Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-07-14
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United States warships, which were
reported to have been withdrawn from
Tampico, returned to that port.
Charles A. Pronty, former member
of the interstate commerce commits
sion, died at his home in IMPORT, VT.
AT last we are going to have peace
in Ireland" said King George in a
speech at Guernsey. Il am doing my
best"
July was the thirtieth anniversary
of the marriage Of President and Mrs.
Harding, but there was no formal OBJ
servance at Washington.
Owing to the restlessness which
has been displayed at Fiume recently,
1o,UOO Italian troops, equipped with
cannon and tanks, have arrived there.
storms in years swept the SnetfePs
peak section, IA miles west of Ouray,
Colo Sixteen We're marooned on the
peak.
Approximately 1000 union team
sters and chauffeurs went on strike at
st. Louis in protest against pro-
posed wage decrease of 10 to Il per
cent.
Cyrus Schlicter, aged .wentyone
years, and Raymond Hallgren, seven
teen years old, drowned at Hamburg,
ILL.,, when a jumpotf in the river bed
caved in.
President SchuitheSS of Switzerland
has consented at Geneva to act as
arbitrator in the long standing boun-
Diary dispute between Colombia and
Venezuela.
Bodies of 1854 Americans who fell
in France were accorded the nations
highest honors in memorial services at
Hoboken n. j. General pershing was
the chief speaker.
Lieutenant Laule, another German
officer on trial at Leipzig, in cOnnec-
ton with war crimes, has been ac-
quilted of the charge of shooting
defenseless French captain.
Fashionable Mayfair, London, was
shocked by the report Of the drown
ing of the earl OF Craven husband Of
COrnelia, the daughter of the late
Bradley Martin of New York.
European dispatches received at
Washington in semiotticial circles tend
to confirm press reports that Premier
Lenin of Russia has imprisoned Leon
TrOtZky, defense cOmmissar.
Former Emperor William is in con-
flict with the municipal council of
Doom over the question of paying To-
cal taxes, and the pressure of the law
is threatened to enforce payment.
The eight-day meeting of the ma
tional council of Congregational
| churches of America closed at Los
Angeles, Cal. The next meeting will
| be held in Springfield, Mass, in 1923.
Five robbers held up the cashier and
assistant cashier of the Horton Ice
Cream company outside the com
panys office at New York and es-
capped in an automobile with $4,000
cash.
With the exception Of bumper
corn crop, all crops of fruits and
year, according to the July estimate
OF the Department of Agriculture at
Washington.
Some army regiments may be dis
banded, rather than skeletonized, and
| a number of divisions merged, Gecre-
tary Weeks said at Washington, in
discussing the method of reducing the
enlisted strength to 10000.
According to the official reports is
sued at Dublin there were "A deaths,
all told, from violence in Ireland over
the weekend. These figures included
IA killed in Belfast, where Sc persons
were wounded and Sc houses were
burned
The daily guarantee to railroad pas
senger engineers and fremen was in
creased to $3.50 for the former and
$5.05 for the latter in an interpreter
ton Of the railroad labor boards 1920
wage award decision issued by the
board at Chicago.