The Benson signal., 1916-11-11
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ABOUT THE WAR

Pennsylvania struggle still in prog
ress, with neither the Austro-Germans
nor the Russ-Rumanians having de-
cided advantage. No news arrived
Sunday from the Dobrudja sector
Italian war report chronicles con-
tinued triumph for the Italian arms
in the new drive against the Aus
trians Prisoners taken since Aug. 6
number 40,385, the statement says.
Important advances have been made
on the Somme and Meuse sectors by
the allies. British advance 1000
yards while French capture three
trenches and all the German posi-
tions in the st. Pierre Vaast wood.
Berlin announces officially that the
central powers have agreed to grant
independence and constitutional
monarchial government to Poland at
the conclusion of the war and that
plans for stabilizing the government
will be placed in effect at once.
WESTERN
L
ders for % locomotives, so passenger
cars and 1904 freight cars.
Advances within a week in the
prices of thirty-two items of their
stocks were enumerated for retail
grocers of San Francisco by the Retail
Grocers' Association
The women of San Antonio, Tex,
are to be asked to bake sufficient
cakes, pies and cookies for the
Thanksgiving dinner of the $4,000
troops stationed at Camp wilson
The women of San Antonio, Tex,
are to be asked to bake sufficient
cakes, pies and cookies for the
Thanksgiving dinner of the $4,000
troops stationed at Camp Wilson.
Ten thousand bituminous coal min
ers in the Fairmount, w. Va, region
were officially notified that their
wages had been advanced 10 per cent
Advances within week in the prices
of thirty-two items of their stocks
were enumerated for retail grocers or
San Francisco by the Retail Grocers'
Association.
The American steamer Willapa,
bound from Bluefields for New Or
leans, sank off the Nicaraguan coast,
according to cablegram received by
her agents at New Orleans, La.
At Columbus, Ca, w. o. Bowden,
aged so, was in critical condition
from stab wounds received in a fight
with relatives of his 16-year-old bride
of three months, whom he had shot
to death.
Seattle, Wash, was named at the
concluding session of the fifteenth tri-
ennial assembly of the general grand
chapter of the Order of the Eastern
Star at Louisville, KY, as the meeting
place for 1916.
Col. Rosario Garcia, Villa COM
mander from Sonora, and two of his
men were executed in Juarez after be-
ing convicted by military court on
charges of treason. They were cap
tured at Hacienda Santa Ana, near
NamiQuipa, and were taken to Juarez.
At least six were killed and forty
others were wounded in pitched bat
tie at the Everett, Wash, city wharf
between $50 members of the Indus
trial Workers of the World, who ar
rived there from Seattle on the steam
er Verona, and posse of $50 citizens,
headed by Sheriff Don McRae.
The California railroad commission
authorized consolidation of the two
telephone systems of Los Angeles, the
Home and the Pacific companies, and
their sale to the Southern California
Telephone Company, which will be
given permission to issue $14,000,00O
securities to pay for the properties.
WASHINGTON
A campaign financial statement for
the Socialist party filed with the clerk
of the House showed contributions of
$24,558 up to Oct. / and expenditures
of $18,483.
Contract for a mail handling device
Ill Tic OGuNCI AdO UCCA
awarded to a firm in Boston on it's
bid, $8,44S, the lowest based on sat
isfactory design.
The American Red Cross will dis
tribute 325,OO0,0OO Christmas seals
this year to be sold for 1 cent each.
The proceeds will be used in the cam
paign against tuberculosis. Last year
the seals netted $250,000.
Under the new law the War Depart
ment has set Nov. 30 as the last day
on which national guardsmen shall
take the so-called dual oath, and has
notified the units that those which
fail to comply cannot share in the fed
eral funds.
Acceptance of the resignation of DR..
Constantine Dumba as ambassador to-
the United States was taken by State
Department officials as plain indi-
cation that the Austrian government
is about to name a new Diplomatic