The Benson signal., 1919-11-22
FOREIGN


number OF births registered during the
same period amount to only $500.
President Ebert's salary has been
fixed at 100000 marks by the budget
commission in Berlin, which also
placed similar sum at his disposal
for incidentals for which he is to give
a strict accounting.
The southern provinces of China are
in the market for, arms, ammunition,
tanks, airplaneS and other munitions
north, according to Capt, Herbert Ling
Of the southern Chinese army.
The Swedish steamer Peking, 2,2OO
tons, foundered in a typhoon in the
while on her way to Gothenburg from
Kobe, Japan, says a dispatch from For
mosa. The Peking left Kobe on Oct. II.
Flooding Of the French shoe market
with 100000 pairs of American army
shoes, bought from surplus stocks of
the United States QuartermaSter, is
expected to materially reduce the al
most prohibitive cost of footwear now
prevailing in France.
The German government has ad-
dressed to the Supreme council at
Paris note protesting against the re-
tention by France of German war pris
OnerS. The note declares the situation
not only dangerous to Germany's own
icfn hut fCi6 a
German frontiers
The increasing number of marriages
between French girls and Chinese Ia
borers in France has resulted in the
minister of the interior warning
French women that most of the cool
les already have wives in China,
where, upon arrival with their hus-
bands, they would be regarded merely
as secondary wives.
Six billion francs is the sum repre-
senting the loss suffered by SwitZer-
land as result of the war, according
to an estimate of nj. Sarasin, president
Of the Swiss Bankers Union of Berne.
Of this 2,400,0O0,O00 francs are ac
counted for by depreciation of German
securities and 1,5OO,OOO,0O0 francs by
depreciation of AustrO-Hungarian Sc
curities held by Swiss citizens. The
losses suffered by the hotel world are
put down as amounting to 4OO,OO0,OOO
francs. The majority of Swiss private
fortunes are invested in foreign gov
ernment and foreign industrial under
takings, the value of which has de-
clined from 40 to SO per cent.
GENERAL
The Wisconsin Teachers Association
at the closing session of the annual
meeting at Milwaukee, went on record
as against unliOnizing.
Appointment of Secretary Glass to
the United States Senate to succeed
the late Thomas S. Martin, and the ac-
ceptance of Mr.. Glass, have been an
nounced by Henry Hodges, aide to
Governor Davis.
With a woman and two men under
arrest on charges of promoting an
archy through distribution of inflam-
matOry literature, the Boston police be-
lieved they have broken up well-or-
ganized ''red" campaign in Boston.
Mrs. Marion e. SprOul, secretary of
the Communist party in Massachusetts !:
Israel Rossman, owner of a small peri
odical store and Max Andelman of
Roxbury are the three alleged reds un-
der arrest.
The eighth international egg-laying
contest at the State Agricultural Col
lege at StOrrs, Conn, ended with vic
tory for the ten Barred Plymouth
Rocks entered by Jules F. Francais of
Westhampton Beach, L. l. Their total
yield for the fifty-twO weeks is 2,O22
eggs, this being the only pen in the en-
tire competition to average more than
POO eggs for each of the ten hens.
Laurel, Quebec, Poultry Farm Barred
Rocks stood second with a total of l.,
91S.
Approximately 1000 bales of cotton
burned in a fire which swept part of
the st. Louis Cotton Compress Com
pany's plant at Ndorado. Ark, accord
ing to a dispatch received at Little
Rock. The loss is about $1,OO0,OOO.
Mrs. F. w. WoolwOrth, widow of the
late head of the chain Of 5 and TO-
cent stores, will receive an income o.
$443,O year from her husbands es-
tate. This was revealed whei, Su
preme Court Justice Geigerich signed
an order requiring H. T. Parsons,
head of committee of Mrs. Wool
wOrth's property, to file an additional
bond of S2,6OO,OOO. His original bond
was $4,000.
: Former service men were with diff
Guilty prevented by the police from Sc
verely beating Meyer Fayerman at Ho-
boken, N. j., after he had been caught
searching the baggage of soldier dead
brought from Russia on the Lake Oar
aga. The offender was given scath-
ing reprimand by Recorder CarSten in