The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-11-30
Domestic

Charles S. Barrett, of Union City, Ga,
was elected president of the National
Farmers union in recent convention
held at Lynchburg, Va.
Tom Dickson who ran away from
the Maryville Jail when his keeper
was not lookeing, turned up at the
state penitientiary, Nashville, Tenn,
four days later and announced that he
was ready to begin serving his term
of one to three years
Days of the James and Younger
boys in Missouri, were recalled at
Gallatin, Mo-, when six bandits robbed
the First National bank of $4,000 in
gold and currency.
Oliver Dimitt, Ottuma, iowa, me.
chanic. is in a critical condition from
a bullet wound, which probably will
prove fatal, inflicted by a stranger
after Dimitt had remarked that the
stranger looked like Tommy O'Connor,
noted Chicago bandit.
w. c. Marion, formerly cashier of
the Jefferson County bank. which col.
lapsed year ago, and in connection
age of $4,000 was found guilty of the
first count of the indictment under
which he was tried recently at Louis.
vile, Ga.
Harry Orchard, convicted slayer Of
former Governor Frank Steunenbergg.
was denied pardon by the Idaho
board of pardons, which met in special
,,itn tnti Of
also denied
Rev. David G. Wills. president Of the
Presbyterian Synod of America and
pastor of church in Astoria, died at
a Long Island City hospital recently of
injuries sustained when he was struck
by a taxicab in New York. He was
So years old
L. p. Lewis appeared before United
States Commissioner w. G.. Carter at
Atlanta, Ga, to answer charges Of vic.
lating the prohibition laws. He was
arrested by federal agents, who said
he had four pints Of whisky with him.
Later a raid was directed at his apart.
ment, it was said, eleven pints being
found there.
The town of Front Royal, Va, was
almost destroyed by fire the other af.
ternoon, because the water supply was
not adequate to supply the fireman
with enough pressure to successfully
cope with the flames.
Senator N B. Dial of South Carolina,
speaking before the Southern CONNER.
cial Congress, in session in Chicago,
the other day, said the present cotton
ftures law did not protect the rights
of the seller. Under the present sys.
TEN, he said, the growers suffers be.
cause purchasers sell out their hedges
rather than accept delivery of inferior
grades.
CieInenceau, Tiger of France, was
persuaded to permit two New York
physicians to make an examination of
him, who reported that though he Is
81 he has all the vigor Of man of 50.
Two daughters of Morgan Pummil,
who died recently at Sedalia Mo.
found $1,000 in pennies, nickels, dimes
and silver dollars their father had bur.
led in keg under the smokehouse
Fourteen persons were injured, one
perhaps seriously, when Missouri Pa
cific passenger train No. 1O3 from Kan
sas City to Little Rock, left the track
six miles east Of Russellville, Ark.
Bishop Edgar Blake (Method!st Of
Paris. spoke in Mount Vernon Place
Methodist church near Baltimore the
other day, the gist Of which speech
was: Germany is on the verge OF col.
lapse from the failure of her postwar
industrial undertakings, with revolution
imminent, and the collapse of Germany
inevitably would entail the downfall of
France. Italy and the Balkan states
and possibly the nations of northern
Europe. Even more sinister, he thinks,
Is the menace of the victorious Turks
in Asia Minor.
The management Of the Reilley Col.
lieries company mine No. ! at Spang-
ler. Pa, was held responsible for the
gas explosion in the underground
workings on November 6, last, when
II men met death, in the coroner's yer.
dict returned at Barnesboro, Pa.
Seventy miners were killed and sixty
injured, some Of them seriously. in a
dust explosion in Dolomite mine No.
OF the Woodward Iron company.
nine miles from Birmingham, Ala.
which trapped 480 workers beneath the
surface, according to an official state
ment issued by mine official.
Mrs. Louis c. Britton, of Showhegan,
Me-, now is In the second week of
hunger strike" undertaken, she has
announced, in the hope of winning back
the affections of her husband, who has
brought suit for divorce.
Georges Clemenceau laid at the door
OF the United States blame for all the
unrest in which Europe now seethes.
Speaking before an audience of bust.
ness men at the chamber of commerce
of the state Of New York, the aged
French war premier declared that
America had left France in the lurch"
after the war.
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