Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-12-22
Domestic

Domestic
| Negotiations are under way for the
sale by southern pine interests to the
French government of approximately
24O, 100000 feet of pine lumber, valued
at between s7,000,000 and $S.000,0O0,
according to an announcement at a
meeting at Memphis, Tenn, Of south
ern yellow pine producers.
Twelve years ago, when Harold Fen"
ner was nine years old his mother was
killed by blow on the head. Nothing
was done about 1t at the time; the case
not even reported to the police, being
generally accepted as an accident. Har-
old Fenner recently went to court at
Jersey, City, N. j., and swore out
manslaughter complaint against his
step-father, Richard Townes, Sc, alleg-
Ing he struck the blow which caused
death.
Equipped with "dust" shooting pis-
tolls to bring down high-flying insects
that cannot be netted, Jesse H. VIII
hanson and John w. Strohm, a retired
army captain, will sail from New York
on the steamship Polycarp for the jung
les of Brazil in behalf Of science. They
plan to penetrate beyond the River Of
| Doubt.
Coster shops of the Southern railway
were closed at Knoxville, Tenn, In
their entirety and operations, except in
the roundhouse, are suspended until
January 8. Closing the shops means
that between 1000 and 1,200 men will
be out of employment for period Of
about fifteen working days.
Operating coal mines at night as
well as throughout the day, radical
departure from the established Gus
tom, has been decided by the LaFol-
lette Coal G. Iron company, and its en-
ployees, at LaFollette, Tenn. This
Is not only intended to give miners
more work, but to reduce the cost Of
production, according to statement
issued by L. C. Crewe, president.
The body of Tom Slaughter, slain
desperate, buried in Little Rock,
Ark, cemetery in the presence Of
thousands Of curious spectators re-
Gently, may be disinterred. Governor
T. C. McCrae announced receipt of
long distance telephone message from
G. D. O'Brien, Of Dallas, Texas, pro-
testing against the funeral service,
and denouncing woman known at
Little Rock as Mrs. Myrtle Slaughter,
supposed to be the bandits widow, Of
Ell Dorado, Arkansas.
Murder was given as the cause Of
the death of Charles Nelson, 55, form
erly OF Columbus, Ca, at Mobile, Ala,
recently by the coroner following an
investigation after the dead body was
found at the bottom Of railroad en-
bankment. Nelson was last seen alive
at his home, when he left in an auto
mobile in company with man that
the police have been unable to locate.
An earthquake that rocked buildings
and which was accompanied by a roar
ing noise, was felt at lockwood, Tenn,
and reports that the tremors were Sc
we're at Spring City.
Tommy O'Connor, two-gun man, sen.
fenced to be hanged for murder, and
two other notorious Chicago criminals,
escaped from jail, fighting their way
past half dozen guards, most Of
whom were beaten into unconscious.
ness by the desperadoes in their dash
for liberty, were later apprehended.
Jack Howard, the convict who shot
and killed Tom Slaughter, leader in
the spectacular prison Jail delivery
at Little Rock, Ark, recently, has been
arrested on charge of first degree
murder.
Acreage and diversification will be
the theme Of the second annual cotton
conference to be held in Memphis.
Tenn, during the week ending Decem
Der II.
Adoption by the senate recently of
the conference report on the first de-
ficiency bill sent the measure to the
president, the house having adopted
the report earlier in the day. The bill.
as agreed to by the conferees and
house carried approximately $103,000,.
900, of which $66,OOO,OOO is for the vet.
erans' bureau.
The woman sheriff of Allamakee
county, Iowa, admits that there is no
clue to the murderer Of Miss Edda
Magneson, school teacher Of Waukon.
She has sent bloodhounds to the scene
of the murder.
One man was killed and ten others
injured when two suburban trains Of
the Illinois Central railroad crashed
at the Thirtieth street station, Chica-
60, during the rush hour recently.
Five are reported seriously injured.
OF the seriously injured, it is said two
may die.
Mrs. Lillian Raizen, who recently
confessed to the Staying of DR.. Abra.
ham Klickstein in his Brooklyn home.
tainted twice after she had been In.
dicted by the Kings county grand jury
on charge Of murder in the first de.
praa