The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-08-09
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD over
Happenings Of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE new. OF The SOUTH
land viii Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs.

After a quarrel over the custody Of
four-ycar.old child John L. De-
Saullcs, former United States minis
ter to Uruguay was shot and killed
at his home at Roslyn l.. l., by his
divorced wife, who was Miss Blanqut-
ia Erra2uriz Of Santiago, Chile.
Chairman Kitchin. congressman
from North Carolina, told the ways
and means committee that 'intolcrablc
inequalities" in favor of the more pros
porous have been written into the war
tax bill by the senate finance com.
mittce. He declared the poor are al
ready taxed to the limit, and that the
rich must be forced to pay the fur
thcr burdens Of the war.
Fighting between draft rioters and
officers is reported to be going on
twenty-five miles north Of Ada, Okla
hona
Governor Williams Of Oklahoma
has received information at The Okla
homa City, the capital city that bands
OF negroes tenant farmers and Indians
have banded themselves together to
defeat the sclcctivc service law in Ok.
lahoma, and have spread reign OF
terror In the central counties of the
state.
The government is undecided what
course to pursue in the Oklahoma re-
sistance to the operation of the con.
scription law, but it seems possible
tnat civilian companies, familiar with
the country, which is rugged and chok.
cd with undcrbrush, will be organized
and sent to settle the disturbance.
Butte, Mont, telegram says that
Frank Little, a member OF the exec
utive board Of the l. W. W. who refer
red to United States troops as "Un-
Gle Sans scabS In uniform" was hang
ed to a trcstlc in the outskirts Of that
city and so far it is not known who
the murdercrs are. Little was an out |
spoken labor leader
America, great reservoir of fresh
Sir"ngth--mcn, money and materials |
will turn the war tide, is the graft. |
fying news flashed from the allied
capitals to the big ccnters in the Unit.
ed States.
Federal Judge f. A. Youmans, in a
decision at Fort Smith, Ark, held
that the present standard form OF
contract used on tho New York and
New Orleans cotton exchanges does
not comply with the provisions Of the
United States cotton futures act and
therefor, is Illegal
An ingenious American must again
DO given credit for another reyolu.
uonary invention, this time one which
is calculated to upset the whole the.
ory OF artillery battles The invention
must be kept secret for obvious mill.
tary reasons.
II. H. Motion, principal Of Tuskegee
institute, told two thousand negro en-
ployees of the Newport News (Va)
Shipbuilding and Dry Docks company
that they have the opportunity which
VIII make them soldiers as we'll as
those on ships at sea or those in the
trenches in Europe. He said that the
negro Is loyal; in fact, that's his his
foric nature, we'll proven by his loyal
ty to the southern people in the Civi
war.
The seventeen thousand men at the
officers training camps who will no
receive commissions or be selected
for further training at the second sc
ries of camps are to be offered an
pointments as non-commissioned Off
GERS In the national army. with tn,
chance of promotion later to commits
stoned officers.