The Benson signal., 1919-06-28
FOREIGN


a consequence of an increase in raids
upon food depots.
A divorce craze is sweeping England.
Three courts granted DEGREES in one
day at the rate of fifteen an hour. The
total number on the calendar is 8O8,
and in 452 of these husbands are the
petitioners.
Leon Ambrami, under secretary, in
the ministry of war, announced that
more than 10000 French prisoners in
many were found in Germany. The
number of French soldiers missing in
action has reached 314,OOO, the under
secretary said.
Five million dollars are to be set
aside by the British government to
conduct a search for petroleum in
Great Britain, the financial secretary
| to the treasury told the House of Com
mons. He also stated that $1,OOO,OO0
would be devoted to aid flax produc-
tion, principally in Ireland.
A strike Of priests, which is without
precedent has just occurred at Loret-
to, a celebrated resort of pilgrims.
The priests asked for an ameliOration
| of their financial condition, owing to
the high cost of living, and when their
claims were not granted, they stopped
| celebrating masses and performing
other religious duties.
Capt. John Alcock, pilot of the Wick
ers-Vimy airplane which made the first
nonstop flight from North America to
| Ireland, announced that he and Lieut..
A. w. Brown, the navigator, intended
to divide equally $4,000 of the 10000
prize given them by the Daily Mail.
The other $4,000 will go to the work
men who built the machine.
Instead of bread lines in Petrograd
there are crowds awaiting their turb
for coffins and death certificates.
Visitors to hospitals refuse to recog-
nize their dead relatives in order to
save funeral expenses, and the old and
young are got rid of or told to die as
soon as possible so that crust of
bread may be saved for the survivors.
SPORT
Joie Ray, crack middle distance run
ner of the Illinois Athletic Club, won
the first annual Chicago Daily News
marathon of six and three-fourths
miles on the boulebard in the time of
| 35 AZ :O2.
Mrs. George w. Wightman, Long
wood Cricket Club, won the women's
national lawn tennis championship
when she defeated Miss Marion Zind-
erstein, her clubmate at the Philadel-
phia Cricket Club, 81, go.
The Illinois House of Representa-
tives passed the ten-round commission
boxing bill. The ~etory of the fight
fans came after years of defeat from
the hands of legislatures The measure
provides for a commission of three to
be named by the governor, limits the
weight of gloves to six ounces and pro-
hibits decisions
| w. S. Hoon Of Jewell Junction, Iowa,
captured the cup for high score in the
state trap shoot which closed at Mason
|
in three days. A. r. Chalk, Portal,
N. D., made score of 592, but, as a
nonresident, was barred from claiming
the cup. B. r. Ebert, Des Moines, win
ner Of individual honors, was the run
ner-up with 500.
GENERAL
In the ruins of the library of Lou
vain, destroyed by the Germans in
conferred on President Wilson by the
University of Louvain.
The steamer Vauban left New York
for South American points with more
than $15,0O0,OOO in gold aboard. This
is said to be the largest single cargo
of gold that ever left New York.
Jewels valued at more than $4,000
were taken from the residence of Mrs.
Nellie Magnus Loeb, daughter of the
late Adolphus Busch, during a party
in Chicago. The robbers worked with
in sight of the party on the front
veranda.
Samuel Gompers was reelected pres
ident of the American Federation of
Labor, in convention at Atlantic City,
and his salary raised from $500 to
$4,000. Mr.. Gompers in a speech said
the selection was American labor's an
swer to it's traducers and opponents.
Citing the fact that conditions re-
vealed by the war called for unprece-
dented exertions to check the progress
of tuberculosis, the National Tubercu-
losis Association upon adjourning it's
annual meeting at Atlantic City, adopt
ed resolutions providing for a Red
Cross Christmas seal campaign in De-
cember by means Of which a sum in
excess Of $6,OOO,OOO will be raised.
Full confessions are expected by the
police from Antony Kunski, a build
ing contractor, and Miss Frances
Mann, arrested in connection with
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