Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-06-24
SHORT NEWS STORIES
FROM MANY SOURCES

dance he had attended, Capps lay
down and fell asleep.
Fred Seckman, an oil driller, OF
Shirley, w. Va. after killing his
wife and four children, ended his
own life by slashing his throat with
the razor he had used on his victims.
and jumping into a rain barrel.
Tumbling into an open elevator
shaft in a hotel at Baltimore. Md.
Miss Nyma Searbert, a dancer. OF
Hinton, w. Va, skinned her knee
so severely that. she said. it inter-
fered with her dancing. She has
therefore launched suit for $4,000
against the proprietors.
presidential nominee. when directed
by newspaper men at his home In
Boston, made a whimsical complaint
OF statement published in Bos.
ton paper that he paid $35 n month
rent for his half house in North
ampton, whereas he actually paws
S32. The governor said that II the
story the rent might be raised to cor
respond.
Eight business buildings in the
town OF Inglewood. 10 miles south
west Of Los Angeles, Cal. were part
iy destroyed and scores OF dwelling
houses damaged by an earthquake
shock Sunday night at 6:47 O'Clock
The earthquake covered distric;
practically co-extensive with Los
angeles. with Inglewood apparently
the center OF the disturbance. Nu
merous buildings in Los Angeles Were
slightly damaged.
Sheriff Fernandez of Bangor. Me-.
who knows all about the woods and
the wild animals inhabiting them.
has decided to train a bear cub to do
some sieuthing after the demon rum.
1t is well known fact that bears
have great fondness for molasses,
and can smell the sticky sweet n mile
away. Now the makers OF homo
booze all use molasses. and the idea
or the sheriff Is that the bear will
he able to smell out a still that
dozen human deputies might miss.
Buried I'm the ruins of farm
house. which burned down while the
owner. Hyman Kupferschmidt of
Ridgewood. n. J., was serving a six
month sentence in Jail, was n small
safe containing $1O.5O0 in United
States money and $4,000 ~ Russian
rubles. Kupferschmidt said nothing
OF the money when he learned of the
house burning down hut when he
was released from prison a few days
ago. almost six months after the fire,
he hurried to the ruins and dug out
his fortune.
Farms and ranches in Texas are
oPerrun with rats and mice, the
rodents destroying hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of grain. ac-
cording to reports from that State.
Field rats began appearing in my
riads more than a year ago and have
been constantly increasing in num-
bers ever since. The rats and mice
have also invaded the homes and
premises of townspeople. The burn
ing Of 20 barns during April was
traced to rates or mice gnawing
matches carelessly left in the build
ings
Eight years ago John Bippus 25
years Cd of Chester. Pa, ate his
last solid meal. Since then he has
been living on soft and liquid foods
meals without moving his jaws. When
IL years old. Bippus, an iron worker
with an iron nerve, was shot through
the face. The bullet caused him to
lose the use of his jaws as Il splin-
tered the hinge and ripped away GER
tain ligaments and sinews The
mans jaws closed to within n small
fraction of an inch. and surgeons
have failed to place them in motion.
Strikes In the United States DUR
ing the first five months of 1920
caused a known loss in wages and
output OF $104.44S,370. while strikes
still In progress add $53.l6O, 900.
making a total minimum loss of
$157.603.s70. In reality the losses
have greatly exceeded this sum, the
losses or men and industries affected
by strikes rolling up total several
times larger than the known mini
mhim loss. The number OF men
directly involved in strikes between
January 1 and June l was 273,643.
They lost total of 6.516.764 work
ing days, the equivalent of 20,S2o
working years. The wages they lost
amounted to s2s.743.s2o and the
output to s7l.s5s.550.