The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-10-17
EPITOME OF THE DAYS NEWS


Secretary Lane was elected pcrma-
nCnt chairman Of the industrial con-
ference at Washington.
The newspaper Folkets Dagblad at
Stockholm learns that the bolshevists
have retaken the city Of kiev.
a forest fire patrol airplane fell
near Gold Bay. Ore. One man was
killed and another seriously injured.
The National Education association
estimates that the new school year be-
gan with Il shortage of nearly $4,000
teachers.
Inquiry into alleged cases of haZing
al the naval academy at Annapolis has
been ordered by Secretary Daniels at
Washington.
Dispatches TO ~IIelsingfors, Finland,
report that Nlkolai Lenine, the Rus
sian bolsheviSt premier, has been
placed under arrest in Moscow.
Louis Boismenue of East St. Louis
was elected president of the Illinois
ElkS at Decatur, III. Ottawa was Sc
lected as the 1920 convention city.
King George completed Great Brit
aims ratification of the German peace
treaty. The document ratified by him
has been dispatched from London to
Paris.
Ten thousand one hundred dollars
was paid at Hannibal, Mo-, for Big
Ben, weighing LOO pounds, said by
stockmen to be the biggest hog in the
world.
More than 5000 veterans assembled
at Atlanta, Ga, for the grand parade
of the United Confederate Veterans,
the crOwSing feature of their annual
reunion.
An immediate investigation of the
vocational educational board was de-
manded by Representative Rogers of
Massachusetts before the house rules
committee at Washington.
Pleading guilty to 81 charges Of sell
ing liquor Illegally, T.. E. Halter, For
eston, ILL.,, druggist, paid a fine which.
WIN 'HN NooNo, dlliouIlCu W P-,tOO, III
the Ogle county court at Oregon.
An explosion of oil occurred on the
United States merchant marine tanker
Chestnut Hill, in the Delaware river at
Philadelphia. Four workmen were
killed and II others were burned.
Two strikers, both foreigners, were
shot, several others were severely
dubbed and state policemen arrested
nearly 80 strikers and their sympathiz-
ers during steel strike rioting at Do
nora, Pa.
UkTrinian troops have been sur
prised and attacked by a Russian vol.
Unteer army and violent fighting is in
progress, according to the Ukrainina
press bureau at Basleo, quoting adj
vices received from Pedolsk.
Fifty dollars a month should be the
minimum pay for naval enlisted men,
the house naval committee at Wash
ington was told by Admiral Wilson,
of the Atlantic fleet, and
Rear Admiral Washington. chief of
navigation.
A French major and three soldiers
were wounded in a riot at S%arrebruck,
in occupied Germany, according to a
dispatch TO the Paris Petit Parisien.
The riot is described as having grown
out of labor demonstrations against
the high cost of living.
Evidence that members of "the Red
Brotherhood" in Gary, Ind. have
launched a campaign Of sabotage was
revealed when authorities in the steel
town discovered huge spiked planks
laid along roadways traversed by mill
tary automobiles and lOrries.
Firebells rang, whistles blew and Joy
reigned supreme when Pat Moran and
his victorious world champion Reds
reached Cincinnati. All business was
at a standstill from 8 a. m. until noon
in their honor, q half-holiday having
been proclaimed by Acting Mayor ia
cobs.
An attempt was made to wreck the
plant Of the American Sheet and Tin
plate company at McKeesport. Pa,
when a missile, believed to have been
a bomb, was thrown on the shipping
department building. 1t exploded, tear
ing a large hole in the roof Of the
structure. No one was injured.