Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-07-06
NEWS BITS FOR BUSY PEOPLE.

General DieterSichs was elected
president of VIadivostok government.
An Athens special says Greece add
ed an article to her constitution grant
ing civic rights to women.
A dispatch from Asuncion says the
newspapers announce a retreat of the
Paraguayan revolttionaries
Mrs. Mary Virginia Terhune, who
wrote under the name of Marion Har-
land" died at her home in New York,
after short Illness
Labor organizations are not exempt
from prosecution under the Sherman
antitrust law, the Supreme court at
i, Washington announced.
The railroad labOs board at Chicago
will shortly slash the pay of more
than million railway workers, 1t was
learned on high authority at Washing
ton.
Sterling Porter, Detroit race driver,
| was killed at Toledo, o., when his
machine crashed through a fence at
Fort Miami track during an automo-
bile race.
Miss Helen L. Potter, eighty-tive
years old, one of the pioneer lectur-
ers on suffrage and co-wOrker of
the late Susan B. Anthony, died at
Flushing, N. Y.
Salary increases ranging from 10 to
30 per cent for government employees
are to be considered by the senate APP
nj
| In the near future.
The new 2O,O0O-ton Cunard liner
LacOnia, built to replace the old
Cunarder LacOnia sunk during the
war, came into New York port from
Southampton on it's maiden trip.
Chiefs of the Chicago surface lines
took preliminary steps toward slash
in car mems pay, following the action
Of the United States District court In
reducing Chicago street car fares.
Buster" Keaton, film comedian, is
happy, for he became father at Los
Angeles, CAL, when a boy was born to
his wife, formerly Natalie Talmage,
| sister to Constance and Norma Tai
mage.
Two men were killed and ten in
| jured when an automobile truck in
which they were riding was struck by
the fast Rochester special of the Chi
cagO & Northwestern railroad at
| Blodgett Ill.
Plans are well under way for the
merger of $40,OO0,OOO worth of coal
properties along the Panhandle" rail-
road between Pittsburgh and the West
Virginia line, it was admitted by John
A. Bell, Pittsburgh banker.
A BuenOs Aires dispatch says the
steamer Villa France, with 100 excur-
siOnists aboard on tn Parana river,
near the Paraguay-Argentina frontier,
was destroyed by an explosion of it's
boilers. More than ninety are dead.
A French airpIane flying from the
air station at Croydon, near London,
bound for Paris, fell into the English
channel. A cross-channel boat picked
up two bodies. One of these had a
| passport in the name of Gordon Lay.
| Invitations to participate in a Pan
| Pacific commerce conference to be
| held at Honolulu next October have
been transmitted through the State de-
! partment at Washington to all the
governments bordering on the Pacific
ocean.
A Binghamton IN. " dispatch
says damage estimated at $2,OOOOO0
was caused In the Delaware river val
| ley in New York and the Lackawan-
ma river valley in Pennsylvania by
floods, following a clOudburst that
swept through the valleys.
Under a unanimous consent agree
ment the senate at Washington side
tracked the McCumber tariff bill to
take~up the 1929 army supply blu.
carrying appropriations to provide for
an enlisted personnel of $4,000 men
during the next fiscal year.