Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09
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A dispatch from Dublin reports that
Michael Collins is in bed, suffering
from influenza.
The japanese universal suffrage
measure was defeated in the diet at
Tokyo 288 to 159
The Star Brewing company plant at
Greensburg. Pa. was seized by govern
ment prohibition agents.
Deputy Luiga t'acta has formed a
new cabinet, task assigned to him by
King Victor Emmanuel at Rome.
Three persons were burned to death
when an oil stove exploded and a
rooming house was destroyed by fire
at Cleburne, Tex.
Secretary of State Hughes will re-
turn to Washington next Monday from
his vacation trip to Bermuda, the
State department announced.
The postal service would be required
to provide weekly pay days for all en-
plOyces under a bill introduced by
Senator Lodge at Washington.
The North German Lloyd passenger
steamship Seydlitz, the first Of that
line to arrive in eight years, steamed
into New York harb0r Sunday.
Four bandits held UP Walter A.
Estes shortly after he laft the Live
Stock State bank at Kansas City, Mo-,
and escaped with $4,000 in cash.
! The 1913 income tax law does not
levy tax on an estate income, as on
individual incomes, the Supreme court
of the United States at Washington
held.
Union labor has rejected the Krupp
works plan to sell WorkInen a special
Issue Of stock, looking toward coop
erative management, the Krupps an
lnOunce at Essen.
George Nichols, a prominent citizen,
was arrested at Tuscaloosa, Ala, on
"a charge Of murder in connection with
Ifhe killing Of Peter Mooney at Rome,
ga, As years ago.
Northwestern university, according
ito an announcement by President Wal
ter Dill Scott at Evanston, ILL.,, has re-
lceived a gift Of 100000 from the gen
eral education board.
The will of Mrs. Jay A. Hindman,
WHOSE grandmother was a cousin of
George Washington, requests $4,000
fO the Earl Ross post Of the American
Legion of Stockton, Cal.
The NOnpartisan league grain laws
0f North Dakota are invalid because
int
decided by the Supreme court Of tt
United States at Washington.
The troops of the Far Eastern re-
public since their recapture of Khabo-
rOvsk, which lies north of VladivOstok,
have advanced so versts (abOut 33
lmiles), says a dispatch from Chita.
A proposal to finance the soldiers
bonus by a sales tax has been rejected
by the special subcommittee Of the
Republican members OF the house
ways and means committee at Wash
IingtOn.
Revolutionary disturbances are Oc-
tcurring in Guatemala and an unsuc
cessfql attempt was made by a band
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Guatemala, according to information
Preaching Mexico City.
Charles A, Raw7on of Des Moines
was sworn In at Washington as sena-
tor from Iowa. succeeding William S.
Kenyon, who resigned to accept ap
jpointment as judge Of the Circuit
Court of Appeals, Eighth circuit.
Charles w. Morse, New York ship
builder, his three sons and eight 9th
Iers associated with him in his ship
building activities, were indicted by
the grand jury at Washington on two
charges of conspiracy to defraud.
Mrs. Jessie Seaman, thirty-eight
years old, who admits being the wife
j6f eight men, whom she married with
Iout obtaining a divorce, was sentenced
Int Clev Gland, O., from one to seven
years in the Marysville reformatOry.