Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-10-05
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Fire caused an estimated damage
Vt 100000 to s., 100000 In the bust
ness district of Atlanta. Ga.
The British admiralty at London
announced that the destroyer Speedy
ScOllided with a tug In the sea Of Mar
mora and was sunk.
i The Downing street government at
London is confident that the Near
East situation will be cleared up with
l0ut a clash of arms.
t Bandits who robbed the First State
bank of Savage. Mimi, Of $16,5OO in
leash and Liberty bonds, fled in an
Automobile driven by woman.
| More than 1900 veterans of the
Grand Army of the Republic attended
the fifty-sixth annual encampment,
(which was held at Des Moines, La.
An attempt was made to kill Gen.
Owen O'Duffy, chief commander Of the
Irish civil police, it was announced by
1.-THE Free State government at Dublin.
The tide on the Pacific side of the
Panama canal rose to nineteen and
lOne-half feet. The phenomenon is be-
i1ieved to have been due to the solar
leclipse.
X-ray photographs show that the
treatment prescribed for Mrs. Harding
bs proving effective, Brig. Gen. c. E.
Sawyer, White House physician at
Washington, said.
The practice of charging foreigners
from countries where currencies are
igtrong higher fee for medical service
twas upheld in the Hamburg Ger
smany Court of Appeals.
Governors Of nearly every state in
1the Union have indorsed Navy Day."
(which will be formally observed Octo-
Der u under the auspices of the Navy
League of the United States at Wash
hngton.
Edward G. Marsh, editorial adviser
FOR Harper & Bros. and widely known
critic and short-story writer. acct
dentally shot and killed himself while
hunting on his country place at Paw
ting, N. Y.
John 2. Tfernan, professor of law
Fat Notre Dame university, at South
bend, Ind, has forgiven Mrs. Augusta
Tiernan and will take her and ten
lmonths-old baby boy into his home
and heart.
Miss Josephine Thomas, fifty-five,
for thirty years translator for lead
Ing New York and Chicago publishing
houses and writer of several criticisms
ON literature, committed suicide in her
room at Chicago.
. Two girls and boy were crushed to
death and a score of children were In
cured when the lobby floor Of the
STRAND motion picture theater In the
East Liberty section of Pittsburgh, Pa,
collapsed and fell.
The German delegation delivered to
the reparatiOns commission at Paris
notes for approximately 90,OOOOOO
gold marks ($21 ,42OOOO in payment
lOf the August Is and September allot-
ments due to Belgium.
A COnstantinople dispatch says the
town of Esine, Is miles southwest of
Chanak, has been seized by Turkish
forces, who are threatening Kun Ka-
Aesi, important strategic point on the
IAsiatic side of the Dardanelles.
While a number of residents of
Blandinsville, ILL.,, looked on, too terror
stricken to offer resistance, band Of
-FOUR men In an automobile swooped
down upon the First National bank
there, dynamited the vault and escaped
with between $1,000 and $4,000.
Parliament at Dublin fixed the sal
AIRY of the president of the dali at
f2,5OO (about $12,5OO at the normal
rate of excxhange) yearly; of the min
listers and speakers, f1,7OO; deputy
speaker, $1,000. and clerk of parlia-
ment, 1920. Members of parliament
are to be paid ESQ monthly.