The Benson signal., 1919-08-30
AN EP|TOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o kG 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTS, SUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN
The Methodist church bell is to be
| sold at Hoquiam, Wash, Pastor Swift
| Zer says the progressive church OF to-
day doesn't need bell, but that. news
paper advertising is better.
John Carter, a farmer, recently
| brought large number of big cab
bages to the market8h Holdenville,
Okla, the largest of the bunch weigh
ing eighteen pounds, trimmed. Sew
eral others were almost as large.
Fred Billings, 35, shot his wife in
the shoulder, shot and killed his s.
year-old son, Gage, and then blew out
his own brains, in Omaha. Mrs. Bill
ings will recover The Billings had
been divorced and the Shooting oc-
cured after Mrs. Billings had refused
Billings attempts at a reconcil alton.
After wOunding and overpowering g
two armed deputy sheriffs during a
fight in which he too was shot, 0. w.
Langley, farmer of Cortland Neb.,
staggered into a general store at that
place and shot Justice of the Peace
Chris Pfeiffer through the heart.
Langley was saved from lynching only
through pleadings of conservative citi-
zenS.
John Krause, known as the Nebras-
ka potash king, died at a hospital at
Alliance, Neb., as a result of shock
and burns sustained when he was
spattered with burning oil following an
explosion Of gasoline. Krause, with
a brother, owner a 30,OOO-acre ranch in
northwest Nebraska containing many
of the largest potash-producing lakes
in the state.
Following the arrival of seventy-five
japanese picture brides on the
steamer Tenyo Maru at San Francisco
it was announced by the immigration
authorities that over 4,4O0 of these
brides have been admitted at. Pacific
/ coast points within the past year. In
dicative of their prosperity, many of
the Japanese bridegrooms met their
picture brides with automobiles
WASHINGTON
An additional credit of $5,OOO,O0O has
been established in favor of Italy, it
has been announced at the Treasury
Department. Italy's credits now total
1882, ,675 1850 and all the allies &c.
663, IT., ,56784.
An attempt will be made in the Sen
ate to give the fair price committees
established by the attorney general
legal authority to fix reasonable"
ate agricultural committee reached this
decision in considering the amend
ments to the food control act, asked
by Attorney General Palmer to fix a
penalty for charging unjust" or "un-
reasonable prices"
Honorable discharges will be granted
to all men who served in the navy dur
ing the war with Germany with good
records and who have since been re-
leased with "ordinary" discharges, it
has been announced by the Navy De-
partment After the armistice all en-
listed men discharged before the ex-
piration Of the full four year term Of
enlistment, were given ordinary dis
charges instead of the honorable dis
charges.
people ought to be satisfied with
present food prices; there isn't any
prOfiteering in the retail meat and
grocery business, and consumers want
to pay high prices," Thomas Dunn,
st. Louis meat dealer, told the Senate
agriculture committee at the hearing
on legislation to control the packing
industry.
Repeal of the daylight saving act has
been accomplished, the Senate voting
to sustain the House in passing the
repeal measure over President Will
sons veto. The vote was 81 to 19. The
repeal of the law becomes effective
after the clocks are turned back to
normal in October. It is one of the
very few measures which have been
twice vetoed by President and have
become laws in spite of the veto.
Completion of a twentyfour cylin-
der Liberty motor which has developed
673 horsepower in the initial tests were
announced by the War Department 1t
was declared to compare favorably"
with foreign motors of the same pow
err The new motor weighs only 1.97
pounds per horsepower against 2.11 for
the Liberty twelve, and consumes 80
pounds of gas per horsepower hour
against 81 for the smaller model.
With approval of President Wilson,
Acting Secretary of Navy Roosevelt
sent to Secretary Glass for transmits
sion to Congress estimates for addi-
tional naval appropriations totaling
$186OO,OO0 to permit of expeditiously
placing and maintaining in proper