Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-09-08
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AS' OnoAiCS hcLdy, mother OF MIS-.
Herbert Hoover, died at the Hoover
home at Stanford University, Cal.
The army transport Wheaton ar
rived at Hoboken,, N. J., from Ant
Werp with the bodies of more than
5,OOO American soldiers. !
Nine men raided a gambling resort
In the business section of Stamford,
Conn.,, took $4,000 from 80 players
and killed one who resisted.
A lone thief held up paymaster
for the Rickenbacker Motor company
Id the company's office at Detroit,
Mich, and escaped with $500.
line treaty. of peace between Hun
| gary and the United States, ON which
negotiations have been proceeding for
some time, was signed at Budapest.
Inc entire crew of a fishing vessel
was Killed when the boat struck u
mine north Of Haugesund, on the west
coast OF Norway, says a Christiania
dispatch.
Election of Miss Mary L. Downes of
chicago as high chief ranger of the
Womans Catholic Order of ForeSters,
in national convention, is announced
at Omaha, Neb.
Eight midshipmen, who have just
returned to Annapolis from the annual
summer practice cruise, have resigned
the naval service and their resigna-
lions nave been accepted.
Nearly 700 members of the insur-
gent bands which have been creating
disorders in the district south and
southeast Of Calicut, India, have been
killed in fights with British forces.
The bimonthly settlement of the bar
iron scale made at Youngstown, O.,
fixed the daily rate Of puddlers for the
next two months at $9.12, compared
with $11.38 for the last two months.
Soviet government officials at Mos
COW are preparing to receive the first
lnstallment Of the An4~ ;ican relief ad
ministration workers, who are due
soon to relieve the suffering from the
famine.
Governor Davis at Columbus, O.,
will consider the proposal that DR..
George Z. Harding of Marion, father
Of President Harding, he appointed
commandant of the Soldiers home at
Sandusky.
Elias F. Haak of Canton, O., won
the tWenty-second annual Grand Amer
lean handicap, highest. honor in anna
teur trapshooting circles, over the
traps of the South Shore Country club
targets.
The bodies of the American victims
of the ZR-2 disaster will be brought
to the United States on a British war
ship, said the Navy department at
Washington. A message of sympathy
was received from Lloyd George, Brit
ish premier.
Raymond Douglas, held in Jail at
Minneapolis On an automobile theft
charge, fell five stories to his death
in attempt to escape when an i'm
provised rope on which he was lower
ing himself from one of the jail win
dows, parted.
Hundreds of villages have been de-
stroyed and thousands of persons left
homeless by an overflow of the
Hoang-Ho or Yellow river, which,
after a mouth of heavy rainfall, has
flooded large areas in the province of
Shantung, China.
Six bandits invaded the King James
hotel, just off the heart of BrOadWay's
famed "White Light District" in New
York, and held up the clerks, elevator
operators and number of guests.
They escaped with cash and valuables
worth thousands Of dollars.
According to Chippewa Indians On
Lake Court O'Reilles, Chippewa In
dian reservation near Brentwood,
Wis, the coming winter will be the
most severe in years. The Indians
base their predictions upon prepare
tons being made by wild animals for
the winter