Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-11-23
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Two seaplanes and four speed boats
equipped with machine guns will be
used to keep New Orleans dry.
The senate at Paris, by an over
whelming majority, extended vote
of confidence to Premier Poincare..
Newton D. Baker, former secretary
of war, was reelected president OF
the National Consumers league at
| Washington.
The British treasury at London re-
ports that the public debt On April l
of this year was f7,742, 526. LAT Trough
ly $34, O67, Ills, 05S).
Prince Christopher, brother of for
mer King Constantine of Greece, ar
rived at Brindisi, Italy. on his way
| to the United States.
The Lloyd Triestino steamship Graz
and the French steamer Phragie have
been seized at Batum, Transcaucasia,
| by the Russian Bolsheviki.
/ Riots and footing of stores are oc-
the Rhine district, as the mark sinks
and the cost Of living rises.
BelgiumS unknown soldier was en-
tombed at Brussels with impressive
ceremony in the presence of King Al
bert. Cardinal MERCER and other no
tables.
President Harding laid a wreath of
/ remembrance on the tomb of the I'm
known Soldier in Arlington cemetery
at Washington, as part of the ARMS
tice day celebration
Engagement of GWendolyn Field,
only granddaughter of Marshall Field,
was announced at London to Charles
Edmonstone, young Englishman, son
of Sir Archibald Edmonstone.
A prize of $4,000 was offered at
New York by the Society for Proven
ton Of Cruelty to Animals for new
device to minimize the suffering of
animals slaughtered for food
A new conflict with Poland is threat
ened as a result of President Pilsud-
skis refusal to accept the credentials
of the soviet envoy, Foreign Minister
Tchitcherin at Moscow asserts.
The Altman prize of $1,000, one of
the most coveted honors of the Ma
tional Academy of Design, at New
York, was awarded to Leon Knoll of
New York for his painting, "Sleep."
A Smyrna dispatch says commerce
is paralyzed throughout Asia Minor
Kemalists have sealed the vaults of
the banks because they would MT fur
nish lists of Greek and Armenian ac-
counts.
The district court of appeals at San
Francisco, reversing the Superior
court of Fresno county, ruled that the
Bible cannot be used in the California
book.
Steel for a giant bridge over the
Suchiate river, to link Guatemala and
Mexico by rail was ordered at Guate-
mala City, and it will soon be pos
sible to travel by rail from the United
States to Salvador.
A Mexico City dispatch says Gen.
Juan Carrasco, who for several months
has led a considerable rebel army on
the west coast, was killed with seven
of his men in battle at GuamuchilitO,
state of Durango.
The fourteenth annual conference
of governors, which will meet at
White Sulphur Springs, w. Va, on
December H. according to announce
ment at Madison, Wis, will include
"a new governors-elect.
Gen. Chang Chang Tse-Peng, Chi
nese rebel, has thrown the city of
Annoy into a panic by sudden at
tack, in which he entered the city and
seized the headquarters Of Ii Hao Chi,
| head of the Picking government forces.
The steamship Brookdale has ar
rived at Seattle with about 10000
sealskins taken last summer in the
Pribiloff islands, Alaska. The skins
are worth from $40 to $15 each in
their present raw state, and about $50
each tanned.
The revolutionary committee at
Athens decreed that owing to the con
stitution former King Constantine was
not responsible for the Greek debacle
in Asia Minor, but ordered all cabi-
net ministers and generals now under
arrest to be tried by extraordinary
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