Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-01-29

| OF bread IN New YORK.
Defective electric wiring caused
| fire in the New York State Capitol, the
third fire in two weeks.
The New York Public Service Com
mission ordered effective February /
the new express rates.
Charles Mattawog, Siwash Indian,
was sentenced 10 from IS to 80 months
In Sing Sing for carrying revolver.
Governor Fielder appointed John w.
Wescott as attorney-general for New
Jersey.
Charles X. Hamilton, the aviator,
died lin bed" III his home in New
York.
A bill was introduced in the New
York State Assembly against oral-bet-
, ting.
Lieut.. Governor Wagner, of New
York, announced he would retire from
politics.
The 1000 employees Of the United
Railway of st. Louis were ordered
Yaccinated.
The Cleveland Telephone Company
announced a wage increase Of 10 per
cent. to its 1000 employees.
Henry Phipps denied he had set
aside $3.50, 100000 for the purchase of
100 grains Of radium.
The cotton warehouse of E. W.
Trout & Co., at Memphis, was de-
stroyed by a fire at a loss Of 100000.
Judge Sanders ruled in Cleveland
that an egg is not an egg when an
embryo chicken is inside.
Colonel Goethals intends to send
Panama Railroad steamer through the
canal in April.
The Illinois Steel plants at Joliet,
ILL.,, resumed full operations. About
5000 men are employed.
Senator Torborg, of Brooklyn, intro
duced a bill in the New York Legis-
lature making Good Friday legal
holiday.
Edwin CHM, book publisher Of New
York, left $1,OOO,OOO to the School Of
International Peace, which he
founded.
w. E. Kelly, president Of the Nation
al Association of Letter Carriers, IL
to be appointed postmaster Of Brook
lyn.
The State Department ordered tn
Navy Department to send the gun
boat Nashville to Hayti to protect
American interests.
New York State Controller Sohmer
received s2,5S4,O0O as the transfer tax
on the estate of the late Anthony N.
Brady.
Lieutenant Tailiaferro, U. S. Army
aviator, flew from San Diego to Pasa-
dena, establishing an American dis
lance record.
Live stock on farms increased s443,-
75SOO0 in value in twelve months, &C.
oording to the report Of the Orange
Judd Farmer.
The Maryland House of Delegates
adopted a resolution. commencing
President Wilson's stand taken in the
Mexican question.
Edward Beardsley, who shot G. W.
Putnam, overseer Of the poor at May
vile, N. Y, and held a posse at bay
for eight days, surrendered.
Edward Morgan, cashier Of the First
National Bank Of jamestown, N. Y,
was arrested at Cleveland, charged
with embezzling s114.0O0.
The Niagara Falls IN. " Board OF
Health ordered every theatre in the
city closed because Of prevailing small
poX.
The South Carolina Legislature IA
vors the repeal of the fifteenth amend
ment, which gives the negro the right
to vote.
A. S. Rosenthal; silk importer Of
New York, was fined $4,000 for GUS
toms frauds on an indictment found
nearly II years ago.
A subcommittee Of the House Dis
trict Committee indorsed the passage
of a bill, which would wipe out the
"red light" district of Washington.
Judge Willard in the Federal Court
a. Sioux City, Iowa, held as uncon-
stitutional the two-cent passenger law
on the ground that it would be con-
fiscatory.
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