The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-12-28
Domestic

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Masked bandits, heavily armed and
without regard for human life. staged
the largest and most sensational day
light robbery the other day in Denver,
Colo, In police annals. right on the
doorsteps Of the United States mint.
Charles Linton, a guard for the federal
reserve bank, was killed by a rain of
bullets from the guns Of the bandits.
who escaped with two hundred thou
sand dollars in currency.
| Reports to air mail service headquar.
ters at Salt Lake City, Utah, say the
airplane Of Pilot Henry G. Boonstra,
who has been missing several days,
has been located 20 miles southeast
OF Coalville, Utah, and it is thought
Boonstra has made his way to safety.
Because he said his wife nagged him.
Walter Jaroski Of Chicago faxed sui.
eide. The police arrested him on a
charge Of disorderly conduct, and he
was promptly fined by the city re.
corder.
]. P. Morgan & Co., New York issue
a statement in which they state that
they have informed the German am.
bassador to this country they cannot
even consider a German loan until the
reparations question has been definite.
ly settled.
Fifty men dragged the drainage ca.
nal at Chicago for the body OF Mrs.
Kate Mitchedll Trostell, pretty young
widow, who disappeared from her Chi.
cago home, but without success.
Carl Caraway, 10 years old. Kansas
City, was sentenced to one year in Jail
and fined $1,000 for striking his mother
Anthony Gramm and his wife, Cleve.
land. were awakened by the barking Of
their pet dog, and got out OF their
burning home without any mishap. The
dog sacrificed his life.
The imprint of a bare hand on his
automobile fender is the only clue po.
lice have in their search for the slayer
or slayers of Ralph E. Esmond, an
agent Of the Chicago Motor clug, who
was found shot to death near Starved
Rock, Ill.
The other day there were seventy
fires in Chicago. and many families
were driven out into zero weather by
the flames. Harry T. Graham. a SO.
year-old printer, froze to death, result.
ing, 1t is believed. from one of the
fires.
Three men were burned to death and
four others were injured. one probably
fatally. recently when a fire DESTROYED
a cottage In which they were sleeping
at Little Wadsworth, near Akron, Ohio.
Sinking when a rescue boat was
within six feet OF him, Ellis Potter, 25
years old, an attorney, was drowned in
Lake Mendoza. near Madison. Wise.
He broke through the thin ice while
hunting ducks.
Following torrential rains in this
territory. the Tennessee river is ris.
| ing rapidly and Observer Pindell pre-.
dicted that a stage of "a feet would
soon be reached.
An eastbouni A. G. l.. through
freight was derai.ed recently in west
cambridge, Ga. demolishing thirteen
cars. two Of which contained live
stock. There were four tramps steal.
ing rides in an empty car just behind
the ones wrecked and were not awak.
ened or hurt in any way.
Sworn to protect the lives Of their
members who have testified for the
prosecution at the trial OF five men
charged with murder in connection
with the Herrin mine riots, secret
organization OF farmers was reported
to have been formed.
The schooner Salvatrice with 1000
cases of alcohol aboard, flying the
French flag upside down as sigal OF
distress. and the Boston schooner Star,
we'll stocked with ships supplies, were
captured together off Sandwich, Mass,
by the coast guard crew commanded
by Captain Chris Sullivan.
Twenty PERSONS were killed and fif.
| ty injured In Houston, East and West
Texas train wreck at Humble, Texas.
Il miles north of Houston. Two am.
balances and a score of physicians
were sent from Houston to the scene
OF the wreck.
Georges Clemenceau, his missionary
| speaking tour to the United States
ended. has sailed for France. much
pleased.
Prohibition enforcement and the Ku
Klux Klan are the important subjects
before the fourteenth annual confer.
ence of governors which is in session
at White Sulphur Springs. w. Va.
The Missouri. Kansas and Texas rail.
road and branch lines were bought In
by the firm Of Randolph Il Bluemen.
thai OF New York, for $4,000, 700. at
| an auction sale held at Colbert. Okla
The price was just $500 more than
the minimum bid for which the lines
could be, sold.
Looping Oft s11.0OO,00O from the val
uation fixed by its engineers, the Ala.
bama public service commission has
handed down an opinion fixing the to-
tai value of the property Of the Ala.
bama power company, In Alabama, de-
voted to the service OF the public, a.
$33,843.262.