The Benson signal., 1919-05-24
FOREIGN

prevails in allied circles now.
A wireless dispatch from Moscow
reported that a cruiser and two de-
stroyers of unknown nationality bonn
barded the region north of Ropsha,
twenty-four miles north of Petrograd,
without result
Thousands of people headed by men
carrying red flags, surrounded Hotel
Adlon in Berlin, shouting "Throw out
the Americans!" !" and "Kill the en-
tente!' following a meeting on the
peace treaty.
The Russian soviet government, 'ac-
cording to reports received, has adj
vised the population of Petrograd to
leave without delay. All government
departments will depart from Petro-
grad by July 1.
The magnificent castle of Prince
TasillO, which contains art gems val
ued at many millions, has been confis-
Gated and closed by the Hungarian SOW
let government. 1t will be converted
into sanatorium.
The latest fad among English sOci-
ETY. women is to be photographed in
bed. The custom is being imported
from France, where fashionable
women are accustomed to receiving
visitors while in bed.
The Italians have consented to eS-
tablishment of Fiume as a free port,
as well as relinquishing their claims
to portion of the Istrian and Dal-
matian mainlands, it was learned au-
thoritatively at Paris.
Serious fighting between Serbians
and CrOatians at Agram, the Croa-
tians' capital, is reported in a Vienna
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company. Many of the combatants> are
said to have been killed.
A Vienna dispatch says that, accord
ing to Hungarian official agency re-
port, NJ Tchitcherin, the Bolshevik
foreign minister of Russia, has tele
graphed to Bella Kun, head of the SOW
let government of Hungary, that the
Ukrainian Red army has defeated the
Rumanians along the Dniester river
and has crossed the stream, the Ru-
manians taking flight.
SPORT
Negotiations are under way for the
sale of Dutch Leonard, star hurler and
holdout of the New York Yankees to
the Detroit Tigers.
The sale of John Henry, catcher
of the Boston National League team,
to the Boston American League club,
was announced in Boston.
Jimmy Wilde, worlds champion fly
weight, knocked out Young Mansfield
in the thirteenth round at the HolbOrn
stadium in London.
Tex Rickard announced at Detroit
that unless the Toledo boxing commits
sion insisted on it's referee handling
the Willard-Dempsey bout, he would
appoint one of two Michigan men as
the third man in the ring.
1t was necessary for Johnny Kill
bane to muster all of his Old-time ag-
gressiveness in the last four rounds of
Syracuse at Cleveland, to win the bout
by shade. Brady carried the fighting
to the featherweight champion and
made him put forth his best.
GENERAL
Samuel Gompers emphatically de-
MED report published that he would
Of hn Am n
Federation of Labor at that body's
convention in Atlantic City in June.
Arrested for vagrancy at Omaha,
Earl Beavers showed assets of $780,
600. He told the judge he had made it
bootlegging, but had retired from the
game. ''The police are jealous of me" !"
Beavers said.
Making 457 consecutive loops during
a flight lasting one hour and fifty
four minutes, Lieutenants Ralph J.
Johnson and Mark r. Woodward set
a new worlds record at CarlStrOm
field, Arcadia, Fla. A Lapere two
seated fighting plane was used.
Six persons, including the captains
wife and four children, and the engin-
eer, were drowned when the coal
laden barge Nanticoke, owned by the
Potter Transportation company of
New York, sank off the Isle of Shoals.
Capt. William Gray and Allen McDou-
gall, deck hand, were picked up by
the coast guard at Rye beach after
they had drifted about in a small boat
for several nours They are the only
survivors.
Protests of the Toledo Ministerial
Union and Of other organizations
against the holding of the Willard
Dempsey fight, July 4, have been vir-
tually thrown to the discard by Mayor
Schneider. The mayor has issued
statement approving the action of the
boxing commission in granting per
NIT for the fight He declared that