Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-10-14
SHORT NEWS STORIES
FROM MANY SOURCES

1sc saiue OF cotton- GINS, ware
houses and congresses destroyed by
fires OF mysterious origin In Texas
now totals q million and n quarter
dollars. officials yesterday estimated.
Five gins had been destroyed or dam
aged since Monday.
a report showing thnt more than
half the million dollars sought for the
equipment and endowment OF four
danominational schools i'm South
Carolina by the South Carolina synod
of the Southern Presbyterian church
has been pledged will be rendered
TO the synod. now In session ut Ben
nettsville. Ii was announced Tuesday
night. 1t is planned to obtain the re-
mainder of the proposed fund by the
last Of December.
The South is facing a loss OF half
billion dollars on its cotton crop, il
present prices prevail, according TO
j. j. Brown, commissioner OF agri-
culture of Georgia, who is in Wash
ington attending a general conference
of farmers. The price OF cotton is
below the cost of production and aid
Is sought that the farmers need not
make this sacrifice The conference
yesterday adopted resolution, de-
manding the lowering OF the redis-
count rate and scoring Secretary
Houston and other government off,
cials for the announced prico decline.
Causing banks to- contract their lonas.
Twelve men, doomed to the gall
lows. beginning yesterday, were to pay
the penalty for Staying their fellow
men. in Chicago. Convicted of MUIR
der the men were to be executed in
two patches, according to the plans
OF the jailer In Chicago. The first
batch OF six men were scheduled to
die on the gallows in the Cook county
jail yesterday. The other six were to
be executed today. Never in the his
tory OF Chicago has there been SO
many men hung at one time. All the
ron, with the exception of one, were
white. The alleged victims of the
condemned mon were men, with n
single exceptions.
II 1 were making the laws OF this
csuntry, I would make 1t a cause of
divorce II the wife didn't read the
nowspa pers." declared Judge Horace
Stern of Philadelphia yesterday in
an address In Atlantic City on "Suf-
frage and the Woman" before the
Council of Jewish Women, whuv are
holding their first gathering of the
ynnr In that city. ITS such won
derful thing" continued Judge Stern.
TO have the news served up to you
every day. news gathered from all
over the warld. and 1t would seem
te me criminal indifference to neg
lcct Knowing the serious things go
Ing on In the werld'
The Republican victory of 1918 was
won "by false pretense" and when
10 ooo,o 600 men We're away from home
IN the army or navy or in war work,
secretary Daniels declared I'm n cam
spa1sn speech in Dunn. N. c., yester-
Gay. The house was won by the
home vote and the senate was won by
purchase" he declared. adding: "The
soldiers and sailors will vote as they
-shnt ana not may OF them can be
persuaded to vote for any men favoring
bringing dishonor on America hy n
sonnrate peace with Germany. They
Know they went to war to end war.
They know the way TO end war is to
oSin the League of Nations"
evidence of practically indiscrim-
1naAc killing of Haitian natives by
United States marines was brought
10 the attention of Col. John H Rus
sell. cohsmahding the martns 1orces
In Hataf. in confidential letta
written by Maj. Gen. George Barnett,
'commandant of tho corps, in October,
1918. calling Tor a thorough investi-
gation OF conditions, Gen. Barnets
declared In his letter, which was made
public in Washington yesterday in a
report on operations I'm Haiti, while
NE was commandant OF the corps, that
'hes was shocked beyond expression"
10 hear OF such conditions In Haiti.
and Ito know that 1t was mt all pos
,sible tho. duty could be Sd badly
performed by marines OF any Glass;
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