Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-06-23
NEWS bis run buoT PtOPLE

Gen. Jose M. Gomez, former presi-
dent Of Cuba, died at the Hotel Plaza
in New York.
King Constantine left Athens TO
place himself at the head of the Greek
army in Asia Minor.
Secretary of Labor Davis at Wash
ington announced that the marine
strike has been settled.
Moscow adviceS say that the third
congress of the Third Internationale
opened its sessions there
Murphy j. Foster, former United
States senator from Louisiana, died at
his home at Franklin, La.
The house at Washington passed the
Sweet bill creating veterans bureau
in the Treasury department.
A case of typhus fever at Temple
has been reported officially to the state
health department at AUSTIN Tex.
Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan,
who has been visiting at Paris for sew
eral days, left Paris for Brussels.
The Porter substitute for the Knox
peace resolution was passed by the
house at Washington, the vote being
305 to 81.
Roy A. Haynes of Ohio took the
oath of office at Washington as .prohl-.
bition commissioner, succeeding John
+. Kramer.
| Without a dissenting vote, the SEN,
ate at Washington adopted the Borah,
disarmament amendment to the naval
bill. The vote was "A to o..
The synod of the Polish Catholic
National church, in session at Scran-
ton, Pa, has decided to abolish cell
bacy among the clergymen.
Six persons sawed their way out
of the Jail at Nevada, Ia, and escaped.
The prisoners, in addition to saws.
used a crowbar to pry loose the Jail
doors.
The Swedish police have discovered
a communist plot aimed at Simulta-
neous revolutions in Sweden, Norway
and Finland, according to q dispatch
from Stockholm.
Fourteen persons are known to have
been killed and many injured when an
express train from Madrid cOllided
with a train from Toledo near Villa.
verde, in Spain.
Regardless of congressional action.
Secretary of Labor Davis at Washing
ton will act promptly to release more
than 5000 immigrants now held on
ships in American ports.
An Athens dispatch says that many.
lives are believed to have been lost in
the sinking of the Greek steamship
BOuboulina, which has struck mine
and foundered in the Aegean.
Louis M. Kofecki, grand sheik of the
Order of Camels, left Milwaukee for,
Washington to present petitions signed
by $4,000 citizens of Wisconsin de-
handing amendment to the VOlsteadl
act.
Organized labor is solid behind de-
Grams, according to a letter from Sam
Uel GomperS, president Of the Aneri-l
can Federation of Labor, just received
at Indianapolis
Trainload after trainlOad of gaylyi
uniformed Shriners poured into Des
Moines, Ia, and more than $4,000
ShrinerS, their wives and families are
in the city for the forty-seventh an
nua4 session of the imperial council.
The attitude of Great Britain with
regard to the conflict between the
| Greeks and the Turkish natiOnalists
will be one of strict neutrality, Aus
ten Chamberlain, government leader
announced in the house Of commons at
London.
In a decision affecting the validity
Of the Kansas industrial court law,
| the state Supreme court at Topeka,
Kan, affirmed the decision of the
Crawford county district court SEN
fencing Alexander HOwat to one year
in Jail for contempt.