Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-09-14
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DR.. B. Bunnemyer, government
weather fOrecaster at Houston, Tex,
Cor more than decade, died there.
The Washington Labor department
says nearly 10000 aliens became natu-
rallied citizens of the United States
during July.
In accordance with the Washington
naval agreement, the admiralty at
London has ordered six large capital
ships scrapped.
Big Four passenger train No. was
derailed at Brownsburg, Ind, and one
passenger, Mrs. Sarah Moon of Har-
dinsburg, Ind was injured.
Andy Nausi, striking miner at
Lambert, Pa, in Connellsville coke re-
gion, was killed by guard when he
refused to go back to work,
King Alexander of Jugo Slavia has
ISSUED decree banishing his brother.
Prince George, from Belgrade forever,
said dispatch from Belgrade.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Wallace of Des
MOines, Ia, announced the arrival Of a
daughter. Mr.. Wallace is the son of
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace.
The deputation of American Legion
has arrived in Brussels from Paris,
The members were received at the Bel
Igian frontier by delegation Of Belgian
veterans.
Two police officers, Sergeant Elmer
GBiggs, sixty-one, and Fred Wheeler,
fhirty-fve, were shot and killed in a
gun battle with bandits at Kansas
City, Mo.
A treaty of alliance between Czecho-
islovakia and Jugo-Slavia was signed
lat Marienbad by Premier Pachitch Of
Jugo-Slavia and Premier Benes of
iCzechoslovakia.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
has pledged financial and moral sup
lport to the railroad strike. The ac-
ldOn was taken at a meeting Of the
federation there,
The birth rate Is declining and the
death rate increasing, according to
statistics made public by the census
bureau at Washington covering the
1frst quarter Of the year.
(, With helmets concealing their faces
land attired in their oriental uniforms,
the drum corps of the Ku Klux Khan
marched in Atlanta's Labor day pa
trade for the first time in history.
The administration bill to prevent
Drofiteering In coal and secure equal
distribution during the shortage result
ing from the strike was passed by the
house at Washington by vote Of 214
ITO 81.
Five irregular troops, including Com
lmander Gibbs Ross, were killed, and
several were wounded in a fierce 15-
hour battle with Free State forces fol
lowing an attack on the post office at
Bantry, Ireland.
An automobile plunged over the cliff
tnear the cataract at Niagara Falls, N.
below. Mrs. Agatha Miller, fifty-four
years old, wife Of D. FL. Miller of
Geveland, fell to her death with the
lear.
Only by organization and more or
lGanization can the workers Of Ameri-
lea secure a full measure of economic
Nustice, President Samuel Gompers Of
1.-The American Federation Of Labor de-
lcIared in a Labor day message issued
lat Washington. \
The resignation of Associate Jus
lice Clarke has been received by Pres
Iident Harding at Washington. The
president will accept the resignation
land nominate George H. Sutherland OF
Utah, former United States senator,
Ito take Clarke's place. =
Otis Clark, union miner living near
Goreville, II miles south Of Marion. ILL.,,
lwas lodged In Williamson county Jail
Ito answer to an indictment returned by
1.-THE grand jury charging him with the
murder of Mine Superintendent c. K.
lMePowel II ths HsF1n riot June e :.
1--WE are now all in the employee
iclass, working for somebody else. The
Icapitalistic class and the labor group
lare names only. There is no such dis.
Itinctive division Of the American fam.
ily'' This was asserted by Postmas'
ter General Work before the annual
lconvention Of the United National As
Isociation of Post Office Clerks at But.
halo, N. 7.