Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-31
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shooters" was made by Judge Edward
I, Stewart. recorder of Beaufort coun-
IN. c., court last week, when he let
five negroes charged with gamphns
sentence themselves with their own
dice. When the negroes pleaded guilty.
to the charge, Judge Stewart askeo
one Of them for the cubes whlch were
quickly produced. He told them ne
would let each defendant roll the one
time and would sentence them to serve
as many months on the road as the
dice indicated. The negroes began 10
roll and talk to the dice, and they re-
cefyed sentences ranging from three 10
twelve months on the chain gang.
Judge Stewart later changed the sent
ences to fines.
- Rats and mice are migrating III
swarms from the Russian famne ara
and Budapest is now oVerrun Will
them. All efforts to rid the city OF TINS
scourge have failed and the deYasta-
tiSn caused by them goes on. MarKet
halls. food stores and warehouses are
swarming with the rodents. so uan-
gerous have they become tnat when
disturbed they will turn ana SHOW
fight. Several merchants nave pesn
bitten. The situation is aggraVatea py
the death of cats in Hungary. During
aids of families ate their cats. Since
then the increasing demand for cat Iur
I'D cheap substitute for expensive
fnrs has taken a further toll. AS
consequence, the comparatively eNor-
bitant price of 5000 to 1000 kronen Is
being offered for kitten.
Isaac White, a former policeman,
returned to Detroit last Saturday, a1ter
being marooned, with scant tooo sup
niles and shelter for AZ days, on
small island in the upper Detroit river.
He was rescued by Nels Nelson' aite[
a perilous trip Of two and one nan
miles over the ice foes .White went 10
the island in December planning 10
stsv hnt 2 weeks, and taking with him
supplies sufficient only for that period.
Heavy ice Jams prevented his return
bv boat and, handicapped by a peg
Lao White feared to risk trip. on the
ice. His food gave out on new year
day and since then he has existed On
Ash speared through the ice and rev
fowl he was able to shoot White SAID
he went to- the Island to get away
from the high cost Of living, ana Is
planning to return when the ice breaks
up.
. Since April, 1921, federal aid mile
age along the Bankhead highway mas
increased 1924 miles, according 10 d
statement by Thomas II. McDohaio'
chief of the bureau or puoNc roaue'
Yesterday. Projects which have peen
approved, agreements whtch nave peeh
executed and completed work, repre-
sent a mileage along the highway OF
1.512SS. This mileage is divided
among the several states as TO lows:
Virginia. 1926; North Carolina, 64.lo'
south Carolina, 61.64; Georgia, 9S4S;
Alabama, 1851; Mississippi, 69.33'
. Arkansas, 1903; Texas, 4O9.52; Okla
hona, 144.6; New Mexico, 247.10; Ari-
iona, 1894; California, 1887. Com
Melted mileage in the several states
Follows: Virginia, S.26; North Carolina
1892: south Carolina, .23.4S; Georgia,
bO.09: Alabama, S.22; Arkansas, 1921
Texas, S9.6S; New Mexico, 42.75; Ari-
zona, 6.61; California, 44.55. There Is
no complete mileage in Mississippi or
Oklahoma.
tSeiT ives hi 'Kfiiickerbo theatre,
washington, last Saturday night when
the roof collapsed under 26 inches oil
snow. The Knickerbocker is a popu.
lar motion picture house, situated at
the corner of Eighteenth street n. w.
and Columbia road, in the heart OF the
nrincipal residence district. 1t has a
seating capacity of about 1000 and IS
generally crowded; but because or the
suspension Of street car traffic on &C
count of the snow Saturday night the
attendance had been reduced TO ABOUT
400, those within easy walking as
tance. The crash came suddenly ana
with but little warning, the whole roof
falling down on the people below. The
fire and police department had a nara
task getting into the building, mainly
by cutting through heavy steel beams
with acetylene torches. Some or the
people had escaped one way or another
but most Of the others were dead, and
up to Sunday night at late hour Z4l
bodies had been removed, 1O7 OF them
dead. and all the others more or less
dangerously injured, fourteen or more
in a dying condition. 1t was thougnl
that still others were in the building
under the debris. The victims were
mostly adults, comparatively rev
children having come out.
Five men walked into the First Ma
tional Bank of Grafton, surburo Oh
Pittsburg. Pa, last Friday morning,
and after killing Harold. Moss, assista-
ant cashier, forced five clerks and
woman customer into vault. Thcy
robbed the bank or approximately SoV'-
900 in cash and negotiable securities,
and escaped in an automobile toward
the open country. While some OF the
officers followed the fleeing robbers,
who were answering their firing shot
for shot, others took charge Of the car,
and found what they believed to be all
of the loot stolen from the bank.
Meantime the bandits had run through
the buildings facing the street and out
of the back doors into byways and
alleys. They were so closely followed
by the police now reinforced by all the
available reserves on the North Side
and motorcycle men from the down.
town district, that they took refuge in
a house on Pennsylvania Avenue. Sta
tioning themselves at advantageously
located windows they opened fire on
police, who prepared to rush the build
ing. a great crowd. attracted by the
firing, gathered in the vicinity and
watched the battle. Within an hour
after the robbery a party of city de-
tectives on their way to the bank met
an automobile filed with men on the
Northside. The order to stop was
answered by fusilade Of shots, and
the car kept going. The detectives lost
a little time in turn, but soon overlook
the bandits, who abandoned their car
and scattered. They dashed into
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