The Benson signal., 1919-04-05
FOREIGN

IcA VI WdI, is TepOileu W nave OCCh
appointed governor of Alsace-Lor-
| raine.
Very valuable jewels and heirlooms
| OF the Portuguese royalty were stolen
by burglar from the Richmond home
| of former Queen Amelia Of Portugal.
Former Emperor William and for
| mer Grown Prince Frederick William
| will be among those who will be tried
| by the high court which the German
| national assembly will create, accord
ing to reports.
Commander Frederick J. Horne, the
| American naval attache at Toxic, has
| been decorated with the Order of the
Sacred Treasure by the emperor of
Japan for 'his splendid service as
| naval attache."
! 1t was officially announced in Lon
| don that the army council had decided
| that Queen Mary's auxiliary corps of
| women, which did such splendid work
| during the war, should be maintained
as part of the after-the-war army or
| ganization.
| The government has issued a decree
nationalizing the port service at Bue-
nos Aires of cOastwise vessels in an eff
| fort to solve the port strike situation
as it affects coastNise trade 1t is said
| that the February wages of the port
workmen will be paid by the govern
ment
"Get out and stay out y shouted
crowd of Austrians as the train carry
ing Former Emperor Charles of Aus
| tria, passed Feldkirch station on it's
| way into Switzerland Former Em-
perOr Charles and his family will re-
| side at the chateau Of Wartegg at
| Staad, near Rorschach, on Lake Con-
stance, which is owned by the Duke
| Of Parma.
Eighty cars of food for Russian
prisoners in German camps have ar
rived at Coblenz The distribution of
| the food to. different camps will be
| supervised by American experts. Two
| barges of flour have arrived from Rot
! terdam, this being the first shipment
of supplies for the Third army to come
by the way of the Rhine. Consign-
ments of clothing and other supplies
are en- route.
SPORT
Ted Lewis, former welterweight
champion of the world, has been adj
mitted to st. Vincent's hospital, where
he will be under close observation of
physicians to determine just what is
the matter with him
Tom Cowler of England was
knocked out by Billy NIiske Of st.
Paul, Mimi, in the fourth round of a
scheduled tss1lve-round bout at Balti-
more COwler had been floored by
Miske twice previously with rights to-
the jaw, once in the third round and
again early in the fourth. A left to
the stomach finished him.
| Benny Leonard, world lightweight
champion boxer, was an easy victor
over Harvey Thorpe, contender, in a
! ten-rOund bout at Joplin, Mo. The
New York whirlwind took eight rounds
Outclassing the Kansas City champion
| throughout Thorpe fought gamely, Sc
| curing shade in the fourth and sew
/ enth.
GENERAL
A carload Of frozen lamb and mat
ton from New Zealand, via Vancouver,
has been placed on sale in New York
in wholesale lots at several cents less
than the price of the American pro-
ducts.
At the close of a three days confer
ence at Chicago with Levy Mayer,
chief counsel for the diStillers, COM
mittee Of seventy-five distillers repre-
senting the industry in every part of
the country, announced legal action
will be taken in courts of the country
Immediately looking to multiplying or at
| least delaying the enforcement, Of the
nationwide wartime prohibition act
which otherwise would become effec-
tive July 1.
New indications as to intelligent life
on the planet Mars are announced by
Prof William Henry Pickering, now
Indies, and brother of the late Edward
| Pickering Of Harvard
| Two masked bandits held up st.
Louis & San Francisco passenger train
| No. 801 about two miles west of Bridge
| Junction, Ark, and escaped with two
| packages containing about $4,000 in
| currency, taken from the express car.
| When the engineer warned the robbers
| he was due to- pass st. Louis Il San
Francisco train No. 106 at the junction
according to his story they told him
| they had sent man ahead to flag that
| train to prevent a wreck.
The United States Steel Corporation,
| from whoses hops, laboratories and Of
fices 34,407 men went into the nations
military service, expended more than
$500, 100000 on enlargement and i'm