Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TO* PKOPt.*. aAKNWCM. a c. keah addresses SPEAKERS FROM KENTUCKY AND VIRGINIA LEND AID IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA DRIVE. .li WAREHOUSE COSTS REDUCED ;on /' Heavy Receipt* of Contracts at the Florence Headquarters Mark the Opening Day. Florence. — “Tobacco which would have sold without the pohl at from one to three cents a pound in Ken tucky will bring at ^past 20 cents a pound when re-dried by the Burley as sociation at a large profit to the farm er.” said John Bell, Kentucky speaker, at the meeting of tobacco farmers and business men tn the court house at Florence. The meeting was the op ening gun in the Tobacco Growers’ Co-operative association’s campaign for members in South Carolina. Heavy receipts of contracts at the Florence headquarters marked the opening day of the drive, which reaches Dillon, I.ake City, Darlington, Conway, John sonville and Fairmont. Mr. Bell stated that Kentucky grow ers have already drawn over 119.000.- 000 Mr Bell was followed by Bright Williamson .president of the Bank ol Darlington, and vice-president of the FIVE SUFFOCATED IN AN ABANDONED MINE Hartford. Ark. — At leaet five Members of a picnic party wera suffocated Ia aa abandoned mine here. Three others who sttempt- ed to resuce the victims were over come end are, reported to be In a serious condition. The mine, which had not been In operation for six months, is lo-, cated six miles from Hartford. It is believed the deaths were caused by an accumulation of black damp. A searching party is at the scene to determine if any more bodies are in the mine. The deaths resulted from a small boy’s exploring expedition, It Is saifl. The boy entered the mine and is supposed to have opened a door leading into the abandoned shaft. When he failed to reap pear other members of the party who were picking blackberries went after him and were either killed or Injured by the poisonous vapors. TOUR COURTS SCENE OF IRISH WARFARE 10.000 PESOS OEM GREAT BUILDING STILL HELD BY IRREGULARS DESPITE BY BOMBARDMENT. GREAT BRITAIN IS NOT IN IT Small, Artillery Trench Mortars and Machine Guns Were Employed By Attacking Forces. MEXICAN OFFICIAL PROMISES TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE FOR HIS RELEASE. Dublin. — Michael Collins, head of the Irish Free State government, took active measures against the republican insurgents under Rory O’Connor In their stronghold In the center of Dub lin, Four Courts. An ultimatum for the surrender of the insurgents was ' ignored and at the expiration of a brief time limit Free State troops in armored cars and motor lorries be gan a movement against the insurg ents which was met with an Immediate fusilade from the building. From dawn ubtil night there were heavy^ exchanges, although at inter vals the firing ceased. Small artillery NEW LAW AftOUBEt AUTOMOBILISTS IRE Richmond. Va. — N*sat Indigna tion as s result of the arrest of au- tomobUists by the--hundreds failure to come to a full stop wit! in ten feet of a railroad before crossing was expressed by motor* ists in various sections of Virginia. In several instances those warning the drivers were threatened with arrest for alleged interference. A constable stood on either side of the track and arrested the driv ers when they failed to stop be fore crossing the track and a Jus tice of the peace tried them on the scene. No other warning than a sign, “Danger—'Stop,” near the track, was posted to remind the mo torists of a new law which re quires every person driving any ve hicle on the public highways, on ap proaching a steam railway cross ing to stop before passing there over, and making It a misdemean or ter failure to do so. SEI2E0 IN MEXICO TAKEN AS SECURITY FOR RAN SOM OF '15,000 PESOS, SAYS THE REPORT. PROPERTT. IS ALSO SEIZED i. Incident at Tampico Follows Seixura of Bruce Bielaski Who Still is Captive. Bielaski and Wlff on Way to View Aztec Ruina When Held Up