The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-18
WORLDS NEWS IN TABLOlDS

IHe nrSt 6,OOO or the homecoming
Yankee division arrived at Boston on
the transport Mount Vernon.
Queen Victoria underwent q slight
operation. An announcement from
Madrid said that the operation was
successful.
German troops are resisting a boil
shevik offensive In East Prussia, ac-
cording to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Berlin.
Fire in warehouses at Darlington, s.
c., destroyed over 1000 bales of cot
ton, and, with other damage caused
losses estimated at more than $2oO,OOO.
The attempt to introduce bolshevism
into Poland by means of a general
strike has ended in complete failure,
according to information received from
Warsaw.
Mayor Il. f. Jones, Republican. Of
Bloomington, H., defeated John b.
Lennon, the nominee of the new Union
Labor party, for mayor by a plurality
of 27S votes.
A Manchester dispatch says the en-
plOyers and operatives in that region
have decided to close all mills using
American cotton for a full fortnight
from April 10.
Isaac Van DOmlin, grand master Of
the Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows In Minnesota, died at Rochester,
MINI. He recently underwent an OPP
Grafton there.
German troops opposite the COblenz
bridgehead are moving toward Frank
fort, where a Spartacan revolt has
been causing disorder, according to a
COblenZ dispatch.
A Paris dispatch says Herr Man
gold, chief burgomaster Of S~arrebruck-
en-, In occupied Germany southwest OF
Treves, has been removed from Office
by order of Marshal Foch.
A johannesburg (South Africa) dis
patch says q settlement has been
reached between the workers and en-
ployers and the general strike has
been called off. The men will return
to work.
What Is believed to be the severest
penalty imposed in Illinois for Illicit
liquor traffic was given Frank Barney
for his third offense at Belvidere. He
was sentenced to four years and two
months in Jail and fined $1,000.
The council Of four at Paris has
virtually decided, according to infor-
nation from French sources, that the
left bank Of the Rhine will be neu-
tralized until Germany has paid the
i~ndemnities fixed by the peace confer
ence.
Reconsideration by congress Of all
antitrust legislation is recommended
by the Chamber Of Commerce of the
United States at Washington as the
result of a referendum vote Of it's af-
fliated trade and commercial Organi-
cations.
Figures made public by the war de-
partment at Washington show that
from the signing Of the armistice to
March &c, 1,535,471 Of the 3,67O,SSS Of
f1cers and men under arms when the
war ended had been discharged from
the service.
StNcIui HuuuIcu pcISOHS WeTe hlIltu
in further rioting at Frankfort-on-the-
Main Tuesday, according to a Copen-
hagen dispatch to the London Ex-
change Telegraph company. The no.
tells Of the city were plundered during
the disorders.
The Italian transport Umbria, with
1000 officers and soldiers on board,
bound from Venice to Tripoli, has
struck a mine and sunk, according to
advices from Bari, Italy, quoting
newspapers of that city. Several on
board were killed and 100 injured.
The military authorities at Berlin
began disarming the Empress Angus
ia regiment, which had become infect
ed with Spartacan ideas. The regi-
ment, which repeatedly had shown it.
self untrustworthy, resisted an at
tempt to convert it into a unit of the
national defense force.
The war risk bureau now is issu-
ing checks for allotments, allowances,
insurance and compensation in the
same months that they fall due. An
nouncement was made at Washington
that 1,O62, $3.50 checks were mailed in
March, representing $3~9,148,323.O5.
Since the bureaus establishment,
nearly $419, OOO. 900 has been paid out