Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-10-19
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will speak In Memphis and Nashville
Tenn. October 20, In the interest o
the second Liberty Loan.
Formal notification has been sent I,
Secretary OF War Baker by Col. w. D
Newbill, U. s. A., officer in charge o
camp grounds in the Vicksburg Ma
tional Military park, that arrangement
have been completed for caring fo
$4,000 veterans TO attend the nationa
memorial reunion of the Blue and Ora,
at Vickbsurg, Miss.
A meeting held by Polish resident.
y Chicago to celebrate the centennia
Of the death Of Thaddeus Kosciusko
Poland's national hero, was the occa
sion. October Il, for the greatest pa
triotic demonstration ever made b,
Chicago Poles,
Atlanta, Ga, will entertain Secretary
McAdoo, october "a, where he will
speak on the second Liberty Loan.
In San Antonio, Texas. an order fol
the courtmartial OF more than one
hundred and twenty negroes, charged
with participation in the rioting al
Houston, August 20, which will be held
at Fort Sam Houston. is expected. Six
ty negroes will be charged with mu
tiny and murder and the remainder
with lesser offenses.
An appeal to the federal shipping
board to build, sell or lease on an in
stallment plan large fleet OF barges
to enable the Mississippi river to re-
lieye the railroads, all overtaxed, was
voiced at the closing session OF the
sixteenth annual convention OF the Up
per Mississippi Improvement assocla
ton at Winona MINI.
Mayors throughout the state OF Ohio
are preparing to seize coal to prevent
suffering. which is becoming wide
spread in their communities Some
have already done so.
John Francis Beckwith of Utica, N.
Y, whose love letters have cost va
rious women in the United states ST.
900 and who has four wives in various
parts of the country, has been Sentenc-
ed by Federal Judge Ray to fifteen
years in the federal prison al Atlanta,
Ga, and to pay total fine of fifteen
thousand dollars. He pleaded guilty
Policeman w II. McGray and Wal
ter Clark, a negro, are dead, and six
others wounded as the result Of gun
battle at Danville, Va. in which Clark
had barricaded himself in his house
and held crowd Of nearly three thou
sand at bay for two hours. The negro
was killed by yolley as he tried to
escape after the house had been fired.
The executive committee Of the Aero
Club of America has voted ten thou
sand dollars TO promote the efficiency
Of American aviators in France Some
Of the important phases of the work
planned were outlined in letter sent
to President Wilson from the head
Mayor Thomas B. Smith Of Philadel.
phia is held under ten thousand dollar
bail by Judge Brown in the municipal
court to await the action OF the grand
jury on charges of having imported
thugs and gunner to intimidate voters
in the recent primary held in Phila.
depha.
Military authorities are said to be
investigating an alleged plot to poi
son several hundred students at the
governmental aernnautcal school at
Princeton, n j.
The appearance of killing tempera.
lures in part Of the western belt has
caused further reduction of crop
estimates and a further sharp advance
in the cotton market
Columbia University students fought
one another in front Of the library
steps when they assembled to discuss
the action of the trustees recently
in Diminishing two professors for their
utterances in connection with the war.