The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-01
BRIEF ITEMS OF THE NEWS

LaVerne w. Noyes, wealthy Chicago
manufacturer and philanthropist, died
of a complication of diseases.
The government at ondon placed
an embargo on the expectation OF coal,
according to the Exchange Telegraph.
Diplomatic relations have been re-
sumed between Roumania and the
Ukraine, the Ukrainian bureau ut
Berne announced.
Governor Sproul at Harrisburg, Pa,
vetoed the Ramsey prohibition en-
forcement act, which would permit the
manufacture of 2.75 beer.
Federal regulation of the navigation
Of the air is provided in a bill intro
duced in the senate at Washington by
Senator Sherman Of Illinois.
Miss Mary Bishop of New York was
decorated at Paris with the Cross OF
the Legion for her relief work under
lire in the Paris and scissors areas.
The state Of Kansas issued 2O6,O20
automobile licenses for the fiscal year
closed June 80, according to figures an
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A London dispatch says the STRIFE
OF approximately a quarter of Il mil
lion men in the coal mines, that threat
ened to paralyze many industries, was
settled.
President Wilson will not submit the
text of the defensive treaty with
France to the senate until after his
return to Washington from his speak
ing tour.
Eight hundred natives were killed
and LOGO wounded during the recent
disturbances in Egypt, according to
dispatches to London from Gen. +. H..
III. Allenby.
Beer containing 2.75 per cent alco7
hol is Intoxicating in the view of con-
gress and the internal revenue laws,
United States Judge Chatfield ruled at
New York.
Roy Emerson, convicted of the muir
der of his mother, Mrs. Kate Emerson,
at erosion, was sentenced at Mount
Ayr, Ia, by Judge Homer Fuller to
life Imprisonment.
Hungarian red forces have suddenly
opened a new offensive against the
Roumanians along the Thesis river, in
southwestern Hungary, according to
advices from Vienna.
Patrick Cudahy, president of the
Cudahy Packing company, Cudahy,
Wis, died suddenly from an apoplcc-
tic stroke. Mr.. Cudahy passed away
at his Milwaukee home.
Following an illness of one month,
George Primrose, famous minstrel
died at San Francisco. Primrose was
born in London, Ont, in 1853. He be-
gan his stage career at fifteen.
Admirals Benson and Sims are to re-
tain permanently their war rank of
full admirals under q resolution unani-
mously reported by the house naval
affairs committee at Washington.
Committees of working men who
shall act as mediators i'm disputes be-
tween the workers and manufacturers
of the government have been estab-
lished by the ministry of labor at
OmSk.
An Ell Paso (Tex.) dispatch says
Francisco Villa and Gen. Felipe An
geles have ~disbanded their forces I'M
til September, and announced to their
troops they will go to Japan in an eff
fort to obtain ammunition for the Villa
revolution.
The formation Of q national market
ing committee, through which produc-
ers and consumers will cooperate to
secure federal regulation Of the pack
ers, was announced at Washington by
former Representative William Kent
of California.
Henry p. Fletcher, American am
bassador to Mexico, told the house
rules committee at Washington that
since his appointment three years ago
about fifty Americans had beer killed
in Mexico without a prosecution be-
ing made by the Mexican authorities.