Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-12-28
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El1eSer Ben-Yahuda, W0rld-1amOuS
Hebrew author, died suddenly at Je-
ruSalem.
Premier POincare at Paris won
vote of confidence on his Preparations
policy by 512 to 76.
Dispatches report the arrest in Bo-
logna Of NJ. Zinovieff, the Russian
communist leader
The Rumanian legation at Washing
ton denied reports that Prince Carol
Of Rumania had left his bride.
The senate at Washington passed
a $26,0OO,OO0 appropriation bill for the
Labor and Commerce departments.
John H. Bass, eighty-seven, mil
Ionaire philanthropist, died at Fort
Wayne, Ind, after a lingering illness.
Secretary Hoover al Washington
said the American Relief association
is feeding 100000 Russian children.
A Berne dispatch says Karl Scheu-
rer, vice president of the Swiss Con-
federation during the last year, was
elected president for 1923.
Food Minister Luther at Berlin In
formed a reichstag committee that
Germany has enough grain to assure
bread all winter.
President Harding at Washington is
understood to be planning to leave
Washington on March 6 to take a
vacation in Florida.
Canada was the recipient of nearly
half the corn exports from the United
States in 1921, the Department of Ag-
riculture at Washington reports.
Wallace Reid, one of the bright film
stars, and the idol of movie fans, lies
in remote little Los Angeles (CaL)
Notwithstanding to "come back. +"
Walter Malinvoski, eleven, was
dragged to death at Miner, ILL.,, when
q cow he had been leading ran away.
He had tied the lead rope around his
body.
A dispatch says on payment of
$1,000 for each prisoner, the bandits
in Honan province have released all
foreign prisoners except a French en-
gineer.
The Seaboard National bank of
New York paid 5000 at auction for the
liner Hiannis, which the shipping
board built during the war at a cost
of $50O,OOO.
Justice Mahlon Pitney of the SUI
preme court at Washington sent his
resignation to President Harding. be-
cause Of illness. He will serve until
January l.
Government officials at Washington
are highly elated over the operation
of the budget system, which has re-
suited in the passage of three of the
eleven supply bills to date.
The Department of Justice at Wash
,ington asks an appropriation of
$1,725,OOO to cover the salaries of
special deputy marshals employed
during the railroad and coal strikes.
Many improvements are shown in
exhibits at Frances eighth aviation
salon, which opened at Paris. French
engineers say they and the Americans
lare leading the world.
Army officers at Nogales, Ariz., have
abandoned hope Of finding Colonel
Francis c. Marshall and Lieut.. C. L.
Weber, missing aviators, alive, or of
finding their bodies.
The senate at Washington passed a
bill granting federal authority for
the construction at Trenton, N. J., of
la bridge to commemorate Washing
tons crossing of the Delaware river.
Senator Brookhart (Rep., Ia.) at
Washington proposed an amendment
to the shipping bill which W. aid
grant subsidy to American pro-
ducers, industrial and agricultural.
In an attack by Is Moros on the
conStabulary detachment on Secuban
island in the Philippines, two outlaws
were killed and five constabllary SOL
dierS were wounded.
A Picking dispatch says that in or
der to exact retirement pension
when the Shantung railroad is taken
over by the Chinese, Japanese en-
ployees of the road have gone on
strike.
, French toy makers at Paris are Sc
riously concerned over the importa-
tion of millions of marks worth of
German toys for Christmas sale, de-
spite the heavy tax on all German
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