Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-08-08
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD over
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
The NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What 10 Taking Place In The South.
land VIII Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Domestic

The Alabama legislature took note
OF the race rioting in Chicago and
washington, and by resolution called
attention to the peace and amity ex
listing between the races in the South.
Pale postage stamps, which came
into use along with meatless Tuesdays
and heatless Mondays, soon will GO
into the discard because the bureau
OF engraving now that II does not
have to engrave plates to make so
much money, will have opportunity to
devote some time to engraving post
age stamps.
World War Hero Sergeant Alvin
York announces that he and his wife
will devote their lives to the educa-
ticn OF young men and women in the
rural communities, and he is going
on the lecture platform to get the
money to found York Uniye.sity.'
Congress is considering plans TO
modify the war revenue act, and soft
drinks may soon be purchased for )
cents.
The Nebraska Legislature has r, /.
fled the woman suffrage amendment.
Alabama will issue S25, 100000 worth
OF bonds for good roads.
Hunter Raine, who has already sery-
ed term in the pen for his banking
populations, must serve from one to
ten years more in prison.
The state department at Washing
ton is advised that Japanese compa
MES are trying to acquire properties
in the oil fields OF Mexico
Fearing an let shortage in Atlanta,
Ga. Mayor James L. Key has ordered
councilmanic and aldermanic inyes.
tisation of the ice situation.
Wilson has asked congress not to
recess but to stay in session TO con-
slider the creation of u commission to
determine all questions Of railways
workers wages, The house has voted
to comply
Oscar Hammerstein, producer Of
grand opera. died of complications at
his home in New York after an i'll
ness Of several days.
Following resolutions adopted in At.
lanta, July Is, l6 and II, to secure
an increase in wages to meet the pres
ent high cost of living, the union shop
employees went on strike the first
day Of August
One hundred thousand union rail.
way workmen are on strike in the Chi /
cage district. The strike is chiefly
effective in the middle west and in
the southeast
FIVE persons were killed by the ex-
rl6sion of one thousand pounds of
dynamite near Landing, N. j The |
explosion was in the Atlas Powder
company packing house.
A contract has been awarded for
the construction of battleship No. 81
to be named the Massachusetts, Of
1920 ton displacement.
Several hours before authorities
were to remove them to the Athens
county home, seven children, ranging
in age from six weeks to ten years,
were found with their mother, Mrs.
Toney Stravisar, burned TO death or
asphyxiated, in their home at Kimber-
ly. small mining town, near Nelson
vile, Ohio. The children were tied
to their beds and coal oil had been
sprinkled over the room.
A roll call OF certain Solomon fam.
lily in New York, il held in the Atlanta !
federal prison. would result in seven
brothers answering Here" All
seven have reported at the prison to !
begin sentences of two years each $
for using the mails to defraud. being
tried together in New YORK dnder |
Joint charges, and will serve terms to- q
gether DIT the prison. c
After nearly two hours debate and
whi,c the tempe Lure in the cham. G
Der was lowering around the 100 mark, a
he national house voted TO repeal the I
10 per cent war tax on soda water and 5
% araup,