Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-02-16
NEWS BITS FOR BUSY PEopl :

Cotton mills in New Hampshire and
at Lowell, Mass, employing $4,000 on
eratives, are affected by strikes.
Two men were killed in an exn,o.
sion of fireworks plant at Hudson.
O. One factory building is reported
wrecked.
Italian forces fighting rebels at Mis-
crata, Tripoli, have lost % killed and
about 100 wounded, says a dispatch
from Rome.
entine day by mailing from Columbus
adjusted compensation checks to VET
Grams Of the World war.
Clarence J. CURLY, thirty-eight, pres
ident of the st. Louis Automobile
club, accidentally shot and killed him
self while cleaning revolver in his
home there.
Joseph G. Cannon, oldest member of
the house, announced at Washington
that he would not be a candidate for
reelection from the Eighteenth Hi
nois district.
William Mead, aged forty-fve years,
state prohibition officer, was shot
and killed at Wells Branch, two miles
from Dunlow, w. Va. The shots came
from thicket.
A mass meeting of representative
Chicago citizens passed resolutions in
augurating a legislative campaign to
curb the indiscriminate manufacture
and sale of pistols
Approximately 100 aliens from vari-
Gus parts of the United States are be-
ing gathered at Ellis island for depor-
tation as undesirable citizens, says a
Washington dispatch.
LOndon's woman police are mot a
necessity and are too costly to main
tain as luxury" Sir William Hor-
wood, commissioner of the metropoli-
tan police at London, has found.
Sheriff Frank Kennedy at Dubuque,
Ia, reports that 100 cars, believed to
be stolen, are being held in garages in
Dubuque and Cedar Rapids. An or
ganized Middle West gang is i'll oper-
alton.
The British steamship Lowlands,
bound for Murmansk with a cargo Of
food for Russia's famine sufferers, has
been destroyed by fire Oft the Thurman
coast, says dispatch from Tromso,
Norway.
Application for receiver for the
IF 0f,
a 100000 corn and fruit products
concern, was filed in federal court at
st. Louis by stockholders protective
committee.
William Desmond Taylor, slain
movie director, in letter sent to his
daughter i'll New York within the last
year, told her that he had made will
making her his sole heir, it was
learned there.
Edward E. Esch Of Chicago is suing
David G.. Joyce, brother, of Stanley
Joyce of Peggy Joyce fame, for
100000. He charges Joyce stole his
wife and is now trying to ALLEVIATE his
daughters affections.
OcOlSc LIZ 1cA J hlChdIu was Hclu
in $4,000 bail for the grand jury by
Magistrate George w. Simpson in the
West Side court at New York as a re-
suit of the charges. made by Alice
Ruck, fifteen years old. .,
The British steamship Lowlands,
bound for Murmansk with a cargo of
food for Russias famine sufferers. has
been destroyed by fire off the Thurman
coast. says dispatch to Christiania
from Tromso. The crew was saved.
Russia will present bill at the
Genoa conference for indemnity or
reparation against France and Eng
land that will probably equal, if not
exceed, Russias pre-war debt to those
powers. That is the information in
diplomatic circles in Berlin.
Announcement was made in the
house of commons in London that
Prime Minister Lloyd George had mott
fed Michael Collins. head of the Irish
provisional government, that the kid
napings in Ireland showed the neces-
sity of the presence Of British troops
in Ulster. ..