The Benson signal., 1920-02-07
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
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WESTERN

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN
The Sully, Iowa, State bank was
robbed, and the yeggs escaped with
more than 81 900 in Liberty bonds The
bandits gained entrance to the bank
by breaking down the front door. They
escaped in an automobile.
Three hundred and five wells are
turning out petroleum in Mexico at a
daily rate of 1925, ,223 barrels, accord
ing to advices received in Ell Paso by
Alberta Ruiz Sandoval, acting consul
general for Mexico.
A gust of wind hurled Edward Skar-
ing a mason, from the top of a smoke
stack 125 feet high at Milwaukee. A
rope on the inside of the stack broke
his fall He landed at the bottom with
his legs fractured in two places
A man who has been identified by
papers in his pockets as Frank
Travers of Eureka, Calf, walked in
TO the lobby of the National hotel
New York, placed a gun at his head
and fired bullet into his brain. He
died in an ambulance.
BY practically unanimous vote
Lincoln, Neb, taxpayers at a special
election authorized the school board to
grant uniform increase of '$400 a
year to teachers in the public schools.
Present salaries range from 1861, in
the grades to 81, 100 in the high school.
Seventeen of the leading wholesale
grocerS of Chicago have been indicted
by the federal grand jury on charges
of making illegal gains by profiteering
in sugar. Indictments bring UP the
total OF sugar prOfiteers caught in the
federal net to twenty-four and more
indictments are expected in few days
The Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Eastern Missouri, at it's annual con-
venton in ST. Louis, unanimously
adopted a resolution giving dea-
conesses the privilege of voting in
diocesan conventions on the same
basis as the clergy. SO far as EpiscO-
palians here know, this is the first
diocese in the United States to take
such action.
Burglars forced their entrance
through a brick wall with the aid of
picks and crOwbars, robbed the cloth
ing establishment of Charles Perizki
at Salt Lake City of twenty-seven
suits of clothes valued at approximate
ly 81, 1,OOO Perizki, in his report to the
police, said his stock had been thor
oughly gone over and only the best
garments taken.
WASHINGTON
Drastic reduction IN the number of
national banks designated as govern
ment depOSitarieS is being made by the
Treasury Department, with the result
than less than 400 of the 1881 such in
stitutions holding funds on June 80,
1919, are expected to escape the prun-
ing knife
Secretary Baker has ruled that no
changes would be made in the present
army uniforms, maily because of the
high cost of material. At recent
conference of general officers and de-
partment commanders, ! suggestions
were made for changes in uniform
regulations which would include the
adoption of the rolled collar, the Sam
Brown belt and limited use of the
old blue uniforms.
Former service men may reinstate
their war risk term insurance at any
time before July /, 1920, under a new
ruling of the bureau of war risk insur-
ance, announced by Director Cholme-
ley-JOnes.
War prosperity has doubled the de-
mand for precious stones. American
buyers of diamonds and pearls spent
$35.000,OO0 for gems with London ex-
porters in 1919, figures of the Com
merce Department in Washington
show.
The federal government, it is esti
mated, has collected Illegally $4,000,
900 in taxes in the calendar years 1918
and 1919. This money is still in the
treasury and will not be repaid to the
taxpayers until Congress orders it thru
legislation
Operation of the railroads, Pullman
lines, express companies and water
ways, unified under federal control,
has cost the nation approximately
$700000,000, according to official cal
culation, since they were taken over
two years ago Figures made public
by the railroad administration re-
vealed a net loss of $594, 100000 from
railroad operation alone in the two
year period.