The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-01-23
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

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The workshop Of the Maryland
School for the Blind at Baltimore,
Md, vas destroyed by fire. The loss
is $200,0OO.
Lloyd Provost was formally placed
under arrest at Mount Clemens, Mich.
on Il warrant charging him with nav
ing killed j Stanley Brown.
The Cornelius Vanderbilt home
fronting Fifth avenue from Fifty-sev-
enth to Fifty-eighth street, New York,
has been sold for $5,500,OO0 cash.
Seven thousand persons in Paris
were made temporarily homeless by
the flood of the River Seine, which
reached its crest Monday, according 10
estimates.
BOlshevik cavalry has captured the
town Of Berdiansk, on the north shore
of the sea Of AZov, n of the most eN-
cellent ports on the sea, according TO
g London dispatch.
The war profits tax expired Deem
Der 81 but the federal officials ana
members of parliament ut Ottawa,
Ont, are predicting that the tax will
be revived this year.
The official rate Of exchange on the
German mark for all army accounting
purposes has been fixed at = cents by
the war department at Washington for
the month Of January.
Gabrial Porter, an employee Of the
Penn-Mexican company, was accident
ally killed at Tuxpam. Mex, December
II, according to the cOmpany's ON
cials at Pittsburgh, Ia.
A Fort Worth (Tex.) dispatch says
5000 cattle belonging TO United States
Senator Kendrick of Wyoming, have
been moved into Texas to escape the
drought in the former state.
Twenty persons lost their lives
when the Oc%ean-going tug lie Pluyier
went down with all on board between
ToulOn and Marseilles, according to
advices received at Marseilles.
Seven towns near TeOcelo, south of
Jalupa, have been overwhelmed by the
earth disturbances and q great lake is
covering their former sites, according to
a message received at Mexico City.
Dispatches from Riga declare that
the Lettish troops have broken the
bOlshevist front along the Dvina.
Numerous prisoners have been taken,
together with much booty, it is as
serted.
Eight thousand pottery workers
throughout the United States decided
to press their demands for a Is per
cent wage Increase. A conference
with the manufacturers is to be held
in New York.
The revolutionary movement in Bull
garia is spreading among peasants and
w%orkingmen, according to Belgrade,
Serbia, advices. King Boris and the
royal family are said to be secluded
In the palace.
american ships furnished by the
shipping board at Washington will be
used to rapatriate CZechO-Slovak,
Polish, JugO-Slav and Roumanian
troops now in Siberia, It was an
nounced at the state department.
A Stockholm dispatch says that
Nikolai Lenine, Russian bolshevist
premier, has made a new peace offer
to the allies, which is being taken to
London hu CoIOpal ToilaptS british
representative in the Baltic states.
No further deportation Of radical
aliens will be undertaken until the
experiment with the transport Buford
the first "soviet ark" is completed, il
vas said by Anthony Caminetti, com
missioner general Of immigration a
Washington.
The sum Of S76O,O OO, 900 was realized
from the sale Of American stocks re
naming in France after the departure
O" the American army, said Brig. Gen
w. d. O'Connor, chief of staff Of the
American department Of supply, who
sailed from Antwerp for America.
To enable the war department tC
maintain temporarily American troops
In Germany and Siberia, Secretary
Baker recommended to congress a
Washington legislation authorizing Al
army Of approximately 275,OO0 officer.
and men for the remainder Of this ifs
cal year.