The Benson signal., 1917-01-06
FOREIGN

tria declares in favor of peace.
Lloyd's reports the sinking of the
Norwegian steamship Sno; 1928 tons
gross.
Joffre marshal of France, President
Poincare has signed another revoking
the DEGREES of Dec. 2, 1915, and Dec.
13, 1916.
The coronation festivities are in full
swing at Budapest, under the bright
est of winter skies, and Budapest, for
the time being, seems to have forgot.
ten the war.
Three hundred persons perished in
the wreck of the Japanese steamship
Sankaku Maru, on the Chinese coast
near Chefoo, according to dispatch
received at Toxic.
Five men were killed and six in
jured in rear-end collision when the
C. p r. Toronto train for Montreal
ran into the local train from Cornwall
to st. Polycarpe.
A Vienna dispatch says that Privy
Councillor Rudolf Seighart, governor of
the Austrian land credit bank, has re-
signed, at the request of Emperor
Charles. He is succeeded by Ritter
Won Leth.
'The number of civilians assassinat-
ed in East Prussia in 1914 during the
Russian invasion, now has been Off
cially made public by the Koenigsberg
statistical office, and totals 6,O4S, of
whom 80 were women" says a Berlin
statement.
Mrs. Venustiano Carranza, wife of
the de facto president, accompanied
by several other prominent Mexican
families, has arrived in Nuevo Laredo
en- route to the United States. They
are said to be leaving Mexico because
of Villas activities
The London Times prints forecast
of the report of the committee which
has investigated the results of last
years daylight saving. 1t says the
evidence taken shows that opinion
overwhelmingly favors making the
plan general in 1917.
Speaking in London at meeting Of
the Rumanian Consolidated Oil Fields,
William w. Rutherford, member of
Parliament from Liverpool, said that
probably the value of the oil fields de.
stroyed by the allies in the Rumanian
retreat amounted to 93O,OOO,0O0.
Nine de Thebes, the most famous
clairvoyant in the world, who prophe-
sled the great war, the death of Queen
Victoria, the assassination of Presi
dent Carnot of France, the San Fran
cisco earthquake and other events of
moment in the history of the nine
teenth and twentieth centuries, is
dead at her home at Meungsur-Loire
France. Her real name was Anne de
Savigny. She was 7S years old.
SPORTING NEWS
frankie Russell of New Orleans and
Jim Hanlon Of Denver, lightweights,
signed articles for a twenty-round bout
at New Orleans Jan. 4.
Harry Sherman, Minneapolis fight
promoter, has an offer of $4,000
purse for a ten-round contest between
Mike Gibbons and Les Darcy.
Jack Read, the Australian Biffer,
didn't last long in his scheduled fiji
teen-round bout with Sailor Kirke of
California at the National Athletic
Club in Denver. Kirke knocked him
down three times in the first round,
and in the second flattened him for
the decision.
Frank Isbell, one of the owners of
the Des Moines Club of the Western
League, announced at Wichita, Kan.
that he had purchased the park and
franchise and the Wichita Club of the
same league, the price being $4,000
for the franchise and similar amount
for the park
GENERAL
Oil sales in which $12,000,000
changed hands were announced at
Tulsa, Okla.
The high price of copper is respOn-
sible for the scarcity of coal in Ari-
zona, according to w. S. GoldsWorthy,
Phoenix general agent of the Santa Fe
railroad.
Although the year 1916 was one of
record breaking traffic and earnings,
new mileage built was the smallest,
with the exception of 1915, since the
Civil war.
News of movements of British YES
sells to and from the Boston port will
be withheld by agents of the various
lines as result of an order received
from their head offices at Liverpool.
Redress and revenge are not to fig
ure in Honora May O'Brien's shattered
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