The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-26
NEWS OF WORLD EPlTOMlZED

Fifty thousand iron foundry workers
went on strike at London.
a Dublin dispatch says fairs, mar
kets and professions have beea forbid
den III Counties Tipperary and Galway.
Three hundred high school pupils
left their classrooms ut Cedar Rapids,
Ia, at ten o'clock in the nosning IN
periods.
Kronstadt, the naval fortress guard
ing Petrograd, was bombed three
times Saturday and Sunday, according
to a HelsingfOrs dispatch.
Masked bandits held up the mail
clerks on an express train 81 the Ca
madam government railway near llar-
laka and escaped with $15,30o.
Dispatches received ut London, quot
ing Berlin papers, tell Of food riots in
Berlin. Troops were summoned by the
authorities to maintain order.
An amalgamation has been erected
of the London postmen's federation,
the Postal Telegraph CLERKS aSsocia-
ton and the Fawcett association.
Thomas lowell, secretary of the In
ternational Brotherhood announced
at the London City Temple that Lloyd
George is to visit America soon.
The ministry at Madrid il about to
submit a bill TO the Spanish parliament
providing for the extension or the
franchise TO women, it was announced.
When striking coal dock men APP
peared to take up their old phces 1T
he CiarkSOn docks ut Ashland. Wis,
they were told their jobs had been
filed.
Sir Arthur w. Currie, commando of
the Canadian forces overseas. has
Q made a full general and jDspec-
tor general in Canada by parliament
at Ottawa.
IWenty-four stores for the sale Of
surplus army stores at retaia will be
opened In as many cities on Septem-
Der 20, the war department at Wash
ingtOn announced.
The socialist headquarters I'm The
seventeenth assembly district at New
York was wrecked by several men in
United States service uniforms, the
police were Informed.
The city of Corpus Christi and
NecheS, San Patricio and ArIRsaS coun-
ties, which We're swept by the tropical
hurricane, were placed undkr martial
law by proclamation Of Gov. W.. L.
Hobby at Austip.
After u conference with Republican
Leader Lodge, Senator Borah Of Idaho
announced ut Washington that he had
telegraphed Senator Johnson OF Cali
fOrnia to return Immediately to Wash
ington.
An order providing for the discon-
t%inuance Of night studying at home by
pupils of Kansas public schools has
been issued by Miss Lorraine Il. Woo
ster, state superintendent OF public in
struction, at Topeka.
The committee on foreign affairs Of
the national assembly has decided, &C.
cOrding to the Berlin Tageblatt, to null
lily article 81 of the constitution by
which Austria would be given repre-
sentation in the German ~reichstag.
The principal senate amendment
liberalizing the prohibition enforce
ment bill, TO permit home manufac-
turc for individual consumption of
Notwithstanding cider and light
wines, was accepted by house con-
ferees at Washington.
Fiume is isolated from the rest of
the world. All telegraph and telephone
wires are out, Italian Warships are
blockading the port. The censorship
is in force again and most Of the round
about news from Fiume is being sup
pressed, says q Rome dispatch.
The Spanish passenger steamer Val
banera, bound from Spain to Havana
and missing since the gulf hurricane,
sank in 40 feet OF water after going
aground in quicksand at Half Moon
Key, reports received at Key West,
Fla, stated. The fate of the passen-
gers, said to number 300, and the crew
of $50 has not been learned.