The Benson signal., 1919-09-06
FOREIGN

Naples.
The son of the Earl of March and
heir presumptive of the dukedom Of
Richmond, is dead of wounds received
in battle on the Archangel front.
Nikolai Lenine, the Russian Bolshe-
vik premier, has sent delegation to
Kishinev to negotiate peace with Ru-
mania, according to a report received
from Budapest.
Twenty men were killed and forty
are missing, it has been reported, as
a result of the explosion of an ammu-
milton barge which destroyed and sank
the British monitor Glow Worm.
Eight hundred persons, including
women and children, have been mas
sacred by the Russian Bolsheviki in
revenge for the loss of Krasnaia and
Cork to the White Guard troops, says
q Helsingfors dispatch.
Andrew Sockalexis, famous Indian
runner, is dead at Oxford, Me, from
tuberculosis. He had competed in
many of the important long-distance
running events of the country. He ran
in the Olympic games at Stockholm in
1912.
The Prussian government has or
dered q discontinuance of the custom
of hosting flags ON public buildings
on the anniversary of the battle of
Sedan, lest the people regard the hoist
ing as demonstration i'm favor of the
old regime
While Herman Schumann w0oed and
won a sweetheart during the last few
years, he murdered ten persons,
robbed scores of others and saved
enough from his career to marry. Now
he is charged with being the champion
murderer of Germany.
G. A McCurdy, parliamentary Sec
retary for the food ministry, predicts
that milk will cost a shilling GA
cents) a quart this winter in London.
He said powers will be granted the
local authorities to supply subsidized
milk to poor British children at less
than cost or free.
A crushing defeat has been admins
tered to the Bolshevik army in south
Russia. The war office announced that
General KaOmtkOv's cavalry, operating
under General Denikine, has broken
through the front of the Red army
south of Makarova, capturing 1900
prisoners and disarming 10000 Red re-
cruitS.
Five million Germans have filed
with the Central Bureau of Immigra-
ton and it's sixty-four sub-stations ap-
plications for permission to leave Ger
many. The majority of the intending
emigrants are turning their eyes to-
also have indicated their desire to
settle in Palestine.
GENERAL
The will of Andrew Carnegie, made
public, estimates the value of the iron
masters estate at between $25, ,OOO,O 600
and $3O,OOO,OOO.
The seamen's strike at Sydney, N. s..
W., ended when a mass meeting of the
men decided to reman the ships af-
fected Immediately.
Two bank messengers of the Fidel-
ity Trust Company were held up and
robbed of $4,000 by four masked ban
dts in Boston The robbers made their
escape in an automobile.
Twelve members of the crew of the
four-masted auxiliary schooner Elmer
Roberts arrived in Yarmouth, N. S.,
and reported that their ship loaded
with ammunition, caught fire and blew
up at sea.
The successful application of the al
ternating current to wireless tele-
phOny, which will make it possible for
any person to plug in" pony wire
less panel into an ordinary lamp sock
ct and talk through space from house
to house or city to city, has been an
nounced by Dr. Lee De Forest of New
York.
Wearing the French war cross with
two palms, Marie Gondier, 21-year-
old Belgian girl, who was once con-
demned by the Germans to be shot as
a spy, arrived in New York from
France on the steamship La Lorraine
to become an American citizen through
adoption.
The Third Division of the American
army, one of the last divisions to leave
French soil, has subscribed $31, 900 for
two monuments to be erected on the
flanks of the approach to the Marne
bridge which it's Seventh Machine Gun
Battalion dynamited in defending the
crossing against the great German Of
fensive in the spring of 1918, it was
announced by Maj. Gen. Robert L.
Howe, division commander.
A reward of $1,000 for the apprehen-
sion of Paul j. B. Haverly, grand
keeper of records and seal of the
knights of Pythias Grand Lodge of
Illinois, missing since Aug. 6, was an
nounced by Smith L. Won Fossen OF
Beardstown, ILL.,, grand chancellor OF