The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-19
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Field Marshal Sir EVeiyn Noou uieu
at London.
General investigation Of the federal
trade commission was ordered by the
senate at Washington.
The historic French opera house at
New Orleans, erected in 1859, was de-
stroyed by fire of unknown origin.
BY an overwhelming vote the Next
can chamber of deputies ut Mexico
City passed a bill restoring bull
fights.
The river packet c. c. Bowyer hit
q submerged stump and sank in the
Cumberland river off Yicksburg, Tenn.
The crew made shore safely.
The Presse de Paris says q purse OF
100000 francs will be posted for q
match between Dempsey and Carpen'
tier, to be fought in Paris in 1920.
Ninety-eight men were arrested at
Donora, a Pennsylvania steel town,
when state police raided Lithuanian
hall, headquarters of the striking steel
workers.
Italian soldiers fired upon a crowd
at Rome, after they had been attacked
with knives. Besides the one working
man who was killed there were II
wounded.
Henry Clay Frick, multimillionaire
coal, coke and steel magnate, died ut
his home at New York, aged seventy.
Mr.. Frick was Il victim of ptomaine
poisoning.
Control over ali coal supplies
over by the government at Havana, u
presidential decree to that effect hav-
ing been issued.
Four members Of the crew Of the
schooner Mary A. Lynch were drowned
when the schooner was rammed and
sunk by an unknown tug in the North
river at New York.
The United States Grain corpora
ton is now offering for sale at New
York ito any foreign buyer" the
straight grades of pure wheat flour
which it has been handling for ex-
port.
A flat Increase in pay of 10 per cent
for officers and 20 per cent for en-
listed men or the army, navy and ma
rine corps was voted by the senate
military affairs committee at Wash
ingtOp. ,
A drastic order cutting the business
and working day In Chicago to Ga
hours was issued by the state public
utilities commission as u temporary
step to meet the crisis brought about
by the coal strike.
Mail Christmas parcels early and
avoid disappointment. This was the
admonitiOn of the post Office Depart
ment at Washington and Is due to the
fact that the coal strike has caused q
reduction of train service on some
railroads.
Alteration in business hours for
Chicago retail stores was ordered by
the public utilities commission. The
new ruling permits the S of light
and power only from II moo TO 6 p.
M, except on Saturdays, when 8 a. m.
is the cOsing hour.
JachestOff, who was charged with hav-
ing ordered the execution of the car
and the whole imperial family, has
peer executed at Perm, after trial by
a revolutionary tribunal, the newspa-
per Pravda learns, according to q
Copenhagen dispatch.
bill" Carlisle, the train bandit, Is
lying In a hospital at Douglas, Wyo..
with q bullet through his right lung
and three armed guards standing over
his cot. Carlisle was wounded by
Sheriff A. S. Roach of Wheatland after
he had been surrounded in the cabin
Of Frank Williams.
After discussing with Secretary Lam
sing the condition Of President Will,
sons health and the extent to which
he has been active in the serious turn
Of relations with Mexico, the senate
foreign relations committee at Wash
ington appointed a committee Of two
to wait upon the president in person.
Georges Carpenter, French cham-
pion and hero Of the world war, de-
feated the English champion, Joe
Beckett, for the European heavy
weight boxing championship at Lon
don. The Frenchman scored a knock
out in the first round, the end coming
one minute and ten seconds after the