Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1921-01-05
Domestic

Four bandits at Pearl River, N. Y,
shot and killed two bank employees and
escaped in an automobile.
Former Governor Thomas Walter
Beckett, So years Of age, suffered q
stroke of paralysis at his home at Raj
eigh, N. C.
The origin of the fires in New York
tenements, which imperilled many
lives, is being investigated. Many he
roic rescues were made during the
conflagrations.
Youngstown, Ohio, will have an Of
ficial breath smeller'' when the new
mayor-elect goes into office. He will
smell the breaths of policemen every
four hours. 81.
Fred Jones, 12.year-old son Of Clar-
ences Jones, architect, was almost in
stantly killed in front of his fathers
home at Chattanooga, Tenn, when run
over by motor truck.
R. G.. Dun & Co. applied In federal
court in New York for an Injunction
restraining the Credit Guide Publish
ing company from distributing its re-
vised rating book which, it is alleged,
was copied from Dun's reference book.
Prince Louis de Bourbon, who came
to this country representing a syndi-
cate seeking to stimulate trade be-
tween this country and the Balkan
states, was hit by an auto in New
York; and is in a hospital in that city,
badly bruised. :.
Eugene V. Debs, freed Socialist lead
er, will be rendered reception and
be the central figure Of parade on
his arrival at his home at Terre -
Haute, Ind, according to plans per-
fected at "a mass meeting Of union
miners and Socialist leaders.
Cordell Hull, chairman Of the DEM
ocratic national committee at Nash
vile, Tenn, for the get-together DEM
ocratic banquet in his honor, said that
he would enter the race for his old
seat in the lower house Of congress
from the Fourth Tennessee district.
That the war loans made by the
United States to the allies should be
promptly and wholly cancelled" was
urged by Justice John H. Clarke Of
the Supreme court of the United States
in an address at the weekly luncheon
of the Cleveland, Ohio, chamber OF
commerce.
Refusing to prosecute his wife, who
shot him in both legs, a year ago.
in fit OF jealousy, John Henry Stout
of Sheffield, Ala, is himself now in
jail at Richmond, Va, charged with
having gagged his wife and thrown
her into a mill race, from which she
was rescued by policeman.
Expanding activities Of the federal
courts may swamp them, and delay
ing is a denial Of Justice Chief JUS
,tice William Howard Taft Of the
United States Supreme court said In
an address before the Chicago Bar
association, urging reforms to eIpe-
dite court procedure.
City Building Inspector Joseph Z.
Austin, Lawrence E. Carroll, manager
of the Rialto theater, and Alfred s.
Black, president Of the Connecticut
Theater corportion. which owned the
theater are held criminally RESPONSE
BILE for the deaths of nine persons In
the RiaIto theater fire at New Haven.
Conn, in a finding by Coroner Eli
Mix
Denial that there was anything Sc
cret AND unholy" at the Washington
conference, December 9, attended by
members of the farm bureau, grange.
International congress, manufacturers,
shippers and representation OF rail-
roads, as charged by Senator LaFol-
lette, was made by James R. Howard.
president of the American Farm Blu
reau federation, at Cleveland.
With the American dollar selling at
a discount in one European country
witzerland-American bankers are re-
ported to be planning to follow the
movement with gold exports to Ge-
neva.
Finding OF body in the woods CT
Mitchell county, which has been iden-
titled as that of B. L. Harsell, wealthy
New York clubman and sportsman,
who has been missing since last April,
after leaving Roanoke, Va, to walk
20 the northern Georgian line, was re-
ported at Asheville, \. c., by private
detectives.
Miss Lila Dale Russell, % year,, Of
A,bermarle, n. c., who disappeared
from the south branch of the Young
Women's Christian Association was
found at a local hospital, at Baltimore,
where she was admitted shortly after
her disappearance.
Democratic leaders from all sections
of Tennessee were gathered at Nash.
Vile for the conference to be held at
which plans were perfected for insur-
ing party harmony in the campaigns
of next year. The meeting was called
by the Democratic state executive com.
mittee.