The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1921-09-22
NEWS IN GENERAL

The thirty-first, annual reunion of
United Confederate Veterans will
meet in Chattanooga, Tenn, on Oc-
tober .24, 25, 26 and q, and the
twenty-sixth annual reunion Of sons
OF Confederate veterans will meet at
the same time.
While attempting to turn on an in
cadescent lamp at her home in Win
ston-Salemn, N. c., early Friday
evening, Mrs. Ellen L. Sink, SO years
old, received an electric shock which
killed her instantly. Her husband,
while carrying a cot on which to
place her, was thrown down twice as
his hand came in contact with a
screen door. He was not injured Sc
riously.
Ernest Daniels, young negro, was
taken from the Pittsboro Jail early
Sunday morning by mob and hang
ed to the limb of tree five miles
from that town. The body of the vie
tim was found the next day.
1t is alleged that Daniels was found
In the room of sleeping white girl
Friday night. He escaped from the
house when alarm was given but was
apprehended by officers Saturday
night, and, it is alleged, confessed
that he was the negro found leaning
over the sleeping girl. The negro
was placed in Jail at Pittsboro and
Sunday morning at 2 o'clock a mob
overpowered Jailer w. H. Taylor and
took Daniels from the Jail to a point
five miles from town where he was
hanged. An automobile tire chain
was used to hang the negro.
A movie thriller was enacted in
real life Tuesday near Kipling, N.
Norfolk-Southern Railway, climbed
out on the pilot of mis- engine and
G., when Engiener J. H. Furman,
scooped up three-year-old Gertrude
Collins, toddling up the track in front
of the on-coming engine, .Furman was
taking twenty-five loaded freight cars
to Fayetteville and was rounding a
sharp curve down grade, when he saw
the little girl. He yanked the whistle
cord, and the emergency brake. The
child was seventy-five yards away.
The weight of the cars behind was
sliding the big engine forward, when
Furman climbed out on the side of
his engine to the pilot and with the
pellnd 'psods sI!ru-us3 3u .ivlAom uIe1a
the little girl to safety. Her worst
injury was a slight bruise on the
head.
In fight with a posse of Burk
county, Ga, officers near Waneys-
sboro,> A. p. Peak, of Columbia, 8. c.,
an alleged liquor runner, was in
stantly killed. L. C. Miller, his COM
panion is lodged in Jail in Waynes-
boro, and the automobile in which
the men were riding and eight cases
of liquor are being held in Waynes-
boro by authorities.
John Tcney and Anthony Mccall
len were killed and Mrs. Toney and
her l2-eyar-old son, Edward of New
Orleans are in Charity Hospital, Sc
riousiy burned as result, the police
say of an exploding home brew out
fit. The explosion took place at To-
ney's residence. The police say the
top of copper still blew off and set
fire to its contents. The garage in
which it was located also was fired.
In trying to rescue Toney, his wife
and son were burned McCallen ap-
parently was not acquainted with the
family, but was passing in an auto
mobile and came to the rescue when
he hear woman's scream.
Information in possession of the
departments in Washington would
make pessimist ashamed of himself
Prosperity, it is Indicated, is just
around the corner. All that delays it's
actual return is the fact that some
people won't go out TO meet it.
Resting in fag-shrouded caskets,
covered with flowers and guarded
by armed men of friendly foreign
nation, the bodies of Commander
Louis H. Maxfield and fourteen of
his comrades, victims of the ZR-2 dis
aster, arrived home Friday ON the
British cruiser Dauntless. IT was a
far different home coming that the
victims had anticipated when they
sailed several months ago for Eng
land to prepare and bring back the
monster dirigible, the disaster to
which on trial flight, sent forty-two
heroic men of two nations to their
untimely death.
Wholesale prices increased 2.75
per cent. in August over July levels,
wholesale food prices leading in the
advance with an increas of 1876 per
cent. according to figures made pub
lie by the department Of labor.
LAND PoSTED-Absolutely no