The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1922-07-06
Domestic

| steamer Humboldt.
Nine dead and ten injured was the
toll Of a dynamite explosion that
wrecked the Holston Quarry com.
pany's quarries at Strawberry Plains.
sixteen miles from Knoxville Tenne,
The cost Of breakfasting on dinine
cars, operated on trains OF the South
ern Pacific company has dropped five
cents, according to the new bill of fare
the company has issued clipping the
tariff on ham and eggs from G5 to 60
cents
Several hundred passengers en-
route on the steamer Providence from
New York to New England points
"erearoused from sleep as the shin
crashed upon tho rocks at Dumplings
on the jamestown shore, crushing in
her bow. No one was injured.
Herbert r. Rothery, 60, who, police
| say, is known as the dean of diamond
| and jewelry thieves" in the United
States and England, is under arrest
at st. Louis, Mo-, and has admitted
his Identity. according to the police.
Eonservative jazz" will the popu.
lar motif in mems clothing for next
year,-this is the edict of the Inter
national Association Of Clothes De-
slgners, in convention at Philadelphia.
Harold f. Mccormick, head Of the
executive committee Of the Interna.
tional Harvester company, announces
MS intention to suie for libel every
newspaper which published the report
that ne purchased gland of another
man to be grated into his own body.
Louisville, Ky, authorities were at
tempting to pick up the trail of a band
or liquor bandits which made prison
er 1our guards at the Rugsby distillery
ana carried away lat cases of whiskey
from the free Warehouse of the plant.
a child's quarrel ended fatally at
Kansas City, Mo, when Frank Cara
musa, years old, was shot with a
rifle by George Hurlbert, also Q.
German marks are quoted in New
York at the lowest level in their his
tory-.O2I or the equivalent of 100
marks for less than 81 cents.
The North Carolina Bar association
hcld its annual convention at Wrights-
vile.
Important changes in the state quar-
anime order to safeguard cotton and
alal1a 1lelds III California from infcs-
tation by the cotton boil weevil the
PINK Doll worm and the alfalfa wee
VII is being planned by the California
horticultural commissioners.
A large pile Of lumber toppled over
G. W. Parker, G5, at Tampa, Fla, and
killed him.
Morris Shindcrman, Chicago dia-
mond broker recently reported to the
ponce that he had been robbed Of S65.-
700 in diamonds and jewelry while en-
route to Mexico, Missouri, from st.
Louis
The formation of legislative coun.
CHS, centralizing thep over of the
various women's organizations of ey.
cry state, was discussed at the biennial
convention of the general Federation
Oh Women's clubs at Chautauuua. N Y
County authorities continued their
effort TO unrayel the mystery of the
death OF Benjamin Chambless, Sam.
son, Ala, planter whose bullet-riddled
body was found in Pea river recently
Governor Hyde, Of Missouri, has tel.
egraphed President Harding ureins
nm TO accept the invitation Of tie
JEFFERSON City, Mo-, chamber Of com.
merce to inspect the Mississippi river
from Jefferson City, Mo, to New Or.
leans and study It's transportation and
flood control
9lrs. Ben G. Hopper, Of Oshkosh.
president Of the Wisconsin League of
Women Voters, as the democratic nom.
inee will lead the Democrats Of Wis.
sonsin into the state elections.
special grand jury on July 10 will
begin investigating the massacre OF
non-nnion men by union striking min.
ers near Herrin, Ill.,, has been announ.
ced
The supreme court dismissed Mrs.
Marie Karkness Cowan's suit to es-.
tablish herself as sole heir Of the 500.
100000 estate Of the late Harry Steph.
ems Harkness. Standard Oil magnate.
For nearly two hours fire burned
fiercely in the shops Of the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad at Montgomery,
| Ala. causing an estimated loss OF 500.
! 900.
Frank r. Mohrer. who was taken in
to custody at Hamilton, Ohio, together
with Theodore Garrison charged with
having attempted to blackmail Mrs. f.
II. Berk. escaped from postoffice in.
sprctors.
| Complaints that the vocational train
! ing school established by the United
Veterans Bureau at Camp Sherman,
near Chillicothc, Ohio, is inadequately
eauipncd, poorly inistered and does