The Benson signal., 1919-09-06


WESTERN
Nathan Shapiro, grocer, was shot
and killed in his store in Omaha when
he resisted three small negro boys who
had come to rob the place.
Nathan Wolfson, who was shot while
escaping from Jail at Kearney, Neb.,
has been arrested in a hospital at
Omaha, where he went for treatment
of his wounds.
John J. Shay got to Columbia, Mo-,
too late for his own funeral. He was
ON his way from France when cere-
monies were held after the War De-
partment reported him dead.
On charge of flying his aeroplane
within ten feet of the roof of a farm
ers house, Charles II. Levy was fined
$25 and costs for disturbing the peace
In a Justice Court at Dodson, Mo.
Claims of damages against the city
of Chicago aggregating hundreds OF
thousands of dollars are to be the aft
ermath of the race riots. Notices of
the suits are pouring in to the corpora
ton counsels office at the rate of fifty
a day.
Fire, originating in the rear of for
mer saloon, wiped out two square
blocks in the heart of the business Sec
ton of Los Banos, causing between
$75O,OOO and $1,OOO,O0O in losses and
destroying the habitations of at least
200 people.
Second Lieut.. Floyd Meisenheimer
of Detroit and Chauffeur Harold Ice
of st. Marys, Ohio, were killed at
Scott field, near Belleville, Ill, when
their aeroplane fell from an altitude Of
200 feet and caught fire after crash
ing to the ground.
Frank Twohy, 9-year-old son of the
president of the Old National Bank, is
credited with saving the life of Anna
Wagner, 25, at Hayden lake, near Spo-
kane, Wash. The boy rescued the
woman after she had gone under a
second time.
Arsenic was found in samples of cof-
fee taken from a downtown lunch
room where thirty person were poison
ed in Chicago, according to Health
Commissioner Robertson. He expressed
the opinion that someone had put poi
son in the coffee urn with malicious in
tent.
WASHINGTON
BY agreement between the United
States and France, she is to pay the
United States $4OOOOO,OOO in ten-year
bonds bearing 4 per cent interest for
the fixed installations and other mill
tary material in France which cannot
be bYought back to this country.
Ten thousand American troops are
held in France to guard 10000 Ger
mans taken prisoner by the Americans
who cannot be returned to Germany
until the peace treaty has been rati-
fled by three powers. 1t is estimated
that it is costing the United States
roughly $1,O0O,000 monthly to care for
these prisoners.
Frozen fish held in storage Aug. 10
amounted to 64,74O,173 pounds, COM
pared to 1864, ,798 at the same time
y
bureau of markets of the Department
of Agriculture made publicaShows. The
holdings of mild cured salmon on Aug
Is amounted to 9,347, 1923 pounds, COM
pared with 5,128,523 pounds last year.
Westerners opposed to regulation of
the packing industry as proposed in
the Kenyon and Kendrick bills Occu-
pied almost the exclusive attention of
the Senate agricultural committee in
it's hearings on the two measures. A
large delegation of Colorado citizens,
led by E. M. Ammons, former governor
of the state, consumed most of the
day, and the delegation leader wound
up the hearing with speech which,
contrary to custom, was applauded
warmly in the committee room.
Favorable. report on Attorney Cen
eral Palmer's request for amendments
to the food control act to assist him
in the prosecution of profiteers, was
made to the Senate by Senator GrOn-
ma Of North Dakota, chairman of the
Agricultural Committee Senator Gron-
ma stated that the report was not
unanimous one and that members of
the committee had reserved the right
to offer further amendments on the
floor. The amendments as offered
would provide $4,000 penalty for the
making of unjust" or unreasonable"
prices and also include provisions
against rent profiteering in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
President Wilson has asked Congress
for an additional appropriation of
$825,OO0 for the expenses of the Amer
ican peace commission in Paris from
last July 1 to the end of this calendar
year. The President said that up to
July 1 the total cost of the commission
had been $780, ,629, and he estimated
that by the end of the year the total
would reach $1,5O6,706. A part of this
has heen aDDrODriated heretofore