Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-06-24
NEWS FROM FAR AND NEAR

Born a slave in 1913, Alec Taylor
negro, died at Ardmore, Okla. at the
age Of 107 years.
President Wilson has signed the
water power bill, it was announced at
the White House at Washington.
Edward Capps of New Jersey was
named by President Wilson at Wash
ingtOn as minister to Greece, a re-
cess appointment.
The American Federation Of Labor
adjourned it's annual convention at
Montreal after indOrsing the League
of Nations without reservations.
Six persons were killed and sew
eral injured in fire that destroyed
the Balmoral apartments in a fash
ionable part Of the city of Vancouver,
3. C.
Orders that the Mexican railway be
turned over to it's owner, a London
corporation, were issued by Provision
al President de la Huerta at Mexico
City.
Gustav Zander, the famous Swedish
physician and founder Of the lander
system Of medico-mechanic gymnas-
tics, died at Stockholm, aged eight-fve
years.
The allied prcmiers at their confer
lence at Hythe decided to allow the
Greek army at Smyrna to advance
against Mustapha Kemars Turkish ma
tionalist forces.
Seaplanes collided 500 feet above
the bay at Pensacola Chief Electric
clan William Livingstone was killed.
Lieutenant FernsWOrth was injured,
but probably will recover.
A call for convention of railroad
workers to be held in Chicago June
~ to organize zone big union" Of
railroad workers has been published
in the Butte Daily Bulletin.
A. d. ROullard was shot and in
stantly killed when he resisted band
OF five automobile bandits who at
tempted to raid the Dresser CONNER
cial and Savings bank at Chicago.
A Warsaw dispatch says the boil
sheviN are reported to have assem-
bled so divisions for the midsummer
drive against Poland. The reds are
attacking along 1200-kilometer
front
A San Francisco dispatch says, Will
liam G. McAdoo sent a message to the
western delegates to the national Dem
Ocratic convention, instructing them
not to vote for him under any circum-
stances.
Martial law was proclaimed at Wa
terbury, Conn, following terrific riot
ing in which one striker was killed
and Police Lieutenants Richard Leroy
and John j. Bergin were critically
wounded.
Partisan politics must be kept out
of the General Federation of Won ems
Clubs, Mrs. Josiah Evans CowleS, pres
ident of the federation, said in her ad-
dress at the biennial convention at Des
MOines, Ia.
A Moscow dispatch says that Djemal
PaSha, a member of the Young Turk
party, who is in Moscow, has arrived
at an understanding with the soviet
government over points of mutual in
tereSt to Russia and Turkey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry 3. Wiley of
Elgin were instantly killed and Au-
gust Cedarholm, boarde6 at the Will
ley home, was injured when their au-
tomobile was struck by Chicago &
Northwestern passenger train one mile
north of Carey, Ill.
Detroit is now the fourth city in the
country in population The figures
announced at Washington are 993, 739,
an increase of 527,973, or 1854 per
cent The Michigan city now outranks
Boston, St Louis, Cleveland and Bal
timOre.
A Mexican City dispatch says 300
camp followers attached to the govern
ment forces have been killed by the
orders of Francisco villa, the bandit,
according to Eel Democratic, quoting
Jacinto Trueba, wealthy merchant
of Jiminez, state of Chihuahua
A London dispatch says the entire
British Mediterranean fleet, including
the First battle squadron, is cOncen-
trating in the waters of the near and
middle East, in anticipation of war
like operations that may plunge that
part of the world into new bloody
conflict, with war between Turkey and
Greece as the nucleus.