Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-09-22
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Three men in an automobile held
up the messenger OF the, Irving Park
National bank at Chicago and es-
capped with $5,25O.
Miss Margaret B. Wilson, daughter
of former President Woodrow Wilson.
has bought the old Stuyvestant resi-
dence at New York.
Ed Rierson, Thor, Ia, died at Fort
Dodge, Ia, from injuries received
when he was run over by an automo-
bile near Humboldt, La.
The army transport Wheaton ar
rived at Hoboken, n. J., from Ant
werp with the bodies of more than
5000 American soldiers.
twenty-five persons were killed and
sixty injured when an express train
running from Strasbourg to Lyons was
deraned near Lyons, France.
Gustave Ador, former president of
Switzerland, was elected honorary
president of the assembly of the
League of Nations at Geneva.
Two men were shot, one fatally, in
the attempted holdup of Birmingham
saloon at Indiana Harbor, Ind The
man killed was William Adams.
The German mark fell to the low
est price in its history at New York
less than 1 cent-.0O93 to be exact.
| The pre-War value of the mark was
a cents.
Roscoe Fatty" Arbuckle is in Jail
at San Francisco. He is held on a
charge OF numbering beautiful Virginia
Rape, the Chicago motion picture
actress.
For the fourth time since the Grand
! Army Of the Republic was organized in
1866 it will convene in Indianapolis
September % to 20 for it's annual
meeting.
Babe Ruth equaled his worlds rec
ord Of 81 home runs for the New York
Americans in the fourth inning against
the Philadelphia Athletics at Phila-
delphia.
The 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.
Half a million men will be idle in
New York this winter, in the opinion
Of reliable investigators, and the city
has set machinery in motion to meet
this situation.
Appointment Of Lewis III. Carris,
formerly of Newark, N. j., as director
of the federal board for vocational
education, was announced by the
board at Washington
Mrs. Eleanor Wheeler, thirty-five,
was found murdered in her home at
Chicago. Her throat had been slashed
and her body, clad in a nightgown, lay
on the floor in q bedroom.
A commercial flying boat arrived at
New York after completing a round
trip over the inland lakes and rivers
between New York and Chicago, fly
ing 7491 miles in 1O2 hours.
Sylvester Brown, twenty-seven, ne
gro, was electrocuted at the Ohio
penitentiary at Columbus for the muir
der of Policeman Alexander r. War
rem at Youngstown, May last.
Mayor Herbert A. Atherton Of New
ark, O., was removed from office by
Gov. Harry L. Davis at Columbus on
charges of gross neglect filed by the
Newark Law and Order league.
Three thousand buyers attended the
government sale Of Camp Grant at
Rockford, ILL.,, when buildings that
cost approximately $1,000 apiece were
sold at an average price Of 1900.
With the known list of dead stand
ing at 40, police officials believe an es-
innate of $50 lost as a result of the
disastrous flood which struck San An
tonic, Tex, to be a conservative one.
Three armed bandits held up the
Beech Grove State bank Of Beech
Grove, a suburb at Indianapolis, forced
three employees and two customers of
the bank into a back room and es-
capped in an automobile with approx
mately $4,000.