Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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General News Notes Consthble Owen, of Chester, who was recently injured by being struck Hy a truck is getting bettor steadily. !?. . Spratt. Sr., d i?>?l at his home in ('hunter Saturday morning, aged 7H years- 1 M rsr, . f . M. Kcid committed suicide at her homo in Spartanburg Saturday hy shooting herself. She had, hcien in ill health and loft a note in which uhe stated that she considered an end of it all the best solution. It is said that (Jrovn Cleveland Hergdoll will return from Germany and. *erve his sentence in a federal v'prison for draft evasion. Hergdoll will return at the invitation of the Anrlerican Legion. J. H. Satterfield, of Atlanta, under sentence of .death, escaped from the tower in Atlanta Sunday night, was recaptured near Lakowood, by two farmers while lying in a gully. The man put up a terrific fight before being overpowered. ' If, N. Kidd, seventy-one year old resident of the Judnon Mill villago of Greenville, who had his legs and arms frozen ho me weeks ago, causing amputation, died Monday afternoon. New York bandit#, seven of them, lobbed a New York jewelry ntore of more than $25,000 worth of diamonds, watches, etc., Wednesday morning, after tyinj? up four clerks with wires i/.nd confining them in a back room. Thirty persons were more or less injured in Detroit, Mich., early Wed nesday morniHg by the explosion of ,i bomb at the entrance of a Greek coffee house. Twelve hundred coal miners were ordered to tfo on a strike at a coal mift^ near Scranton, Pa., Wednesday an a (MuUot ogainnt the InyTnir off of 120 miners on account of the closing .of oi;c of the coal veins. New Yorks customs and prohibition officers iritide a raid on the steamship Orduna in New York harbor Tuesday night and got $10,000 worth of liquor tinri narcotics. Bight* members of the crew were arrested. CongresH has* authorized the coin ing of 500,000 souvenir half dollars to commemorate the beginning in 11U8 of the carving of a memorial to Southern soldiers on ( Stone Mountain, Georgia. Dr. William C. Bricker, .If.. Atlan tic City, N. J., physician, has begun ?serving1 a sentence of thirteen to twenty years in state prison following conviction for performing an illegal operation. He ha? foxight the case in the various courts for two yejirs. Tuesday, March 11. was the thirty sixth anniversary of the great bliz y.ar of l.XSX when the country suffered almost complete paralysis on account * if tin- severe col?| and storms. President t'oolidgc has declined to pardon Kdward A. Homely, former .editor ol' tiic New York. Mail, who was sentenced to prison during the war period for violation of the espion age act. A thousand women leaders of various women's organizations are t.. assemble in convention on April 10th and 11th for the purpose of inaugu rating a nation wide campaign for law enforcement. ^ Thirty-nine men ueie arrested Thursda> night by Los Angeles. ('a!., police . in a raid on ' a building that the police "tty i- a hool for Soviet sympathizers. M asses of wreckage lloating into Medaket bay. Massachusetts, on Friday morning, indicate the loss of the schooner Wyoming of Portland, Maine, with its crew of fifteen men. Charles A Greathouse, secretary of the Democratic National committee, in an interview predicts that the Demon atic convention will nominate Senator Samuel M. Kalston of In diana. for the presidency. .John W. Mack, inventoi ?>f the Mack Motor truck, and former presi dent of the International Motor com pany, was killed when his coupe was -truck by a work train on a grade t tossing near NofTs, Pa.. Saturday. The Liberals of France are pre paring to hoiioi the memory of Wood row* Wilson in a manifestation to be held on April (>. Hugh M. Hunter. .the father o: nve ? hildren. shot and killed Mrs. Mar garet TTeath, his housekeeper, and then ? ommittod suicide at Norfolk, \'a . Saturday afternoon. Pasqualle Stallone whs on Satur day sentenced to serve twelve years in prison for second (frig roe murder by 1 1 Scranton. Pa., judge, and just a feu- minutes later was sentenced to the electric chair f<>r another murder by another judge. William G. McAdoo and Senator Oscar Underwood will be the only two presideutial candidates whose names will bo voted for in the prefer ential primary in Georgia for the presidential nomination. Indications at present aro that McAdoo is h slight favorite in hi* native state. The Oklahoma senate on Saturday adopted the nomination of William J.< Bryan for the Democratic presidential nomination with bat one dissenting vote. AT ? March 21? University of South Carolina vs. * i - 1 Richmond at Camden -- .ui I J March 22? University vs. Richmond at Columbia March 24,25, 26, 27? Greenville Team VS. Richmond at Camden March 31, April 1 ? Charlotte South Atlantic] Team VS. Richmond at Camden April 2 and 3? Raleigh, Piedmont League Tea VS. Richmond at Camden CAMDEN BASE BALL ALL GAMES CALLED