The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-28
COMPENDIUM OF THE NEWS

offensive against the Poles has been
suspended, Berlin newspapers say.
CONSUMPTION of various classes of
men, up to t~hirty-five years, will be de.
creed soon, according TO information
from Berlin.
More than ! 400 wounded soldiers ar
rived at New York on the transport
Santa Teresa. The men were from all
parts Of the country.
With n of the most momentous re-
construction schemes before 1t, the
British parliament was opened ut Lon
don by King George.
General Moinier, military governor
OF Paris, died suddenly while ut din
ner at the home of Jean Cruppi, for
mer minister of foreign affairs.
A Washington dispatch says three
transports and the battleships Rhode
Island and Virginia have sailed from
France with 40 officers and nearly
5000 men.
James Kendall of Dallas, Tex, an
Official Of the Missouri State Life In
surance company, died in Bellevue hos
pltal, New York, where he was taken
for observation.
a writ of habeas corpus, sworn out
In an attempt to prevent deportation of
53 aliens brought to New York from
Western cities, was dismissed by Fed
eral Judge Knox.
n Washington dispatch says Uncle
Sans war bill TO date for the army
as presented to the house by Chairman
Dent, house military affairs commit
tee, totals $16,257, 3S4,24S.
Out Of a total of more than 10O,O 600
applications for naturalization i'm the
last year, only 116 cases are pending
involving cancellations, the Washing
ton bureau of naturalization says.
Ole Hanson, mayor of Seattle,
Wash, is William Barnes choice for
president. He so declared at Albany, N.
Y, In answering questions as to who
he believed to be the biggest man in
America.
Twenty-Five members Of the national
woman's party were released from
prison at Washington after they had
served four or five days sentence for
burning President Wilson in efiigy.
The women conducted Il "hunger
strike"
P1etro Pierre, an alleged I. w. w.
leader, whose arrest In Cleveland, o.,
by federal officers IS reported, was
wanted in connection with an alleged
conspiracy against the life OF Presi-
dent Wilson, according to government
agents at Kansas City, Mo.
Representatives Of the German gov
eminent, according to an Amsterdam
dispatch to the Central News at Lon
don, have asked permission from the
armistice commission at Spa to be al
lowed to use warships against the an
archists, who are Selling towns on the
Baltic coast.
An Archangel dispatch says Ameri-
can re-enfOrcements, marching owe 80
miles Of n forest trail, reached the
hard-preSsed British and Russians in
the region of Sredmakrenga. The re-
suit was that the anarchists, who had
been launching strong attacks in his
region, retired to the southwark.
Four men, declared to have been
leaders in distributing revolutionary
and /. w. w. propaganda during Seat.
files general strike, were in Jail there
and warrants were sent out for several
others charging criminal anarchy fol
lowing three raids in which 80 add.
tional men were arrested, and are be-
ing held for investigation.
President Wilson left Paris Friday
night. President Poincare was at the
| station TO bid him good-by. President
Wilson was accompanied to Brest by
Georges Leagues, French minister of
marine; Capt. Audre Tardieu, French
high commissioner to the United
States, and NJ. Jusserand, French am.
b%assador to the United States.