The Benson signal., 1919-11-15
FOREIGN

dIlS, Tie SupIclHc COuUCIl ucClutu. ~
did not, however, fix date for the
gathering.
A semi-official message reaching
Copenhagen from Prague announced
sembly adopted both the Versailles and
st. Germain treaties.
The Austrian, Johann VOas, who
shot Hugo Haase, president of the In
dependent Socialist party, has been de-
clared insane, according to the lei
tung am Mittag, and will be sent to an
asylum without trial.
A claim that the northwestern Rus
sian army of General Yudenitch, which
has been attacking Petrograd, has been
surrounded by the BOlshevists is made
in soviet government wireless dis
patch from Moscow
The resolution of the many problems
the world is now facing mAy be sum-
married. in the single word work
Premier Clemenceau declared in his
keynote speech for the government
party in the parliamentary elections
campaign, delivered in Strasburg.
After an heroic struggle against
stormy weather and heavy seas, the
crew of the American steamship Mo-
dus rescued $50 persons from the In
dia liner FaZilka, which went aground
on Nicobar Island, said dispatch
from Penang, Straits Settlement. The
Fazilka was so badly battered she
could not be salvaged
Love-making by the girls of Ireland
with members of the British govern
ment forces has been prescribed by
the Irish republican army. Any girl
keeping company with a government
soldier or policeman will be penalized
by having her hair cut off. One girl
has already suffered the penalty, los
ing her tresses for walking out with
a soldier.
A wireless message from General
Denekine states that the chief of staff
of the soviet army near Britinsk or
ganized an uprising of wOrkmen, Occu-
pied Britinsk and Overthrew the So
Wet authorities. Thus, the statement
says, the Red army at the most inn
portant point on the front lies between
General Denekine's troops and the in
surgent workmen.
GENERAL
Cary r. Miller, American vice consul
to Stockholm, shot and killed himself
in his suite in the Waldorf-AStOria in
New York
The Wisconsin Teachers Association
at the closing session of the annual
as against unliOniZing.
One soldier has been killed and an
other wounded in the coal fields near
Knoxville, according to word received
at Nashville.
The amendment to the federal con-
stitution giving women the right to
vote was ratified in the House at Au-
gusta, Maine, in concurrence with the
Senate. This is the nineteenth state
to ratify.
Doubt as to the validity of the war
time prohibition law was expressed in
New York by Federal Judge Learned
Hand. He voiced his opinion during
argument on a motion to vacate an in
junction classifying the Eastern hotel
as 'Epublic nuisance" under the Vol
stead act
A diving mOtOrman'S last act at Edge
water, N. j., was to apply the brakes
to his car lest it coast preciptOus in
cline on the Hudson palisades and Kill
thirty passengers. Thrown from their
seats by the sudden stopping of the car
the passengers found the mOtOrman,
Alexander Rabb, dead from heart dis
ease.
The world lives in fools paradise
based upon fictitious wealth, rash
promises and mad illusions, declared
Paul NJ Warburg, formerly vice gov
ernOr of the Federal Reserve Board,
in a statement issued on his return
from Europe on the steamship NieuW
Amsterdam. He has travelled in Eu-
rope the last three months studying
the financial situation abroad.
No effort will be made by the
United Mine Workers of America to
have nonuniOn miners in the Pittsburg
field join the strike until after the in
junction proceedings in Indianapolis
have been disposed of, according to
union officials.
New York packers refused to grant
wage demands of several thousand
striking employees. A resolution was
adopted setting forth that this decision
was reached in order to support the
government in it's fight on the high
cost of living The strikers demands
include a forty-fOur hour week and a
81 wage increase The employers say
that they are paying laborers $25 a
week for forty-eight hours and will not
consider the new demands.
Jack Dempsey, worlds heavyweight
champion, signed an agreement in Mo-
bile to fight Joe Beckett, the English
l. ;oh+ obo in Now Orlnan G