Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-04-01
SHORT NEWS STORIES
FROM MANY SOURCES

TO 1889, 755 equivalent 500 pound
bales, according to the final ginning
report issued by the census bureau.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barney McGahan, sep
arated for more than so years and
each laboring under the mistaken i'm
precision that the other was dead, have
been reunited in hospital in Balti-
more.
Because Of the high prices paid for
raw furs, trapping has become more re-
munerative than gold digging in Can
ada and many miners have abandoned
the pick and shovel for traps and snow
shoes.
After George Belley of Akron,
Ohio, beat his wife with the buckle end
ola belt he was arrested and at the
order Of the judge had series of
lashes with the same end of the strap
applied to his bare back.
Angered because Mrs. E. M Fen
wick, 81 years old, widow, of Barre,
VT, would not consent to an immediate
marriage, Hoyt Gallup, 6s years old,
farmer, shot and killed her and then
committed suicide.
Three men were killed and four prob
able fatally wounded at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, when 25 Austrians failed to
understand the meaning of "stick 'em
up" an order given by three bandits
who entered the place.
Mail service in the United States,
despite all efforts that are being made,
will not be back to pre-war efficiency
for another year at least, according to
predictions by officials lin the railway
mail service in Washington.
A fine ofS25 or 25-day sentence in
Jail was imposed on the Rev. Arthur
Randles Price of Monroe. La, for hold
ing services in violation of an order of
the city board of health during an
influenza epidemic.
Robbers visited Winnsboro Saturday
night and firm lost about 81, 500
worth of merchandise. The thieves
forced an entrance into the store oc-
cupied ny the 'Propst company and
made a careful selection. Of ready to
wear goods.
A cinder, alleged to have blown from
smokestack "a years ago, lodged in
the eye of Chicago motorman, even
tnally destroying the sight Of the eye.
The man brought suit for damages.
The plaintiff died II years ago and his
babies have grown to manhood, but
still the case is before the courts.
Roy Dickerson, charged with aiding
in the robbery of bank at Girard,
Ala, made what is said TO have .boen
his lSOth escape from Jail when he
used crude key on his cell lock in the
city prison at Los Angeles, CAL,
climbed up a ventilator shaft and fled.
Just as his apparently lifeless body
was about to be embalmed in a morgue
at Weirton. w. Va, John SAX, 35years
old. mill worker, came to life. Sax
was pronounced dead by physician
after his body was picked up from the
street and carried into the police
station at Weirton. He had suffered
an attack eff convulsions.
"The Bible is now read in $50 IAN
guages and by seven-tenths of the
human race" the Rev. Frank Marston
told the Woman's Missionary fedora
ton of Cincinnati. with the recent
completion of the Mandarin translation
it becomes an open book to 5000, OOu
Chinese, many of whom have been un-
able because of the multiplicity of
Chinese dialects to read it."
John A Martens Is q travelling rep
resentative of Chicago biscuit COM
pany. He took his wife on one trip.
She heard the Pullman porter say
to him: You've picked a good one
this time" Mrs. Martens was as
tonished. She began an investigation
and uncovered among the "picks" a
manicurist. The court of domestic =, :
lations has granted her a divorce.
AL traces of the body of Michael
Goodish, ls years old, a charger in a
mine of the H. C. Frick Coke COM
psny, at Colonial, Pa, were gone in
less than a minute when he leaped into
a live coke oven. Fellow work men
saw merely puff of smoke as the
young man entered the oven. Goodish
jumped from the path of a runaway
lorry and landed in the oven.
Corp. Francis Pegahmagabow, one of
more than 1000 Canadian Indians who
volunteered for service with the Cana
dian expeditioparv forcas ;s .r.,;..a