The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-08-06
FROM FAR AND NEAR

The Greek troops have commenced
their advance IN the occupation OF
eastern Thrace, according TO official
announcement at Saloniki.
Resolute won her second cup race
in the international series at Sandy
Hook, N. j., by jumping into the lead
at he start and holding her advantage.
William X. Vanderbilt, the Ameri-
can inancier, died at Paris Thursday.
He had been slowly declining, suffer
ing from heart disease, with compli-
cations.
Wholesale arrests were made at
COnstantinople In connection with an
alleged plan to promote q general up
rising Of Moslems against foreign &C.
CupatiOn.
Prof. Warren A. Seaver, dean of the
law department of the University OF
Indiana, was elected dean Of the law
school Of the University Of Nebraska
at Lincoln.
One death from bubOnic plague and
n new case were reported at Vera
Cruz during the last twenty-four
hours. Two new cases OF yellow fever
were reported.
William j. Bryan announced on his
arrival at Bozeman, Mont, that he
would not accept the nomination OF
the Prohibition party as its presiden-
tial candidate.
approximately 700 employees of the
Middle Fork mine at Benton, ILL.,, went
on strike to enforce demands OF driv-
ers, pumpmen and Fundamentally
laborers-for more pay.
John s. Davis, American ambassa-
dor to Great Britain, will sail for the
Of absence, the state department at
Washington announced.
Conciliator w. III. Ury has been as
signed by the department Of labor AT
Washington to a controversy Of ma
rines engineers with certain launch
companies at San Francisco.
The Anti-Saloon League Of Alneri-
ca, through its executive committee ut
Washington, refused TO indorse or
condemn either the Democratic or Re
publican candidate for president.
Federal agents of Toledo, Ohio, made
the biggest whisky seizure in the his
tory of that section Of the state when
they cOnfiscated liquor valued ut S267,-
$50 on a railroad siding at Lang, o.
Jack Johnson, negro, former heavy
weight champion pugilist, crossed the
international boundary line from Mex
leo at San Diego, Cal, and was ar
rested by a deputy United States mar
shall.
A Constantinople dispatch says the
Sheik- Ul-ISlam in the Turkish cabinet,
Durrizalde Abdullah Effendi, has re-
signed his office because OF the un-
willingness to approve the signing of
the peace treaty.
Hog island, near Philadelphia, -es-
thblished a new worlds ~ship-launch-
ing record. Seven 7,S25-ton steel car
go carriers, the last IN the ways at
the big plant, were sent overheard
within fifty minutes.
Democratic National Chairman
George White officially announced at
Columbus, o., that Saturday, August
z, has been definitely set as the date
for the notification Of Governor Cox
of his nomination as presidential can
didate.
With n exception all of the Is rail
br~otherhoods have accepted, under pro-
test, the awards at Chicago granting
wage increases. The Order Of Rail
way photographers will refer the mat
ter to it's members with an order for
a strike vote.
The body of a nude woman, damned
i'm a trunk, vas found by employees
of the American Railway Express com
pany among the. unclaimed baggage in
the company's East Forty-fourth
street warehouse, New York. The
trunk had been received from Detroit
June IL.