The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-01
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

The American dollar was quoteu III
Annoy, China, at III silver, Ihurs-
day.
Ambassador Francis 500 is to cave
Archangel for England, where he Is 10
undergo n Slight operation
Eighteen new ships of $4,000 dead
weight tons wei added to the Ameri'
can fleet during the week ended Octo-
Der 20.
A Prague dispatch TO the Tageblatt
of Berlin says the Graben, the hnest
business street in Prague, has been
renamed Wilson street.
The 1920 and 1921 classes at the
West Point Military academy gradu-
ated Thursday, furnishing 80 new
second lieutenants for the army.
Twenty-six German airplanes were
brought down by the British, Field
Marshal Haig says in his report to
london. The British lost eleven ma
chimes.
In the last three months British
forces in France have taken 1859
prisoners and 2,378 guns from the Ger
mans, says an official London COM
munication.
Grieving over the death of her hus-
band, who had died of influenza, Mrs.
Carmen Lavera, aged thirty-fOur, OF
near Camaguep, Cuba, killed her sew
en- young sons.
Austrian marines have revolted, seiz-
ing the warships at Pola and placing
them at the disposal of the Hungari-
ans and the Jugo-Slavs, it was report
ed to Copenhagen.
Men Of the new draft age will first
be modified in large numbers early In
November under q draft call now in
preparation at Provost Marshal Gen
eral CroWder's office at Washington.
One policeman was killed and six
sailors wounded at Norfolk, Va, in a
street riot which resulted from the eff,
forts Of policemen to arrest a number
of sailors on charges of disorderly con-
duct.
Fire, followed by explosions, de-
stroyed the chloride distilling building
at the 100000 government chemical
plant at Kingsport, Tenn. The dam
age was estimated at more than $780,
900.
An average wage increase of 81 a
was granted anthracite coal miners by
Fuel Administrator Garfield at Wash.
ington, effective November 1. In some
instances the increase is below this
figure.
German losses in their u%navailing Of
fensive into the Lys river salient last
summer were $4,000 killed, 5000 pris-
oners and about $4,000 wounded and
missing, according to a London author
itative calculation.
Surgeon General BREASTED at Wash
ington announced that the influenza
epidemic Is over in ten naval districts
and that 1t Is on the wane In all other
places except Paris Island, s. c., and
Mare Island. Cal.
The United States fuel administra-
ton at Washington has issued orders
to ID coal mines prohibiting them from
either shipping or mining any coal,
making a total of 90 mines closed by
the administration.
Orders for 3,000,OO0,O0O cigarettes,
enough to provide two smokes for ev-
cry person in the world, have been
placed by the war department at
Washington, to supply the American
soldiers for the balance Of the year.
Announcement was made in the
London house Of m that since
the beginning Of the war British troops
have taken 327, 416 enemy combatant
prisoners, including 264.242 Germans.
There are $1,000 German combatant
prisoners in the United Kingdom at
the present time.
Dutch soldiers encamped at Harris.
kamp, near Apeldoorn, IN Gelderland
mutinied, according to the Amsterdam
TELEGRAPH. The trouble was due to dis.
satisfaction over food conditions. The
soldiers are said to have plundered
the canteens and set fire to the bar
racks. The reports say that In the
ensuing fighting several men were
killed or wounded.