The Benson signal., 1919-08-30
FOREIGN

Official dispatches received from
Tegucigalpa state that revolution in
Honduras has been virtually sup
| pressed.
The Danish government announces
| loan of 12O,000,O00 crowns at per
cent. This is to be used for reOrgan-
izatiOn expenses in Schleswig.
Grown Prince Charles of Rumania
has written letter to his father, King
Ferdinand, renouncing for himself and
his heirs his rights and privileges as
heir apparent to the Rumanian throne,
according to dispatch.
The strength Of the Mexican army
| men in an article recently published
| by Captain Francisco Luciano, who is
| referred to by the newspapers here as
| being in a position to speak with ac-
| curacy.
A dispatch from Casa Blanca re-
ported that the French patrol boats
had picked up the bodies of three dead
men off the African coast. The men
are presumably members of the crew
of the missing aerOplane Goliath, the
dispatch said
The Bolshevist battleship Andrea
| Pervosvan, the battle cruiser Petro-
| pavlOvsk, transport and a guardship
1 are reported to have been sunk during
an engagement with the British fleet
in the Gulf of Finland. The British
are said to have lost three motor boats
| and to have had eight officers and
three men killed
| Germany is a broken nation, both
| in body and spirit, and a long time will
elapse before the efficiency of her peo-
| pie is restored, it is declared in a re-
| port of British scientists on food con-
ditions in Germany The wartime semi
| starvation of the people is responsible
| for the slOWneSS with which recovery
will be effected, according to these
! authorities.
GENERAL
Joseph G. Wilholt, Wichita Western
| League outfielder, ended his batting
| streak in which he set a new worlds
| record by hitting safely in sixty-nine
| consecutive games.
Seven persons were killed and thir
| ty-four injured in collision between
| an express train and troop train in
| France. The express was running
from Paris to Nancy and Strasbourg.
Willis E. Davis of San Francisco,
| defeated Norman E. Brookes, Austral-
ian tennis star, 1851, 14-12, in the
| semi-final round Of the Meadow Clubs
cup mems singles at Southampton, N.
~.
The first cargo to reach New York
from Hamburg, Germany, since the en-
try of the United States into the world
war arrived on the steamship Keresan,
which brought 181 packages of glass
ware.
Lucy MurillO, II years old, of New
| York City, was arrested on a charge of
| homicide. She is accused of causing
the death of her One-day-old baby by
letting it fall six stories from the win
dow of factory.
Parliament buildings were stoned by
! Il crowd of 1000 workmen at Luxem-
berg, during a demonstration caused
by the fact that the indemnity voted
| by the Chamber of Deputies to meet
the high cost of living was deemed
| insufficient Some of the manifestants
were driven out when fired upon by
the gendarmes.
Walter Elliott, a negro, who is al
fn hoy fn6 fnIs n1'S
wife, was shot to death by mob
which later carried the body to the
scene of the crime and swung it to
tree in a country churchyard. The
mob took the negro from Sheriff
Kearney, two miles from LOuisburg,
n. c., while on his way to the Jail.
No trace had been found of the four
masked bandits who held up and rob-
bed Louisville and Nashville passen-
ger train No. Z ten miles south of Co
lumbia. Officers are continuing the
search through middle Tennessee.
Booty amounting to 100000 in cash
was reported taken from the mail
pouches, although no official estimate
could be obtained.
Charges of "extortionate profits by
Dallas retail merchants were made by
=. III. Spencer, chief of the bureau O.
investigation of the Department Of
Justice, and w. B. Burrell, assistant
United States district attorney at Dali
las
Police are combing Detroit for three
automobile bandits who in broad day
light held up William Baldwin, aged
y, collector for the Standard Oil
Company, in Spruce street, and robbed
him of a leather bag containing $4,000
cash; checks and Oil coupons which he