Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-06-10
SHORT NEWS STORIES
FROM MANY SOURCES


predicts
The entire stock. valued at $4,000.
was stolen by robbers who entered a
store at Kiefer. OKLA. and took ev-
erything that was movable. The rob-
bers blew the safe and took the
money and tewelry it contained.
Miss Esther Winslow. 30 years old.
teacher OF La Crosse. Wis. la dead
after an attack of sleeping sickness
which lasted two months. Only
twice during the two months did she
regain consciousness
A piece of flying glass from IN
automobile windshield struck John
w. Thurman. two-year-old son of T.
". Thurman, of Birmingham, Ala, in
the neck. severing the juh ular vein
and causing instant death.
Jack Mckinney and his two sons
= were killed at their home near ocala.
Ky. as the result of feud over the
killing of a dog belonging TO Scott
Fansford, who, with his father. John
Hrusford. deputy sheriff. are
charged with the triple murder.
Probably the first instance on rec
ord OF any one stealing t"mhston"
is reported by w. Il. Jones. farm
er living near Dothan. Ala. He says
some one entered the Smith grave
yard recently and removed grant"
tombstone from n grave there.
A conference between United
States army officers and representa-
tives OF the Zeppelin airship firm OF
Germany is to he held i'm Washing
ton, and America may acquire Heppc-
lin patents or purchase one or two
of the air cruisers as models for flu
turc construction.
Miss Sallie Robertson. 1S years old.
shot and killed Louis Norman ut
Montgomery. Ala, while he was
painting the Robertson home. The
gnl used douhle-harreled shotgun
loaded with slugs. The killing re-
suited from an attack Norman is al
feged to have made on the girl sew
eral months ago.
Two negroes boys were recently
shipped by express hy their mother
from Topeka, Kan, to Utah. tn"
rG!Iroad company suspended the rule
which requires Grating Of all animals
sent by express. The boys SAW 10 it
that the rule. which provides that
animals he fed nj junction points.
was not overlooked.
Approximately $4,000 articles he
longing to former members of the
american eXpeditionary forces are
held by the lost baggage depart
mcnt OF the army transportation
service located at Hobokcn. y. j.. and
Governors Island, n. Y. The ar
ticles range from trunks to bedding
rolls. clothing rolls and small pack
ages.
Reports of the state hoard Of
health show that there was no race
suicide in North Carolina so far this
year. During the first three months
OF 1920. 1.276 more children were
born than during the same period
in 1919. Births during the first
three months this year number 49,
3O5. while deaths during the same
period numbered only 9.552.
The United States needs 3.34O.0
additional houses. according to Mel
son Cunliffe. manager of the st. Lou
is Housing association. which is
building houses at cost for work
men. Although there Is an average
OF 100000 marriages in this coun-
tIY annually. there were only 20
900 houses built in 1918. and 10000
in 1919. Cunliffe asserts.
With Bert Donaldson, an cX-con-
Wet, his feet chained. CARRIED in pris-
on stripes. and kneeling on the floor
OF the pulpit beside low wooden
bench to which he was handCuffed.
the Rev. John w. Ham. an Atlanta
minister. illustrated the manner in
which prisoners at the county camp
we're punished. The preacher did
not apply the lash. but held II up
for the edificaticn of his congrcga
ton
president Wilson's plea for an
American mandate over Armenia
was rejected in the senate by vote
oi more than two TO one. Thirteen
Democrats cast their votes with the
united Republican membership. and
the resolution respectfully deciin-
ing" to grant congressional authority
for the mandate was adopted, 81 TO
%, in the form drafted by the Re-
publican leaders,
In the 90 years that the movement
Of farmers of the United states into
Western Canada has been going on,
Of M In nf NnhrnS-
ka and Western Iowa have crossed
the border, taking with them $50
100000. The movement dwindled to