Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-04-08
SHORT NEWS STORIES
FROM MANY SOURCES

residents, according to census figures.
A French inventor has sold to the
French government the patent on a
new long-range gun which has range
of from 100 to 120 miles.
A neighbor who objected to his
singing shot and probably fatally
wounded Angelo Lubatti of Russell
ton, Pa.
The strenuous exercise of woodsaw
ing had been abandoned by former
Kaiser Wilhelm for walking since the
Kapp coup failed, according to reports
from his home in Holland.
Justice Kapper, in the Brooklyn
supreme court, dismissed divorce suit
brought by Mrs. Rose Herowitz against
her husband, Abraham, because cheat
ing up ones mother-in-law is no ground
for separation"
A soft elm tree, with family of
raccoons in its branches, brought Will
liam Elson, a Canadian farmer, $16S. ID,
he having sold the lumber for $9S.
and the raccoon skins for $40.
Bouncing from the clothes line of one
floor to the floor beneath. William J.
Reilly, New York city fireman, fell
from the top of six-story tenement
house and was only bruised.
Police arrested Nora Murphy, % years
old; and Grace Hatcher, 10, when they
found the young women enjoying their
cigarettes on New York city street.
They were fined $5 each in police court.
Realizing the difficulty of finding a
home in which to live, 70 guests in a
residential hotel near London, England,
purchased the building when they were
given two weeks notice to vacate be-
cause the hotel was to be sold.
The actual increase in. the cost of
bituminous coal, under the increased
wages granted the miners, should not
be greater than 40 cents ton, accord
ing to Henry M. Robinson. representa-
tive of the public on the coal commits
sion.
Three girls and four boys were born
at Montezuma. Mex, to the wife of
Jesus Lopez, private in the Mexican
army. The new arrivals weigh about
two pounds apiece, each perfectly de-
veloped in every respect.
One-half of the "Big Four" in rail-
roading has decided to affiliate with the
American Federation of Labor. The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and the Brotherhood of Railway Con-
ductors have decided to bury the
hatchet after years of fighting and join
forces with the Gompers' organization,
the American Federation of Labor.
Fifty-four years after leaving Clarks-
burg, w. Va, L. w. Grimsley, 70 years
old, returned with comfortable for
tune and found his wife waiting for him.
Grimsley left Clarksburg in 1866 and
went to Fort Smith, Ark, where he en-
gagged in stock raising and the mercan-
tile business. His wife did not know
where he had gone and had given him
up as dead.
The shortage of farm labor will be
relieved in part in Tennessee by the
parole of prisoners from the penal
Institutions. Governor Roberts has an.
nounced that so many appeals have
reached him for assistance that he had
decided to parole to farmers every in.
mate of the State prisons who could
comply with the parole requirements.
A sentence of five years at hard la
bor in Governors Island Jail has been
imposed on Grover Cleveland Bergdoll,
wealthy Philadelphia, draft Stacker, re.
Gently court-martialed. Bergdoll's
rights of citizenship are also forfeited
as result of his conviction. The
sentence, in addition to the prison
term, provides for dishonorable dis.
charge from the army and the forfeiture
of all pay and allowances.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hitchcock of Ogema,
Wis, probably have the only incorpo.
rated family in America. Having nc
children of their own, the couple as.
sumed the care of Is, ranging in age
from 6 to 2l. They signed contrac,
guaranteeing proper care and education
of the youngsters and giving each one
some stock in the incorporation. The
farm will be operated with the view OF
giving each stockholder dividend each
year.
Charging that the American people
are witnessing the most extravagan,
political campaign in history. Unitet
States Senator Borah of Idaho has in