The Benson signal., 1916-11-11
FOREIGN

80 Tar not WOrQ mas Deen printed
in Berlin about the sinking of the
steamship Marina. Until all the facts
are known no expression of PUBLIC
opinion will be available.
A Belfast dispatch says the loss OF
life in the disaster to the steamers
Retriever and Connemara aggregates
ninety-two. Only two persons are
known to have been saved.
1t was officially announced in Ber.
lin that the imperial military tribunal
has rejected the appeal of DR.. Karl
Liebknecht, the Socialist leader, from
the sentence imposed upon him by the
court-martial at Berlin.
Secretary Joseph c. Grew of the
American embassy at Berlin, who is
acting as charge in the absence of AM
bassador Gerard, was instructed to
nation in regard to the sinking of the
British steamship Rowanmore, off
Cape Clear, Oct. %.
A spectacular air battle in which a
French flyer, in single-handed attack
on group of six German aviators,
brought down one machine, was an
nounced by the war office at Paris. A
squadron hastened to the Frenchmans
aid and brought down another Ger
man machine, putting the others to
flight. A third German aeroplane was
shot down by the French artillery in
the Nonnebruch forest
Civil war has broken out in Greece.
Heavy fighting now is in progress be-
tween Venizelist revolutionary forces
and loyalist troops in Thessaly. The
rebel army that occupied Katerina is
reported to be marching on Larissa.
the great railroad center in Thessaly.
After shooting the twenty-nine mil
itary guards of the southbound pas
senger train which left Juarez, Villa
bandits looted the train, robbed the
passengers and even took the cloth
ing from the women passengers on
the train, according to Chihuahua
City report.
The French language may be used
in the Roman Catholic separate
schools in Ontario only in lower
grades, the privy council of England
holds, according to a cabled summary
of a decision by the highest court in
the empire, received at Montreal.
SPORTING NEWS
In bitterly contested game, lasting
more than two hours because so many
players were injured, the Laramie
High school football eleven defeated
the Cheyenne High by score of &c
20 IL at Cheyenne.
At Lincoln, Neb., in game marked
with much fumbling on both sides, Ne
braska defeated Iowa State College of
by retains the championship of the
Missouri Valley conference.
Joe Boquel, aviator, fell in a flight
at the exposition grounds at San
Diego, CAL Physicians at the exposi-
ton emergency hospital stated that
the aviator was killed instantly. Sat-
urday was the last day of his engage
ment to fly for the exposition
Tom Cowler, the English heavy
Welgnt who is championed by Jim
Corbett, defeated Bill Brennan, the
Irish K. o. king, in ten rounds at the
Broadway Sporting club in New York
At Philadelphia Capt. E. B. Davis
Of the Frankford Country club issued
oh h0< l>sc -
ten 60-year-old golfers will meet all
comers in medal or match play.
Tom Sharkey has gone through bank
ruptcy in San Francisco, according to
Western reports, and admits that he
owes about 100000.
Morningside college of Sioux City,
Iowa, outplayed Nebraska Wesleyan
university at every stage of their foot
ball game, winning by score Of
II to at Lincoln.
Freddie Welsh, champion light
weight, is willing, it became known
at San Diego, Cal, to fight Willie
Ritchie, former titleholder, twenty
rounds at Tijuono, Mex, if guaranteed
$4,000.
Nicholas e. Young, an old-time base
ball player and former president of
the National league, died at his home
in Washington. He had been en-
ployed in the treasury department for
some time.
The Northern Arizona Normal
school eleven won the State Normal
and High school football championship
of Arizona for 1916 by defeating at
Flagstaff the Temple Normal team by
a score of 27 to 6.
GENERAL
In one of the worst gales ever
known in the Irish sea, the British
steamship Connemara, with passen-
gers and cargo of cattle from Green
ore, Ireland, for Holyhead, Wales, col
lided just outside the Carlingford bar
with the British steamship Retriever,