Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-06-02
NEWS BITS FOR BUSY PEOPLE

A Charleston dispatch says that mar
Virginia.
The first of the alleged German war
criminals was placed on trial at Leip-
zig Monday morning.
A state of peace between China and
Germany has been declared, according
to adviceS received at Paris.
The senate at Washington agreed to
the conference report on the FordneyI
emergency tariff bill by a vote of 52
to %.
The house at Washington voted, II
to 3S, to add $780, 900 to the deficiency
bill for prohibition enforcement until
July l.
A semi-official statement, issued at
Berlin, repudiates Polish assertions
that German regulars have entered
Upper Silesia.
Heavy achievements of British SOL
diers are being brought to Alexandria,
Egypt, and into Cairo to quell nation
alist uprisings.
DR.. Frederick Rosen, German minis
ter to Holland, was appointed foreign
minister in the cabinet OF Chancellor
Wirth at Berlin.
| A Lisbon dispatch says that the Por-
tuguese cabinet, Of which Bernardino
Machado was head, resigned. No dis
turbances have occurred.
The Banco International de Cuba at
Havana has petitioned the Federal Re-
| serve bank liquidation commission to
liquidate the banks assets.
Ashley Mulgrave Gould, associate
justice of the District Court of Column
bia Supreme court, died suddenly at
| Washington after brief illness.
Lieut.. William Coates and Mrs. John
Brady of Paterson, y. j., were killed
instantly when a wing of the airplana
in which they We're flying collapsed.
Miss Della NJ. Carpenter, for 10
years the stenographer of j. II. Collins
of Morris, was left 100000 by his will,
which was offered at Joliet, Ill.,, for
| probate.
resolution directing "The Star
Spangled Banner" be sung every day
! IL tiiC ilOuSC Ut
ly after the chaplains prayer was in
trOduced.
political, military and economic
alliance of the Moscow soviet with
Mustapha Renal Pasha, Turkish ma
| tiOnalist leader, was announced otfi-
cially at Paris.
There was general opinion at Lon-
| don, both in official circles and in the
press that the European atmosphere
has been greatly cleared by the speech
of Ambassador Harvey.
COnstantinople dispatch says
French troops have captured 300
bandits in battle west of Tohatalia,
Thrace. Among the prisoners taken
was the bandit chief, Col. Rushdi Bey.
The senate at Washington, by q vote
of 40 to 80, rejected the provisions OF
! the naval appropriation bill making an
appropriation of $1,50O0OO for the con-
struction of a naval base at Alameda,
Cal.
The people of Isabella province in
the Philippines, are contented under
American rule, and not worrying about
independence, Governor Pascual Pa
guirigan of Isabella told Maj. Gen.
| Leonard Wood.
Creation of an independent budget
bureau within the Treasury depart
| ment, in charge of director to be
named by the President, was agreed
upon by the cOnferees on budget legis-
lation at Washington.
Approximately 100000 workers are
idle in Europe, exclusive of Russia and
the Balkan states, Secretary Hoover
said, on the basis Of estimates cabled
to the Department of Commerce at
Washington from it's agents abroad.
Congressional investigation of
charges that a financial combine in
1915 and 1916 sought through propa-
ganda to plunge the United States
into war, was demanded at Washing
ton in a house resolution by Repre-
sentative Michaelson, Republican, Of
| Illinois.
Mrs. Emma c. Bergdoll, mother of
Grover G. BergdolI, Philadelphia slack.
er, was easy money for every one con-
nected with her sons case, she indi-
| Gated to the house committee at Wash
ingtOn. In all she paid $4,000, she
said, aside from fees to Attorney Sam
uel Ansell.