Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-01-26
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Elsa Anderson, the only Swedish
woman to hold an aviators certificate,
was killed at Askersund.
More than 100. Indian nationalists
were arrested while trying to march,
In procession through Calcutta.
Will Hall, negro packing house
worker, and his wife were burned to
death in their home at Oklahoma City,
Okla.
Typhus is spreading in Moscow, ac-
cording to the Novyput, official Boil
sheyist government organ at Riga,
Latvia.
Three armed men took farmer
named Kelly from his home near New
towards, Ireland, and shot him In
| the spine.
w. A. Powers, thirty-two, is dead at
Kansas City, Mo-. as the result OF
shooting in the apartment of Mrs. Ella
M. Locke.
| The Supreme court of the United
States at Washington announced re-
cess from Monday, January 80, to
February q.
| Advices from Moscow report that
the White or anti-Bolstevik forces
have captured Blagovieshtchensk,
/ Asiatic Russia.
/ Fred Morris bearing assistant Sec
rotary of state, will be appointed min
lister to Portugal. it was announced at
the White House.
Pope Benedict left his property at
Pigli, in Liguria, to his nephew, Mar
quesse Giuseppi della Chiesa, says
dispatch from Rome.
Ninety-six automobiles were de-
stroyed in fire which swept through
garage in Wilmette. Ill. The loss Is
estimated at $15O,OOO.
Everett MCGOWAN, st. Paul profess
| siOnal, won series of three skating
races from Norval Baptie, Bathgate,
N. D., at st. Paul, MINI.
Viscount Bryce died suddenly at
Sidmouth, near London. He was born
May 10, 1888, and was ambassador to
Washington from 1907 to 1913.
United States destroyer Fox arrived
at Novorossiysk, RUSSIAN Black sea
port, with party of American relief
administration workers aboard.
Representative Simeon d. Fess Of
Ohio was reelected at Washington for
a third term as chairman of the Re-
publican congressional committee.
Searchers found the frozen body OF
Rev. C. w. Chase in a snOwdrift near
Old Mission, Mich, after his horse ar
rived home dragging an empty sleigh.
Sam Beaman of IrontOn, o., has
been appointed federal prohibition d.
rector for the state of New Mexico, 1t
was announced at the prohibition bu-
reau at Washington.
The street car men at Mexico City
have declared limited strike in SYM
pathy with the bakers, whose absence
from their ovens has put the city on
short bread rations.
Delegates from Japan, China Korea,
Mongolia and the Far Eastern repub-
lie of Siberia are at Moscow for the
congress of oppressed Far Eastern
peoples, which opened there. India and
the Islamic countries are not repre-
I
scented.
Chile and Peru have accepted the In
vitation of the United States to. send
delegates to Washington to arbitrate
their boundary dispute, Ambassador M.
Collier Of Santiago and Frederick A.
Sterling, charge d'affairs at Lima,
cabled the State department Mt Wash
irgtOn.
Twelve ships, carrying a total Of g.
5000 bushels of grain, have actually
been sent to Russia for the relief Of
her starving populace, it was an
nounced by Secretary of Commerce
Hoover at Washington. Eighteen other
vessels are now loading at Atlantic
and Gulf ports, and will carry another
100000 bushels as fast as they car
be filed and cleared.
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