The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-06-19
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

DOmGSLIC
The main offices of the American
Railway Express at Norfolk, Va, were
destroyed by fire. Several explosions
occurred.
That he had traded wives with an
other man and had given a half pint
of whisky and Is cents to boot was
admitted on the witness stand in the
court at Smithfield, N. c., by Iredell
Wheeler white man, testifying in a
case in which four other white men
are charged with conspiracy to kill.
Kelso Haley, former prominent so
ciety and clubman of Chattanooga,
Tenn, wo. pleaded guilty to operating
distillery in the basement of fash
ionable apartment house, was found
guilty and sentenced 20 a year and a
day in prison at Atlanta.
With a bullet wound near the heart,
John Henry Green, an aged truck far
mer, is dying, his wife is suffering
from a bullet wound in the right hand,
and Luther Villains, bailiff in
Cooks district of Fulton county, Geor-
gia, who is charged with the shoot
ing, and who was slightly wounded
by the farmer is being sought by the
county police. Williams went to the
home of Green to execute an attach
ment for several pieces of furniture
which Green had bought in Atlanta,
and the difficulty ensued which re-
suited in the shooting.
The second stage of the CONNER
cial Telegraphers strike was reached
on June 18th when railroad operators
at $4,000 points in America were order
ed to discontinue handling commercial
messages.
Launching movement for the
erection at Hampton Roads sister
monument to the Statue of Liberty,
the ordering of a cablegram to Pres
ident Wilson to express their conf
dence in him at the peace conference
and the adoption of resolutions. con-
demning Bolshevism and favoring
that Count Won Bernstorff be brought
to the United States for trial, were
the outstanding features of the Trav-
elers' Protective Association on Amer
lea, in session in New Orleans.
Toy Con, former director of air SER
vice and Chinese member of special
commission appointed by the govern
ment, has purchaser a number Of
Haviland airplanes equipped with lib
erty motors at Dayton, Ohio.
Representatives of the joint legisla-
tive committee appointed to investi-
gate the activities of radicalS in the
state Of New York, guarded by sew
eral members of the state constabu-
larry, raided the Offices of the Rus
sian soviet government in New York
City and took possession of books
and papers found there.
Both sides concerned in the country
wide strike of members of the Com
mercial Telegraphers' Union of Amer
lea, expressed satisfaction over the
results. Officials of the Western I'm
ion and Postal Telegraph companies
said the strike was practically at an
end, while President S. J. Konenkamp,
international president of the Com
mercial Telegraphers' Union, declared
that between eighteen thousand and
twenty thousand operates throughout
the country had already quit work and
that more would follow.
The two-masted schooner Oyster
Plant, with 1876 cases of whisky esti-
mated to be worth $4,000 on board,
was seized early at Heron Bay, 81
miles south of Mobile Ala.