Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-07
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Parliament at Belgrade by vote Of
16S to 10 has ratified the loan of $780,
100000 contracted for in the United
States.
Final confirmation was given the
Palestine and Syrian mandates by the
council Of the League of Nations at
London.
EDWARD Owens was killed in an exI
ploslon which wrecked a corning mill
OF the Equitable Powder company at
East Alton, Ill.
resources of the 1,406 Illinois state
banks were $2,043, 226,91S on June 80,
according TO a statement by Auditor
Andrew Russell at Springfield
An aerial police service for "A hours
DAY has been established at Venice,
Cal. 1t is composed of three aviator
policemen, each on duty for eight
hours.
shipping board vessel operations in
June cost $2,7S3, 216.29 in excess of
income, announced Chairman Lasker,
IN statement made public al Wash
ington.
Maintenance of way men on the
Missouri Pacific have asked Il virtual
oO per cent wage increase. The matter
VIII be submitted to the labor board
at Chicago.
"A hnlsh fight in the railroad strike
was seen at Chicago in the announce
ment that 40 big eastern roads had
met IN New York to organize com
pany unions"
Marketing of approximately 20,000,-
oOO bushels of wheat this year is ex-
pected, say officials of the North Da-
kota Wheat Growers association at
Grand Forks.
Delmar Hickman, eighteen of Union
Mills, was drowned in pond near La
porte, md, when boat in which he
and Leo Conitz of Chicago were row.
ing tipped over.
Free State troops have captured
Ballinlough and Ballyhunis. The Free
Staters now control 70-mile front be-
tween Waterford and Limerick, saws al
Dublin dispatch.
Great Britain has ceased entirely to-
manufacture poison gas except for ex-
perlmental purposes, Premier LLOYD
George announced in the house of COM
mons at London.
SeVenty-tve Americans attended the
royal garden party in Buckingham
palace i'll London. The king and queen
moved freely among the enormous
number of guests.
Premier Lloyd George at London
has given up his tentative Plans to-
visit the United States He considres
the European situation too serious for
him to leave his post.
Republican irregulars have cons
pletely evacuated Waterford and are
retreating southwark, abandoning large
quantities of war materials on the
way, it was announced at Dublin.
A New York dispatch says Joe
Weber and Lew Fields, comedians who
won fame during the days of Tony
Pastor, and who became estranged
more than ten years ago, have been
reunited.
The estimate made last month by
the state board of agriculture of a
117,215,OO0 bushel wheat production
in Kansas this year still stands good,
says the July crop report issued by the
board at Topeka.
The British government at London
has received a note from the Washing-
ton government asking cooperation in
the suppression Of liquor running into
the United States through Bermuda
and the Bahamas.
The presidential election ordered
for January probably will be held up
through the action of several parties
at Berlin which have passed resotu-
sions favoring the extension of Pres
ident Ebert's term for two years.
More than $1,000 stolen automo-
biles valued at over $2,500,000 have
been recovered by the bureau of in-
vestigation Of the Department of JUS
tice at Washington since the passage
of the Dyer anti-theft automobile law
in October, 1919