The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-08-26
Domestic

Adam B. Howard, general manager in
South America, for the American Ex-
press company, from the steamship
Martha Washington, on the way from
Buenos Aires, were learned when that
vessel locked in Hoboken, N. J. How
ard was stricken with melancholia af-
ter the death of his wife and commit
ted suicide by drowning in the sea.
The officers Of the Knights of Co
lumbus have requested the president,
the secretary Of state, the president
Of the senate and the speaker of the
house to recognize the Irish republic
forthwith.
Several scores of farmers from the
territory covered by the Central Of
Georgia railway will tour the middle
west on an agricultural inspection trip.
They will leave Savannah, Ca, on the
10Th instant and, going through the
corn belt, will travel as far as Chicago.
Reports from Sand Mountain, Ala,
are that indignant mountaineers are
threatening to lynch members of the
Holy Roller church congregation there,
following the death of a baby which
had been bitten by a rattlesnake dur
ing a reported seance of the church
one night recently. 1t is also reported
that the father of the child was bit
ten at the same time and is expected to
die.
The Tennessee senate has passed
the suffrage amendment by a vote of
Is to 4. The bill now goes to the
house, and it is expecte dto pass that
body very shortly.
Declaring that women should have
''the first right to speak when the is
sue is whether or not the world shall
henceforth be ruled by reason and
righteousness, Or by blood and iron"
Governor Beckett, in a special message,
called upon the North Carolina legis-
lature to accept "the inevitable and
ratify the federal woman suffrage
amendment"
An Infatuated crowd of investors
stormed the offices of the Old Col
ony Foreign Exchange company in Bos-
ton August 13 and sought to the pres
ident of the company, which he adj
mitted was insolvent.
The tragic romance of a wealthy man
and the world and a country miss was
unfolded in Washington through the
of the deaths of J. Ford
and Mary Sneeringer. They
had been missing four days, and were
found in the woods near Emmitsburg,
Md, both shot through the head, near
by being found two revolvers.
J. Krowley, st. Paul, passenger in
an airplahe officiating in the welcome
of the first aerial mail plane, was Sc
riously injured when the plane fell 20
feet. Pat Malone, the pilot, escaped
with but slight injury
Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic |
candidate for vice president, opened |
his campaign in Chicago before a |
crowd of three thousand at the audi
forum theater, urging Republicans
and Independents to join the Demo-
ed at San Francisco, and tn eticket |
nominated there, contending that the |
present Republican regime is entirely |
under the control of the sold guard" |
which beat Theodore Roosevelt.
James O'Neill, who seven thousand |
times proclaimed "The world is mine!"
OH jagged stage rock in a stage sea,
is dead. He died in Lawrence Memo I
rial hospital at New London, Conn.,.
by his wife and two sons.
Edward Gordon, II, appeared in re-
corder's court in Atlanta, Ca, on
charge of being drunk and disorderly
He was fined SIS and costs. He was
we'll groomed, although he is a pen,
I'll peddler, and spoke with the perfec.
ion of a college professor.
Rose Ponzi, pretty, dark-eyed Ital-
an girl wife of Charles Ponzi, proved
ler love and faith in her husband by
he simple statement: "He is my hus.
oand" She is happy that the nerve
straining of the past few weeks is over.
She says he is the same to her, rich
Or poor.
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