The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-03-19
WORLD HAPPENINGS IN BRIEF

Prince Jamie, second son of King
Alfonso, arrived at London.
Charles H.. Weeghman, former Chi
cago baseball magnate and restaurant
owner, is being sued for divorce.
The debate in the lower house Of
the diet at Tokyo IN universal suf-
frage broke up in violent scenes.
George w. T.. Hunt of Arizona vas
nominated by President Wilson at
Washington to be minister TO Siam.
Mrs. NJ. Gregory and her four chill
dren were burned TO death in a fire
treal.
Schools, churches and other public
meeting places at Mexico City, Mex,
have been closed indefinitely because
Of influenza.
Prohibition closed the doors of the
Care de Paris, formerly known as
'Rector's." one Of New York's most
famous restaurants.
A sapphire s inches long and
weighing more thar five pounds is re-
ported at Bombay TO have been found
at MOgok by n Burmese.
Fire of undetermined origin which
started at the Schneider & Mueller
Piano company, did damage estimated
at 100000 at Omaha, Neb.
Two United States army aviators
were killed when their planes crashed
ut Aqua Dulce, Panama. They were
Lieutenant Foreman and Lieutenant
Vaughan.
Miss Florence Housed. fifty, owner
of the Huntington Hall School for
Girls in South Pasadena, Cal. was
shot and killed in her room by an un-
known assailant.
Food riots are reported at Ludwlgs-
haven. Mobs are said to be plumber
ing shops. Numerous arrests have
been made, according 10 advices re-
ceived at Berlin.
OF the 10 deputies chosen in he re-
cen Moscow election $50 we're COM
munists, "a were s~ympathizers with
communism, 81 were nonpart!san and
eight were mensheviki.
A London dispatch says the allies
have given up the idea Of trying to
force the United States 10 agree to
their program for the disposal Of the
Adriatic controversy.
Herr Pault, formerly German minis
ter to Cuba and later minister to Bra
I'll, is said at Berlin to have been Sc
lected for the post Of German charge
d'affaires at Washington.
Soviet Russia's proposal to the Uni
ted States for peace will receive no
consideration from the American gov
eminent, it was said at the state de-
partmcnt at Washington.
Decision has been reached at The
Hague that the former crown prince Of
Germany must pay taxes upon the
basis Of an annual income OF 100000
forms (normally $320,OO0).
An attempt has been made TO as
sassinate Prince Regent Alexander of
Serbia and Premier Protitch, accord
ing to a dispatch from Triest. Both the
prince regent and the premier were
wounded.
Twenty-one thousand kegs of Ameri.
car whisky, imported by u group of
Americans for consumption by thirsty
American tourists, have been confis-
Gated at Havre on the ground of ille-
gal Importation.
Orders not to make any arrests
without proper warrants, or arrests
without sufficient evidence, or searches
in private homes, were received by the
United States district attorney at Chi
cago from Attorney General Pal
mer.
BY virtually unanimous vote the
senate at Washington r%eadopted the
Republican peace treaty reservation
relating to mandates, after Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska, the Democrat
ic leader, had announced on the floor
that the administration forces would
not oppose it.