Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1913-10-16

his conception of the seniority rule
The Aleutian volcanoes are again
in eruption.
David H. Tolman, the "loan shark
king" was sentenced to six months
Imprisonment on Blackwells Island,
N. Y. for usury.
DR.. F.. Wood, president of the vii
lace CT West Winfield, n. Y, and n.
D. Wheeler, were killed when their
automobile was struck by milk train
near Utica, N. Y.
! Chairman Lovett Of the Union Pa
cific Railroad gave out statement
effectual.y disposing Of rumors Of
"melon cutting" over the Southern
Pacific stock sale.
Another earthquake OF ten SECONDS
duration occurred on the ISL:lIus oi
| Panama.
Mrs. Mary Davis Mcknight, OF
Galesburg, ILL.,, left her estate valued
at s435. 900 to charitable institutions.
The Nebraska Board Of Agriculture
estimates the corn crop Of that State
: at 9O,299,OO0 bushels against 164,377,-
900 last year.
Plans have been submitted for the
construction at Dayton, Ohio, Of res
ervoirs to prevent floods, at cost
Of s1O,OOO,OOO.
| The Sulzberger and Sons Company,
New York, was fined $500 each in Spe-
! cial Sessions on three charges of hav-
ing spoiled meat in its possession.
Members Of the Fortnightly Club,
! of Nutley, N. j., decided to take a
referendum on the tango and turkey
/ trot.
The Union Station, one of the land
marks OF st. Paul, Mimi, was de-
! stroyed by fire. The damage is esti-
mated at s250,000.
The annual report Of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Company showed that it earned S4,-
! 1852 less than it paid in dividends
] in the fiscal year ending June 80 last.
The Socialist Party's state execu-
tive committee has decided to violate
the injunction of Judge Humphries,
prohibiting speaking on a public
square in Seattle.
The estate of Herman Simon, mil
lionaire silk manufacturer, of Easton,
Pa, is valued at s1O,OO0,OOO. In his
will he leaves 100000 to be divided
among the head men Of the mills and
other employees.
Thomas Mott Osborne, millionaire
reformer, ended his self-imposed term
in Auburn IN. ~ prison. He con-
demned the prison system as "singu-
larly unintelligent, Ineffective and
cruel"
The suction from a passing auto
mobile drew the skirt of three.year-
old Helen Becker, Of Woodside, L. l.,
into a wheel and injured her so bad
ly that she died in st. Mary's Hos
pital, Jamaica.
A man named Spencer, who has sew
eral aliases, confessed to the murder
Of Mrs. Rexroat in Chicago and said
he murdered twelve or fourteen other
persons, always to get money to en-.
Joy himself, although he neither
drinks nor smokes.
Governor Felker, Of New Hamp-
shire, said that he had received proof
that the Duchess County Grand Jury
had voted to indict Harry X. Thaw
and then had decided to hold the case
open, as Mr.. Jerome was on the trail
of man higher up"
Colonel Roosevelt, aboard the Lam
port and Holt steamship Vandyck, in
Brooklyn, just before she carried him
off for a six months trip In South
America, emphatically asserted that
he stood by his criticism of the foreign
policy of the Taft and Wilson admin
istrations.
The Sulzer prosecution reopened its
case at Albany. Evidence was given
of a gift of $4,000 from Thomas F.
Ryan and loan Of $4,000 from E.
P. Meany. Allan Ryan testified Sui
zer requested him to ask Senator Root
to get Republican State Chairman
Barnes to influence Republican legis-
lators to vote against impeachment.
He did not do so. Mr.. Hinman opened
| the defense