The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1920-02-05
NEWS In GENERAL

uors may be kept in stock and sold
by druggists for medicinal purposes
under certain conditions. All liquor
seized by the department prior to
last October 28 will be sold and dis
tributed to those having rights to sell
1T in accordance with the new regu-
lations. Any praticing physician may
obtain permit to prescribe intoxi-
eating liquors, which the patient may
have filled by the druggist, who in
turn must have a government permit
to sell. All prescriptions for intoxi-
eating liquors must be written on
blanks supplied by the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau except in cases of emer-
gency, when the physician may use
his regular blanks. A record of every
prescription filed must be kept and
no preson may receive more than one
pint in one period of ten days. Ply
sicians will be allowed to have folr
emergencies not more than six quarts
on hand.
The trial of U. S. Senator New
berry, of Michigan, and 1872 confed-
crates IN a number of criminal
sarges in connection with Newbcr-
rvs election is under way at Grand
Rapids.
Gorden Fawcett Handy, murderer,
bank robber and train bandit was
electrocuted at Sing Sing prison last
Friday night. Handy had committed
robberies, hold-ups and murders
from coast to coast. The crime for
which he paid the capital penalty
was the holding up and robbing of a
bank in Brooklyn in December 1918.
In this robbery two bank employees
were killed.
The epidemic of influenza contiues
throughout the United States. In Chi
cago 26,888 cases and 1,668 deaths
are reported to date. Boston has S.
07O cases. New York has a total of
to date of 10000 cases of influenza
and 6,031 Of pneumonia, with 545
deaths from the "fiu" and 1893 from
pneumonia. Richmond reports 2,351
cases and ten deaths. Newport News
has 1,200 cases and three deaths.
Roanoke has 500 cases and ten
deaths.
Control and operation of the rail-
roads has cost the government $780,
100000, according to figures made
public by the Railroad Administra-
ton.
Lieuts. E. f. Davis and G. f.
Grimes, United States aviators who,
on account of exhausting their supply
of gasoline, made forced landing at
Guerro, Mexico, last week and who
were being held by the Mexican au-
thorities in spite of protests by this
government, were released Sunday
and allowed to return to Laredo, Tex.
An unknown vessel has been
wrecked off the Georgia coast. Five
bodies and pieces of wreckage have
been washed ashore at Jckyl Island.
A life preserver bore the name "For-
tune"
The Harvard Comittee on Econo-
mic Research predicts an early re-
duction in the cost of living. Abnor-
NAL conditions resulting from the
war will soon pass restoring nor
NAL production and this will tend
toward normal prices, the committee
finds.
Capt. F. f. Kindley, American Ace
and Commander Of the Ninety
Fourth Air Squadron, was instantly
killed at Kelly Field, No. =, in Texas,
Sunday afternoon when his plane
fell fifty feet.
Seven persons lost their lives in a
tenement fire in Newark, n. j., Sun
day. The fire started on the ground
floor destroying the stairway trapping
Mrs. Johanna Petty, a widow, and
number of others were saved by
jumping into nets held by fremen.
Fifty more "undersirables" arrested
in Newark, n. j., Sunday. They were
alleged to be leaders of the Commu-
mist party and will be deportcd if
found guilty.
Joe Roland has confessed to killing
James and Charles Cannon at coun-
try dance near Eastman, Ga, Satur-
day night. Roland claims that the Can
mons, who had been drinking, attack
ed his son and that he shot them in
self defense.
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