Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-08-04
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Gen. 1ey lOH -. MdIcu, former cQlGI
Of staff of the United States army, has
arrived in Berlin.
Rev. Charles L. Walker, commonly
said to be the greatest negro preacher
of his time, died at his home at Au.
gusta, Ga.
Greek warships, it is officially an
nounced at Athens, shelled the Turk
ish forts at Trebizond forty minutes.
The forts replied.
Jack Stewart, an automobile man
of Elgin, was killed when the airplane
which he had just purchased shot 500
feet to earth at Waukegan, Ill.
The next session of the allied SUI
preme council, at which the question
of Upper Silesia will be taken up, will
be held in Paris beginning August s.
Five robbers in a big touring car
took S3,9O5 from Edward Rydzewski,
tWenty-One years old, a messenger
from the Ogden Avenue bank at Chi
cago.
The administration bill for financing
agricultural exports was sidetracked
In the senate at Washington because
of the illness of Senator Norris Of Ne
braska.
According to Russian reports, bat
ties are occurring between famine
fugitives and neighbOring zones, says
a Riga dispatch to the London Daily
Express.
The Missouri house, and senate at
Jefferson City passed the good roads
bill. The vote in the senate was unani.
nous, while in the house 129 voted for
it and two against it.
Legislation authorizing payments to
Liberia under the $5,OOO,000 loan to
that country previously arranged, was
asked by President Harding in let
ter transmitted to the senate at Wash
ingtOn.
Review of the cases Of about 10000
war veterans rated permanently dis
abled, was ordered by the war risk
bureau as the result Of a ruling by the
comptroller of the treasury at Wash
ingtOn.
A warrant for the arrest of Andrew
Fischer, owner of the Fischer Beverage
company of OcOnOmOWoc, was ordered
by Prohibition Commissioner Smith az
Madison, Wis. He also ordered Fisch-
er's brewery closed.
1t now seems certain that the sum-
moning of the parliament of the "Irish
republic" at Dublin, to consider the
British terms, will be one of the very
next steps to be taken in connection
with the peace negotiations.
Leaving his affairs in the hands of
"cabinet" Of five attorneys, Gov. Len
Small, under Indictment for alleged
misrepresentation of state interest
funds, departed from Chicago on a
tour of inspection Of Illinois roads.
Census bureau figures at Washing
ton announced show Illinois had g.
299,333 whites, 1924 negroes, 2,776
Chinese, 472 Japanese and 231 others,
in 1920. The whites increased from
1910 to 1920 by IA per cent and the
negroes by GIL.
Fifty-eight Japanese, hired to work
on fruit and melon lands around Tur-
lock, Stanislaus county, California,
were placed on automobile trucks by
white workers, taken to Keyes, six
miles north, and told to "leave the
country"
The soviet government has agreed to
release all Americans held prisoner,
according to a cablegram received by
Secretary of Commerce Hoover at
Washington. Consequently the work
of extending relief to the famine and
cholera-stricken people Of Russia will
be started at once.
Several hundred thousand residents
Of Arkansas and southwest Missouri
along the line of the Missouri & North
Arkansas railroad are without rail
way Service as the result of suspen-
sion of the operations of the road,
which extends from Joplin, Mo-, to
Helena, Ark, distance of 346 miles.
An automobile driven by Leslie N.
Smith of HillsbOro, ILL.,, was struck by
a Big -Four train at Gilman and Mr..
Smith, his wife, Miss Cora Robertson,
his sister-in-law, and Miss Lucille Per-
kins. a stepdaughter, were killed, and
Miss Irene Kuhn of Pana, who had
been visiting Miss Perkins, received
injuries which later proved fatal.