The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-12-03
BITS OF NEWS IN GENERAL

The government in a decree at War
saw has ordered the rehabilitation Of
seven classes.
a game of golf was the chief fea-
ture Of President-elect HardingS
Thanksgiving day program.
Joseph j.. Ryan. youngest son of
Thomas Fortune Ryan. millionaire
capitalist, Is dead at New York.
Practical suspension Of the nations
business marked the obervance OF
Thanksgiving day in Washington.
Drugs valued at 100000 and said to
have been struggled from Canada were
seized In a government raid ut To-
ledo. o.
w. A. +. Ekengren, Swedish minis
ter to the United States, died at the
legation at Washington after a brief
illness.
The private bank of Virgins & Wig
gins ut Homer, ILL.,, closed. 1t is said
the bank has failed to the amount Of
$2S0,00O
Wild turkeys are plentiful in the
vicinity Of San Antonio, Tex, accord
ing to hunters. They are becoming II
pest to the farmers.
Is. III. %Rehrbaugh of New York, who
served as n Y. NJ. c. A. secretary over
seas during the World war, was found
dead in a hotel at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Jake l.. Hamon, Republican ma
tional committeeman from Oklahoma,
who was wounded Sunday night In a
hotel room, died at Ardmor, Okla.
Ralph Gibson, forty-three, of Shell
Rock, Ia. was %strangled when his coat
caught In a screw of Il gasoline pro-
PEELED corn shelter he was operating.
Forty persons are known to have
been killed or seriously injured In n
collision between Il freight train and
an express ut Braunswalde, Germany.
President-elect Harding arrived at
CristObal In the morning on board the
steamship Parismina. He received Il
noisy welcome from the ships in the
harbor.
The State Bank of MOhall did not
open its doors. 1t Is the tenth bank in
North Dakota to close down in the
past ten days on account Of depleted
resources.
Extremists among the Mexican so
cialists at Mexico City, are demanding
revision of the federal constitution
and the adoption Of some Of the soviet
principles.
George Nj. Smith, managing editor
Of the New York Tribune, died sud
denly at his home IN New York from
ptomaine poisoning, complicated with
heart disease.
The worlds wheat and rye crops of
years figures, says a bulletin issued by
the international Institute Of Agricul.
ture at Rome.
Two priests were arrested by the
police and military at Carrick-on-Shan
min, in Ireland. Reports state also that
h a fifty people we're arrested
by the authorities at AthlOne.
Mrs. Carolyn Votaw, sister Of Presi
dent-elect Harding, has been appointed
head Of the social service department
United States health bureau, by Sur
geon General Hugh S. Cummings al
Washington.
Robert Lowe, negro youth, charged
with a%ssaulting q ~ten-year-Old white
girl at Arlington. Tex, was acquitted
by q jury at Fort Worth, Tex. The
negro recently vas rescued twice
from q mob.
More than thirty lives have already
been reported lost In the worst storm
that has dashed the north Pacific
coast In years. The wind reached &
velocity OF so miles an hour, says 6
Seattle dispatch.
One Of the sentries at Dublin castle
was attacked by armed men. The sen.
try opened fire, killing three Of the at.
lacking party. Two other deaths Oc,
Cured during the raids which were
carried out in the city throughout the
0ay.