Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-07-07
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The new Ford schedule at Detroit, |
Mich, calls forsa new car every ~
minutes for July.
Former Chief Justice Allen b. Morse
OF the Michigan Supreme court is dead |
at his home at Ionia. Mich.
Lord Eustace Cecil, second son of
the second marquis of Salisbury, died
at London. He was born in 1884.
Bert Raymond of Floyd, Ia, is blind
as a result of being struck by light
ing. He was knocked unconscious.
enrolment of summer schools at
the University of Wisconsin at Madi-
son has reached 1890, new high to-
tai
Big Four passenger train No. A, east
bound, was held up and robbed by two
men who boarded the express car at
Covington, Ind.
John Findlay Wallace, sixty-nine,
of New York, widely known civil en-
gineer, Panama canal builder, died
suddenly at hotel in Washington.
President Harding was admonished
to help make the world safe for hui
mainly" when he attended services at
the Third Dutch Reformed church at
Raritan, N. ].
Arthur Griffith, founder of the Sim
Fein organization, and Prof. John
MacNeill, president of the Gaelic
league, were released from MountjOy
prison at Dublin.
Notice has been given at the West
minister registry office in Covent Gar
den at London Of the marriage of
ConSuelO, duchess of Marlborough,
and Col. Jacques Baisan.
United States Senator Joseph 1.
France, who plans TO confer with Rus
sian soviet officials relative to trade
conditions, left Riga for Moscow in
dingy, old, second class car.
Forces of the royal Irish constabu-
larry are Immediately to be quadru-
pied, says the London Daily Sketch.
This would mean increasing tthe num-
Der of men in this service from $4,000
to 10000
mated by the President and confirmed
by the senate at Washington as chief
justice of the United States, expects
to be in Washington July to take the
oath Of office.
An American gunboat is watching
the situation at WI Chow, where SOL
.diers of the Kwan-Tung party, sup
porting DR.. Sun Vat Sen, have defeat
ed opposing forces and captured all
of their positions.
General Pershng is now chief of
staff Of the United States army at
Washington, relieving Maj Gen. Pey-
ton c. March, who was given leave of
absence, effective until his retirement
from active service in November.
A tornado causing approximately
$35O,OOO damage and the loss\ of one
life struck the Aberdeen section of
South Dakota, tearing up railroad
tracks, demolishing buildings, and de-
moralizing telephone and telegraph
traffic.
The bronze copy Of Houdon's mar
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original of which stands in the rotun-
da of the state capitol of Virginia, at
Richmond, was unveiled in Trafalgar
square, London-the gift of Virginia
to Great Britain.
Seventy members of the Phil
ippine constabulary were convicted
at Manila, P. l., of murder for the kill.
ing of three American members of the
Manila police force and eight other
persons in rioting between the con.
stabulary and police last December.
Three grain fires burned over 5000
acres in the Sacramento (Cal) Sec
ton. Near Fairfield another blaze
swept an area u miles long and in
places half that in width. Ten resi-
dences, scores of farm buildings, 400
sheep and 10000 acres of grain were