The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-02-06
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD over
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South.
land Will BE Found IN
Brief Paragraphs
Domestic

fWashington. D. c., police are engag
ed in an attempt to solve the mystery
of the killing of DR.. T. T. Wong, chief
Of the Chinese educational mission to
the United States, and c.. H. Hsie and
Ben Sen WI, students at George Wash
ington University, whose bodies were
found in their home in the fashionable
Mount Pleasant section.
During explosions and fire which
wrecked the Nyack plant of the Ameri-
can Aniline Products company, at Ny
ack, N. Y, one man was killed and
thirteen other employees were injured.
Several other persons have not been
accounted for. The property loss is
estimated at about one million dol
lars. Heavy damage was caused over
the city of Nyack by the heavy deto-
nations.
y The entire Atlantic fleet is expect
" ed to sail from Hampton Roads short
ly for Guantanamo, Cuba, where the
mid-winter maneuvers and target prac-
tice will be held.
Alfredo Gonzales, formerly president
of Costa RIGA, has been named defend
ant in suit for $4,000 damages
brouhgt in New York by Lincoln G..
Valentine, an American capital inter
ested in oil lands and railroads in
Central America.
The twelve federal reserve banks
broke records in 1918 by piling up an
aggregate of s55, 436,0OO net earnings,
largely rediscount operations, as COM
pared with $11,202,O0O the year before.
Gross earnings, tire federal reserve
board reported, were $67,584 900.
There have been many petitions to
the present congress to pass univer-
sal eight-hour day, and thereby settle
by law this question which has been
before the public for forty years, and
which, it is realized, must come soon
or become the biggest political tissue
IN all history.
Mary Powers, the pretty, Atlanta,
Ga, blond affinity of the dead John
Abbott, of the Atlanta fire department,
is being held as an accessory to his
murder. Face toAface with the widow
who killed her husband, she took the !
verdict without sign Of emotion. Mrs.
Stella Abbott took the stand and &C
cused her slain husbands soulmate.
She stated that if it had not been for
Mary Powers effort to get her husband |
over the telephone, the tragedy prob |
abaly would never have occurred.
Additional impetus was given the |
better highways movement in Geor- |
gia in Atlanta recently when, at a |
meeting, the Retail Merchants AS
ISOLATION adopted resolutions request |
ing Governor Dorsey to call a special
session of the legislature to establish |
a well-defned and connected system /
OF improved highways in Georgia.
Child labor in the United States, if |
we are to judge by the sentiment in
the present congress, will soon be a
thing of the past in the United States.
Prohibitive taxation on articles pro-
duced by child labor will prevent pur-
chase or sale.
The textile workers Of the United
States are out after an eight-hour day,
and have notified the public that re-
CARELESS of what the employers think
about the matter, Monday, February
g., will see the movement inaugurated
by a gigantic strike if a strike is nee
essary.