The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-08
BRIEF ITEMS OF THE NEWS

The London police declared a strike
to force recognition of their union.
The Austrian cabinet at Vienna,
headed by DR.. Karl Renner, has decid-
ed to resign.
The proposed lockout on he docks
ut Havre has become operative, 500
dock workers being affected.
The German national assembly at
Weimar approved the new German
constitution by q vote Of 262 70 20.
More than 100000 railroad shopmen
in Chicago and the district embraced
in a 200mile radius were called on
strike.
Employees Of the Aurora, Elgin &
Chicago interurban road voted to 20
on strike at two o'clock Wednesday
morning.
Senator Chamberlain Of Oregon in
troduced a bill in the senate at Wash
ington providing for universal military
training.
The transports Kroonland and
Montpelier arrived at New York from
ST. Nazaire with more than five thou
sand officers and men.
All work ut the Brest port has
ceased, the employers having declared
Il lockout because Of the demands of
the lockers union.
a naval detachment is on its way to
northern Russia to cover the with
drawal of British troops from that re-
gion, according to the London Star.
Manitowoc (Wis.) brewers will com
mence brewing real beer as soOn as
licenses are granted them from the in
ternal revenue department at Milwau-
kee.
Forty more New York hotels, sa-
looms and liqour stores surrendered
their liquor licenses after Improbable
experiences with drinks without a
kick.
Oscar Hammerstein, theatcr builder
and pioneer Of grand opera. died in
a hospita' at New York of ii compli-
cation Of diseases after an illness Of
several days.
The body of Mrs. Eugenic Brick
wood, a wealthy widow, was discov-
ered in a badly decomposed condition
In her apartment ut 4212 Greenwood
avenue, Chicago.
State department officials at Wash
ington disclaimed knowledge of any
new commercial treaty between the
United States and the United Kingdom,
as reported in London.
Roland Kohlfe established a new
altitude record at Roosevelt field at
Mineola, n. Y, by ascending to a
height Of 30, 700 feet in a 4OO-horse-
power CurtiSs triplane.
A submarine, said to be Co, sud
denly went down with matches open,
according to persons at Pleasure
beach, Waterford, Conn. and it is
said two men were drowned.
A committee to conduct an invcsti-
CATION Of the high cost of living and
report TO President Wilson was APP
pointed at the conference Of cabinet
officers ut the office OF, Attorney Gener-
al Palmer ut Washington.
The Chicago street car strike came
to an end when the men voted. by a
mall majority, to accept the compro-
mise proposition suggested by Gov
ernor LOwden, which includes Il wage
Of 60 cents an hour and an e~ight-hour
day.
The man accused Of the fatal rock
throwing which forced open the blast
furnace Of race hatred in Chicago was
brought into court there. He is n
white man, George Staubcr, twenty
three years old, and was put under
bonds Of $5O,O00
Chancellor Avery Of the University
of Nebraska, at Lincoln, announced
he had denied the application to adj
init to the University Of Nebraska for
technical training n number Of SIT
dents identified with the federal sovi-
ct republic of Russia.