Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-10-19
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which swas unloaded from a steamer
at Palermo, Italy, included 225 trunks
and other packages.
Grant Pressler, forty-eight, Of ALI
bion. Ind, was found dead under the
wreckage OF his automobile on al
lonely country road
Prime Minister Lloyd Georges resi-
ignation is demanded by the British
press as result of Near East affair,
says London dispatch.
| One OF series of recent minor
earthquakes rocked buildings like
pendulums and msde them creak at
Anchorage. Alaska. No damage was
reported
A total enrolment of 6,265 Students
was announced at Cambridge Mass,
by the registrar of Harvard university
This eclipSes the previous record of
6,O73 last year.
Jean Jules Jusserand, French am
bassador to the United States, will
start from Paris at the end of the
week for America to resume his duties
at Washington.
A landlords strike began at Vienna
In modified FORM They demand modi-l
fication Of the rent restriction law en-
abling them to advance rents 10 per,
cent on prewar rates.
A Pana Ull) dispatch says heavy
| general rains have ended the pro-
longed drought in central Illinois.
Farmers were compelled to haul was
ter to keep stock alive.
A Norwegian ship owner won a law-
suit against the United States ship
ping board at The Hague court of ar
bitration. The sum involved is $4,000
600 (about $22.1OO,OOO).
While watching a car burning on q
side track at Valparaiso, Ind, Walter
Drum, thirty-four, of Brems, Ind.
was thrown into the fire by a passing
train and burned to death.
Mussolini, chief of the Fascist, no.
tilted the government at Rome that
the Fascist must rule Italy. He de-
mands adjournment of the chamber
and new elections in November.
The first gusher to be brought in on
the Teapot Dome United States naval
reserve, forty miles from Casper,
Wyo., came in with an estimated flow
of about 10000 barrels daily.
Richard NJ. Andrews, who was ar
rested at Tokyo following the search
of his residence by the police, is sus-
pected of having taken photographs Of
the fertilization of Yokosuka
Mike Hancher, q miner employed by
the MacGregor Coal company at Som
erset, Pa, is champion big pay miner
of Somerset county, his last pay for
a two weeks period amounting to
$291.5O.
William Bross Lloyd and other
Chicago defendants, denied a rehear-
ing by the Illinois Supreme court on
conviction as Reds, say they will att
tack validity of state statute IN u. s.
Supreme court.
William Alexander, rural mail car
rier at Rochester, N. Y, was wounded
when a rifle, sent through the mails,
was discharged as he lifted the pack
age from a sack. The bullet shat
tered his right arm.
Mrs. Harding is steadily improving
from her near fatal illness, but it will
be considerable time yet before she Isl
able to leave her bed, 1t was an
nOunced at the White House at Wash
ington by DR.. Charles r. Sawyer.
lack Williams, a former soldier, re-
Gently enrolled in the federal voca-
tiOnal school at Valparaiso Qnd) uni
versity, was killed by Valparaiso POI
lice after he shot two policemen dur
ing the course Of moOnshine ram
page
Better business conditions the coun-
try over were reflected by postal re7
ceipts-the governments business ba-
rometer-for September issued at
Washington. In fifty selected cities
the receipts totaled So, 764OOO, an in
crease Of 1855 per cent over Septem-
ber 1921.
A Mexico City dispatch says rebels
under General Murguia were defeated
In battle with federal troops In the
state Of Durango. A rebel detachment
fought from the tower of a church,
which the federals attacked with
two machine guns General Murguia
finally retired to the hills.