The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-08-22
COMPENDIUM OF THE NEWS

Inc ODucTNOOu lypS"''s
at Hartford, Conn, closed It's ooors
following q strike Of more than Z.OVO
employees.
Chicago & Alton shopmen n CLERKS
at Bloomington, Ill, 1000 strong, rat-
fed action of Chicago meeting IN ue-
claring off the strike of car repairers.
Another group of railroad workers
the conductors, have asked the rail-
road administration at Washington ZOE
increases In wages.
Investigation of the coal situation by
the senate interstate COM
mittee was authorized by the senate at
Washington.
Rear Admiral A. II. Hunt, commando
er of the British South Atlantic squad
ron, called on President 1rigoyen at the
presidential palace at Buenos Aires.
A British munition dump at kalks
an eastern suburb of Cologne. eXpiod-
ed, killing II workers and inJurlng
many persons in the vicinity.
The executive committee Of the Peo-
pies Democratic party decided at a
meeting at Fort Worth, Tex, to change
the name to the American party.
Attorney General Palmer announced
at Washington that he would ask con-
gress for an appropriation of Sl,2OO,-
600 to be used in the III. G. Of l.. cam
paign.
A Washington dispatch says the
Carranza government will not be per-
mitted to import further arms and mu-
nitions from the United States for the
present.
The break in the railroad shop
crafts strike came when representa-
tives Of 27,000 car men at Chicago de-
turn to work.
Nicholas Avgeridis, a scoutmaster,
and 20 Greek boy scouts have been
murdered at Adm, Asia Minor, by
Turks, according to Greek official
sources, says a London dispatch.
Motormen and conductors Of the
East st. Louis & Suburban Railway
company and subsidiary lines went on
strike, tying up street car service IN
13 nearby Illinois towns.
Federal officials at st. Louis seized
2S4,1S0 pounds Of coffee held in Stor-
age in a warehouse on Il libel infOr-
nation issued by the United States
district attorney.
The general strike which has been
in progress for some time in Guaya-
quill, has been settled. The workers in
the gas and electric works secured all
their demands.
Charles Gruener, forty-twO years
old, a Cincinnati gardener, shot and
killed his wife, Flora probably fatally
wounded his stepson, Noble Thieman,
twenty-five, and then shot and killed
himself.
A second skeleton was uncovered on
the premises Of Rufe King, Il former
livery proprietor Of Maple Hill, Kan.
King was arrested at Goodpastor,
Colo, recently, following discovery OF
human bones buried in Il woodshed.
Twenty million pounds of meats
were reported seized when federal au-
thorities raided the Booth Cold Stor-
age company at st. Louis. Large
stocks of eggs, cheese and other food
stuffs were also said to nave been To-
Gated.
A score of shots were fired hen 10
strikebreakers, said to have been inn
ported from Chicago and Johnstown.
Pa, were taken into the Keystone
Steel and Wire c%ompany's plant at
South Bartonville, Ill. Three men were
wounded.
The allied governments. according to
a dispatch from Innsbruck, have IN
formed the Austrian government that
it will be held responsible for Bella
Kun, the Hungarian communist leader
and for his delivery later for trial for
hanging and shooting Hungarians dur
ing his control in Budapest
Material aid for Admiral kolchaks
retreating army in Siberia is being
rushed to VladivOstok by the Amerl-
can government. 1t was said otlclally
at Washington that $4,000 rifles ana
several million rounds of ammunition
already had peer sent from San Fran
cisco and that additional equipment
would 90 forward this week on an
army TRANSPORT.