Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-06-29
Domestic


The Meyer commission of New York
City charges that New York City ex-
ceeded its legal tax limit by twenty
million dollars in 1921 and is still run
ming into debt at the rate Of 100000
a day.
S. A. Keller, president Of District 19,
United Mine Workers (Tennessee), is
sues an appeal for congressional in
vestigation of the threatened eviction
of coal miners, their wives and chill
dren of eastern Tennessee and south
eastern Kentucky. He states that not
withstanding the union had a signed
agreement to run to March 81, 1922,
the miners voluntarily, December, 1921,
accepted a reduction of $3.50 per day
in wages, and now the mine owners
want to make a further reduction in
wages.
1t is stated in New York that hun
dreds of railroads have instituted in
junction proceedings against the gov
ernment by counsel in connection with
the rate order promulgated by the in
terstate commerce commission, effec-
tive March 1, which the petitioners as
sert is arbitrary and outside the pow
ers of the commission.
Because four young women in his
congregation giggled right out in meet
ing, Rev. George Robertson, pastor Of
a negro church has hailed them into
police court on a charge Of break
ing up a church service. The magis-
trate continued the case until he could
consult law and precedents on gig
Cling.
Suspension of work by all union coal
miners at midnight, March 81, was
ordered by the United Mine workers
of America, recently, the call being
the first ever issued for both bitumi-
nous and anthracite workers to walk
out simultaneously. Six hundred thou
sand men will be affected.
Watch in hand, Warden Westbrook
Of Chicago told prisoners threatening
to mutiny he would give them just
ten minutes to go to their cells. All
the mutineers soon disappeared, as the
warden was backed up with a suffi.
cient number of armed guards.
A government cutter will probably
be sent out to the wrecked sailing ves-
sci, discovered recently bottom up near
Isle Dernier, off the south coast Of
Louisiana.
An electrical storm of severe inten.
sity recently struck Jacksonville, Fla,
but did no great damage.
1t is alleged that ]. A. Pelt, Judge,
63 years old, has been kidnapped. He
is a justice of the peace.
A worthless check for s275, drawn
on the defunct Denver State bank and
signed 20. What Luck" was accepted
in Kansas City, Mo-, March 8, in pay.
ment TO an automobile.
Narcotis drugs. imported whiskey
and automobiles values at almost $685.
900 were seized by Memphis police
which resulted in number of arrests
on charges of violations OF the liquor
and narcotic laws.
Twelve were hurt, some Of them
seriously, when a heavily laden De
troit avenue trolley car crashed into
the rear of a Cleveland and South
western interurban car in the down.
town section of Cleveland, Ohio.
Governor J. B. A. Robertson, Of
Oklahoma, submitted to arrest at Ok.
mulgee, Okla, on charge Of accept
ing a bribe to permit operation OF an
insolvent bank.
Convicted of stealing $4,000 worth
Of assets in bankruptcy proceedings,
Jacob Harris and Joseph Weiner,
wholesale jewelers., were bound for At
lanta penitentiary to serve sentences
of a year and day each.
Williams Simmons and Homes John
son, sawmill workers, were burned to
death while asleep at Dierks' Ark,
when fire destroyed the Westbrook
hotel.
The lugger World, together with her
crew of nine men and cargo Of whisk-
ey, said to be worth 100000, fell into
the hands of federal prohibition
agents on Lake Ponchartrain, near
Milneburg.
Miss Elsie Smith, 10, and Alphonse
Boyer, %, were found in the trying
room Of the Maple Silk company's
plan, each with bullet wounds in the
head, at Paterson, N. ].
Workers in some of the mills affect
ed by the strike were attacked by
strike sympathizers in the Fairlawn
district at Pawtucket, T. l.
General" Jacob S. ('cxey, of Mas
sillon, Ohio. who led "Coxey's army"
in the march on Washington in 1894,
in the interest of economic legislation
he sponsored, announced that he was
planning to gather followers for an
other drive on the capital
Gwendolyn Armour, 6-year-old
daughter of Philip D. Armour ILL.,,
died fom a form of septicemia after
a weeks illness, during which the mil
lions of the Armour family, the skill
of a dozen nurses and the resources
of entire city of Chicago proved un-
avaiIinp