Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-04-15
WORLD NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

"A dispatch from The Hague says
Holland has arranged for credit to
Germany of 100000 fiorins.
Rotarians appeared at their week
ly luncheon at Gadsden, Ala, in over
ails. Senator Underwood was a
guest.
Ferdinand Roybet, the noted artist,
died at Paris. He was born in 1910
and was a member of the Society of
Fine Arts.
The famous collection of jewels
that belonged to Gaby Deslys is about
to be auctioned at Paris. The gems
are estimated at $1,0OO00O.
A score of army trucks, manned by
armed soldiers from Camp Merritt,
were used to unload and transport
mail at Jersey City, because of the
rail strike.
The United States has spent about
1O6 of it's 145 years in wars of one
kind and another, according to statis-
tics given out by the war department
at Washington
A Paris dispatch says soviet Russia
absolutely declines even to consider
the idea OF League of Nations COM
mission going to Moscow to investigate
the Russian government.
The agrarian members of the ma
tional assembly at Budapest have in
troduced bill providing for the aboli-
tion of the whipping post as the pen
atty for usury and smuggling.
Fire at Kansas City, Mo-, destroyed
the garage and barn of the City Ice
company, burning to death 11S horses
and three motortrucks and resulting
in damage estimated at 100000.
George Gavan Duffy, Sim Fein
member of parliament, is bringing to
the official attention of the conference
of peace council at Paris the treatment
of the political prisoners in Dublin.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey
suspended all passenger service on ac-
count Of the strike. The road covers
the state of New Jersey and the sus-
pension order affects $4,000 cOmmut-
erS.
Reductions of more than $60O,0O0,-
600 in the estimates of the war depart
'ment are made in the 1921 army ap-
preparation bill to be reported out by
the house military committee at Wash
ingtOn.
Leaders of the striking sWitchmen
in, ctrio inf or
by federal representatives that they
must go back to work Or stand aside
to let the railroads hire men to take
their places.
Bringing from Southampton, Eng
land, bodies Of 81 American soldiers
who died in the service Of their coun-
try on foreign soil, the army transport
NanSemond locked at New York, her.
flag at half-mast.
Mrs. Milla d. Shonts has been rein
stated by the appellate division at New
York as administrator Of the estate of
Theodore P. Shonts, long head Of the
Interborough and for years associated
with Chicago interests.
A Paris dispatch says that in her
reply to Frances explanations of the
occupation of Frankfort, Britain
stands pat on her attitude that the
action was wrong and that she, Brit
ain, cannot sanction it.
Paul r. de Mott, twenty-five, an
American claiming to be journalist,
has been sentenced to death by
drumhead court-martial for participa-
ton in the revolution in the Ruhr dis
trict, according to Wesel dispatch.
A Washington dispatch says that
after receiving the state departments
Interpretation of the Monroe doctrine.
the congress of Salvador adopted de-
cree proposing a Latin-American alli-
ance, with the United States excluded.
The price Of Liberty bond fell be-
low S8 for the first time when new
low records were made in four issues
under heavy selling at New York. The
second AIS closed at 87.88, second 4s
at SO, third AIS at 91.6O, fourth 414s
at $500.