The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-04
vEWs OF WORLD IN TABL0lDS

paris dispatch says Premier Glenn
enceau has expressed his intention TO
resign from office as soon as the 're"'y
is promulgated.
The Danish government has pro-
tested TO the peace conference a'
Paris against acts Of the Gernahs LII
Danish Schleswig.
Russian volunteer white guaros
have occupied P~eterEof,-l9 miles ironi
Petrograd, according to q report re-
ceived at Helsingfors.
Approximately $4,000 was paid Iol
the private liquor stock OF the late Nat
O. Goodwin. actor when 1t was put NY
at auction in New York.
Total casualties Of the American ex-
peditionary forces reported to date
was announced by the war department.
at Washington as 2S9.O16.
On July 4 subscriptions Will be re-
ceived at The Hague for the Nelher-
lands and Netherlands Indies . per
cent loan of 1S0,OO0,OOO forms S']'-
0O0,OO0).
The independent socialists and com
munist members of the Executive
council of the Greater Berlin sovlet
were arrested by order of Minister OF
Defense Noske.
The new constitution adopted by the
diet at Helsingfors, Finland, provides
that the first president shall be elect
ed by the diet. His term Of office VIII
be six years.
Brice Ringer of Petersburg, Ind, an
enlisted man connected with the leo
Cross mission at Berlin, committed
suicide June "a. The motive for the
deed is unknown.
Senate and house conferees at
Washington on the army %appropria-
ton bill reached an agreement to Tx
the average size Of the 1920 army at
325, 600 officers and men.
A number Of soldiers have been ar
rested in Weimar, according to an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch Q
Copenhagen, on charges OF having
planned TO seize and murder Philip
SUPERINTENDENT, llC
Horace G. Murphy, prosecuting at
torney of Delaware county, and Dr.
Rollin III. Bunch, mayor of Muncle,
Ind, were arrested in connection with
operations by alleged swindlers who
made their headquarters in Muncie.
Pennsylvania became the seventh
state to ratify the federal woman suf-
frage amendment. The house OF rep
resentatives at Harrisburg adopted a
resolution ratifying the amendment of
153 to A. The senate adopted it last
week by 80 to g..
The Wisconsin senate at Madison
passed unanimously the soldier bonus
bill providing for the raising of $l5,-
600, 900 by direct state tax to pay everS
man and woman in Wisconsin who
served In the world war $40 for every.
month In the service, or a minimum
Of $50.
The army appropriation bill, carry
ing $SSS,0O0 900 and providing for an
average army Of 100000 men next
year, an increase over the house bill
of $171 100000 In funds and 100000 in
personnel, was passed by the senate at
Washington without a roll call and
sent to conference.
Trailed for ten days through south
ern Mississippi by posses which In
Guided several hundred members of
his w race, John fairfield, negro,
confessed assailant of an Ellisville
(Miss.) young woman, was captured,
desperately wounded, in a %canebrake,
rushed by automobile to the scene Of
his crime, hanged to a gum tree and
burned to ashes. His victim identified
him and witnessed his execution.
Former Wife of Artist to Wed.
New York, June 2S.-Mrs. Maebelle
Thompson Christy, former wife of
Howard Chandler Christy, the artist,
is to marry Leslie Garfield Ferguson,
a lawyer. Mrs. Christy is 81 and her
fiance 40. He has been previously
married. Mrs. Christy was divorced
early this year. They have II daugh.
ter, Natalie, now 10, a student at Wei.
lesley college.