Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-23
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FORMAL announcement was made al
Rome that the Genoa economic confer
ence will open April TO-,
An agreement was reached at Linn
erlck between the Republicans and
Free Skaters and 1900 men, members
Of both factions, departed.
The actors in Mexico City are on a
strike and are threatening to become
managers and run their own theaters.
Most of the theaters are closed.
Williston Walker, provost of Yale
university and member of the Yale
corporation, died at his home at New
haven, Conn, of heart disease.
Martial law was proclaimed at Jo-
hannesburg. Fighting has broken out
between bands of strikers and the DO
nee Nh The entire eastern section of the
Rand
IWenty-one members of the League
OF Nations have not paid their sub
scfiptlohs for last year, according to
al announcement il. the house of COM
mons at London.
The former Mrs. Mccormick has re-
sumed the prefix of Miss" to her
name. She advertised the fact in an
au Tor a gardener at her Lake Forest
estate near Chicago
According to dispatch received at
London from Delhi, government forces
nave placed Mohandas X. Ghandi.
leader of the non-co-operationist party
in India, under arrest.
A cyclone cutting path thousand
feet wide through the heart of the
residence district on the West side Of
Sulphur, Okla, injured more than fifty
persons, some seriously.
Several California cities, including
Los Angeles, were aroused by earth
quake shocks of varying intensity. The
most severe shocks were recorded at
Porterville and Bakersfield.
A revolution on a large scale has
broken out in Tripoli, according to
the railway in many places and at
tackled the italian garrison.
A Manila dispatch says Gen. Emilio
AguinaldO has accepted an invitation
to be the guest of the Spanish Ameri-
can war veterans at their annual
convention in Los Angeles.
Between 100000 and 100000 British
engineers and machinists are idle as a
result of~the employers lockout, says
a London dispatch. About 5000 work
ShODS are said to no clOSod
Republican members of the house
ways and means committee decided at
conference at Washington to stand
pat on their determination to report
no compromise soldiers bonus bill.
John and Edward Hall, brothers,
aged sixteen and thirteen years re-
spectively, were rescued by boatmen
from cake of ice in the Niagara
river, about q mile above the falls at
Niagara Falls, N. Y.
For the first time since the loss of
temporal power So years ago, great
religious procession traversed the prin-
cipal streets of Rome in honor of the
three hundredth anniversary of the
canOniZatiOn of st. Philip Neri.
Government officials at Washington
are without hope of doing anything to
avert coal strike, it became clear.
Government intervention, at least In
the preliminary stages of the approach
Ing conflict, has been abandoned.
A demand from the United States
that $241 100000 for it's expenses In
connection with occupation of the
Rhineland be paid before any repara-
tons were paid was presented to the
allied finance ministers at Paris.
An executive order issued at Wash
ington authorized Secretary DENLY to-
turn over to the United States public
health service land at the Great Lakes
Qll.) training station comprising regi-
mental units 10 and 20 of Camp Law
renee.
Delegates from Moscow arriving at
Warsaw to participate in the hygiene
conference called by the League of
Nations for March Is, reported that
the famine-stricken population of
Russia now numbered approximately
3O,OOOOOO.
With provisions which would neces
state reduction Of the size Of the regu
lar army to $4,000 enlisted men and
1000 officers, the army appropriation
bill, carrying $270,353,O3067 was re-
ported by the house appropriations
committee at Washington.