The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-02-27
WORLD HAPPENINGS IN BRIEF

Several Sim Feiners were arrested
in a roundup by a military force at
Dublin.
Military training has been ulade com
pulsory II the public schools OF Chey-
enne, Wyo.
The falling exchange rate with
America threatens to cause " famine
at Kingston, jamaica.
Thirty-one destroyers and four
ers, part Of the Atlantic fleet OF the
American navy, arrived at C~ristoDal.
Five men were drowned when the
dam Of the Abitibi- Pulp and Paper
company, at ~Iroquois Falls, Canada,
broke.
Premier Lloyd George told the house
OF commons at London that he hoped
to introduce the Irish holne-rule OH
in the house in II few days.
Cincinnati vas the first city TO COM
plete its fourteenth dccennial cen us
enumeration, IL was announced in the
census bureau at Washington.
Beer containing s per cent alcohol is
now being made by Bowler's brew
cry at Amsterdam, n. T., for consum-
ton upon doctors prescriptions.
No extension Of time for filing i'll
come tax returns will be granted this
year by the bureau Of internal reye-
nue., il is announced at Washington.
The municipality OF Berlin has APP
~propriated l,0OO,OOO marks 70: the pur-
pose of lowering the price Of milk for
needy families, nursing mothers and
invalids.
announcement is made at London
that January 10 is the official date
upon which the war with Germany
terminated. This date was fixed by
royal order.
T~hirty-ive applicants for citizen
ship papers were refused naturaliza-
ton by Federal Judge Lands at Chi
cago because Of their pro-German ac-
tons during the war.
Mayor William Lord of Orange. n.
D., issued a proclamation calling upon
the people to decorate their homes in
honor OF Thomas A. Edison, who Is
se~venty-three years old.
Theft Of the 5000 pay roll of the
Aguila Oil company at Tampico, Mex,
by robbers who killed the messenger
carrying the money was reported to
the state department at Washington.
A Warsaw dispatch say the Polish
troops, standing on their native soil,
dipped the national colors In the tide
water of the Baltic after the absence
of Poland as a sea nation for 14S
years.
A flat increase of $500 we the 1913
salary schedule for teachers in the Chi
cago school system and the shortening
of the promotional period required
to each the maximum. has been
granted.
The first United States Mexico trade
conference In the history Of the two
republics is now in session at Mexico
City, in the School of Mines. One hun
dred and forty delegates are present
from the United States.
Suffrage was defeated I'm Virginia
when the house delegates at Richmond,
Va, adopted, 81 to %, the Leedy res
olution rejecting the amendment TO the
federal Constitution. The senate, by a
vote of "a to 10, previously had adopt
ed the resolution.
Representatives of bituminous oper-
ators In Montana and Washington
told the coal strike settlement COM
mission at Washington that perma-
nent application OF the recent Ii per
cen wage advance to coal miners
might force them to close their mines.
Robert Underwood Johnson Of New
York, author and editor and one Of
the founders Of the League to Enforce
Peace, has been selected by President
Wilson as ambassador to Rome. 20
succeed Thomas Nelson Page of vir-
ginia, who resigned several months
ago.