Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-12-22
NEWS BITS FOR BUSY PEOPLE

Four bandits entered Panama, Ill.,,
robbed the Bank Of Panama of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
Police at New Orleans seized the
motor freight boat Alert, a short time
after she had locked. and found $780,
600 worth of liquor.
Sir James Craig, in Ulster parlia-l
ment at Belfast, accused Premiert
George of breach of faith and break
| ing his solemn pledges"
1t was officially admitted at Wash
ington that there will be nine power
treaty drafted to deal with questions
relating to China and the Far East.
The secretary to the paymaster at
the Sibley mills at Augusta, Ca, was
held up and robbed of the pay roll con-
tanning $4,000. The robbers escaped.
The secretary to the paymaster at
the Sibley mills, Augusta, Ca, was
held up and robbed of the pay roll con-
tanning $4,000. The robbers escaped.
/ Hundreds are homeless, railroadi
service over the Cascade mountains
tied up and all roads to Tacoma,
Wash, blocked by floods or landslides.
+, One thousand car repair workers
/ walked out in body at the Union
stock yards at Chicago in sympathy.
with the striking packing-house work,
/ ers.
A telegram received at Madrid from
Vigo reported bomb explosion in the
Spanish consulate at Lisbon, which re-
suited in great damage, but no casu"
1 alties.
n Fifty thousand dollars worth or
jewelry, stolen from the home of Col.
William Cooper Proctor at CINCINNATI,
on November IS last, was recovered In
Dayton O.
i The bill ratifying the peace treaty
between Hungary and the United
States passed it's first reading by
unanimous vote in the national assem-
bly, at Budapest.
DR.. Winter Amos Hadley, former
army surgeon and rancher, was put to
death in the electric chair in the state
penitentiary at Richmond, Va, for the
murder of his wife.
III. Clay Evans, former United States
commissioner of pensions and consul
general at London in 1902-1905, died
suddenly at his home in Chattanooga,
Tenn. He was seventy-eight years DID,
Instructions have been given by the
aldermanic executive council to the
!. chief of police that all Sunday Shows
t in Montreal, with the exception Of mo-
: ton picture theaters, must be stopped.
: A Dublin dispatch says De Valera's
g objection to the peace treaty Is princl-
| pally to the oath of allegiance. The
! country as whole is behind Arthur
treaty.
Germany has failed to pay 100, 000,-
600 gold marks due the first two weeks
of December under the schedule CALI
ing for 26 per cent of her exports and
portions of her customs duties, says a
Paris dispatch.
The Dusseldorf Germany General
bank, which had speculated in foreign
exchange, failed with loss of 100000
600 marks. This follows the closing Of
the Pfaelzische bank, with losses Of
$40, 100000 marks.
Leonard Pion, sixteen years old,
confessed to the police at Windsor
Mills, Quebec, that he murdered his
mother, Mrs. Joseph Pion, by shooting
her on December 2 He had been un-
der arrest as material witness.
III Unless the Washington conference
provides for genuine disarmament the
United States has entered a gigantic
military alliance, Senator Borah said,
in launching an attack on the new
Pacific treaty In the senate at Wash
ingtOn.
A strike of 1000 packers and ham
dlers of meat, said to be in sympathy
with the packers strike in Chicago
and other western points, was called
at New York. Hundreds of tons of
meat piled in trucks, were left stand
ing in the streets by workers.
A riot among prisoners at the branch
Of the Michigan state reformatory at
Marquette. Mich. during q moving pic.
ture exhibition was quelled after War
den L. b. Catlin and Deputy Warden
Mehennit had received several knife
wounds. Mehennit died of his In
juries.
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