Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-01-26
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The Anglo-Irish treaty creating the
Irish Free State was unanimously
ratified by the South Ireland parlia-
ment at Dublin.
Marshal William Peterson of Win
throp Harbor, H.. was shot TO death
Dy automobile speeders who refused
TO obey his ortier to halt.
The entire plant OF Birk Bros Brew
ing company at Chicago was seized by
FEDERAL authorities for alleged viola
lions OF the prohibition laws.
The annual post onice appropriation
bill, carrying approximately 1904, 000,-
700, was passed by the house at Wash
ington and sent to the senate.
A jury to try Roscoe ("Fatty") Ar
buckle was completed at San Fran
cisco. The jury finally selected num-
berS eleven men and one woman.
Sir John Kirk, who was chief officer
on the government expedition of Da-
vid Livingstone to Africa in 1853, died
III London, at the age of ninety years.
ulster will refuse to enter an all
Ireland parliament until the south of
Ireland demonstrates that it is capable
OF self-government," said Sir James
Craig at Belfast.
Sylvester L. Everett, prominent re-
tired broker and one of the country'S
pioneers in the promotion of electric
railway construction, died at his home
at Cleveland. O.
One robber was killed and another
fatally wounded and captured when
six armed men held up w. H. Browns
roadhOCse ten miles south of Toledo,
o., at midnight.
Christopher Minor Spencer, one of
the best-knoWn American inventors,
died at the home of his son, Roger NJ.
Spencer at Hartford, Conn. He was
lightweight years old.
William j. Roberts, sixty, former
postmaster of Leavittsburg O., was
sentenced at Cleveland, o., to four
years and six months in Leavenworth,
Kan, for embeZzlement.
Unemployment conditions through
ont the country have grown worse
since the first of the year, Secretary
Hoover at Washington declared, be-
cause Of the seasonal Dip
The bodies of his wife, son and
daughter and the AK with which he
said he had killed them, were cOolly
exhibited to Sheriff Vincent Aye and
his deputies at Charleston, ILL.,, by b.
f. MOnroney.
Judge John Il. Caverly at Chicago
Overruled motion for a new trial for
Harvey w. Church, convicted slayer
of Bernard J. Daugherty, automobile
salesman, and sentenced him to be
hanged February II.
A decrease of nearly $1,O00,O00OO
in the favorable trade balance of the
United States during 1927 was indi-
Gated in the foreign trade statistics
for December, issued by the Commerce
department at Washington
Serious rioting greeted the prince of
Wales at Madras, according to dis
patches made public at London, 1t is
admitted the rioting became so in
tense the police used armored cars
against the mobs. There were a mum.
Der of casualties.
Tentative agreement was reached
by Republican members of the senate
finance committee at Washington to
assess import duties under the new
permanent tariff law on the basis Of
the selling price in the American
wholesale market.
Aid to the extent of $250,OO0 in Aus
traIian supplies principally wheat, to
be shipped from Australian stores al
ready in Great Britain, is to be ex-
tended to the starving peoples of Eu-
rope by the commonwealth govern
nent at Melbourne
The discovery of the bodies of two
men, apparently foreign sailors, on the
beach at Biloxi, Miss, has led to ten
arrests by the police, who assert the
men were killed in a fight which fol-
lowed an attempt to hold up a liquor
smuggling Cuban schooner.
The governmental powers for Ire
land, AS vested in the British authOri-
ties at Dublin castle, were turned over
to the provisional government of Ire
land, as constituted under the Anglo
Irish treaty. The transfer was made
at Dublin by Viscount Fitzalan the
lord lieutenant.