The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1919-12-11
Domestic

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suaded into such exchanges
Domestic
The second five billion dollar con.
gress OF ordinary peace times faded
into the past when Secretary Glass,
presenting the annual estimates, pro.
posed appropriations of five billion
dollars for conducting the peace time
activities Of the government during
the fiscal year 1920.
Railroads, under federal control,
made net profit Of eleven million
dollars during the month Of October.
One thousand soldiers under the
command of Villa fell upon the eight.
eth regiment Of the federal army 81
miles north Santa Rosalia, Chihua
hua, Mexico. "a hours after the Cha.
pultepec officer, General Angeles,
had been shot down by firing squad,
and massacred all but two members
| Of the squad
Under the permanent chairmanshiI
of Secretary of Labor Wilson, another
| attempt to harmonic relations be.
tween capital and labor has begun
with the opening Of the second indus.
trial conference call by President Will
son. Herbert Hoover was elected per
manent vice chairman.
Unlike it's predecessor, the second
industrial conference began behind
closed doors. Newspaper men were
! asked to leave. Some of the dele
gates opposed this move.
Wartime restrictions on the nations
use of coal, more stringent even than
those applied during the war were or.
! dered into effect to stave off cruel
| famine. Moved by reports Of dimin
ishing coal stock and growing danger
| of distress in numerous sections, the
| government sought no compromise
with the striking mine workers whose
walk-out forced the emergency, but
| asked for national determination &c
endure privation and discomfort until
| coal mining was resumed on its terms
Persistent rumors OF the Matching of
plot by villa elements in the State
| of Chihuahua, following the execution
Of Gen. Felipe Angeles. noted rebel
leader at Chihuahua City, reached the
| border
| Thanksgiving in New Orleans, La
was decidedly "wet," with many of the
former saloons selling the strong
drinks of anti-prohibition days, follow
ing the granting of an injunction by
Rufus F.. Foster, judge OF the United
! States district court, restraining fed
eral officials from preventing the sale
| of liquors on the ground that the re
cent prohibition act of congress was
unconstitutional. because the war had
| ended.
The $1,000 American dead in France
must be left in the graves they now
occupy until the French are ready to
| exhume their own dead, which, 1t is
hoped, will be before January /, 1922
| The foreign office had promised to
consider the last request Of the Unit
ed States government for the return
| of it's fallen soldiers, but later decided
| that the allies who fell together for
the same cause should remain together
in death until circumstances permit OF
| the returning Of the bodies to the
| families for whom they sacrificed
| themselves.
| Revised estimates of the loss caused
| by the fire which wrecked three OF
| the group of buildings in the center
| Of Baltimore formerly occupied by
| Johns Houkin. university and damag-
ed about a score OF residences and
stores in the vicinity placed the
amount at approximately seven hun.
dred Thousand dollars. The loss to the
university alone may reach five hun
dred thousaTC dollars.
DR.. Aaron T.. Ballard, president and
one of the founders of the Ocean
Grove Camp Meeting association, died
at Asbury Park, N. j., after long i'll
ness. He was 98 years old.
The unprecedented increase in the
| number of major and minor crimes In
Chicago over the week end was caus.
ed by curtailnent of street lighting
due to the efforts of the municipal
lighting plant to conserve on coal. &C.
cording to the opinion of the Chicago
chief of police.
Chicago is infested with murderers.
robbers, safeblowers and automobile
thieves, and the police force is direct.
ing its attention to their apprehension.
HNedical reports indicate that the
! <xhere men are found most heal.
~Nthr ough the center Of the
AN pm north to south.