Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-09-22
Domestic

II. G. Partin, recently appointed uep
uty sheriff, was fired upon from am.
bush near Pineville, KY, and instantly
killed, is the news reaching Knoxville.
Tenn.
The British cruiser Dauntless, bear
ing the bodies of Americans who lost
their lives when the dirigible ZR-2
collapsed August "a, arrived in New
York harbor recently.
Oscar E. Carlson Of the department
of Illinois, was elected national COM
mander-in-c chief of the United Span.
ish War Veterans on the ninth ballot
at Minneapolis.
Henry James and woman giving
her name as Beulah James, are under
arrest at Smithville, Va, charged with
kidnapping Margaret and Jack Wood
land, children Of Chattanooga, Tenn,
at Cape May N. j., July Z.
A resolution calling upon congress
and the administration to remedy the
inequalities affecting women in the
civil service was brought forward as
one of the dominant subjects before
the national federation of federal en-
ployees, in session in New Orleans.
s Frank D. Roosevelt, former assistant
secretary Of the navy, who has been
i'll at his home at Campbell, N. B., has
been taken to a New York hospital
for an operation.
The steamship King Alexander, re-
Gently figuring in spectacular drug
and liquor raid in New York harbor,
after a race to port with immigrants,
has sailed for Greece and carried back
II of her would-be immigrants.
Buried alive by mine cave-in. four
mine workers await their fate near
Carbondale, Pa. A rescue party is at
work, The wives and children of the
entombed miners are waiting at the
top Of the mine shaft.
Upon the ruling of President Martin
of the Southern Baseball League may
depend the pennant winner of the
Southern association. Atlanta has
protested an exhibition game played
by Memphis early in the year. contend
ing that exhibition games arc uncon-
stitutional.
That more than sixty Baptist mis-
sionaries from twelve southern states,
who sailed sfrom Seattle for stations
in China and Japan, arrived safely at
Shanghai, according to a cablegram
received at Nashville, Tenn.
d. T. Rounsville, president of the
First National Bank of Dodge Center,
Minn., was shot and instantly killed
in the bank recently by man pre-.
sumo dto be a robber. He was captur.
ed.
Whatsoever We would that men
should do to you, do ye even so to them
for this is the law and the prophets
is the platform of Noah w. Cooper,
candidate for the United States SEN
ate from Tennessee, He is the au-
thor of the famous Sunday blue law.
The executive council Of the Ma
tional Federation of Federal Employ
etS nave De6uh vi llt
advisability of libel suit against an
Ohio newspaper for the alleged circu-
lation of statements to the effect that
the organization is surreptitiously op-
posing reorganization of the govern
ment departments.
]. S. Kirby, c. o. Fox and Jesse
.Gappings were convicted of the murder
of William Brazell, Columbia, S. c.,
taxi driver, and were sentenced to
death to be electrocuted October q.
These are the men who were brought
to Georgia to escape mob after they
had brutally murdered young Brazell
by blackjacking and then stabbing
him. All confessed the crime.
Henry H. Curran, coalitionish-re-
publican, now president of the bor-
ough of Manhattan, will be Mayor
John F. Hylan's opponent at the polls