The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-10-01
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

The cOal miners OF Great Brlldib
will not 90 on strike as threatened,
SAYS Il London dispatch.
Flour has dropped $50 a barrel at
Chicago as q result of a decrease IN
wheat prices OF the board of trade.
Federal investigation OF alleged
frauds committed in the recent Illinois
primaries has been launched at Chi
cage.
ID. &. Wills of Cleveland, o., was ap-
pointed q member of the federal re-
serve board at Washington by Presi-
dent Wilson.
The American steamship Faraby
has arrived at SebastopOl with NUM-
tons, which are being traded Tor
grain and wool.
Auto bandits held up a United
states mail truck at South Bend, Ind,
ana escaped with mail valued al from
$4,000 TO $4,000
A reduction of 33 1-3 per cent in the
price of manufactured cotton goods
was announced by the Amoskeg Man
utacturing company Of Manchester,
y. III.
The Washington government will be
asked to appoint a commission to ef-
feet q solution Of Japanese-American
problems, according to n Tokyo dis
patch.
The national Rural Letter Carriers
association, in annual convention at
Dallas, Tex, went on RECORD against
aiiliating with the American Fedora
ton Of Labor.
Announcement was made by the
CrOW-Elkhart motor corporation at
EIkhart, Ind, that the prices Of all
models of its output had been reduced
to prewar figures.
France will pay every dollar of the
$2J0,000,00O loan due in New York DC
tober IL, NJ. Francois Marsal, minister
of finance, officially announced to the
cabinet council at Paris.
-Four armed bandits held up a branch
Of Nthe FIRST State bank at Mount Ell
lott and Mack avenues at Detroit,
Mich. and escaped with an amount es-
timated by bank officials at $50 1000.
referendum among the strikers in
Turin has resulted in the rejection of
The agreement arrived at in Rome be
tween the employers representatives
and the workers in the metal trades.
Six thousand bodies of American
soldiers who died in Europe have now
been sent back TO the United States,
according to Major Sampson, assistant
TO the head Of the graves registration
service at Paris.
Financial conditions in Italy make it
impossible for the government to sell
bread under the present system with.
out risking bankruptcy, declared Sig.
nor Media. minister of the treasury
before a ministerial committee al
Rome.
Suits a%ggregating $4,000 were
filed in the United States court a
Danville, H., against West FrankfOr
and Franklin county, Illinois. as a re
suit of the rioting in which one maj
was killed and several injured on Au
gust 5. 1920.
For the second time this year five
dNStllDly ulSiIINtS vi ANcW YIN CIl,
will not be represented in the state
legislature. The assembly at Alban.
voted to GUST three of the FIVE ~re-elect
Socialist asselnblymen and the othel
two resigned.
Edwin G.. Dinwiddie, former legisla
tive superintendent of the Anti-Salooi
League of America, was elected chair
man of the Fifteenth internatiora
congress against alcoholism. whicl
convened at Washington for n ST,
days session.
Eight or ten major league baseball
players are already slated for indict
ment as a result Of the Septembe1
grand jury's. inquiry into the baseball
scandal at Chicago. The players Dc
not all belong to one team. Neither ar
they all in II league.
Evidence that the cost Of living il
going down Is plentiful In Chicago
Corn is below the dollar mark for tn,
first time in three years. Oats, ry,
and barley have declined in lesser de
gree. Hog prices have declined anC
the trade in cattle and sheep is dull