The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-21
TABLOIDS OF WORLDS VIEWS

congress at washington a~uJoufheu
ut noon Tuesday in the midst OF a Re-
publican filibuster In tho senate that
killed q long list Of important meas.
ures.
For the first time in history women
in Detroit, Mich, balloted Wednesday
in the primary election of candidates
for justice Of the peace and other city
Offices.
German troops on the Baltic coast
have severely defeated the bolsheviki
and have r%ecaptured Riga, according
to q report received by the London
Telegraph.
j. Z. Lehman, q patient, in the
Eastern Indiana Hospital for the In
sane, was burned to death during a
fire which destroyed the mems hos
pltal building.
The house at ST. Paul, MINI, passed,
103 TO "a, the Christensen bill to per-
nit women to vote for presidential
electors. An effort to include a liter
acy test failed.
The bolshevik food dictator, STRIFE
vsky, at Petrograd, has been dis
missed because Of a forgery involving
100000 rubles, according to a Hels-
ingfors dispatch.
William IL. Holt, seventy-siy. Unit
ed States district judge in Porto Rico
under President Mckinley. is dead at
Pewee Valley, KY, following an i'll
ness Of several months.
Secretary of War Baker will sail
for France about April l, tn be absent
a month, it was learned authoritative
ly, in order to close up the business
operations of the expedltionary forces.
Approximately 1000 persons In Call
fornia are to be indicted as alleged
evaders of the selective service act,
according to Robert Duncan, assist
ant special United States attorney at
San Francisco.
Victor d. Berger and State Senator
l.. A. Arnold were arrested on an In
dictment for espionage brought in the
La Crosse (Wis.) federal our and
arraigned before Judge Sanborn. They
were released on $1,000 bail pending
trial.
Discussing the food situation in
central Europe In the house Of lords
at London the marquis Of Lansdowne
asked how long the process of turn
ing the screw" was to continue. he
said he regarded the position of cen
trail Europe with dismay."
Tuesday and Wednesday $4,000 sol
! diers rioted at the Kimmel camp,
Wales, because of the delay in their
shipment to Canada, due to the short
age Of ships. Three Of the rioters and
two Of the pickets were killed and Il
wounded, including two officers.
The Tidewater BOatman's union OF
New York, whose membership Is 5000,
accepted the railroad administrations
terms and declared the iiarbOr strike
off, SO far as it was concerned. The
men will receive $40 a month, IL pay
increase of about $50 as against $50
demanded.
Secretary Baker announced at
Washington that Brig. Gen. Edward
A. KregOr, now In charge Of a branch
in France of the office Of the judge
advocate general, has been ordered
home to act as judge advocate general
during the absence in Cuba Of Maj.
Gen. EnOch III. Crowder.
The Jewish press bureau at Stock.
holm says that the Yiddlche MOrgen-
post of Vienna reports that Jews are
being m~assacred in large numbers in
eastern Galicia and the Ukraine. The
! reports say that 400, families have
been killed at ProakurOff, in the
Ukraine east of Lemberg.
The supreme allied council Of ten
at Paris decided to lift the blockade
on Austria to provide for the imme-
date ~revictualing Of the Austrian peo-
pie. Food will be sent into Austria
through the ports Of Fiume and
Trieste. The r~evictualing will be in
charge of Herbert G. Hoover.
A Washington dispatch says Italy
has been warned by the American gov
eminent that unless she puts an end
to delays In movements Of relief sup.
plies to the newly established Jugo-
Slavic and CZecho-Slavic states, steps
will be taken to cut off the flow Of
American fOodstuffs to Italy.