Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-05-04
Domestic

Postoffice authorities recently be-
lieved they were in position to re-
cover the greater part Of the $2,500,-
900 loot taken by three armed bandits
in their daring raid on a mail truck
on lower Broadway, New York. .-..
Fire equipment answered. a call to
the west end of the city OF Knoxville,
Tenn, only to find that the flare which
lit the sky was apparently caused by
an electrical display resembling the
aurora borealis.
Ben w. Hooper, member Of the pub
lie group of the railroad labor board
and former governor Of Tennessee,
was elected chairman of the board at
the annual meeting, succeeding Chair.
man Barton.
DR.. Enrique Claya Herrera, newly
appointed minister to Washington for
the Colombian republic, arrived at
New York on the Sixaola after trip
up the coast during which sneak
thief kept him and other passengers
on the ship in constant worry.
The trial of Miss Sarah E. Knox,
Baltimore nurse charged with the MUIR
der of Mrs. Margaret L. Eastlakei at
Conolian Meach, got under way at
Montross, Va, after Judge Chinn had
ordered all women spectators to leave
the court room
The action Of Attorney-G General
Daugherty is dismissing the govern
ment's sut against the Postal Tele,
graph. Cable company for s2,40O,000,
claimed as excess earnings during
the period of wire control by the gov
ernment, Is regarded as victory for
the telegraph company.
The hand of the federal government
Is once more reaching out toward c.
w. Morse in connection with his Of
fensive operations during the war.
Morse and several others were indict-
ed in New York by federal grand
jury charged with conspiracy to use
mails to defraud investors in selling
stock Of the United States Steamship
company.
The ancient law Of the Hebrews was
called into play in a Memphis, Tenn,
cout recently when Judge Ben IL
Capell instructed jury in a damaged
suit to return verdict in accordance@
with Exodus XXI:28 and 20. judge
ment for $3.50 was awarded.
The brokerage firm of Strauss and
Company was suspended from the
New York Stock Exchange for one
year.
While writing a letter to his son,
Robert Brauer, Of Fort Worth, Texas,
accounting several deaths which have
recently occurred in the family at
Richmond, Va, Col. Frederick Casper
Brauer, Confederate veteran, 50, died
Unexpectedly of heart attack in the
home of his daughter.
Frank F. Hill, Jr., son Of a million
aire banker, went to Jail at Memphis,
Tenn, for five minutes for violation
of an automobile parking ordinance.
He was released when his father put
up cash bond.
Election of officers and announce
ment of winners in the debating, dec
lamation and expression contest fea-
tured a recent session of the South
Carolina High School League, at Co.
lumbia, S. c.
Folks who reside in the neighborhood
of East Whitner street, Anderson, s.
c., were going armed because OF a
vicious squirrel, police were unable to
find and kill.
Johnny Meyers, middleweight cham
pion, and Henie Engle, OF Dubuque,
wrestled to a draw at Chicago.
With two men of the second panel
tentatively accepted by both sides.
and two more, completing the paneal
of four, examined by the state. selec-
tio nof jury to try Governor Len
Small of Illinois, made good progress
at Waukegan, III.
President Harding's adventuresome
thirt.mile voyage up the Ohio river to
participate in the one hundreds birth
day anniversary of General Grant, mar
rowly escaped serious disaster when
part of the third deck of the Island
Queen crashed to the deck below
with II some 200 persons.
Only thre persons were injured.
Discovery Of the body of Miss Ger
Lrude Hanna, rs, on a narrow ledge
in the basement OF the vacana United
Presbyterian parsonage, has shaken
Hoopster, ILL.,, to its foundations and
provided authorities with 4 mystery.