Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-08-10
NEWS BITS FOR BUSY PEOPLE

Chicago street car men went on
strike at a. m. Tuesday.
The Norfolk & Western railroad at
Norfolk, Va, has declared an embar-
go on all freight except coal and food
| stuffs.
William Trope, West Manchester,
O., was killed by lightning during an
electrical storm which swept Wayne
| county.
Marllynn Reynolds Carter and John
Z. P1ckford were married in the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks in
Los Angeles.
More than 800 men and women were
| arrested as the result of raids on
every place in Flint, Mich, suspected
| OF violating the liquor laws.
Leon Crammer, theater owner, ran
down and killed his son, Herbert, five,
while returning home at Atlantic City,
N. D., from Long Beach in his auto
mobile.
Fares on all city street car lines will
| be cents, instead of 6, Cleveland
(OD officials announced A penny
| charge for all transfers will continue
| in effect.
Tentative figures issued at Washing
| ton showing the number of aliens adj
mitted into the United States during
| the fiscal year ended June 80, place
| the total at 10000.
More than a millions tons of coal
will be on the way to the United
| States from England and Wales by
September l, the shipping board an
| nounced at Washington.
| Control of all wheat raised in the
| provinces of Alberta and Saskatche-
wan will be vested in the hands of
the governments of these provinces.
says Winnipeg dispatch.
The Canadian government, said
Charles Stewart, minister of the inter
ior, at Winnipeg, is making a deter
mined effort to have the United States
remove the tariff from cattle.
Thousands Of dollars property loss,
washed out railroad tracks and bridges
| resulted from rain of cloudburst pro-
portions which was general over Ne
braska and parts of Iowa, Omaha re-
ports.
A high wind caused several thou
sand dollars damage in the Fox river
valley. factory at Appleton, Wis,
was unroofed, several barns blown
| over and large number of trees up
rooted.
Berlin announces that France has
| rejected Germany's request for q re-
| duction in the monthly payments on
| the debts contracted by German ma
tfonals with allied citizens prior to the
World war.
Two tornadoes within an hour struck
in the vicinity Of Colwell, Flayd coun-
| ty, Iowa, destroying buildings on one
| farm, unrOofing houses on others, and
| laying corn fiat over a wide area. No
one was injured.
Privates Harry Long of Logansport,
Ind, and Fitzhugh Langston of Au.
burn, N. c., were killed at Erhenbreit-
stein, Germany, when their machine
gun truck skidded into a telephone
pole and overturned.
A Canton dispatch says heavy re-
Inducements for the army of Sun Vat
Sen, deposed president Of South China,
coming down out of the north,
launched an attack in force on Chen
Ching-Meng's lines at Shiuchow.
All the main towns in the Come
mara district have now been cleared
of insurgent troops and rapid prog
ress is being made by the national
forces in the west and the Munster
/ province, says an official report from
Dublin.
Federal agents at Louisville, KY,
killed Harry Baker, a former lieuten-
ant Of police, probably fatally wound
ed another alleged rum runner and
captured a third in a gun fight at
distillery a short distance from the
business section of that city.