The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-02-20
WORLD HAPPENINGS IN BRIEF

for 50 cents, the lowest point ever
reached.
z. Z. Ripley, chairman of the Doaru
of directors Of the Santa Zee rallroau'
dieI at Santa Barbara. Cal.
Confidence in the government was
voted by the chamber Of deputies III
Paris. The vote was 513 to 6S.
Former Gov. Horace +. Graham was
found guilty of embezzlement OF state
funds while he was state auditor py d
jury at Montpelier, Vt.
The Chicago flour market felt the
effect of the international financial ue-
preston when the best grades oil hour
declined % cents Il barrel.
Kaid Gen. Sir Harry MaCLean, VINO
has had Il picturesque career i'll Mofoc-
co in the service of the British gov
ernment, died ut Tangier.
The British government, it is stated
by the London Evening Standard, mas
taken steps to reduce the paper
money in circulation by $lOO,OOO,OoO.
Serious rioting occurred ut Limerick,
according to q dispatch TO che Lonuon
Star. The military fired on the crowd
of demonstrators and N man was
killed.
Because Of the soaring exchange
rates Toronto theaters are faced VIII!
the necessity of canceling their con
tracts for attractions from the United
States.
Several bathing pavilions were
swept away at Coney Island ana the
first floor of the big Shelburne .hotel
at Brighton Beach was flooded during
Il storm.
Benjamin Gitlow, former Bronx as
s%emblyman, was found guilty OF criml'
nal anarchy by a jury in the criminal
branch of the state supreme court at
New York.
Fifteen persons were killed ana
thirty injured in u head-on collision
between an express train and a freight
train about twenty-one miles east OF
Dion. France.
Miners in the Ruhr district have
abandoned their fight for a six-hour
day and are returning to work Oh a
se%ven-hour basis, according to the
Berlin Gazette.
Damage to the amount of $1,OOO,OOO
was caused at Manila, Z. l., when fire
destroyed half the buildings of the
Philippine carnival exposition and he
island exhibits they contained.
A CoblenZ dispatch says the rate OF
exchange for the pay of American sol
diers in the occupied territory has been
fixed at 100 marks to the dollar, giving
the doughboys 5000 marks monthly.
In the last five months the total
public debt has shown a decrease Of
about $930,0OO,000 and the floating
debt about $4,000, 900, Secretary
Houston announced at Washington.
The heavy demand for pennies,
nickels and dimes is keeping Uncle
money mills running at top
lspeed. Director of the Mint Baker at
" nv - oA
Premier Millerand, replying to inter-
pellations on the foreign policy, said
that the government at Paris would
pursue its policy Of alliances and
friendship which allowed France to
win the war.
Union wage scales in the general
trades in 1919 averaged II per cent
higher than in 1918 and SO per cent
higher than in 1913, according to q
summary issued by the bureau of Ia
Dor statistics at Washington.
Four persons, including A. p. War
rem, sheriff of the county, were arrest.
ed at McMinnville, Tenn, in cOnnec
ton with investigation of the death OF
Fred Murphy, a prisoner in the county
jail, who was found hanging in his cell
A slashing slump In foreign ex'
change and a fall In stocks were the
sensational features on the New York
market. The English pound fell to
1888, the French franc to 14.60, the
Italian lire to 1852, the lowest record.
ed figures in these foreign moneys.
Premier Millerand, speaking in the
chamber Of deputies at Paris, said Ger.
many had failed to keep her treaty en-.
gagements, notably that regarding the
delivery Of coal. He then said the
allies would take measures 20 have
her do so, even if to military
coercion were necessary.