Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-10-26
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An Adrianople dispatch says the
Greek Third army corps has refused
TO obey orders to evacuate Thrace.
The cholera epidemic in Tokyo has
bated, only one case having been re-
ported in the last twenty-four hours
Three persons were killed and 100
hurt in rioting in Berlin during clash
between Communists and opposing fac
| ton.
Albert J. Mason of Chicago was
named director in the American
Mining congress at the annua! cleo
| ton at Cleveland, O.
Owing TO the illness of Mrs. Har-
| ding, the usual winter of
White House social functions at ash
| ington has been Cancelled.
| Reduction of one cent in the price
| of gasoline was announ by the
Standard Oil Company OF v Jersey,
| effective throughout its tet..,ory.
| The foreign Office at Paris announces
that it has approved the selection of
| Lausanne, in Switzerland, as the site
| for the Near East peace conference.
L
Oscar A. Reum of Chicago was re-
elected president of the Contracting
Plasterers' International association
in annual convention at Cleveland. o.
An explosion on the fifth floor of the
| Coca Cola building at Kansas City
wrecked the Alexander laboratories
and caused damage estimated at
$4,000.
Lieut.. Walter Hinton. flying the
monster seaplane Sampaio Correia IL
arrived at Fort de France, Martinique,
on his flight from New York to Rio
| Janeiro.
Congress was bitterly arraigned at
New Orleans by the Legion report,
which will seek $1OOOO,OOO appropria-
ton to build hospitals for disabled
veterans.
Marshal Joffre will unveil the shaft
erected by Missouri at Cheppy In
honor Of the soldiers from that state
who died in the Argonne, it is an
nOunced.
Food problems are becoming acute
in Germany as result, of the fall OF
the mark, according to advices re
ceived by the Department of State at
Washington.
The Berlin VOssiche announces that
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg has
expressed his willingness to offer him
self as a candidate for election to the
German presidency.
Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims,
who during the World war commanded
the American fleet in British waters
was retired at Newport r. l., on his
sixty-fourth birthday.
National troops defeated rebel
force under Gen. Hsu Shu-Chen in a
battle at SkiukOW, thirty miles north
west of Yenping says an official com
munique issued at Peking.
J One man is dead, two other persons
, are injured probably fatally, and a
dozen others are suffering from minor
injuries as the result Of dynnmitina
of the Illinois hotel at Bristow, Okla
Leon Trotzky, Russian minister OF
war, in an address before the congress
of the textile unions at Moscow, de
clared that it was essential for Rus
STA to maintain an army of 80O,OOO
men.
A propaganda cruise around the
world was begun by the French cruis
ers Jules Michelet and Victor Hugo at
Brest The ships will visit all the i'm
portaht ports in North and South
America.
Germany's official printing presses
at Berlin produced 273OO OOO,OW
marks in the first week in October, II
is officially announced, the total paper
currency in circulation now being 344,
III, 631 900 marks.
The Greek government at Athens
has instructed it's high commissioner
at ConstantinOple to sign an armis
! tice with the Turks, Greece being I'm
: der the necessity of yielding to the
force of circumstances.
The Chilean government at Santa
go is demanding unqualified accept
ance by the senate of the Ancon
treaty protocol, according to Ell Mer'
curio. Any amendment will signify
rejection, the paper says.