The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-10-10
EPITOME OF THE DAYS NEWS

In Lond0n during the last year.
Flour supplies In Vienna are sufn-
cient for only two weeks, according to
the city food controller of that city.
Sir Edward Tyas Cook, until recent
ly director of the British press bureau,
died at London. He "a born in 1857.
King Albert Of Belgium was made a
citizen of the city Of New York when
Mayor Hylan formally welcomed him
TO The city.
The authorities at London have de-
cided that parliament will not be
called together in connection with the
industrial situation.
Fire destroyed a block in the bust
rcss section of Batavia, near Ottum-
wa, la. The Ottumwa fire department
responded to a call for aid.
The conference between the govern
ment and the leaders of the rail strike
at London, broke down. No settlement
Is In sight at this cabling.
Twelve special trains carried base
ball fans, players and news writer's
from Cincinnati to Chicago for the
opening OF the series there.
Shreveport took the 1919 Texas
league championship by winning the
seventh and deciding game of the post
season series with Fort Worth, 8 TO D.
The White Sox shut the Cincinnati
Reds 3 to o in the third game of the
world series before a crowd Of 29,126
at Chicago. Kerr allowed only three
hits.
Mount Mauna Loa on Hilo island,
Hawaii, burst into new eruption and
a wide stream Of lava began touring
down the KOna side, destroying many
homes.
A new official worlds record for air
plane speed has been made at Villa
COublay, France, by a Spad single
scatter airplane which accomplished
1874 miles an hour.
The United States state department
is sending q mission TO the Baltic
provinces TO look after American in
NANSiSb IL "iS ltdi Y III
conference circles at Paris.
Dispatches from Fiume report that
Gabrielle ~d'Annunzic, in command of
the insurgent garrison Of the city, has
stated that he considers himself In a
state of war with Jugo-Slavia.
Larry Kopf, with a three-bagger bat
ted himself into the baseball hall Of
fame, and gave the Reds the second
game of the annual sporting classic
by the score of 4 to 2 at Cincin-
natl.
Bodies of all American soldiers in
TERED in Germany, Belgium, Italy,
Great Britain, Gutenberg and north
ern Russia will be returned to the
United States, says a Washington dis
patch.
Three bids were submitted at Phila-
delphia for the purchase of the gov
eminent built powder plant city of
Nitro, w. Va. The highest was $5,-
100000. The city cost the government
$7O,OOO,OOO.
The state supreme court at Column
bus, O., affirmed the lower state courts
In holding valid a proposed referen-
dunn on action Of the state legisla-
ture In ratifying the federal prohibit
ton amendment.
Floods in the northern part of CHA
pas state caused great damage. The
town of Chilon is reported by Mexico
City to have been wiped out entirely.
The number of dead has not been es-
timated, but it will be large.
The chamber Of deputies at Paris,
ratified the German peace treaty by q
vot Of 372 to SO. The chamber then
ratified unanimously the treaties be-
tween France and the United States
and France and Great Britain.
Five minutes after the Union Ave-
nue. Bank Of Commerce at Kansas
City. Mo-, opened five bandits entered
the building and forced the president,
four employees and two depositors
into a vault and escaped with $1,000
In cash.
Authority has been given command
Ing generals of military departments
by the war department at Washington
to furnish troops necessary for the
protection Of lives and property In
case of disorders In the limits of their
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