Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-14
Features in the News

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ment of the Chicago. Milwaukee ami
ST. Paul railroad shops here viii work
on four-day- week schedule. il was
announced today.
spends Much Time in Prison.
BOSTON-Dr. 4. Sidney Mathews
was found guilty of the latest cc
many frauds. which federal officials
said had kept him in prisons much
Of the time since 1883. The convic
ton was on the charge that he used
the mails illegally in the promotion
of the National Touring Club OF
America, which was said to have
brought him profits of more than
$4,000. Mathews. formerly a page in
Congress. maintained expensive of
fices here while the touring scheme
flourished. He was arrested recently
at Baltimore.
Attorney Fatally Shot.
LAUREL. Miss.-Burns Deavours,
twenty-seven years old. attorney, of
Laurel. and world war veteran, was IA
tally shot by Eugene Evans in the
heart of the business district here
Death resulted shortly afterward at a
local hospital. The cause of the shoot.
ing has not been ascertained
Refuses to Surrender Prisoner.
ElCKSBURG. Miss-Despite tho
fact that Gov. Lee NJ. Russell has par
doned 4. T. Goldsby. alleged negro
fence" of all charges on which liz
is being held in Warren county in OF
der to secure his transfer to the state
prison farm. from which he escaped
Sheriff Shannon refused to honor an
order from the superintendent Of the
penitentiary to turn the negro over To
state officers.
Regulates Cotton Acreage.
COLUMBIA, s. C.-Bills were intro
duced in the senate and house of tn.
south Carolina general assembly to
regulate the acreage to be planted in
would limit the acreage in cotton to
one-thlrd Of the total OF all other crops
planted by any farmer.
! Detained mt Seattle.
| SEATTLE. Wash-C f. Noyak d..
Fernaux. listed as an "of,,ci,r. ,n~
said to have been connected with the
'CIecnosiovak government was do
| tained by United States Enumeration
a1ulhorities here at the request of the
SapAhese consulate. according to i'm
migration officials. According 10 Of
ncerS' de Nernaux took passage ON
the steamer at Yokohama and latrr
was placed under arrest ON hoard ,ha
snip under wireless instructions from
the japanese government.
Would Be BEST Governor"
KNOXVILLE. Tenn-Gov.-elect Ar
r. Taylor. smoking his pipe, was in a.
nappy mood as he and his family
passed through Knoxville en- route
rom Happy Valley to Nashville.
Where the Little Giant" viii be in
augurated Governor of Tennessee
saturday The one big thought and
Wish he expressed was to make ALI
the people of all the state the very
pest governor they have ever had"
Kills Self in Courthouse.
DIXON. Ill;-Elmer J. Countryman.
FORMER cashier Of the Union state
Bank, which failed some weeks ago.
ana also a petitioner in bankruptcy.
killed himself in the Lee county
leoursnoose as the court was await
ing Tor him to enter his plea to thir-
zen indictments returned against
MN Yesterday charging forgery, en-
bezzlement and larceny.
Acquitted on Murder Charge.
COLUMBIA, s. C.-Eugene NJ. Ian
caster. former Columbia policeman.
Newton Lorick May IS. 1919, while
they were riding in an automobile in
Columbia, was acquitted when Judge
II. F. Rice. directed a verdict of ac-
lqulttal in the trial of Lancaster on
charge of numbering Lorick, the for
mer policeman having previously
been acquitted on the charge of muir
dering his wife
"Mad Dog" Scare Subsides.
! TAMPA. Fla.-The mad dog"
scare. which caused city and county
authorities to close all the schools
for three days and order q general
killing of all dogs and cats found at
large on the streets. has subsidized.
Business Block Burns
/ BOYLE. Miss.-Fire of undeter-
mined origin destroyed a block O!
buildings in the business part of The
| town. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.