Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-06-22
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Guy 6arnaIn, newspaper puDllSner
Of Los Angeles, Cal, died at the Man.
chester Nursing home at London.
A crowd of more than 200 persons
witnessed the drowning at Lee street
beach, Evanston, H., of Harriet Raft,
ten years old
Properties of the WHY'S corpora
ton at Elizabeth, n. J., were bid in at
auction by the Durant Motor Car cor
poration for $5.525, 900.
Records for the season were broken
for single day when more than TO-
600 passengers sailed for Europe on
ships leaving New York.
Col. FL. D. Loveland, dean in point
of service Of public utility commits
sioners in the United States, died at
his home at San Francisco.
William Howard Taft, chief justice
Z of the, Supreme court of the United
States, arrived in Montreal and sailed
for a six weeks stay in England.
A canvass OF the senate at Wash
ington Of the supporters of the Nc
Cumber bonus bill proved conclusive
~ that the bill is certain to pass.
Recognition of the Lithuanian gov
eminent by Greece and Venezuela
was announced by the Lithuanian in
formation bureau. at Washington.
The government at Rome received
vote of confidence in the chamber
of deputies on the question Of it's for
eign policy. The vote was 200 to II.
William Foster Mackay, Well-known
editor and writer, is dead and two
Sother men were injured as the result
Of an airplane accident at Los An
geles, Cal.
Harold Bernice Miller, twenty-five,
son of Grant Miller and graduate in
engineering, at Iowa State university
last week, drowned in Cedar river at
Waterloo, Ia
A Picking dispatch says Gen. Fong
YuhSiang, the Christian governor of
Huan province, has issued a decree
prohibiting the practice Of binding
women's feet.
Grant I. Stephenson, son of the late
Senator Isaac Stephenson, was di-
vorced at Milwaukee from his wife,
formerly Miss Irene Adler, on. the
grounds of desertion.
Capt Eddie Rickenbackers cross
the-continent tour is not completed.
His all-metal monOplane crashed to
earth at Omaha, Neb., and is a total
wreck. No one was hurt.
Laura, Louisa and Lillian Buisset,
triplets and daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Buisset have been graduated
from the same class Of the Punxsu-
tawney Pa.) high school.
President Harding at Washington
signed the WadsWorth Mckenzie bill,
returning the navy, army, marine
corps and coast guard service to
peace-time pay standards.
Herbert Hoover's wartime relief
work in Belgium soon is to be further
recognized by the award to him Of
special medal by the Belgian govern
ment, it is announced at Washington.
Three persons are known to be
dead, thirteen seriously injured, 9th
ers are believed drowned in the wa
tiers of Buckeye lake, summer re-
sort near Newark o., during a storm.
British troops are in possession of
all the strongholds of the republicans
along the Ulster frontier, and it is be-
lieved that there will be no further
fighting, according to a Belfast dis
patch.
There is absolutely no justification
for a strike of railroad employees,
Samuel M. FELTON,, president of the
Chicago Great Western railroad said
in an address before the Executives
club of Chicago.
The open shop, unemployment, wage
reductions, recognition of soviet Rus
STA, the one big union, court decisions
and injunctions affecting labor and
other subjects formed the major is
sues that confronted the American
Federation of Labor, when it opened
it's two-Weeks' convention at Cincin-
natl.