Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-06-08
Domestic

The supreme courtof Nevada re-
Gently handed down decision in IA
vor Of Mary Pickford, upholding the
decree Of divorce which she obtained
at Minden, New, from Owen Moore
The executive committee Of the rail-
way employees department, American
Fedration of Labor, headed by B. M.
Jewell, appeared before the railroad
labor board with a request that the
board assume jurisdiction in disputes
on about rs roads.
Orders to the chief Of police from
Mayor Swanton, Traverse City, Mich,
directing arrest of any woman or girl
appearing on the streets here wear
ing knickerbockers will stand, despite
the storm Of protest they have occa'
sioner, the mayor announced.
Clifford Pinchot who publicly stated
that he spent $4,000 to win the
Pennsylvania republican nomination
for governor in the recent primaries,
would do the same thing again "if 1t
were necessary to defeat an organized
machine" in statement issued re-
Gently.
Westchester County, N. Y. officials
investigating the killing Of Clarence
Peters, former sailor, by Walter s.
Ward wealthy bakers son, endeavored
to check up on the movements OF the
slain man at the United States marine
corps training station at Paris Island,
S. c., where he tried to enlist.
Two men were shot, one hundred
others were arrested, when Massachu-
setts constabulary forces and Agawam
police surrounded the three-ring fight
circus in a tobacco barn at Feeding
Hills, where the cock-fighting derby
of Massachusetts and Connecticut was
being held.
Leroy Traham, 20, Peters Mancusa,
26, and Albert Mancusa, all OF New
Orleans, La, were rescued from fish
ing camp near Spanish Fort, where
they had taken refuge and had re-
mained nearly 40 hours without food
or water.
Financiers of Great Britain and the
United States arrived at New York
aboard the Olympic, prepared to seek
settlement of Mexico's financial
problems in conferences with Adolfo
de La Huerta, Mexican minister OF
| finance.
A strike vote was ordered by the
executive council Of the United Broth.
erhood Of Maintenance and way en-
ployees and railway shop laborers at
Detroit, Mich, in answer to the WACO
slash made by ths railway labor board.
A virtual ultin1Atum to the railroads
Of America through the United States
railroad labor board was presented by
the Federation of Shop Crafts, repre-.
senting 100000 railway employees, in
a request for conference with the
board, when the federal body will be
asked to take immediate jurisdiction
of all cases in which railroads are
alleged to be disobeying the boards
orders.
The engineer and fireman OF west
bound California limited on the Santa
Fe were killed near Fort Madison,
Iowa, when the train crashed head-on
into eastbound train number 4.
The birmingham, Ala, Bar associa'
tion recently adopted resolutions call
ing upon every candidate for public
office to declare himself whether he
Is a member of IAN organization known
as the Ku Klux Klan or any other or
ganization whose members parade un.
der masks through streets and high
ways"
The city ordinance of Houston, Tex,
fixing a telephone rate Of SO month TO
Houston subscribers and restricting
telephone service profits to per cent.
was held invalid by the supreme court.
The condition of Alfrad Gwynne Van
derbilt. nine-year-old heir to millions,
who, for two weeks, has been Ill at the
Hotel Ambassador, was reported crit
ical by the corps Of specialists and
nurses in attendance.
Seven firemen asleep in the fore
castle of the Furness-Prince lines
2,322-ton cargo steamer Welsh Prince.
were killed and three injured, accord.
ing to reports at Portland, Ore, when
that vessel was rammed by the freight
er Iowan, in the Columbia river, off
Altoona. Wash.
Wheat prices made a sensational
dive, the May delivery plunging down.
ward II cents a bushel as compared
with quotations earlier in the session.
James A. Reed, candidate for
United States senator, in a speech,
Palmyra, Mo-, assailed the United
States supreme court in referring to
the announcement of the S157, 100000
tobacco firm merger in New York.
The yacht Aloha, owned by Arthur
C. James, Of New York, arrived at
Newport, R. l., from trip around the
world.
Two bandits who robbed the Meta
mora State bank at Metamora, Mich,
were shot to death by possemen using
machine guns, according to a tele-
phone message.