The Benson signal., 1919-10-11
FOREIGN

ana one was sunk, according TO word
reaching Helsingfors. 1t is estimated
that thirty-siX lives were lost.
The council of five, it was learned
in Paris, has notified Admiral Won Tir-
pitt, former German minister of ma
rine, that his substitution for the eX-
kaiser in assuming guilt for the war is
impossible and cannot be considered.
Will f. Archibald, who handled the
first cable message ever sent across
the Atlantic, addressed by the late
Queen Victoria to the President of the
United States, is dead at NanaimO, B.
c. He was 81 years old and had been
a telegrapher since the age of IA.
All reserves of the French army in
Guiding the class of 1917 will be demob
ilized by the middle Of October, accord
ing to plans completed by the govern
ment and published in Paris. There
would remain in service members of
the classes of 1918, 1919 and 1920.
japanese newspapers announce that
three brothers-in-law of Emperor YO-
shihito will soon visit the United
States, Great Britain and France for
military inspection They will stay
abroad for about three years. The i'm
perial travellers are Princes Kitashira-
kawa, Asaka and Higashi Kuni.
Twelve hundred sacks of mail for
Germany, the first to be sent to that
country since the United States en-
tered the war, were carried by the
United States, which sailed from New
York for Copenhagen. From Denmark
the mail will be sent overland to Ger
many.
Twenty thousand hostages are re-
ported to have been arrested in PetrO-
grad in the last three weeks and Petro-
grad newspapers publish almost daily
lists of from fifty to 100 persons who
have been executed for various rea-
sons. The names of all those in charge
Of the diplomatic archives of foreign
legations in Petrograd appear on the
lists.
The Philippine legislature purposes
the enactment of a prohibition meas
ure for the islands in the event it is
held that the national prohibition
amendment recently ratified in the
United States does not apply to the
Philippines. This announcement was
made by legislative leaders. The pro-
posed measure, it was said would be
an exact copy of the act of the Amer
ican government.
SPORT
Leo Houck of Seattle and young"
Cyclone" Brown of San Francisco
fought ten rounds to a draw at Phoe-
nix. They are lightweights.
Frank Barrieu of San Francisco was
given the decision after a twelve-rOund
boxing match at Boise, Ida, with Al
Sommers, a fighter recently released
from the army.
Tommy Carter, lightweight champion
of the Southern department, United
States army, won the decision over
Otto Wallace of Milwaukee in fiji
The fight was fast all the way and the
decision a close one.
GENERAL
Broadway, New York, is much ma
ligned street, according to city Off
cials, who announced that the crops
along the famous thoroughfare will
reap value this year of more than
$4,000. Thee rOps are real crops too,
running principally to sweet corn and
peas, grown in vacant lots along
Broadway's eleven-mile extent.
The death of Patrick Cudahy, mil
lionaire packer of Milwaukee, brother
of Edward A. Cudahy, president of the
Cudahy Packing Company, one of the
five great packing firms of Chicago,
removed the third Of the Cudahy bro
theirs whose rise to great wealth and
influence made one of the remarkable
chapters of the history of Western
business.
Thirteen thousand ounces of plat
inum have been sold by the ordnance
department of the army, it was an
nounced in New York. The mineral
sold at $1O5 an ounce.
Nathan Strauss, wealthy New York
merchant and philanthrOpist, may be
the first mayor of Jerusalem, when,
under the pact made by Britain after
it's conquest, the ancient Hebraic city
becomes a Jewish commonwealth in
Palestine
Chicago's weirdest tragedy occurred
when giant dirigible balloon, the
first army style blimp to visit the city,
caught fire and hurtled through the
skylight of the Illinois Trust and Saw
ings Bank, killing - persons, injuring
twenty-eight and turning the counting
room of the bank into a charnel house
of horror.
a campaign will soon be launched
by German-Americans in this country
to raise at least $35,000,0OO for the
relief of war sufferers in Germany