The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1922-03-02
Domestic

domestic
Governor Lee M Russell, in a special
message to the legislature at Jackson,
Miss, charged the old line fire insur.
ance companies which withdrew from
the state last year following institu-
ton of antitrust legislation, with fos-
tering the 100000 seduction suit filed
against him by Miss Frances Birkhcad
of New Orleans, his former stenog.
rapher
The Roma, largest semi-rigid air
craft in the world, made a careening
swoop down from the clouds. She
shuddered as her huge bag came into
contact with high-voltage electric
wires 200 feet from the earth. Then
there was deafenng roar and a tow
ering sheet of flame. The giant turn
ed turle and, keel in the air, crashed
to earth at Norfolk, Va. Thirty-four
or her human cargo-army officers
and few civilians-were thrown in.
to or about the blazing wreck-and
perished. Eleven others, some of
them terribly injured survived. OF
the survivors three were not hurt
Such Is the story Of the greatest dis.
aster in the history of the American
army air service. AS in the case Of the
fatal explosion Of the ZR-2 over Hull
englan, last August, the airship was
one purchased from foreign govern.
ment by the United States. The ZR.2
was purchased by the navy from Great
Britain. The Roma was sold to the
army by Italy.
Milton Drury, former cotton mill
worker, Of Winona, Miss, a son Of
Mrs. Ada Drury Converse, whose pnr.
tially burned body was found near
Hazlehurst, about ten days ago, Is
being sought by Sheriff H. e. Ramsey
OF Copiah county. for questioning in
connection with the crime.
With the arrival Of four companies
OF Rhode Island coast artillery at Paw.
tucket, following the most serious riot
Ing OF the New England cotton mill
strike. the city was very quiet.
Chief OF Police Talbert arrested a
man at Concord. N. c., suspected of
being Edward F. Sands, who is want.
ed in connection with the willing OF
William Desmond Taylor, the movie
director. in California.
Judge Morris, in the United States
district court, Wilmington, Del, recent.
ly granted a dismissal of the com.
plant, with costs to the petitioners
Tor receiver for the Columbia Graph.
ophone Manufacturing company.
The wife Of Rev. Thomas N. Denny
Jr, aged S3. dean Of New Orleans Col.
lege, Delaware, Ohio, has preferred
charges against him for non-support
lie disappeared last July, and she
thought he had suicided When she
found he was alive, she filed charges
or non-support against him.
The Nebraska board OF education
has decided that instructors in any
of the Nebraska normal colleges here.
after VIII be refused leaves of absence
to study or attend the Universities OF
Columbia, Chicago and Northwestern
because 1t has been shown that stu.
dents at these institutions smoke ciga.
rettes, especially the women"
Supreme Court Justice Mullan Of
New York denied application of Edith
Kelly Gould for an order vacating the
divorce decree obtained in Paris somo
time since by Frank j. Gould. The
court set forth that the action had not
been brought in good faith by the &C.
treSs and that "the limit Of her hone
is to coerce the defendant"
Fiji Potter Stillman, father of Mrs.
Stillman, who has been in the lime.
light for some time, died in the sub
'rbs OF Richmond, where he had re
Gently gone from New York.
The Nashville, Tenn, electric ligh,
plant was recently gutted by fire, with
an approximate loss OF one hundred
thousand dollars.
Lieut.. Clifford e. Smythe of Chicago
wrote his father after the first tria,
trip of the Roma in Washington, tha,
1t would be criminal to attempt to
lily the dirigible unless some improve
ments were Smade on the vessel.