued at Washing
ton included: Champaign, ILL.,, 1873,
amincrease of 1852, or 27.8 per cent; !;
UMana, ILL.,, 1O,230, an increase Of
1,985 or 241 per cent; Canton, H., 10,-
51ss an increase of 475, or As per
cent.
The shipping board at Washington,
under a decree signed by Justice
Bailey in the District OF Columbia Su-
preme court, is perpetually enjoined
from selling the 20 former German
IluCIO SClLCu WIlCIl LuC O11LCu OIotCS
entered the war.
Rt. Rev. John Heyl Vincent, for
many years bishop of the Methodist
Episcopal church and father of DR..
George Edgar Vincent, president of
the Carnegie Foundation, died sudden
ly at his home at Chicago. Bish Vim
cent was eighty-eight years old.
Opening debate on his resolution to
declare the state Of war with Ger
many and Austria at an end, Senator
Knox, Pennsylvania, declared in the
senate at Washington that President
Wilson was arbitrarily maintaining
that the nation technically was at war
in order to coerce the senate into rati-
flying the treaty of Versailles.
United Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
of Massachusetts was chosen to de-
liver the keynote speech" as tempor-
ary chairman Of the Republican ma
tional convention by the convention
subcommittee of the Republican ma
tiOnal committee at Chicago, which
also decided that some one else shall
be permanent chairman of the con-
vention.