by Seven Bandita. Washingtoa. — Seizure of 40 Ameri can employes of the Cortese^Oil com pany at Tampico, Mexico, reported to the state department, as security for a ransom of 15,000 pesos, created § stir in official circles in Washington. Tfl DDflMflir U/flDI n nrinr Lackin « further information as to IU rnUlflUlL VfUnLU itAuC what has happened behind what is ap parently a rigid censorship at Tam pico, however, there was little to in- JAPAN AGREES TO HAVE LAST soldier Withdrawn by OCTOBER 30. dicate whether the incident would lead to any change of attitude hers ‘I toward the Obregon government in Mexico. ’In.fact, at the W'hlte House, It was said that relations between the United h < .mn| 0r8 H a ^ d “* chl " e aan8 ! Action Being Taken at Tokio by Dip- States and Mexico were not likely r-r? “s: —- r . r 4/ themaelves largely to machine gun * • "Record. . pinK for rangom near Cuernavaco. some CO miles from Mexico City, of and rifle fire. No attempt was made to carry Four Courts by assaulL but Mexico City.—Alberto J. Paul, sec- one of the walls of tha building was Tokyo. — Japan sealed her pledge Bruce Bielaakl, formerly chief of the aasociatlon. who strongly Indorsed the I retary of foreign affairs, has been of-i bached" at Varioui 0*11™.'* "'““* """ 10 P ro,not « wdr ‘<l taken at the f> u r * a u Investigation of the depart- statements of the Kentuckians and flclally advised by the American em The cssnaltie. .r. r.« •- limitation of annamenta conference at raent of j“"t‘ce and more recently gave It as his belief that the orderly bassy of tha kidnapping of A. Bruce Mon 10 the natnee the a.K>i» !L.i w ** h,n *»on. by declaring her Anal de- ,d * B tj®*d with American oil Interests seriously wounded ,- . ... . not Include any casualties , h . r 7 have been suffered by the «, Wh ~ ^ J regulars tbeee tela* impossible to a* Mr. Mela*kI was chief of the be certain. reua of inventIgnlion of thn United (.*•* than one thousand Free State | States department of justice during { 0,lna The other person kidnapped was This Stating that the warehouse costs Manuel Barvena. a Mexican nttor that for tobacco handled through the Bur | oey ley pool were slightly more than M cents per hundred pounds that th# total eipense of handling the grower* tobacco through tha Kentucky as so elation would not etreed be rents per 1*0 pounds the Kentucky member of the Burley Growers’ sssnclstlou corn pared these charces to tba coats of osiltng tobacco for charges of II to II ii over lbe loose leaf Soots That n nreare rout.ty Is thoroughly stirred by tha ehllrwlnd campaign Is furthar attested by tba fact that rwaeatattvas fmm esery ha ah and consulate laid pmmlseat merchants of Timmons*HU M uas spent Ibe 4ar taurtag tha country fog .ag Mr BSelashl nea members for (be neeortatlon. »s rs^llnhrd IB Maswo CMy list’s* tba aid of flout ha II Farrar 4»u > •tanttalfy r trust _ nr* engaged la tho present op- war || la ganorully he I tar ad that, nrattoaa and H la known that tha Ir* iattend of purating tha kidnapper* in regulars samhor several hundred tba potat of ehdaugarlag tha lives of Tba Irish labor party la reported to tho raptlrea. Moairan federal troop* dtsopprov* of tho ariioo of tho pro oho art sear* h tag for tho captive ststonal gov arum eat la a I lack lug tho • til aaior into negotiations laohlag building, hot tha provision towards Iheir rvlausa hy lho poymool meat oar* M dartdod lo au of all or part of tha la #00 pesos run rovoft of tha Irruguloru. acted tmme dtatety and looh efficiently oN tho no IV>th the America a embassy sad the M j ear maoaoras It la handling tha Aoaortntod Frees • Meat ton entirely alon*. otthont any rr.sited concern assistante from British traopg who *** fbets sun m garrison la DoMta I » A feat are of the operation* *us that assn with la a short dtetaiKO of Irtct agent of esteastoo Virgtnto Tha air of myeCwry which anrmnnd the gr who arrived for his speaking tour of eg tho kidnapping was asp! a lead IB , the