Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-04-14
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TWenty-one persons were killed
near Rio de Janeiro in collision on
the Central Brazil railway.
Fire OF undetermined origin de-
stroyed a garage with is automobiles
with a loss of $4,000 at Salina, Utah.
Governor Kendall at Des Noinos
Ia, signed the cigarette bill. which
permits the sale of cigarettes in Iowa
to adults.
NJ. j. BALM, one of the foremost
figures in Danish industry. died at
Copenhagen as result of a self-in-
f1icted bullet wound.
Appointment of Col. Edward Fl.
Shaughnessy of Chicago as second as
sistant postmaster general was an
nounced at Washington.
Frederic ]. Stimson, American am
bassadOr to Argentina at Buenos
Aires, has notified the Argentine gov
eminent that he has resigned his posi-
ton.
ENACTMENT of budget legislation will
not be accomplished until a contro-
versy between Republican leaders of
the senate and house at Washington
is settled
Tax and tariff questions came to
the fore in the house on the opening
day Of the session at Washington with
the Introduction of one tariff and two
revenue bills.
The steamship George Washington
will be reftted at an estimated cost
Of $2,O0O,OO0. The former German
liner has been berthed a. Boston
more than a year.
Soviet~Russia and the soviet repub-
lie of White Russia have signed
treaty under which they become
single republic, according to reports
received at Stockholm.
Great damage had been done along
the Mediterranean coast of Spain by
a terrific tempest. Three fishing boats
have disappeared with their crews,
says a Madrid dispatch.
The steamer Sir Thomas Shaugh-
Messy opened navigation through the
locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,
Thursday. The opening is IL days
earlier than that of 1920.
Citizens of Table Grove, ILL.,, rushing
from their homes with revolvers and
shotguns, drove away five bank rob-
bers early in the morning and saved
the contents of the town banks vault.
The negro population of Indiana in
creased "a per cent between 1910 and
1920, as compared with an increase
of 10 per cent in the white popula-
ton, the census bureau at Washing
ton announced.
DR.. Sun Vat Sen, leader of the Chi
nese national party and former gov
ernor of South China, has been elect
ed president of the republic of South
China, according to a cablegram re-
ceived at Honolulu
France has offered the United
States her West Indies islands; in pay
ment of the French debt and in order
to raise money, according to infOrma
ton received from high American
financial sources at Berlin.
The Catholic population of the
United States and it's possessions is
%, 122,859 persons says the 1921 edi-
ton of the Official Catholic Directory
issued at New York. In this country
alone are 17,8S5,646 Catholics.
The hot bath has become such a
luxury in Germany owing to the short
age of coal and the manner in which
the government regulates the distribu-
ton of fuel, that many persons have
ceased bathing, says Berlin Dispatch
A winter wheat crop, the fourth
largest in the country's history, was.
forecast by the Department of Agri-
culture at Washington with a total
of 621,0O0,OO0 bushels.
This is 100000 bushels more than
harvested last year