The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-12-04
Domestic

Persistent rumors of the Matching of
plot by Villa elements in the State
of chihuahua, following the execution
Of Gen. Felipe Angeles, noted rebel
leader at Chihuahua City, reached the
border.
DR.. Aaron E. Ballard, president and
ne of the founders of the Ocean
Grove Camp Meeting association, died
at Asbury Park, N. j., after long ill
ness. He was SO years old.
Thanksgiving in New Orleans, La,
was decidedly ''wet,' with many of the
former saloons selling the strong
drinks of anti-prohibition days, follow
ing the granting Of an injunction by
Rufus E. Foster, judge of the United
States district court, restraining fed
eral officials from preventing the sale
of liquors on the ground that the re-
cent prohibition act of congress was
unconstitutional, because the war had
ended.
Revised estimates of the loss caused
by the fire which wrecked three Of
the group of buildings in the center
OF Baltimore formerly occupied by
Johns HOukinS university and damag
ed about a score of residences and
stores in the vicinity placed the
amount at approximately seven hun
dred thousand dollars. The loss to the
university alone may reach five hun
dred Thousand dollars.
The Charleston, S. c., city Demo-
cratic executive committee declared
Hon. John P. Grace the party's nom
lnee for mayor of Charleston over
Tristram T. Hyde, incumbent, by a
partisan vote, the IL Hyde supporters
on the committee not voting. In sub
stance the committee confirmed its
action in declaring that Grace was
the nominee when the results were
canvassed August %.
Interest payments on American
loans to the allies may be deferred
until the war reaction passes" it is
said at the treasury. Negotiations to
this end are now being conducted at
the request of the allies, but officials
explain that the latest advices from
the treasury's representatives at Paris
did not indicate an early conclusion.
Officials in Washington say that the
United States government is not seek
ing the new arrangement.
Enforcement of constitutional prohi
bitiOn will be placed squarely up to
the state and municipal authorities
and the federal machinery will not in
tervene unless obvious inefficiency on
the part of local officials makes such
action necessary.
Reports received at the Republican
South Dakota headquarters from the
county proposal convention held in
South Dakota, November Is, show that
Gen. Leonard Wood will receive the
endorsement of the state proposal con-
ventiOn at Pierre, December 2, for the
Republican nomination for president,
and that Gov. Frank o. Lowden of H.
linOis will be given the dissenting or
minority endorsement.
Soft coal mine owners made shock
ing and indefensible" profits in 1917
and there is grave doubt" that they
are entitled to increased prices be-
cause of the proposed 81 per cent in
crease in miners wages. William G.
McAdoo, former secre airy of the treas
ury says that mine owners profits, rs
shown by their income tax returns ex-
amined by him when he was secretary
of the treasury, warrant the increai es
asked by the miners, and they ARE
just and reasonable"
Chicago is infested with murderers,
robbers, safeblowers and automobile
thieves, and the police force is direct
ing it's attention to their apprehension.
Medical reports indicate that the
zone where men are found most heal
thy runs through the center of the
country from north to south.
The unprecedented increase in the
number of major and minor crimes in
Chicago over the weekend was caus-
ed by curtailment of street lighting
due to the efforts of the municipal
lighting plant to conserve on coal, &C.
cording to the opinion of the Chicago
chief of police.
A new wage and working agreement
has been signed between the railroad
administration and officials Of the Bro
therhood of Maintenance of Way En-.
ployees and Railway Shop Laborers.
The demands of the union were not
fully met, but the eight-hour basic day
is established for track laborers and
others of that classification and time
and half pay after that hour is pro-
vided. Most Of the other EMPLOYEES
will receive tim and half overtime
pay after ten hours.
Readjustment of export freight
rates affecting the thousands Of ship.
pers, and said to be Of prime import.
ance to Southern ports and the Mis-.
sissippi valley, has been announced at
the general offices the Southern rail-
rood at 0IiSvi11n XIV The nnw tar.
ifs, which, in effect, will grant the:
same rates to Southern ports as those
enjoyed by New York from territory
north Of the Ohio river from the Ohio.
Pennsylvania state line to the Missis-
sippi river, go into effect to south
Atlantic ports December l and to gull