Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-03-16
Domestic

ers of America, in the Alabama field,
known as district No. 20, have voted
overwhelmingly to strike on April l,
1t became known here.
That the "pay-as-you-leave" plan
adopted at Bend, Ore, by two motion
picture theaters is resulting in bigger
houses and at least as large revenue
as formerly was the declaration Of the
manager Of the theaters.
The national office Of the Socialist
party began sending out an appeal
from Eugene V. Debs to all its mem
bers and affiliated organization urg-
ing to work for amnesty for all so
called political prisoners. -.
William Koifenstein, fifty, Of Gin
cinnati, has started on a twenty-day,
self-imposed sentence in the Bingham
ton Jail. Sentenced for ten days for
intoxication, Koifenstein found his
nerves so improved by his rest cure
that he begged for permission to stay
a month. His request was granted.
Funeral arrangements were being
made at Barlow, Fla, for DR.. G. M.
Law, prominent physician Of Arcadia,
Fla, who was accidentally electrocut-
ed DR.. Law was shocked to death
while taking an x-ray picture of a
child's fractured arm.
One hundred pounds Of narcotic and
one alleged drug vender were In the
hands of the police at New York as a
result of a raid on the headquarters
of a drug peddling gang believed to,
have engaged in the wholesale SNUG
CLING of the habit-forming poisons.
Jacksonville is to entertain its pop
ulation with spring meet Of some OF
the best horses in the country, 1t was
learned, when announcement was re-
ceived from Havana that some OF the
best horses now racing in the Cuban
metropolis will come to Jacksonville,
Fla, for a nine-day spring meet.
Damages amounting to S21,62163
from the man whom she charges kill
ed her husband are expected to reach
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the next few days.
The first arrest in the Arlington
bank robbery murder case occurred at
Bronwood, near Dawson, Ca, when
Chief Hill, of the police, and Sheriff
Wood arrested a man named "Lanier,"
alias Barron
DR.. H. P. Brown fell dead in the
county treasurer's office at Davenport,
Ia, after being told the amount Of his
taxes He was rs years old.
Ralph A. Day, prohibition enforce
ment director for New York, has gone
to Washington to confer with authori-
ties in regard to preventing establish
ment of Floating booze palace out
side the three-mile limit with a ferry
service to New York.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed
against Theodore Bear, said to be the
inventor Of the teddy bear,'' a wom-
ans garment. His financial difficult
ties were caused by competition and
changes in the styles, it was claimed.
Residents of Porterville, Los Ange-
les, and Fresno, Cal, were awakened
recently by an earthquake, which rat
tied windows, moved doors off their
hinges and threw furniture around.
People rushed into the streets, but no
damage was done.
Seven persons are known to have
been killed and scores were injured
in the wind and rain storm which
flooded streams and caused heavy
property damage in eastern Georgia
and western South Carolina in the Sec
tion around Augusta, Ga.
Joseph B. Sugarman, head of the
brokerage firm Of J. B. Sugarman C
Co., surrendered himself to District
Attorney Banton in New York and
pleaded not guilty to a charge Of grand
larceny in the first degree.
Four men were killed and nine in
jursd when a compressed air tank
at the Kansas City Railway compa-
ny's barn exploded, tearing out 20 feet
of brick wall of the plant and derail-
ing many street cars standing on near
by tracks.
A man riding a bicycle pulled up
alongside a man and woman in an au-
tomobile in the northern part Of De-
troit, Mich, flourished a pistol, de-
manded and obtained the motorists
money, then pedaled himself to q
hiding place.
Governor Russell Of Mississippi, re-
Gently signed the Stone bill abating
the billion dollar antitrust suit re-
Gently filed in the chancery court OF
Covington county by District Attor.
ney A. ]. Browning against the life,
casualty and indemnity insurance COM,
panies doing business in the state.
The Arctic Mills, in Arctic, R. l.,
one of the several plants in the Paw
tuxet valley owned by B. B. and R.
knight, Inc, were the scene of mass
picketing Rumors that the plant was
to reopen had been circulated through.
out the valley, but no attempt was
made to resume operations.
New Orleans is to have a bathing
beach and board walk modelled after
Coney Island Nine members Of the
Louisiana board of levee called upon
Borough President Riegelmann, Of
Brooklyn, and inspected Coney's ia
nous board walk.