Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-08-18
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Gen. Peyton q. March, former chief
" staff Of the United States army. has
arrived in Berlin.
King Peter of Serbia is seriously
IL the physicians describing his all
nent as congestion of the lungs. says
Belgrade dispatch.
+ Two hundred and fifty persons were
drowned by the bursting of the Iscaro
dam near Chinsa, according to infor-
nation received at Milan.
The Berlin Vorwaerts announced
that the payment of 100000 900 gold
marks to the allies would be made
August 30, according to schedule.
Mrs. Edwards D. Noyes, wife of the
cashier of the Canal National bank,
was fatally injured in the fall of an
airplane to the beach at Prout's Neck.
Me.
Miss Florence Turner, movie &C
tress, who arrived in London from
America eight weeks ago, was found
bound and gagged on Hampstead
heath.
Two bandits held up a notorious
bound for st. Paul, Mimi, obtained
$500 in cash and jewelry valued at
$1,000 from Is passengers and the
driver.
American prisoners In Russia have
been released from confinement, &C.
cording to unofficial reports from Boil
shevist legation press bureau at Riga,
Letvia.
After August Is you can "step on
her. in Michigan. The new state law,
increasing the speed limit on country
roads from % to IS miles an hour,
becomes effective.
President Harding declined an invi-
tation to the International Press con-
ference this fall in Hawaii. He told
a committee that public business
would not permit him to 60.
Capture of the Peruvian town Of
1nquitos by Captain Cervantes, a sup
porter Of General Benevides, a revolu-
tionary leader, was reported in official
advices received at Washington.
Six armed bootleggers, members Of
countrywide rum-running gang,
were overpowered following a thrill
ing pistol battle between Is gangsters
and United States deputies near Hunt
ington, L. I.
Heavy rains In Pueblo and at points
nearby caused a rise in both the Ar
kansas and Fountain rivers at Pueblo,
Colo. Considerable damage was done
to roads in Pueblo and the vicinity,
and the Fountain river was almost at
flood stage.
Secretary Of Labor Davis, in an ad-
dress at Reading, Pa, before the ma
tional convention Of the Fraternal Or
der Of Police, made a plea for the
man in the blue uniform" declaring
it was thigh time the policeman is
thought Of as an American and as a
citizen"
New federal prohibition directors
were announced by Commissioner
Blair at Washington as follows: Ari-
IONA, M. E. Cassidy of Bisbee; Mich
gan, James r. Davis of Lansing; Min
nesota, Siguard B. Quale of Wilmer;
Vermont, Collins Willard Grakes of
Bennington.
Increased appropriations for citi-
zens' training camps will be asked
next year because Of "the tremendous
success Of this summers work, Gen
eral Pershing, chief of staff, an
nounced at Washington after an in
spection tour of Camps Meade, Jack
son, Knox, Grant and Smelling.
Joseph Sinacola, henchman Of
"Tony" D'Andrea and business part
ner of Joseph Laspfsa, both of whom
were killed in the Nineteenth ward
political feud, was assassinated in
Chicago. He is the eighth man to die
in the feud, which began with po-
liticaF contest between Alderman John
Powers and D'Andrea foB control of