The Benson signal., 1919-08-23
FOREIGN

AlAO "C VI LII Day, OlIIO, at I'll CoIA-
mated loss of $5OO,00O The cause was
not determined The fifty guests es-
capped.
Eighteen million eggs alleged to be
held in storage in st. Louis were
seized by the United States marshal
Officials refused to give out informa
tion as to who owns the supply.
Postal authorities at Winnipeg have
been notified that $4,000 was stolen
some night recently from the interior
deposit vaults of the postoffice at Ed
monton, Alta. No clew to the thieves
has been found.
In the second raid on food supplies
stored in the Detroit Refrigerating
Company's plant at Detroit, agents of
the Department of Justice seized
100000 eggs and approximately 30O,-
600 pounds of butter.
Charges of "extortionate profits" by
Dallas retail merchants were made by
P. II. Spencer, chief of the bureau OF
investigation of the Department of
Justice, and w. B. Burrell, assistant
United States district attorney at Dal-
las.
Six 'Bolshevist battalions were de-
offensive on the Dvina river on Aug.
10, the war office announced in Lon
don. More than 1000 prisoners,
twelve field guns and many machine
guns were captured
Jack Dempsey heavyweight cham
piOn pugilist, will meet Willie Meeham
in an eight-rOund, nO-decisiOn bout in
the East in November, according to a
statement issued by Meehan, who said
he had the promise Of Jack Kearns,
DempSey's manager, for the match.
So many English women have be-
come confirmed smokers that in re-
cent months railway employees have
hesitated to enforce the rules against
smoking in certain carriages and it
has come to be accepted that if the
women passengers do not object, every
compartment becomes a Smoking
car"
El Paso Morning Times, died follow
ing an accident when he was struck by
a street car while returning to his
home. His skull was fractured and
he suffered internal injuries. He never
regained consciousness after he was
injured. He was we'll known in New
Mexico, where he was a practicing at
torney, member of the Legislature and
newspaper editor for a number of
years before going to Ell Paso.
SPORT
Bobby Green was knocked down
twice in the concluding round of his
ten-round fight with Al McManus at
Tucson, only the gong saving him from
a knockout at the end of the tenth
round.
Fred Gilbert, a well-knOwn profess
sional shooter of Spirit Lake, Iowa,
broke the worlds record for cOntinu-
Gus target breaking at Hampton, Iowa,
according to telegram. Gilbert
cracked $50 consecutive targets with
out a miss.
Announcement has been made in
Salt Lake by the directors of the Salt
Lake City Baseball Club of the Pa
cific Coast League that $4,000 would
be divided among the players if they
succeeded in winning the league pen
nant this season.
GENERAL
Three children were killed in Pat
terson park, Baltimore, Md, when an
airplane of the 88th areo squadron,
stationed at Langley field, Va, crashed
inta fence behind which were several
hundred spectators Seven were in
jured.
Profiteering by the government in
the sale of millions of pounds of army
foods has been charged by J. A. Ulmer,
president of the National Retail Gro
GERS Association, at a meeting called
by Mayor Cornell Schneider to discuss
food prices. Ulmer charged that the
government is holding 100000 pounds
of pruneS at % cents a pound which
it bought, he declared, for 51h cents a
pound.
Moose hunting, duck shooting and
fishing are included in the itinerary
of the prince of Wales trip through
Canada. seventy-day journey cover
ing $500 miles.
More than a million eggs, hundreds
of thousands of tins of canned foods
and 27,5OO pounds of sugar were
seized at Jacksonville, Fla, in raid
on wholesale food warehouses and
cold storage plants by federal author
tiles.
Convicted of bigamy on his confess
sion that he has seven living wives,
one of whom he married twice, Charles
Hugh Wilson, 48 years old, former Y.
NJ c.. A. secretary, evangelist and trav-
cling salesman, was sentenced to three
years and six months in Sing Sing
prison, where he announced he will
take up prison reform work.