The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-05-16
WORLDS NEWS IN TABLOIDS

Two policemen were shot and ~. per
sons arrested in a MAY day" clash ut
Boston.
Mrs. Rosqa Joseph, wealthy member
of a New York firm of linen importers,
was robbed at Los Angeles, Cal, of
linens valued at $4,000 and IN auto
mobile.
Milwaukee brewers have quit. They
will make no further efforts to tight
the prohibition law, regardless of
what contests New York brewers may
institute.
An Archangel dispatch says Ameri.
can and British troops at Kurgoman,
on the right bank Of the Dvina, re-
pulsed a strong bolshevik attack. TAX
ing 13 prisoners.
Admiral Kolchak's army. driving the
b~Olsheviki before 1t southwest OF
Sterlitamak, has advanced almost
ninety miles, according to a dispatch
from Omsk dated April "a.
In the last 80 years 1924 persons
were put to death by mobs, according
to a report made public at New York
by the National Association for Ad-
vancement OF Colored People.
President Wilson announced at Paris
the treaty Of peace would be handed
to the German delegates at Versailles
Monday. He added that he hoped to
return to America about June 1.
The senate at Springfield, H..
passed, 20 to IL, the Anti-SaloOn
league law enforcement bill. called a
search and seizure measure, to enforce
a%nti-salOon laws in dry territory.
Lieut.. l.. e. Lankey, twenty-five
year-old aviator from Carlstrom field,
Arcadia, Fla, was burned to death
when his machine burst into flames
and fell. His home was at Bay City,
Mich.
A Paris dispatch says, the naval
terms to be embodied in the peace
treaty with Germany, which finally
have been completed, do not provide
for the sinking of the larger German
warships.
Twenty-Five red flags were torn by
the police from the hands Of Socialists
holding a May day parade at Montreal.
Each of the marchers wore a red bow
on his coat, while red armlets were
worn by the marshals.
Official advices reaching Washing
ton through a neutral source said that
the bolshevik leaders Lenine and
Trotzky were seeking a refuse outside
Russia, fearing a possible overthrow
of the soviet government.
A London dispatch says the Russian
soviet government has sent an ultima
tum to Roumania demanding the w
uatiUn of Bessarabia. A wireless dis
patch from Moscow says that the ROu-
manians are given 4S hours to reply.
Admiral Kolchak's troops have ad-
vanced along the southern branch Of
the Trans Siberian railroad in eastern
European Russia to Kenel, only 40
miles east of Samara, according to
dispatches received by the Russian
commissioners in Paris.
More than $4,000 persons crowded
into the New York navy yard to wit
ness the launching of the most power
full battleship ever built, the United
States superdreadnaught Tennessee, a
3 2,OOO-ton monster which will cost
SIS 100000 when completed.
:. A London dispatch says that a Rus
sian wireless report says that along
the Salmysch river northwest of Oren-
burg the reds obtained a complete vic
tory over Admiral Kolchak's Fourth
army, corps" wiping out eight regi-
ments and capturing more than 1000
prisoners.
President Wilson cabled Tumulty at
Washington that in his opinion the la
Dor program adopted as part Of the
:" treaty of peace CONSTITUTES one of the
most important achievements Of the
new day in which the interests of la
Dor are to be systematically and intel
ligently s~afeguarded and promoted"
Rechecking Of army records resulted
during the past week in addition of
476 names to the list of major casual
:. ties, the war department at Washing
= ton announces, bringing the total TO
=, 75lS2O killed in action, died Of wounds
and disease and died from other
. causes. The number of prisoners was
reduced to 4,7S6 as a result Of correc-
:. lions, and the missing in action re-
, duced to 1928.