The Benson signal., 1919-11-29
FOREIGN


st. Vincent, Vendee, small solitary
house on the seashore, where he hopes
to rest and work in solitude, according
to reports from Paris.
Felipe Angeles, chief lieutenant of
Francisco Villa, has been captured by
state militia commanded by Gen. Ga
bino Olivo, being taken prisoner at
Vale Olivia, near the Conchos river
in Chihuahua.
A crisis appears imminent in Aus
tria. The Vienna government, it is
reported, is unable to maintain it's
power and the republic is likely to fall
to pieces, several groups declaring for
union with Germany.
Dispatches received from Belgrade
state that the Serbian government has
authorized that country's delegation at
Paris to sign the treaty with Austria,
which Serbia did not sign at st. Ger
main on September 10th.
Plans are under way to spend o.
OO0,0 900 marks for the purchase and
equipment of a residence for future
German presidents in Berlin, some
thing on the line of the White House
in Washington or the Elysee in Paris,
but necessarily less pretentious.
The first list of Germans to be tried
by the allies for being responsible for
the war totals 80 names. according to
| reports from London. The list includes
| the former kaiser, the former crown
prince and Admiral Won TirpitZ An
English judge will preside.
Because Germans raised no Objec-
! tiOns to the erection Of memorials to
| British soldiers in German cemeteries,
| the Oswestry district council has de-
| cided to permit the building of a me-
| mortal to German soldiers buried in
| military cemetery at Oswestry, Eng
land.
The unpOpularity of militarism has
| resulted in depriving Japanese railway
officials of their glittering shoulder
straps and swords. The wearing Of
gold braid and side arms by the rail
way officials was introduced about ten
| years ago. The railway people now
| look more democratic
| A message from General Denikine
says his volunteer army has broken
| the Red front between Orel and
| TambOy. A Bolshevik army, consist
ing of $4,000 men, was beaten. 1t is
stated that 10000 men, belonging to
General Petlura's army, have deserted
and that his forces are in disorder.
The Kosciusko squadron composed
of American aviators serving in the
Polish army has begun active opera
tions against the BOlsheviki Patrols
over the Bolshevik~ lines have been
made by Maj Cedric Fauntleroy,
| formerly of the Lafayette eScadrille
and American air service, who COM
mands the squadron, and by Captain
| Cooper of Jacksonville, Fla, Captain
Corsi of Brooklyn, and Lieutenant
| Graves of Boston.
GENERAL
A mail pouch containing $97 900
worth of Liberty bonds was stolen
from the union station at Dunkirk, N.
Y.
| A special federal grand jury at Gov
ington, KY, returned sixty-three in
| dictments charging $50 persons with
violations of the wartime prohibition
act.
| The famous Holstein Friesian bull,
King Segis Pontiac Alcartra, valued at
$4,000, died at Middletown, n. Y. 1t
was owned by John H. Ardmann Of
Fairmont farm.
Lieutenant Commander LathrOp, at
| tached to the United States naval mis-
sion to Brazil, was attacked with heart
failure while bathing in Rio bay at
Rio JaneirO, and was drowned
Twenty-Five persons, most Of them
women and girls, lost their lives in 4
fire which quickly destroyed frame
building in which 300 of the village
folk were making merry at dance at
| Vile Platte, La.
AS a result of eating butter believed
to have been poisoned by weeds eaten
by the COWS from whose milk the but
ter was churned, Mrs. Sarah Haver-
stock is dead at West Salem, Ohio,
and four others are seriously i'll.
More than 100000 in government
bonds, mostly Liberty issues, was TAX
en- by robbers who cut their way into
the vault of the Farmers Savings Bank
at Rockford, Ohio, and looted eighteen
| of sixty deposit boxes of the vault.
With more than seventy days left the
| Ohio automobile department has brok-
en- all records Of the state and, in fact,
| any state in the Union in the number
of licenses issued for 1919 Up to Oct.
20 the department issued licenses for
| 5O3, 500 passenger cars and commercial
vehicles operated by gasoline.
A crowd took Wallace Baynes,
| negro, from his home near Madison,
| N. G. and shot him to death, after he
had killed Kay Ozburn, railroad sta
ton agent, who had assisted an officer