The Benson signal., 1915-07-10
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o N G s, ACHIEVE
MENTS, SUFFERlNGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War

Inc British steamship LOmdS, OOullu
! from Argentina for Belfast with car
| go of corn, was sunk by a German
| submarine sixty miles west of the
| Scilly Islands.
The town of Halicz in Galicia on the
Dniester river has been occupied by
German troops, according to the an
| nouncement given cat by German mill
tary headquarters.
Servian forces have invaded Aus
tria, capturing the village of Mich
arskaada, forty miles west OF Bel
grade, the war office announced. The
serbs took 1856 prisoners.
The first great naval battle of the
war in the Baltic sea has been fought
and meager reports received from
| Copenhagen indicate that the German
fleet has been defeated by the Rus
sians
An unconfirmed report from Athens
says the allies have taken the Turk
ish stronghold of Krithia, on the
Gallipoli peninsula, to the western
edge of which Gen. Ian Hamilton's
report carried his forces.
| A German torpedo boat was sunk
in the Baltic off Windau, Petrograd
announced. A German squadron of
one battleship, four light cruisers and
several torpedo boats was put to
flight after shelling Windau.
To add to the elation in London at
the reports of the Russians sea vic
tory, the news came that British
submarine on June 26 sunk Turkish
transport No. AZ, with a shipload of
troops in the Sea of Marmora
German U boats made their biggest
haul Friday since the torpedoing of
the Lusitania. They sent to the bot
tom the big steamer Caucasian, the
liner Inglemoor, whose tonnage ex-
ceeded that of the Leyland liner Ar
menian, the steamer Welbury, the
schooner L. c. Tower and bark, all
British vessels. The InglemOOr was
the largest and one of the newest YES
sells of the Moor line of twenty eight
Twenty-nine persoNs were lost at
least twenty of whom were Ameri-
cans, and many others injured when
the Dominion liner Armenian, which
sailed from Newport News for Avon
mouth ON June II, was torpedoded by
the German submarine U-3S The at
tack on the Armenian was made twen-
ty miles northwest of Trevor Head,
Cornwall England This information
was reported by American Consul
Armstrong at Bristol, England.
Western
The "drys" made gains in the Utah
| local option elections.
Billy Kersands, once widely
known negro minstrel performer, died
at Artesia, N NJ, aged 73 years.
tornado that swept parts of Ot
| tawa county, northeastern Oklahoma
was reported to have killed five
persons.
Charles Goodnight of Armstrong
county, Tex, has on his ranch 14S
buffalo and 35 catalo, the latter
cross between the wild buffalo and the
QOm0SClC FOll-AnSuS.
A disastrous storm of hail and wind
| devastated parts Of the four counties
of Adams, Clay, Fillmore and Thayer
in Nebraska, sweeping in zigzag
course over a stretch of more than
sixty miles.
The effect of an injury sustained in
an automobile accident four years ago
in which she nearly lost her life is
believed to have caused the death of
Mrs. Guilford Wood, social leader and
philanthropist, who passed away in
her winter home in Pasadena, Cal.
Wyoming withdrew from the Colo
RADIO Industrial School for Boys the
twelve boys from that state who have
been cared for at the institution An
industrial school and reformatory has
been completed at Worland, and the
boys will he2ceforth be instructed
there.
Washington
The condition of Franklin D. Roose-
welt, assistant secretary of tfa navy,
operatSd on for appendicitis, con-
tinued favorab BILE.
A tremendous explosion, believed
to have been caused by some kind of
bomb or Internal machine, wrecked
the public reception room on the east
side of the Capitol building shortly
before midnight Friday night
Conditions in Mexico City are grow
ing constantly worse, Consul Canada
notified the State Department from
Vera Cruz. Serious hunger rioting
was reported in progress in Mexico
City, with Zapata and Carranza troops
fighting in the outskirst.
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