The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-09-05
NEWS IN ABRIDGED FORM

A Montreal dispatch says U IN
termed Germans were shipped from
Canada to Rotterdam last week.
The prince of Wales and his party
visited hospitals at Toronto where re-
turned soldiers are being treated.
The majority Of the 1900 bricklay-
ers at Philadelphia struck, tying lp
practically every large building opera
ton.
The $500 bank clerks of Boston are
organizing a union, following the re-
cent lead of the bank workers In New
York city.
Increased wages for all postal en-
ployees will be authorized by the
house at Washington within the next
two weeks.
The revolution in Honduras has
been put down, according to advices
received at San Salvador from official
sources in that country.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, arrived
at New York on the transport George
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A 6O,O00-pound consignment of sugar.
presumably held for purpose of specu-
%lation, was seized at Chicago by dep
uty United States marShalS.
Roumania can export we l00,o 900
truCkloads Of corn in 1919, according
to an announcement Of the ROuman-
ian press bureau in Berne.
Suit was filed in common pleas court
at Cleveland, O., by Prosecutor DOer-
fler Of Cuyahoga county to dissolve the
Ohio Farmers Cooperative Milk com
pany.
The federal trade commission at
Washington has begun an investiga-
ton Of some 80 complaints charging
the sale of wildcat" oil stocks in the
Texas oil fields.
The army transport Dix, carrying
LOO troops for Siberian replacement,
is swinging idly at army docks at san
Francisco, her departure delayed by a
strike of her crew.
Enrico Caruso, the tenor, who will
arrive at New York in a few days
from Naples, will be met with an Of
fer of $4,000 a night for ten nights
from the City of Mexico.
-Four Columbus (OhioJ baking com
panies, together with five officials Of the
companies, were indicted for violating
the Valentine antitrust law by the
Franklin county grand jury.
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went on strike at the Argo plant Of
the Corn Products Refining company
several weeks ago met in Union hall
in Chicago and voted to return to
work.
A walkout of the stage hands and
musicians, ordered in sympathy with
the striking actors, made performances
an -impossibillty at Chicago. Every
theater was closed, except vaudeville,
b%urlesque and movie houses.
A meeting at st. Louis of general
chairmen and officers of the Order of
Railroad Photographers to formulate de-
mands for increased wages will be
held September 1. The organization
has a membership Of 10000 railroad
telegraphers.
The committee Of 100, representing
the railroad shopmen, informed Direc-
tor General Hines at Washington that
they could not accept as a basis of set
Element Of their demands the rates
submitted to them by President Will
son. A strike vote was ordered.
Rioting broke out at Pittsburgh, Pa,
when the receivers Of the Pittsburgh
Railways company began operating
trolley cars for the first time since the
garments strike began IL days ago.
Three cars, the only ones to leave the
barns, were stoned and windows
smashed. Rioters in automobile
trucks fired into crowds.
American aviatOrs made Jesus Rem
terra, bandit leader, pay in full for his
treatment of Lieuts. Peterson II
Davis, held for ransom by the Mexican,
when Lieut.. II. II. Cooper killed Rem
terra from an airplane, according to
statements made at Marta, Tex, by
Maj. James p. Yancey, commander OF
the United States punitive expedition.