Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-01-15
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Lord KilmarnOck left London to act
as British diplomatic representative in
Berlin.
The Sobranje bulgarian parlia-
ment) at Sofia ratified the peace treaty
with the allied powers.
The government at Washington has
definitely decided to aid the depend
ents of alien radicals whom it de-
ports.
Wearing of fancy costumes and
masks during carnivals has been for
hidden by the minister of the interior
at Rome.
Joseph e. Willard, American ambas-
sador to Spain, who has been absent
On a visit to the United States, has
arrived in Madrid.
Authority to advance $15O000,O0O for
food relief in Austria, Poland and Ar
menia was asked of congress at
Washington by Secretary Glass.
Bulgarian socialists are organizing
successive demonstrations, according
to Saloniki dispatches, in order to
bring about a change in the govern
ment.
The countess of Warwick announced
at London that she is seeking election
to the house of commons as the first
woman candidate for the labor
party.
In the settlement of the Turkish
problem, it has been already decided
at Paris that the Turks will be left in
Constantinople, probably with full SOW
ereignty.
The official rate of exchange on the
German mark for all army accounting
purposes has been fixed at cents by
the war department at Washington for
the month of January.
Thirty-five members of the crew of
AZ of the British steamer Treveal were
drowned when the big vessel was
wrecked on Kimmer Edge rock near
st. Adams head, England.
A cable message from the secretary
of the Syrian union party at Cairo, re-
porting bloody battles" between the
population of Syria and French troops
was received at New York.
Twenty persons lost their lives
when the ocean-going tug LIE Pluvier
went down with all on board between
Toulon and Marseilles, according to
advices received at Marseilles.
Seven towns near Teocelo, south of
Jalupa, have been overwhelmed by the
earth disturbances and great lake is
covering their former sites, according to
a message received at Mexico City.
The revolutionary movement in Bull
garia is spreading among peasants and
workingmen, according to Belgrade,
Serbia, advices. King Boris and the
royal family are said to be secluded
in the palace.
American ships furnished by the
shipping board at Washington will be
used to rapatriate Czecho-Slovak,
Polish, Jugo-Slav and Roumanian
troops now in Siberia, it was an
nounced at the state department.
To enable the war department to
maintain temporarily American troops
in Germany and Siberia, Secretary
Baker recommended to congress at
Washington legislation authorizing an
army of approximately 275,00O officers
and men for the remainder of this fis-
cal year. y
The Supreme court at Washington
denied permission for the New Jersey
Retail Dealers association to bring
original proceedings in the Supreme
court to test the cOnstitutiOnality of
the national prohibition amendment
and enjoin it's enforcement in New
Jersey.
If congress does not enter upon new
fields of large expenditure or reduce
taxes, Secretary of the Treasury Car
ter Glass announced the government
at Washington will be able to meet
it's Indebtedness without calling upon
the country to bear another Liberty
loan issue.
The number of Jews killed in po-
groms in Ukrainia up to September 9,
1919, was estimated at $4,000 by Briga
der General Jadwin of the United
States army in a report of his tour of
inspection Of that country last Septem-
Der, transmitted to the senate at
Washington by President Wilson.