Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-08-04
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
More than 100000 damage was
done In Mississippi and Alabama by
q terrific storm which swept that Sec
ton Of the country recently.
/: Iowa democrats for the first time in
the memory Of any Of the leaders
went on record in the state platform
a. favoring prohibition at the state
convention at Des Moines.
The largest single wool sale made
IN America this year was completed at
Cheyenne, Wyo., when the Swan Land
and Cattle Co. sold its 1916 clip OF
100000 pounds to w. r. Adams OF Ere
mont, Neb. The price was rs cents
Q pound.
An attempt to assassinate President
L LaPlaza Of Brazil was made at
Buenos Aires. The president was re-
viewing troops when q man In the
crowd Of spectators suddenly drew q
revolver and fred at him. The shot
went Wild.
That more people in the city Of Chi
cago go to moving picture theaters
than attend churches was the state
ment made by Mrs. Harriet Stokes
Thompson, in a report to delegates Of
the convention of the Motion Picture
Exhibitors League Of America.
John Redmond, leader Of the Irish
nationalists, issued statement char
aoterixing the speech of the Marquis
of Lansdowne in the British house OF
lords a. q declaration Of war on the
Irish people. Among other sugges-
tons made by Lord Lansdowne was
the maintenance of garrison in Ire
land strong enough to preserve order.
A conference of representative pro
gressives from all parts Of the coun-
try soon will be held in Chicago, &C.
cording to an announcement by Balm
bridge Colby, to consider "the wide
spread and bitter. revolt within the
marty" against the action of the ma
tfonal committee in endorsing Charles
4. Hughes.
Two children have died Of infantile
paralysis in Michel, So. Dak., &C.
cording to a statement by the city
health ohicer. Children have been
prohibited from attending public gath
erings.
District Judge Frey Of Boone, Ia,
held that beer cannot be shipped any
where within the state of Iowa and
that other intoxicating liquors can be
shipped only to druggists having per-
mits to sell them for medicinal pur-
poses.
August Heckscher, New York cap
italist, presented check for $4,000
to CAPTAIN Pat; Koenig for the mem
hers Of the crew of the Deutschland
IN recoxnition of the submarines feat.
The development Of 100000 horse
power Of electric energy below the
Niagara Falls, without disturbing the
Horse Shoe Falls and American Falls.
and the expenditure Of $100,000,00O In
the work, are proposed in scheme
that has been submitted to the Cana
dian government
TIE unified orders Of the United
States Steel corporation on June 30
stood at s.640,45s tons. decrease OF
197. $40 tons as compared with those
Of May 81, according to the monthly
statement issued at New York.
School teachers who have organized
unions were lauded by Samuel Com
oers. president Of the American FEEDER
alton OF Labor, in an address at New
York before the National Education
association. He declared organized
labor has nothing to offer teachers ex-
cent Opportunities for freedom"
"Bud" Fisher, the cartoonist, whose
vife was crushed under an automobile
eighteen months ago. was himself
pinned beneath his auto when 1t over.
turned at sarstosa. N. Y. He suffer
Il = tseksp rth and other tn1urtes