The Benson signal., 1919-07-26
FOREIGN

the bill adopted by the Chamber of
Deputies giving the vote to women
The RIB, sister ship to the British
dirigible R-34, which has just com
pleted a round trip across the Atlantic
will start on a trip to India within the
next few days.
If the Germans are good and full
fill the terms of the peace treaty,
American forces on the Rhine will be
reduced to $4,000 men by November,
General Pershing stated in London.
Baroness de la. Roche, the French
aviatress, was killed in an airplane ac-
cident at the airdrOme at CrOtOy near
Paris. The baroness was flying with
passenger when the accident &C.
cured
One officer and six enlisted men
were killed in the destruction of the
American mine sweeper Richard II.
Buckley by the explosion of mine i'll
the North sea. Two other officers were
injured. A. /.
A Helsingfors dispatch to London
gives a refugee from Petrograd as au-
thority for the statement that the
B0lSheviki are offering quarter of a
million dollars for the assassination Of
Gen. Justus Mannerheim, the Finnish
regent with the object of paralyzing
Finnish resistance.
Four, million children in Europe are
being fed under the auspices of the:
American Relief administration This
work probably will be continued
through private charity and under
American direction, even after the con-
clusion of the work of the American
food administration in Europe. y -
Prices on all fOOdstuffs have fallen
with crash in Berlin ais a resulthof
the lifting of the b%:kade. They be-
gan to show weakness when twas
rumored that the embargo would be
lifted, but the real drop came only
when Illicit. dealers with huge con.
cealed stocks brought them out ina
virtual panic>to unload before compet-
ing supplies entered Germany.
AS English law now stands, man
may marry his dead wife's sister, but
It woman cannot wed her dead 1Ius-
bands brother. The. point was made.
clear by the presiding judge at the.
Northampton Assfzes the other day;in'
the case of two women who went
through the marriage service with bro
theirs of their dead husbands Both
were held for trial.
SPORT
Miss Ryan Of California won the
Irish ladies' lawn tennis champion
ship at Dublin from Janet Jackson,
the English representative. The score
was 60, 81.
Norman Ross of . San Francisco,
United States army, won the swim
ming match in the Seine across Paris,
a distance of about $500 meters, in
one hour and thirty minutes. Bacigal-
upo, Italian, was only four-fifths of
second behind Ross Norris, Adstral-'
ian, was third An immense crowd
lined both banks Of the Seine and gave
evidence of the popularity of Ross, as
a consequence of his victories during
the interallied games, by heartily
cheering him.
GENERAL
A federal mail airplane, carrying
500 pounds of letters from New York
to Cleveland, was forced down by a
terrific wind at Albany, and wrecked.
The aviator, Lieut. J. D. McAlden, was
uninjured.
Federal investigation of an alleged
S1OO,OO0000 food combine at Chicago
is under way by Charles It. Clyne,
United States district attorney, and
Walter B. Wooden, and Attorney
Charles F. Moore of Washington. Clyne
said there was evidence of a great
trust of producers, Gamers and dis
tributors operating in this territory
and extending it's activities to all parts
of the country.
Negotiations for loan of $3O,OOO,-
600 to S4O;OO0,0O0 to the Swiss republic
through the sale of bonds in this coun-
try have been virtually completed,
Using an iron wedge, Robert Seifert,
26, beat his mother, Sc, to death at
Alix, Ark. The woman's skull was
crushed. The cause Of the crime has
not been learned. Seifert is in jail
A Zeppelin freight and passenger
transatlantic service to start about
Oct. Is, between New York and Ham
burg, with Boston, Chicago, Berlin and
Dusseldorf as ports of call, was an
nounced in advertisements in German
language newspapers and one Ameri,
can trade paper published in New
York.
The high cost of travelling has been
solved by Mrs j. M. Franklin, a young
graduate nurse of Seattle, Wash. She
is in New York after making the trans
continental trip at a cost of $23. The
trip was made as the result of a $4,000
wager. She walked 432 miles, the rest