Booth Garottes markets aatharttaltva aonrrao as an aliampf ^ Timmooavtila after hotldiug up a by Mr Msiaehih frienda m have tho msrket for M years aith surh s*c j..,, pcmaibi* .e d shoot tho inrldoot rasa that tt has recently ranked see aB >jy ,,, M f # oad and third la tha stats has g«no Apparonily there are no facta la 1*0 per rent r«*..peretlve hating turn aepport the theory adsamad In some ed over Its fonr big e»n-h eses »0 J ^eartare that tha kidnapping was In stigated by Mr Melasiie para anal r SO ea tj| # tha Obregon government to am bar soldi#rs must rAM lu with tb* Uaitod be out of tho mantim* provinces of or «bi»1 tbat government bas Siberia, while a foreign official do b ** a P™** 4 uuequsl to accord such r la rad that tha decision oaa Intended Kotectton to Americans and their to place Japan on record no a “non Psporty aa the occasion aggressive nation to maintain the. ,h#r * *rpears to ha no dtapoolt of tha world * I bare to move In any other thaa a diptm Tho diplomatic advisory council s ap •* ,tc *•* sal of cahtnot declaioa la said to Bey«*4 a brief report Mating that tho logical outcome of Ad- *• •FAltlo* I# the two score AmerV Iml fUroo Katos occeoeion to the employee, a quarter of a mill too peemiofuhip dollars’ worth of dostmdIhlo proporty Koto, oho lag the Japanese delete Uhdoao Oil company was be- ties in the Maablngton arms roBfar- '•« bald as aerorUy Par the payment •Bee. returned to Toby* thoroughly d •mended no ocher word ho* reached tmhned with the spirit of that gather *•*!* doportawBl ram• thing tho ihgndit nrtloa In Tompim. u of artillery at luiarvsia th* Tobacco Oroears Gooporutlsa ae rtattoo ronldcat la Its completa sum C Hay limith prominent merrh aat of Timmoaavilla reported (hat the house to boee# raavasa of merrbaata and baskrrs is meeting with serenes Mr ftmith said that although Tim mousviu* has hitherto dca«a solid rarloods of lobocco from Georgia and targa quaatlllas of tba weed from oth er eertioua it ta going tha limit for cooperative ms r kettag la spit# of temporary sacrlflce T it la being held Par bandits who held ep *•’ ee miles west af ooemnrnm. la the state of Moraine Mr BleUsht together with his wife and Mr and Mr* Manuel darrena of Meaicala. was on the way to view is Attar ruins near tho town Thb r ats w*r* nearing tho hacienda D* Baa Gabriel when tho bandits sad- dsaly appeared and stopped tbom st tha polat of guaa Tho womoa wer* Cseats KMied Boa AiinniO' Ta Hon cadets were killed aa si takse Threo avia f their hod ia which at •og and strongly ta favor of hi* mom tondit nctleo In Tampico a non sag res* iso poflry ••• eitootioB In ih ml eanuuBcegyeat of Blhe evershadooed tor tho moment the rma ovacuatmo sot*! ^ggtopr* of •rur# tootaskl So word “Tlko Japonaoe getemmsnt has do- bo# rum* from ike emhaaey ta show ctdod IB oHhdraw si} troops from tho progress of tho effort# of the MasimB mantuoa provincoo of glhana hy Oc- frdornl nothnrltl#* to ohtsto the rm lohor M Boltsbi* measoru* will ha of the raptlv* The delay laheo tor tho pewiertma of Japan*#* maned In He aorprto* her* heoeser res ideate * * •• ih* regtea Is mean ta moos sad H As official of the foreign office com recognised (hoi the Menu a a gee tb* declaioa to gait Blhe- eminent meat mas* renttsosiy If dealing with rarhlena entlnw* In no li has been a mailer ef regret that Far that tho Ilf* of tho prisoner might eartooa nnromstance* prevanted Jo Bnt ho Jeopardised pop from carrying out her desire to —' ■■ ' eithdmw her troops from Siberia fills si* to Duty •« Mast rrududta. H ma not ha enid that pelltim! M'aahiagion Duties an frenh meats roadttioaa ihere haeo attained toll sta- pcedocts proposed In tb* billtjf. hat a change has occurred ipending tariff hill. H effective, oeold •avad from Watte. Dies at Hospital. Greenwood -J I* Pressly of Due ■W*-#!, member of the Seaboard Air Line bridge ronstrurtloa force, die* ....... . w- tT a id hare after being almost drowned In n the American charge d’sfflres. George °* Ftoff | fell from n height of itt foot daad BBV the gonoml road it tone of tho whato to* bin u** . Waldron M Farrell 14. Philadelphia bf communistic measures seem ‘ . V W . tommonianc measures seem boOgPO; Boaator Walsh, democrat, ** „ Vashvlll# *• ^ mo4lM *** po90n Slaaaachuseits. declared ta the william C Mil vf. SI. Nashville. altered their attltnde towards ■ ***■ . Ressi* as ait sol ed hy the lavitaGona George C Thompson. Wfost Philadol ^ Soviet government lo attend the pbih. Fa Genoa and Hague conferences sad con- Farrell and M« < oy are said to hare of non aggressive sad non prop lib Moscow. o Brooks field, where Thompson had Tbon* letters promise to Improve re arrived from Carlstrom field. Florida, released, but. after robbing them, the _ .. . . B .. tmadits took Mr Bielaski and Mr Bar- ylBBjB Koffy Boid ^.ga agreements .ena With them ***’ “* d Those letter* promise to Improve Whan the news reached this «*7., J!!". ** ,d * n ° rul * Idtlons between the powers sad Soviet government tht He was dteresetag the agricultural schedule sad announced that from time to time ho would "submit figure* staggering la their site, showing what aa u a bee ruble burden these duties oa agricultural products would be to tbo consumers ’* Senator Walsh estimated that the bathing ;>on«l In four feet of water. After being under water »e\en min utes. 1’ressly was brought to the sur face and respiration restored He was aken to s hopslial and (rested but died from hemorrhages With bathers all around • him. In only about four feet of water. Pressly suddenly sank out of sight. Efforts of those around him to bring him to the surface proved fruitless and he was rescued when two men on the bynk of the pond dived In after him. The dead man was 38 years of age He Is survived by his wife, one brother R C. Pressly, Due West; three sis ters. T Summerlin. Immediately communi cated with the authorities nt Cuera- navsea. as well as getting In touch > Goal Is fiOO.OOO Converts. Nashville. Tenn — A goal of C00.- Ith the federal government and Sec- 000 | coav , ert, durin ; ^ P :r 0t .n On " pUb, ‘ C ° f SibrrU nary of War Serrano ordered the fed- ^ n,,onal 5r * ar w “ ^ V*®* . " a ^b a commercial the vicinity to start U,Uc P^ram of Southern Baptists at Tokyo retary eral troops In after the bandits a meeting here of the conservation | n conclusion the foreign office offl commission of the Seventy-Million c j a | (i ec i are( j ; campaign and of other leaders of the -j a p an a i go believes that this wlth- Fear Kaiser is Ready to Flee. 'church from all sections of the South. drawa | together.with Japan’s concllia- London. — Apprehesnlon exist* In state and church organisations also (ory attitude at the Washington con- Twenty-one Killed In Two Weeks. Holland lest former Kriser William at- were called upon to set up again their f erpn( . e w |ji t, e understood by the Calexico. Calif. — Twenty-one men tempt to slip away from Dorn and re- original machinery for carrying the wor ] d as evidence that Japan is a non- have been killed In and around Mexi- enter Germany In the event of a campaign to a successful conclusion. aCKreg9 j V e nation, striving to mafntain call. Lower California, in the last two Masons Hold Celebration. Bishopville. — The festival of St. John was celebrated by the Patesville ledge of Free and Accepted Masons with a picnic spread in the grove of Savannah church and a splendid ser mon preached by the Rev, H. G. Bed- Inger of Hartsville and an address by O. Frank Hart, secretary of the grand lodge, of Columbia This season of the year is the occa sion of celebration by the Masons of the Stokes Bridge section of the coun ty, and this year the members entered into the spirit of the occasion with the usual zeal, the result being that every one who attended’greatly enjoy ed themselves. royalist rising following the assassi nation of Foreign Minister Rathenau, the peace of the world.” weeks, according to official reports