Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-08
Domestic

Six persons were killed in a head-on
collision between the eastbound Port.
land-Spokane limited and westbound
Oregon limited trains CT
the Washington Railroad ard
Navigation Company, two miles east
of Cello. Oregon.
A strike Of all union packing house
employees in all plants where wage
reductions were put into effect recent
ly was ordered for December by the
executive committee Of the Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butcher Work
men of North America. The strike
will involve about forty-five thousand
workers in fifteen Western cities.
Fay Poston, IS, was killed and his
brother, Alger Poston, probably fatal
ly injured near Johnsonsville, S. c.,
when they and other members of a
hunting party are said to have been
fired upon when trespassing upon a
farmers land. Other members of the
party were also said to have been
wounded.
The poisoning of Mrs. Irene Morgan,
leading witness for the defense, and
the beginning Of the closing arguments
Of both sides, were outstanding devel
opments in the closing hours of the
trial of Roscoe C. Arbuckle in San
Francisco.
Fifty million dollars is trimmed
from railroad payrolls by he decision
of the United States railroad labor
board, made public, announcing the
new working rules for six shop craft
federations. While the decision is in
the main pronounced victory in the
carriers, as 1t greatly modifies the ma.
jority Of the working rules granted the
shop crafts under federal control, not
all of the requests of the carriers are
granted and some Of the older rules
sanctioned by long experience are re.
tanned practically unchanged The new
rules go into effect Immediately.
Lieut.. Col. Charles Whittlesey eco
to-Helr Whittlesey), hero of the fam.
Gus lost battalion" disappeared from
the steamship Toloa on which he sail.
ed November 26 from New York for
Havana, according to wireless mes.
sages received in New York.
The Gulf, Florida and Alabama rail.
road, 134 miles long, has been sold
under a federal court decree for $780,.
900.
Robert H. Moore, noted New York
City criminal lawyer, died recently as
the result Of having been struck by
an automobile.
Nearly three quart bottles of Cana.
dian 9 per cent beer were confiscated
by the Toledo, Ohio, police and pro-
hibition officials after the cargo had
been hauled into the Ironville slip in
Maumee Bay.
Red tape of Ellis Island was swift.
ly unwound one day recently to save
the life Of fourteen-year-old Manuel Sa-
lones, who arrived from Panama on
the steamship Colon to undergo a deli.
cate brain operation at the hands of
DR.. Charge H. Frazier of Philadelphia.
A dispatch from Charlotte, N. c.,
says the historic Chambers building at
Davidson college, used as q dormitory
in which 130 students Of the institu.
tion we're living, was burned on the
morning of November %. The stu.
dents succeeded in saving the greater
part Of their personal effects.
Announcement is made after a con.
ference at Memphis, Tenn, between
Asa ]. Rountree Of Birmingham, Ala,
director general of the Bankhead
Highway association, and representa-
tives of the state branches Of the or.
ganization in Tennessee. Mississippi
and Arkansas, that the next annual
meeting of the association will be held
in Phoenix, Ariz., April 24-29, 1922.
Bessie Lee Sisk is being held in
Memphis, Tenn, by the police pending
investigation into the death Of Herbert
Bingham, musician, who died from gun.
shot wounds recently.
A campaign to have the New Eng
land hospital for crippled children Of
the Shriners, located in Springfield,
Mass, was started recently as result
of a conference between Executive
Secretary B. F. A. Hapgood, of the
chamber of commerce, and Potentate
Walter H. Damon. of Melba temple.
Ten high school students were killed
recently south of Red Bluff, Cal, at
the Proberta crossing when Southern
Pacific train No. 15, southbound,
struck the high school automobile in
which they were riding. Four chill
rem and the driver were injured.
Sylvester Rosenthal and Samuel
Moskowitz, owners and contractors Of
the American theater in Brooklyn,
which collapsed recently burying near
ly fifty workmen, were ordered held
without bail when they were arraign-
ed before Magistrate Lioto on charges
Of mansualghter.
The conference arranged by Cover
nor Parker between operators and
labor leaders which sought to termi
nate the strike Of 1900 farbor EN-.
plOyaes at New Orleans. La. adjourn
ed recently without finding I basis for
settlement