The Benson signal., 1917-03-31
FOREIGN

Inc Guatemalan government mas
handed to the German minister pro-
test against the recent German note
on submarine warfare.
Former President William H. Taft
has announced that he will join a
home guard company already under
organization in New Haven
A dispatch received at Copenhagen
from Haparanda, Sweden, says the
Russian Social Democratic party has
issued a manifesto demanding peace.
The town council of Petrograd has
unanimously agreed to appoint GER
tain portion of women to several of
it's committees, says Central News
dispatch from Petrograd.
More than 3,7OO women in New
York city will be Immediately avail
able for the hospital auxiliary serv-
ice of the American Red Cross in the
event of war, it was announced.
The British, French and Italian am
bassadors at Petrograd conveyed to
the minister of foreign affairs an Of
ficial recognition by their govern
ments of the Russian provisional gov
ernment.
Chicago's patriotic appeal to the ma
tion, coupled with demand for uni
versal training and the placing of the
whole country on war basis at once,
will be issued from the Auditorium
theater.
A movement was initiated at the
annual dinner of the Phi Delta Theta
Alumni Club of Chicago to start a
Frederick A. Funston memorial fund
among all the chapters of the frater-
nifty in the country.
Frederick j. Dietzman, recently sta
toned at Barman, Germany, as Amer
lean vice consul, and Ramona III. Sea-
gle, who held similar position at
Leipzig, reached New York on the
Spanish steamship Montzerrat from
Cadiz
A statement urging that as a patri-
otic duty city residents transform
their yards into gardens and farmers
so diversity their crops as to make
each section self-sustaining was is
sued by Carl Vrooman, assistant sec
retary of agriculture.
SPORTING NEWS
The annual society baseball game
between the men and the women's
team of the -Four Hundred will be
staged soon at Palm Beach, Fla.
Aggressiveness of Tommy Gibbons
of st. Paul won him newspaper de-
cision over Battling Levinsky of New
York in a 10-round bout at st. Paul.
Mary K. Browne defeated Molla
Bjurstedt at Long Beach, Calf, Ga,
81, in the women's singles finals in a
tennis tournment in progress here.
The California Fair and Racing AS
sociation announced at San Francisco
dates for the seasons circuit, begin
ming at Salinas July II and ending at
Phoenix, Ariz.,, Nov. 1917.
Edward ('EddieO Miller, reputed to
have been the oldest professional base
ball player in the United States, died
at Ogden, Utah Miller was a mem
Der of the Boston and Brooklyn base
ball teams before the National League
was organized
GENERAL
Abdication of Emperor William is
forecast.
An elaborate organization by which
a Gordon of German submarines,
around the Spanish and Portuguese
coasts, has been furnished supplies,
has been unearthed at Madrid.
All clocks in the United Kingdom,
it is announced officially, will be
moved forward one hour at 2 o'clock
in the morning of April 8. The clocks
will be moved back again Sept. II.
With the arrival of strong and we'll
armed reinforcements, Gen. Francisco
Murguia announced at Chihuahua City
that his campaign to exterminate Villa
and his followers will be taken up.
The United States must devote it.
self to increased agricultural produc-
ton, in the opinion of David Lubin,
the American representative in the In
ternational Institute of Agriculture at
Rome
A. P. Brown, 29 years old, was
killed and eight persons were injured,
two, it was believed, seriously, when
a gas explosion wrecked three build
ings in the residence section of Kan
sas City, Mo.
Thirteen American citizens were
among the forty members of the crew
of the American tank steamer Heald-
ton, sunk by submarine off Terschell-
ing, Holland, with the probable loss of
a score or more lives.
There is no longer any chance of a
counter revolution in Russia in the
opinion of Prof. Paul VinOgradoff of
Petrograd University, but the radical
pacifists are still source of danger
for the new government.
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