Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-07-01
NEWS FROM FAR AND NEAR

Germany's floating debt on April 80,
1920, was III, 14S,755,623 marks. This
was announced at Berlin.
The Loyal Order of Moose in annu-
al meeting at Mooseheart, Ill, award
ed the 1921 convention to Toledo, 0.
Benedict Crowell, assistant secre-
tary Of war at Washington. has re-
signed, effective July l. He will enter
business.
Philip Sidney Post, vice president
of the International Harvester COM
pany, died at his home in Winnetka,
Ill, after a brief illness.
The Greeks have landed a force at
Panderma, on the south coast of the
Sea of Marmora, according to a dis
patch from COnstantinople.
The legislature will be called to meet
at Nashville, Tenn, on August 8, to
consider the federal suffrage amend
ment, it was stated at the capitol.
Louise Favier, a well-known French
aviator, broke the worlds altitude rec
ord for women at Paris by reaching a
height of $500 meters (21,325 feeD.
Secretaries Daniels and Payne of
Washington will go to Alaska next
month to study conditions there as re-
Iatlng to their respective departments.
The American flagship Pittsburgh
arrived at Southampton Saturday.
She will be drydocked Tor an overhaul
ing. Several destroyers accompanied
the Pittsburgh.
Two pronounced earthquake shocks
were felt at Anchorage, Alaska No
damage was caused The shocks were
felt 100 miles north Of Anchorage, ac-
cOrding to reports.
Ruth Miller, eighteen, of Waterloo,
Ia, and David Schultz, eleven, of Nc
Gregor were killed when a section of
Picture Rock cliff on the Mississippi
river near McGregor, Ia, fell.
Two thousand British, Austrian,
German and Finnish prisoners of war
were drowned when a bolshevik steam
er was sunk recently in the Neva riv-
er, according to a HelsingfOrs dis
patch.
A Corfu Greece) dispatch says tle
fortress of Tepeleni, IS miles from Du-
razzo, Albania, has just been surren-
dered by the Italians to the Albanian
insurgents. The Albanian farmers are
blocking Avlona tightly.
The Northern Baptist convention at
Buffalo, N. Y, adopted resolutions
urging President Wilson and the SEN
ate to ratify the treaty of Versailles
with suitable reservations at the
earliest possible moment
= Gimbel Brothers of New York, op-
orators of a large department store
there and controlled by interests
which own similar establishments in
other cities, were indicted on POI
counts for profteering in clothing.
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri,
bitter opponent of the League of Ma
lions, in and out of the senate, was
refused a seat in the Democratic con-
vention by the national committee at
San Francisco. The vote was "a to r.
The Greek legation at London has
received official information that the
Greeks campaigning against the Turk
ish nationalists in the Smyrna district
surrounded a Turkish army corps in
Philadelphia (Ala-Shehr, SO miles east
of Smyrna), taking 5000 prisoners With
guns and other booty.
A Paris dispatch says that having
failed to get America to await pay
ment Of national loans until Germany
pays, Great Britain and France now
are reported to be contemplating
floating an international loan for the
express purpose of repaying the
United States the loans falling due in
October.