in Calexico, just across the international line. This compilation was made fol-‘ of dight dead Bruce Bielaski Released. according to the correspondent of the Maxico City. — A. Bruce Bielaski, Work on Dam postponed. Daily Mail at The Hague. _ (he American who was captured sev-| Washington. — An appropriation of lowing the discovery 'We have no evidence that the era i ,i a y S ag0 by bandits in the state of $7 500,000 for new construction work Mexicans, two and a half miles east Kaiser has any such intention," he 1 M ore i os _ W as delivered by his captors on t he W’ilson dam at Muscle Shoals, of Calexico, one of the bodies being said, “and the surveillance maintain- to friends at Chietia, following P a F' Ala . was authorized by the house and in an irrigation ditch on the American ed around him, is so close that it m ent of a ransom of $10 000 in gold. sen t to the senate for concurrence. ‘ side of th eboundary. would be impossible for him to- get away even if he wished.’’ Finds Still in Cave. Anderson. — A fifty-gallon still and nearly 150 gallons of beer were found by Rural Policeman Martin in the Sep tus community ~ The outfit was 4n a kind of cave, made out of a ditch, covered over with brush and almost entirely concealed The ashes .and other debris of the cave gave evidence that has heel many • accessful “nina*’ made before the officers,got wise The cuv# vs* hollowed oat sad th* brush mad* a rotltag of about eight It oaa ib ideni plnr# tor • Would Tighten Immigration Laws. Washington.—Under a bill designed to tighten up the immigration law’, introduced by- Chairman Johnson of the house immigration committee, ad mission for permanent residence in this country would be granted only to aliens eligible for citizenship, thus, it was pointed odt, shutting th* gates to Japanese, Chinese, Mongolians and others not granted the right of citi zenship who., desire such residence. Shot By Policeman. Danville. •Va.' — R. A. Benton, a prominent business man of Danville, was severely wounded by Police Of- fleer O. T. Cook when mistaken by th* latter (or a highwayman who has been operating recently in this local ity, th* MrJaielAskl with his party was r ®* I Under a limitation fixed by the house, ported to be proceeding by train 1° however, none df the. money can be ex- Mexico City. According to tlie mea-: p cc t cd prior to next October. J Captain Hamilton Killed in Crash. Gettysburg, Pa, — C-apt, George-D. gre information reaching the capital, | As authorized originally,by the sen- flarciiltcn, distinguished service cross the release of Mr. Bielaski was wUh- a j e w h e n it attached a provision' to j man and known as one of the most out untoward incident!- - ! t he army bill providing for renewal of j intrepid officers of the marine corps, work on the dam the $7,500,000 was was instantly killed here when his alf- made available for that use as soon' plane- crashed to earth in a nos$ dive Marconi Awarded Medal. New York.—The John Fritz medal, one of the highest distinctions bestow- near the big monument. Sergt. G. A. Martin of Buffalo, his machanician, as the bill was signed hy the presi dent. House republican leaders en- ed by the engineering profession In deaV ored to obtain straightout accep- was fatally injured and died soon after this country, has been awarded f° r t a nce of th$ appropriation a$ approved ho was admitted to the local hospital. 1922 to Senator Guglielmo Marconi. ;. by the genate but were defeated by for • the invention of wireless teleg- '^ combination of democrats and farm raphy. 41 ' Want to Build Highway. Richmond. Va. — Delegations from bloc repuhUMns. 4— 4- 1 Merger of Mills Given Approval. Richmond, Va.