The Benson signal., 1919-06-14
FOREIGN


Prominent business men of Toxic
have met to discuss the project of lay
ing new cable line between Japan
and the United States. Committees
have been appointed to study the
question.
The Freiheit declares that great ac-
tivity is being displayed in Germany in
the recruiting of men and the gather
ing of ammunitions. The Socialist pa
per Abedi, of Vienna, has published
documents that show how busily en-
gagged is the Vienna recruiting agency.
There is sufficient surplus of food
indicated from the coming haryestS to
supply Europe and meet the needs Of
the world, unless some unexpected
catastrophe happens to the worlds
harvests, according to a statement is
sued by Herbert G. Hoover, head Of
the allied relief organization.
TaXicabs are to have a new competi-
tor in the streets of Paris, thanks
mostly to the American army. Five
hundred side cars are to be licensed
to ply for hire at about 20 cents a
mile. The American army has made
great use of side cars in Paris and
their hardness has appealed to every
body.
Investigation by the military author
tiles failed to reveal the identity of
the person who fired three shots at
the house in Coblenz occupied by Brig.
Gen. Marlin Craig, chief of staff of the
Third Army. 1t is said that the name
of General Craig is the third on the
German secret list of marked Ameri-
cans
Captain Funck of the Austrian army
has been tried and sentenced to death
as spy by secret court-martial at
Paris Captain Funck was in Paris
before the war began and remained in
the city throughout the hOstilitieS and
it was alleged that he made the en-
emy acquainted with information re-
garding air raids and long distance
shelling of Paris.
SPORT
In a boxing match, Lassallat, an
American sailor, won from Albert Ba-
doud, welterweight champion of Eu-
rope. The men fought ten three-min-
ute rounds at Brest, France.
Wayne S. Mcconnell, junior at
Purdue, was elected captain of the
1920 baseball team He has been a
member of the nine two years, hold
ing down the third sack.
George w. Wightman of the Long
wood Cricket Club of Boston, won the
metropolitan championship singles at
the West Side Tennis Club. Forest
Hills defeating Miss Eleanor Goss of
New York by 1-6, Ga, 60.
Billy Miske of ST. Paul decisively
defeated Willie Meehan, the Pacific
coast heavyweight, but seemed un-
able to put over knockout at st.
Paul. In the ninth Mechan went down
from a left to the jaw, but came back
quickly.
Frank Bagley has taken another
fighter under his management. He is
K O. Jaffe, the Harlem middleweight,
who has fought some good men. Bag
ley has matched Jaffe to meet Gene
BrOsseau, the former Canadian anna
teur welterweight and middleweight
champion.
GENERAL
An alleged conspiracy to defraud
the government of $3O,OOOOO0 worth
of munitions supplies has been uncov-
cred by Department of Justice agents
at Detroit.
According to word received by the
local police department of Kansas
City, bank near Pittsburg, Kan, was
robbed of Liberty Bonds to the
amount of $43,OOO
Two men were killed, a farmhouse
was damaged and motor truck blown
to bits near Aledo, Texas, when
truckload of nitroglycerin for the
Oil fields exploded. Only great hole
in the ground showed where the truck
and it's drivers were when the explo-
sion occurred
Lawrence Smith, aged recluse, re-
ported to the police at Port Town
send that some one entered his cabin
on the beach and took $65,OO0 worth
of Liberty bonds from his clothes.
w. G. Lee, Cleveland, was reelected
president of the Brotherhood Of Rail
way Trainmen at it's triennial conven-
tion at Columbus, Ohio. He had no
opposition Other officers were re-
elected.
The body of Herbert Harris, II, a
musician, formerly of Portland, Ore,
was found in Lake Michigan, with the
pockets of his clothing filled with
stones. An acquaintance said Harris
had been in i'll health.
Despite a vigorous protest from the
good-road men of Missouri, Governor
Gardner signed the dirt-road bill
which provides for a system of 5000
miles of graded highways. Each