Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-12-28
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Five students died and % were hurt
In a $750,0O0 fire in st. Boniface col
lege, near Winnipeg.
Seven men were killed and 13 hurt
in an explosion of the Madric-Cerillos
Coal company at Cerillos, n. NJ.
A governmental committee at Cal
cutta recommends establishment of q
daily air mail service from London to
India.
Dorsey Stephens. American relief
commissioner of Tzaritsin, arrived at
London and said $4,000 people are
near starvation there
The Department of Commerce at
Washington has shipped large educa-
tional exhibit to the international live
stock exposition at Chicago
Two were killed and third man
seriously hurt by explosion of loco
motive boiler of New York Central
freight train at Tarrytown, N. Y.
The Vehabiti, powerful Arab
tribe. are marching against Hedjaz,
dispatch from Mecca says. adding that
Emir Hussein is preparing a defense.
Erskine Childers heard sentence of
death read to him at Dublin after he
had lost his habeas corpus proceed
ings before. Master of the Rolls OCon-
nor.
Taurus L0omis, seventy-eight, cot
ton goods expert, who became wi 1ely
Strih oil
worth of Bibles free, died at West
Deal, N. ].
Trial of eight railway brotherhood
men charged with conspiracy to aban-
don trains at desert points last sum-
mer was begun in federal court at
Los Angeles
Pope Plus at Rome has appointed
Monsignor =. G. E. Nussbaum rs.
bishop of Marquette, Mich, and Mon
signor John J. Swint as bishop of
Wheeling, w. Va.
1t was officially stated at the White
House at Washington that President
Harding has no comment to make on
Georges Clemenceau's addresses in
the United States
Former Sultan Mohammed vi is liv-
ing, under heavy British guard, in
house outside of Valetta, Malta. He
| fears for his life believing his death
has been decreed.
Secretary of State Hughes will ad
dress the delegates of the Central
American countries in the conference
which they will hold at Washington be-
ginning December 4.
A Berlin dispatch says German sci
entists are producing artificial earth
quakes in the Rhone mountains, by
means of explosives in order to study
the quakes in action.
AT d price Of $1,21O,OOO, the Ameri-
can vineyard, consisting of LOO acres
and said to be the largest in the world.
has been sold to G. L. Cain of Fresno.
CAL. by Wylie M. Giffen.
Harry S. Dickey, sixty-two, VINO rep
mission to San Domingo during Presi-
dent Wilson's administration, died at
his home at Your gstown, o.
Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood will be
delayed at Manila by official duties,
and so will be Unable to relinquish
his post to become provost of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania until late
February at the earliest.
Another demonstration Of unem-
ployed was held in Trafalgar square
at London. 1t passed quietly. Lead
ers declared the jobless men would re-
main in London until Premier Law
consented. to see a delegation.
At meeting of the New York Flee
trical society the query, "HoW's the
weather." was flashed across the At
lantic by wireless. Less than three
minutes later London, Paris, Berlin
and Bergen, Norway, had answered.
The house appropriations committee
ut Washington telegraphed Governor
Groesbeck of Michigan urging him tn
select Representative Patrick II.
Kelly to fill the unexpired term Of
Senator Newberry, who has resigned.
Limitation of the international con
ference on rules of warfare, to be held
at The Hague December 10, to include
only aviation and photography, is
requested by the United States in a
note to the French government at
Paris.