The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-10-31
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Bandits held up the perrysburg
Banking company's bank nj Perrys-
burg, near Toledo. o.. and escaped
with $4,000.
A Mayence dispatch says that mill
tary drills in the public schools of the
occupied area of Germany have been
prohibited.
1t Is officially announced ut London
that Lord Curzon has been made for
eign secretary. He will take the place
now held by Arthur J. Balfour.
Sir Geddes, minister Of transport, ii
Is reported by the Central News at
London, is preparing a scheme for
state control of railroads and canals.
England is reported at Vienna to
have offered a loan of 50O,OOO,OO TO
Hungary with the stipulation that the
ish control.
One man was fatally wounded and
another seriously injured when police
at Youngstown, o., broke up two al
legged attempts at arson by striking
steel workers.
1t was reported in dispatches re-
ceived at London from Lisbon that
Portugal had granted the United
States Il concession in the Azores for
a naval station.
Pierre Lenoir, convicted of having
reasonable dealings with the Germans
during the war, was executed ut Paris.
He was shot as he sat in Il chair, being
too i'll to stand.
Street cars and automobiles carry
ing workingmen TO the plant Of the
United Alloy Steel corporation at Can
ton, o., were stoned by hundreds of
strikers and sympathiZers.
The capture of Krasnaia Gorka, on
the Gulf of Finland, nearly opposite
Kronstadt, by the northwestern Rus
sian army, is announced via Helsing-
fors from that army's headquarters.
Bishop Thomas +. GaiIor of Tonnes.
see was elected at Detroit, Mich, presi-
dent Of the council which is [ govern
the general administration of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of Amer
lea.
Vincent Sakraida, Il director of the
State Deposit bank, was instantly
killed, and his brother, John Sakraida,
the cashier, was seriously wounded
when robbers attacked the institution
at Beaver Falls, Pa.
William o. Jenkins, American con
sular agent at Puebla, Mex. vas kid
naped by three masked bandits AT
Pucbla and is being held for $4,000
ransom, the state department at
Washington was advised.
More than 1,500 members of the
American Iron and Steel institute at u
meeting at New York unanimously
adopted a resolution indorsing the
stand taken by Ebert III. Gary at the
Washington industrial conference.
King Albert of Belgium laid a wreath
or Lincoln's tomb ut Springfield, and
paid tribute 10 the memory OF the
great emancipation I'm the presence of
Governor Lowden and throngs Of peo-
pie from Springfield and central Ill
inois.
Loans made to cattle growers in the
Southwest to aid them during last
years drought were called in by the
war financing corporation at Washing
ton for payment November Is. The
amount outstanding October IS was
49, 49,, $40.
Immediate steps will be taken by
the railroad companies to obtain an
increase In freight rates, ii was an
nounced at Washington after q lengthy
conference between Director General
Hines and representatives Of the Assoc
citation of Railway Executives.
Holding that Representatives,
Victor l.. Berger Of Wisconsin was dis
loyal and gave aid and comfort to the
enemy of the United States, the special
committee Of the house for investiga'
ton of his title to his seat at Wash
ington recommended that he be ex-
Guided.
Railroad employees are prepared
for q finish fight with the railroad i'd
ministration for increased wages. time
and a half for overtime and Improved
working conditions before the govern.
ment surrendcrs the roads to private
control, according to u Washington
dispatch.