Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-10-01
Domestic

Discovery Of the body OF Jacob
Denton, Los Angeles capitalist, who,
physicians say, had been dead three
months, who disappeared four months
ago, buried under several tons Of
earth in a Theoretically sealed box in
a cellar, brought to light what the po-
lice characterize as the most weird
murder mystery in the history of that
city.
The Chicago city council is sum-
moning the managers of hotels and
restaurants to appear and show cause
for charging such excessively high
prices for prepared food.
The Franklin car has been reduced
from II 1/2 to q ~ per cent, ex-
tending through all models of that
company. Wages will not be affected
A negro woman and her husband
are in the tolls at Greenville, Ala,
charged with having poisoned the
bread with arsenic that caused the
illness of twenty-six guests of hotel
in that city.
The need for export trade in the
cotton industry of this country is
urged by the National Association Of
Cotton Manufacturers. "A tariff wall
will protect our domestic markets, but
will not secure foreign trade"
A reduction of 80 1870 in the price
of manufactured cotton goods is an
nounced by the Amoskeag Manufactur-
ing company of Manchester, N. H.,
and the excessive advertised prices for
clothing will correspondingly tumble
in the next few days if the 'youngs-
ters' can be prevented from "bulling
the prices in their hurry to purchase
fall clothes. Hats will probably drop
one.half in thirty days.
The New York assembly judiciary
committee, by vote of Z TO 6, has re-
ported without recommendations the
resolution of Assembly Gillett to ex'
cluGe the Socialists from the extra.
ordinary session.
Henry Ford announces return to
pre-war prices on all Ford products.
Wages remain at the war level.
DR.. w. B. Beauchamp, centenary di-
rector of the Methodist Episcopal
church, in an interview at Knoxville,
Tenn, says the allies cannot be true
to themselves or to the creed they
have set forth to the world and not
come to the rescue Of Poland which
is in now in desperate struggle for
her national existence.
Statements by TWO men, one Of
whom claims to have seen the death
wagon" which carted the explosives
standing near the assay office, New
York, at 1920 a. M, one a one-hali
hours before the explosion occurred
and the other who claims to have
seen three men running away from the
scene Just before the blaze, furnish the
most important development in the
several investigations of the disaster
now under way.
Alexander Brailovsky, New Yorh
Russian journalist, who was arrested
on the technical charge of being al
undesirable alien, has been released
He admitted having been seen in the
vicinity of Broad and Wall streets 6
short time after the recent explosion
but ii is shown that he had no guilty
knowledge of the crime.
Three negroes were besieged fol-
more than an hour in st. GabriePs
church on the south side of Chicago
by a mob of thousand persons after
the negroes had killed 8 white man
Charles Barrett, who is said to have
gone to the rescue of a white girl in
suited by the negroes. They were
rescued and placed in Jail when squads
of DOllCeOlHu WtIS ocllL w avert
possible race riot The sonth side
"black belt" the scene of disastrous
race riots year ago, has been placed
under heavy guard
The shipping board announces that
the ship yard operated by Fred T. Ley
6 Co., with pier, building. ship ma
terial and machinery. will be sold on
October 8.
The New York district attorneys
office announces that Edwin P. Els
cher, lawyer and former employee Of
the French high commission, who sent
postcard warnings Of che disaster
from Toronto, ha virtually eliminated
himself from any direct knowledge Of
completely in the explosion which hor
rlfied and sent a pail Of fear through
| Wall street recently.