The Monroe journal., 1920-01-23
LATEST HAPPENINGS
News Events Of the Day in
the State and Nation.

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Baxter Shemwell. notorious charac-
Ter OF Lexington. who shot al Major
Wade Phillips in the law office OF
Phillips Bower. has been posted as
an outlaw. Shemwell is the man who
heid up Southern Railway conduc-
tor several years ago.
More than 5000 people are in with
influenza in Chicago. and there is an
epidemic OF the disease in the army
camps. The malady. however. is of a
mlld type. II is causing a number of
deaths in Japan.
j. II. Reynolds. Young Southern
hallway express messenger. is being
heid In Charlotte by Federal authori-
Ties. charged with having stolen a
brides trunk.
Clemenceau. the French Tiger"
VINO guided his nation TO victory, has
retired to private life. being succeeded
as premier by Andre Lefevre. Glenn
enceau was an unsuccessful candidate
Tor the presidency of France.
Merger OF the northern and south
ern branches under a new constitu-
tlonal. and assuming the name of the
Methodist church, was agreed upon
os the commission on unification of
the Methodist Episcopal churches in
JOINT session in Louisville, Tuesday
nlght. the recommendations II adop-
ted by the general conferences. would
ELIMINATE the breach which came
about nearly seventy-fve years ago
over the slavery question and has
Kept the approximately six million
members OF the Northern and South
ern churches at differentials. The
Northern church will vote on the
merger next May and If the merger
is approved. the Southern church will
call special session TO act on the
proposal
Every river in Maryland is frozen
over and the Chesapeake Bay Is filled
with hoating ice impeding navigat-
ltion. The regular bay liners between
Baltimore and Norfolk have changed
their schedules from night to day
Temporarily because OF the dangerous
conditions from ice.
Governor Beckett is receiving
rousing welcome at Tuskegee Insti-
tute In Alabama. His message was
primarily to the farmers of Alabama,
pointing out the efforts being made
in North Carolina to have every farm
er own his own home.
The army reorganization bill draft
ed by the Senate military sub-com-
mittee was endorsed by Secretary
Baker. as follows: This is the most
ganize the army In any gslgof utabe
statesmanlike effort made TO re-or-
ganize the army in any country and
is most commendable arrange
ment, the Secretary said The meas
ure provides for compulsory military
training and the formation of one big
army, and a citizen army. the regu-
lar army and the National Guard con-
sisting of 275,000 men.
Captain Harmon c. Rorison, OF
Wilmington. n. c.. an officer in the
reserve corps of the American avia-
tion service. has arrived in Warsaw
and joined the kosciusko squadron in
fighting against the Bolsheviki, ac-
cording TO advices from the Polish
capital. To enlist with the other
Americans making up the squadron.
Captain Rorison travelled 5000 miles
hNAtBNtu Aht iailh VI
Americans in this squadron are re-
ceiving pay less than that of an Of
flee hoy in this country - Sc per
month.
4 stray tom cat projected himself
into the annual poultry show in pro-
gress Wednesday in New York and
had a $100 breakfast on Two carrier
pigeons on exhibition by Baltimore
fancier. The homeless feline squeez-
ed into the garden in some unknown
way and feasted its eyes on the H.
900 birds. finally tearing the muslin
slips off the crate housing the
pigeons, The cat escaped.
/, Mississippi has rejected the Federal
woman suffrage amendment.
!, Efforts 10 raise some of the treas
ure from the Inflated Lustania will
be made early this year, according TO
a London dispatch.
/ Martial law has been proclaimed In
|, Italy. where a railroad strike is In
progress.
A dispatch from Toxic states that
Bolshevlki Russia.
Four men are dead at Memphis.
Texas, and six others are recovering
from the effects of drinking hair tom
ic. believed to have contained wood
alcohol.
The n. c. Teachers Assembly will
hold its next Thanksgiving meeting In
Asheville. That city made strong
bid for the convention on the ground
) that being resort city more hotel
room was available in November.
All the two hundred and seventy
one passengers q board the disabled
army transport Powhatan have been
transferred TO the transport Northern
Pacific and are on their way to New
York.
Allen Swain, 16-year-old boy of
Winston Salem. was accidentally shot
and killed by boy at Buies Greek
where young Swain was a student.
The pistol was thought not TO be load
ed. President Campbell of the Buies
Greek Academy was probably fatally
injured when his car collided with an
other. He was accompanying the re-
mains OF the student TO Winston.