Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-12-21
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the United States, has left Rome for
Genoa, to sail.
ItaIy's consumption Of liquor has
greatly increased since the World
war, an official Rome report shows.
A Sofia dispatch says the advance
of the Macedonian agrarian rebels has
been halted by Bulgarian troops, who
are restoring order.
Strong earth shocks were felt at
Santiago, Chile, at 1:12 O'Clock Sun
day morning. The tremors lasted
about half a minute.
The convention Of Illinois and Mis-
souri, creamery men was held at st
Louis. Methods of improving butter
and cream were discussed.
The State department at Washing
fngton denied reports of the recall OF
George T. Summerlin, American
charge d'affaires in Mexico City.
A new volcano has been formed on
Mount loretta, near Potenza, Italy,
dispatches say. 1t is belching forth
flames and the population is fleeing.
A downtown theater at Kansas City,
Mo-, suffered a 100000 damage by an
explosion caused when - employee
started to light a gas heater. He was
injured.
Twelve bandits overpowered govern
ment guards at the Jack Daniels dis
tilling company at st. Louis, Mo-, and
escaped with bonded whisky valued
at $4,000.
There are five dead and six injured
as a result of the explosion that de-
stroyed four mills of the Black Dia-
mond Powder company's plant at Sus-
con, Pa.
Radio messages were received on
the Overland limited at Salt Lake
City. This is said to be the first ex-
pertinent with radio receiving on
transcontinental train.
Dr. Karl Wirth, former German
chancellor, who resigned November
IA, plans to make tour of the United
States early next year, says dis
patch from Berlin.
The Gulf, Mobile & Northern
nus checks to employees who left
desks and did manual labor to break
the shopmen's strike.
Senator LaFollette introduced bill
at Washington to amend the packer
control law to restore the federal
trade commissions power to invesd-
gate the packing industry.
Full support of the French repara-
lions policy both at the Brussels con-
ference and at the allied premierS'
meeting in London was voiced at Paris
by Premier Mussolini of Italy, before
leaving for London.
The Canadian government at Otta-
wa received from France a perpetual
grant of several acres of land on
iVimy ridge, where Canada may erect
monuments to her soldiers who died
there in taking the ridge.
Gen. Charles G. Dawes Of Chicago
and Mrs. Edith X. Roosevelt, widow
of Theodore Roosevelt, are among the
newly elected members of the council
of the National Civil Service Reform
league at Washington.
About $4,000 inquiries for missing
persons among the refugees in Greece
have been received by the lost and
found bureau of the Near East Relief
at Athens Relatives in the United
States sent many of the inquiries.
For his work as League of Nations
commissioner in relieving the starv-
ing in Russia and Asia Minor, and for
his labors to promote world fraternity,
DR.. Fridtjof hansen, arctic explorer,
was awarded the Nobel peace prize at
Christiania.
Admiral Stark's phantom fleet of
fifteen ships, which disappeared from
Korea, has appeared at Shanghai, but
the authorities refuse to allow the
landing of the passengers. 1000 White
Russian guards who fled from Vladi-
ivostok, unless the ships are disarmed.
Thousands in distant cities listened
in on President Harding's address to
congress at Washington, broadcast by
lradio through the naval station at
iAnacostia. It was the first time the
new voice-amplifying device in the
house of representatives had been
connected up with the wireless.