—Merger of the Indus- the Norfolk and Newport News Cham*J tr j a j Cotton Mills company, Inc., atid beys of Commerce and Rotary Cluba Captain Hamilton’s plane was oue of\ a number acting as the advance scout ing party. " ' - ' ' .' Capture Director of Irish Boycott. Dublin. — Comfnandant Henderson director of the boycott against Belfast BOWRON SOUGHT RELIEF 40 YEARS Tanlac Restorss Los Angsles Man to ’ Splendid Health After Every. thing Els* Had Failed. ;^T "Tanlnc has done me more than all other medicines and treat *dto; nients combined, and* that's saying grent deal, for I was a sufferer from^^ Indigestion forty years and have tried every kind of medicine that came my • > way,” said R. H. Bowron, 1635 W. 17th St., Los Angeles, Cal. 1 could hardly stand the bad spellfi I frequently had with my stomach. I was w£ak and nervous, had no appe tite, and I felt miserable generally. Nothing I took gave me more than temporary relief and I gradually grew worse. ‘‘About two yeprs ago Tanlac put me in splendid condition and It has been ray standby ever since. When ever I get to feeling a little off, a bottle or two puts me in fine shape. I eat heartily now, sleep fine, have no distress after meals, and, In fact, am enjoying splendid health. Tanlac Is Just tie thing for those who suffer ' as I did.” . ,. v Tanlac Is sold by all good drugglsta. Stingy men are always poor. WOMAN COULD , NOT WORK Made Strong and Well by Lydia E. Pinkham’t Veg etable Compound * Bl Paul. Minn.—“I took Lydia R/ Pink ham s Vegetable Compound for B A urod. worn-out f*oL I mg and pawfulpori- leda. I uaed tegotieml* I with atVUBff Mkg COB B* a*4 Bet a fool ao well hit e#i duties oa beef and veal would Increase Japan believes that with this re- price* of those commodities by $231.- j moral of the Chinese . government* 004004 a year; that mutton and lamb cause for suspicion, the Far Exstern wouM ad v» n ce by a total of IJl.SOO.- | will strive to ooo; pork by $105,000,000, and lard agreement with by | 12 000.000. He said the total would be $3.77 for each man. woman and child in the eountry, or $18.55 for a family of five. U seful fc little till for a.l th# ilmtntt— bumpB. brutaoB. tom, sunburn and chafing. Keep a bottlff in tha hou»e. It’fi safe and pure. It coats YBry littia. tHEscanm gh mpg go. c^oMoesano New York rVaselin^ laid the subject of Richmond partici pating with th* tidewater citi . .. goods, has been arrested by the pro- Blue-Buckle Cotton Mills, Inc., under T j t j 0M j government authorities and the name of tho Industrial Gotten Mill* removed to Mount Joy prlaon, says aa company. !nc.. with principal offices at! snnouncemsnt Issued by tha bead- Cook reported he had been on‘Norfolk. Newport Nowa, Hampton afehnuyud vag authorised by the Vlr- quarters of the army dissents in the watch for the man who had aad WUllairtborg la arcumulatlng a clB|A aU|a corp^tjo, commission Four Coutrs I •— ■ - Th* factorise of the company will b* stopping late travelers aad who j fund of $400,000 with • car of tho same pi*<* the “capital to Ho J which to being s •rat ho aai^M^jAfir IB at the h: ' h 10 rom i Th* factories of th* company will bo 4 Couater action has boos takes hy on Highway ’ op#r>ud ^ Roeg Htfl. B C ih* Fonr Comers irregulars Recent hy th* Hsmp The incorporator# were listed aa ly they kid sapped Lieut H gtoJ ai.—■Om at Rock Hill praal O'Connor assist*at chief of ■ o of Rock Hitt bow tho regular* at Rsdgar's ;ock Sulphur Compound For pimples, black-heads, freckles, blotches, and tan, as well as for more serious face, scalp and body eruptions, hives, eczema, etc., use this scientific compound of sulphur. As a lo- don. It soothes and heab: taken Internally— a few drops in a glass of water—It gets at the root of the trouble and purhes the blood. Physicians agree that sulphur is one of the most effeedve blood purifiers known. Re member. a good complexion isn’t skin deep —It's health deep Be tore to ask for HANCOCK SULPHUR COMPOUND. It has been used with satis factory results for over 25 years. 60c and $1 -20 tht bottle at your druggist's. If he can’t supply yon, tend his name and the price in stamps and we will send you a bottle direct. HANCOCK LIQUID SULPHUR COMPANY M4. 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