Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-03-07
Domestic

Before an audience that crowded Inc
immense auditorium to the doors ana
annlauded him to the echo time ana
again. ex. President Taft delivered an
addressing Atlanta in defense OF the
league of nations as drafted at me
Versailles conference and brought PACK
tn the United States by President vii
son.
A telegram from Augusta, Ga, says
that II is announced that General Cii-
&er Edwards, commander at camp
>pcock, has received orders 10 uis'
ale Camp Hancock with me ex
bn of a small auxiliary at the re-
station.
Elsberry V. White, survivor
Monitor Merrimac battle in
! Roads during the Civil war,
clifton Springs, n. y, accord
vices received by relatives AZ
HI. Va, aged so years. He
uber of the Confederate en-
q. and was assistant engl-
Y Merrimac.
- Aay B. Gray, former lieutenant
governor of Alabama and prominent
capitalist, died suddenly at his home
in Birmingham as he sat down to din
ner He had been down town and
was apparently in the best OF heaitf
and spirits. He was born in Georgia
and had at one time been a reporter
on the Atlanta Constitution.
As soon as Mrs. Stella Abbott, whit
shot and killed her husband, fireman
in Atlanta, Ca, MAKES bond OF nv
thousand dollars, she will be released
from the Fulton county Jail. where sh'
has been confined about two months
All the charges against w B. Cody
chief OF the Atlanta Are department
were dismissed and his administrator
as head of the department found to b
efficient by the board OF fremaster'
before whom his administration ha
been thoroughly aired. and agains
whom certain charges OF ineffcenc
had been filed.
The Texas state senate has gone o
record as being opposed TOT reductio
in the cotton acreage.
The mysterious death In an Atian'
bospitatl OF J. w. Hickman. who sal
before his death that he was fro
prunswick. Ca, was cleared when
black. an employee Of the Americ'
shipbuilding company at Brunswie
surrendered to Chief Of Police Burge
~ brunswick, announcing that ne "
,ha mai, who struck Hillman the Dc
that produced his death. He said IN
in a dispute over a missing plan'
he struck Hillman. A later difncu'
ensued. -. -,
Mitchell Palmer. the alien prs
artv custodian, said in a formal sta
,nart that the resolution OF Repup
I'M senator Calder calling Tor ini'
nation covering the operations q Y
custodians office was fully answer
Il his report now ready for suDm
sim to President Wilson. :
Mayor william Hale Thompson, : !
ouh,ican candidate. was nominated
ra.slection in the municipal prima
~ an indicated plurality OF ioriy-n
thousand over Chief Justice Harry
SON Of The Chicago municipal oou
= M. sweitxer Is the Democranc =,
mae BY over seventy thousand plaf'
ity. .s.,,a .,r,s we
rescued by flremen, 9 score oVer !.
NJ smoke and q dozen injured -
spectacular FIRE which Destroyer y
hpildinr occupied by Duns Busine
college in the heart Of me Dus'n f
district Of Pittsbufg. u
An invitation to attend = conlereh
II, the white house, March ano
IL discuss "vital questions affec'l
AvAiness and labor has been sent 2
" resident WiIson 70 the goyefno'
q IL the states and % mayor
n'afe NAN one hundred cities.
pne person, Mrs. Fay Thornton,
II 'ssossafkz n. II. il dead, while txel
s .d we're injured 70 minor degr
i RESULT n collision between
ss 9aeand louisville and NashsI
- i auxl i Central q Qe'