Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-08-18
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OF staff of the United States army, has
arrived in Berlin.
Dispatches received at Paris indi-
cate the situation of the Spanish troops
In northeastern Morocco to be very
serious.
Mrs. John c. Hansen of Des Moines,
Ia, drowned While bathing in Spirit
Lake. Mrs. Hansen sank while her
husband and nearly 90 bathers were
nearby.
American prisoners in Russia have
been released from confinement, ac-
cording to unofficial reports from Boil
shevist legation press bureau at Riga,
Letvia
Rt Rev. Charles Edward McDon-
nell, head of the Roman Catholic dio-
cese of Brooklyn, died at the convent
of the Sisters of st. Joseph at Brent
wood, n. M.
A Prague dispatch says one work
man was killed and ten were wounded
at Aussig when a crowd of Germans
FLASHED with Czech gendarmes and
legionnaires
Regulations eliminating wholesale
liquor dealers from distribution of al
cOhOlic beverages were issued al
Washington by Internal Revenue Com.
missioner Blair.
Serst. Patrick Love, U. S. aviator
stationed at Rantoul field, was killed
while making a parachute jump from
an airplane fat the Pageant of Prog
ress IN Chicago.
Nkolai Lenin, Russian Bolshevist
premier, plans, subject to British per-
mission, to- leave Moscow soon for
Scotland on a holiday, says a special
dispatch from Reval
The body of DR.. w. E. Stone, presi-
dent of Purdue university, has been
recovered and is being brought to
Banff, it is announced in message
received at Calgary, Alta.
The American relief officials in
London are placing little faith in the
reports that the American prisoners in
Russia have been released and now
are leaving that country.
Sheriff Mester Of Sangamon county
went to the capitol at Springfield to
arrest Gov. Len Small, but left a few
minutes later empty-handed. The gov
ernOr refused to be arrested.
Self-defense is the claim of G. e.
Lively. Baldwin-Felts detective, held
at Welch, w. Va, under bond in con-
nectiOn with the shooting and killing
of Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers.
Mrs. Stephen j. Prenati, now resi-
dent of Oakland, Cal, has arrived at
Butte, Mont to witness the execution
of Steve Bryan and Theodore ChronOs,
convicted of numbering her husband.
The four big railroad brotherhoods
in Canada announced at Toronto that
they would jointly contest the II per
cent wage cut which has been put
into effect on the Canadian railroads.
Five persons, Fred Huska, his wife
and three children, are dead at Stuat-
burn, a small village near Dominion
v.
Gus fungi, which they believed to have
been mushrooms.
The real work of revising the 1915
revenue law was begun by Republic
ans of the ways and means committee
at Washington with the expectation
that they would have the new bill
ready for the house next week.
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 Reyes, six
miles north, and told to "leave the
country"
Willie Deffendoll shot his mother ac.
cidentally while hunting squirrels,
then. because he didn't want to see
her suffer, up and shot her. twice
again, according to the seventeen-year-