Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-29
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y. s. Jones, a guard at the Pontiac
tiIL) reformatory, was beaten to
0eath Dy Byron -orbridge of Jackson
vile, ILL.,, an inmate.
Louis Holland of Kansas City, No.,
was elected president of the Associ-
aIed Advertising Clubs Of the World
on the first ballot at Milwaukee.
| The death is announced at Bris-
pane, Queensland, OF Sir Robert
Pnlllp, twice premier of Queensland.
he was born in Glasgow in 1851.
President Harding sent to the SEN
ate at Washington the nomination Of
W. 0. Potter to be United States at
torney for the Eastern district of ILL.,
nois.
Capt. Thomas Shea Of Kelly field,
San Antonio, was killed instantly at
; Ellington field, near Houston, Tex,
when his airplane crashed to the
ground.
The admiralty at London announces
that the drifter Blue Sky, which left
Portsmouth June II for Invergordon,
Scotland, is presumed to be lost with
all hands.
/ Police chiefs numbering about 400
are at San Francisco for the opening
of the twenty-ninth annual conven-
!, ton of the International Association
(. of Police Chiefs.
The house merchant marine commit
tee at Washington voted to make a
favorable report to the house on the
administrators ship subsidy bill. The
dry rider" was defeated.
! Production of soft coal in the tenth
week of the strike was 5,078,0OO net
/ tons. Production of anthracite remains
| practically zero, according to the geo.
logical report at Washington.
Levees along the banks Of the Rio
| Grande, in the San Benito and the
Harlingen district are holding against
! pressure of the highest food on record,
says San Antonio dispatch.
Successful completion of six years
campaign to raise 100000 for the
ministerial pension fund of the Angus
tana synod of the Lutheran church,
was announced at st. Paul, MINI.
A Paris dispatch says all of the al
lied troops in Upper Silesia will give
| two control commissions set up by the
German-Polish treaty signed at
| Geneva.
Congress was urged by action of
the American Federation of Labor at
Cincinnati to hereafter deny admis-
residents to all aliens who are in
eligible to citizenship.
Four men and one woman were shot
dead, two were wounded and two were
hurt in the vicinity of Bess Brook, Ire
land, known as County Armagh's
loyalists were burned.
Rev. Frederick r. Taylor, pastor for
the last Is years of the First Baptist
church, Indianapolis, evangelist and
progressive, was elected president for
the coming year of the Baptist north
ern convention in that city.
Troops will be used by the federal
government if necessary to preserve
public health and safety in the event
of rail strike, according to members
of congress who are close to the
White House at Washington.
More than 400 bungalows, summer
residences and hotels, valued at S.
100000, were burned to the ground,
rendering population Of 10000 men,
women and children temporarily
homeless by fire at Arverne, L. /.
A dispatch from Berlin quotes a
telegram received in the German capt.
tai from Moscow to the effect that the
soviet government has refused to
| ratify the Russian-I Italian treaty signed
by Leonid Krassin and George Tchit-
| cherin.
Col. Marcellus H. Thompson, vice
president and active head of the Auto
Ordnance company of New York, has
been indicted by the federal grand
jury at Trenton, N. j., on a charge of
conspiracy to ship arms to Ireland
in violation of the neutrality laws.
Five PRISONS, all of one family, were
instantly killed at Royal Center, Ind,
when their auto was struck by Penn
sylvania railway train. The five were
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Carson of On
ward, Ind, their son, Jefferson, and
his wife, of Peru, Ind, and the iatters
son, Harry.
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