The Benson signal., 1916-06-03
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

ships sunk.
Eighteen persons killed and score
injured in Austrian air raid on Italy.
Turkey reports Russian advance
northeast of Bagdad has been
checked.
Southeast of Trent, Italians report
they have thrown back Austrians in
disorder.
Russians put down attempt of Ger
mans to capture their trenches north
of Lake Miadziol.
Heavy fighting continued at Ver-
dun, but Paris reports no new
changes in positions.
Russians by counter attack dislodge
Germans from advanced trench Teu-
tons had captured west of Dalen is
land.
French repulse attempt to drive
them out of approaches to Fort Dou-
aumont Germans lose heavily in
strong attack.
Gen. Candelario Cervantes, the Viii
lista bandit leader, was killed by
American troops south Of Cruces, in
Chihuahua Thursday.
Fort Douaumont, one Of the main
defenses of Verdun was retaken by
the Germans after a series of violent
attacks and heavy casualties. The
French recaptured trenches near
Cumieres.
The Italian troops were forced
across their own border for the first
time by Austrian offensive in retreat
from Borgo, according to the Austrian
Va office report. Vienna says the
We is successful at all points.
Germans occupy section of French
trenches west of Fort Douaumont and
are keeping UP unprecedented bonn
hardments and vicious infantry at
tacks northeast ard northwest of
Verdun. whitening fire by French
holding Germans at almost everv
point.
Gen. Gabriel Gavira, newly consti-
tuted commander of the Mexican mil
itary zone of the border, announced
In Juarez he intended to ask Gen.
]. J. Pershing. commander of the
American expeditionary force, for a
conference at which would be settled
details of cooperation for chasing
down, the bandits of Chihuahua.
WESTERN
Organization of the first motorcy-
Gle company in the United States
army was begun at Fort Bliss, Tex.
A tornado swept through Geddes,
So. Dak., leveling buildings and doing
much damage to crops and livestock.
An increase of 10 per cent in the
wages of all field employees in Kan
sas and Oklahoma was announced by
the Prairie Oil & Gas Company.
The slaughter of more than $50
head of elk in the Cedar Creek basin,
east and north of Gardiner, Mont,
within the last sixty days was re,
ported by State Game Warden De
Hort and forest rangers.
Mrs. Antonio Smith, who was born
104 years ago in the Madeira Islands,
told callers who congratulated her at
her home in Springfield, ILL.,, on the
anniversary of her birthday that she
had lived long enough and wanted
to die.
The woman's party announced IN
Chicago that committee of fifty
Illinois women had been appointed
to round up $4,000 voting women
pledged to put suffrage first when
they go to the polls in November, re-
gardless of party affiliations.
WASHINGTON
The State Department officially
was advised that Gen. Carranza's
new note on the United States puni
tive expedition in Mexico was on its
way here by special messenger.
One hundred and sixteen Texas
militiamen who have failed to re-
spond to the call for service on the
Mexican border will be tried by
court-martial by order of President
Wilson.
Members of the House Ways and
Means Committee were getting ready
to frame a bill to provide about $780,,
100000 additional revenue for the fis
Cal year ending June 80, 1917, by TAX
ing incomes, inheritances and muni
tions.
The United States, denouncing in
reference with neutral mails, has no
titled Great Britain and France that
it can no longer tolerate the wrong
which American citizens have suf
fered and continue to suffer through
the "lawleSs practice" those govern
ments have INDUCED in, and that only
a radical change in policy restoring
the United States to it's full rights as
a neutral power, will be satisfactory
Export trade of the United States
promises to reach nearly $5,000,000.
900 by the end of the fiscal year.
June 80.