The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1922-12-21
Domestic

Fourteen trays of unset diamonds
and gold and platinum moun.ings val
ued at 100000 were stolen by two
bandits who held up j. E. Harrison.
Chicago merchant, with offices in
downtown office building.
Determined to check the mounting
wave OF automobile deaths, following
recent publicity given to the big death
hst III California, as we'll as in many
other states, the California state mo.
tor vehicle department has drawn up
drastic set Of automobile regulations
which will be presented to the legis.
lature for enactment into law. The
strict code also seeks to govern the
actions Of pedestrians. holding that the
automobilist is not, always to blame
Tor highway accidents, and provides
STIFF penalties for violations
William Shelter, 35 years old,
farmer, and his wife, were found mur.
dered at Middletown, Indiana recently
cambridge Colby, secretary Of state
IN President Wilson'S cabinet, an.
nounced that his law Partnership with
lhc former president would terminate
december 81, at the expiration of their
co-partnership agreement.
Funeral services for John Wana.
maker, internationally famous mer.
chant and former postmaster general.
VINO passed away at Philadelphia, were
held III Bethany Presbyterian church.
Four bandits held up a messenger
LOT the Logan Square Trust and Saw.
ihss bank, Chicago, and took $4,000.
C1ntnro. OF
which pitchforks, clubs revolvers and
broken glass figured as weapons, and
aurlng whic ha fire was started which
caused S25,O00 damage on the Stanch-
neld farm near Fond Du Lac, Wis, a
man believed to have escaped from
an asylum was lying at the Do,nt of
death in hospital.
John H. Hays, rancher near Havre
Mont, killed his wife and himself re-.
Gently, according to story told offic.
ers ny his 'fifteen-yearold son. The
deaths left six children orphans.
Forty-four persons were injured.
five seriously. when two trolley cars
operating between Atlantic City and
ADescon, crashed in heavy fog at
Pleasantville, N. J.
The mystery surrounding the killing
or William S. Hart, Fifteenth Tank
pattalion, Fort Benning, Ca, whose
body with hole in the head was
FOUND In underbrush recently is still
as far from being solved as when the
special army board began the investi.
cation Immediately after the finding
of the body of the sergeant.
Rod S. Dal. editor Of the Durango
Cello. Democrat, has been found NOT
guilty Of the murder of William f
Wood. city editor of the Duranno Her.
aid, last April
Four United States airplanes. under
command of Capt. II. G.. Erwin, pcnetrat.
ell Mexico to a depth of eighty miles in
an extension Of the search for Col
Francis c. Marshall and Lieut.. c, l..
Webber. They were unsuccessful in
,he'r fiight, and returned to Nogales,
| Arz.
Federal officers and posses of citi.
%ens were, at last accounts, securing
the hills Of Menifee county, Kentucky,
for the slayer Of Dave Treadwav. "a
prohibition agent, recently shot from
ambush. Prohibition Agent Robert
Duff was shot from abush the day he.
fore TreadwXy was, shot.
John Roach, eleven wears old saw
temporarily deserted automobile on the
streets OF Mariana, Fla, recently. and
decided ii was good time to learn
10 drive. He got the car started bnt
lost control and dashed into trnch
on which two men were working. Both
| the men were killed, and Johnnie is
in jail charged with murder
Two boys and two girls were skv.
larking in Gary, Ind, the other day
kodaking themselves on top of troll
ley car. One of the boys stood I'm
and his head came in contact with
a heavily charged wire killing him
instantly. The other boy tried to res.
cue his companion and was precipitat.
ed headlong to the pavement, fractur.
Ing his skull, from which injury he
will probably die.
Twenty persons were killed and fif.
~ injured in Houston, East and West
Texas train wreck at Humble, Texas,
II miles north Of Houston. Two am.
balances and score Of physicians
were sent from Houston to the scene
OF the wreck.
Georges Clemenceau, his missionary
speaking tour to the United Statoa
ended, has sailed for France, mucb
pleased
Prohibition enforcement and tho Kn
Klux Klan arc the important subicct.
before the fourteenth annual confor,
ence OF governors which is in session
at White sulphur Springs. ~, Va.