The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-04-12
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF

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Paris, April The French cab
met approved the text of Premier
Poincaire's written instructions to
the French delegation at Genoa
based on government memoran-
dunn OF January thirty-first and de-
clared the discussion of the repara-
tons question was outside Of the
scope of the conference program.
Concordia, Kansas, April Il.
II: Trembiay. the farmer whose
five sons were hacked with an axe
Tuesday, was found dead at the
home Of a neighbor today where he
had been staying since the crime.
No trace was found of poison. The
experts had pur him through the
grill.
London, April Lloyd George
headed, the party Of twenty which
left today for Genoa the scene of
the international economic confer
ence Monday.
Norflk, April Authorities here
announced a surprise would be
sprung at the inquest into the
death of Mrs. Ruth Mercer, whose
body was found at Ocean Beach.
Edward F. Mercer, her husband,
and Frank McEntee will be chief
witnesses, the detectives said, they
had in new evidence, but declined
to indulge it.
Columbia, April 7.-Will Hood.
the Greenville negro, convicted of
the murder Of G. W. Smith at Poe
Mill last September, died in the
electric chair in the state peniten-
tiary here today.
Knoxville, April 6.-When the
executive committee Of the Thir-
tieth or "Old Hickory" Division
meets in Asheville, n. c., April Is
it Will consider an invitation from
Knoxville civic organizations to
hold the 1923 reunion in this city.
Charleston, S. c., has bid for the
reunion this year.
Belfast, April IA hundred
members of the Irish Republican
army forced their way into the
bonded stores and customs house Of
Dublin last night and smashed
casks containing hundreds of
thousands of pounds worth OF
whiskey, dispatches say. The Ii
quor is believed to have been ship
ped from Belfast.
New York, April President
Lewis, of the United Mine Workers,
speaking before the central trades
and labor council yesterday answer
ed the plea Of T. II. Watkins, a
bituminous operator, for negotia-
ton of separate wage contracts BY
district by saying: 1T is no far cry
from separate agreements TO the
feudai system of individual con-
tracts between operator and work
er, and organized labor then
would become helpless
Raleigh, April directors Of
the Virginia Carolina Tobacco
Growers Cooperative Association
and representatives of the ware
house interests of North Carolina
conferred here today on proposals
of the association to buy or lease
warehouses in the eastern section
of North Carolina. The tobacco
men say if they are unable to Sc
cure sufficient warehouses they Will |
erect their owr.
Los Angeles, April Herbert
II. Hooking. under arrest charged
with having tried to influence ve-
niremen at the second trial Of Ar
thur C. Burch for the murder Of
Belton Kennedy, was said by court /
attaches today to be one of the
twenty-eight men convicted at In
dianapolis several years ago in the
conspiracy of ship explosives. |
Genoa, April 7-Gabrieie D.
Annunzio Will participate in the
Genoa conference as a represen-
tative of italy's seamen, Italian |
papers say.
New York, April I. Three
creditors have filed q bankruptcy |
petition in the federal court I
against Harry L. Vaudeville & Co., /
stock brokers.
St. Louis, April Miss Maude !
A. Richie, aged IS, shot her father
here today, whom she asserted I
was abusing her mother.
New York, Ajril There was
no let up to the board dealings Of !
the preceding sessions of the week t
at the active openings of today's
stock market and the trend of .
prices again was upward.
Youngstown, Ohio, April q
Further effect Of the coal strike on
the steel industry was felt here to- I