Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-10-15
Domestic

charged with numbering a white man
at Macclenny, Fla, which caused the
lynching Of three negroes and the
shooting to death Of another, has been
arrested at Fruitland, Ga.
The Confederate Veterans at Hous-
ton, Texas are having bully" time,
and the yarn swapping has been as
great as ever. notwithstanding the
thin gray line is diminished to a
shadow of its former self.
Mrs. Carrie NJ. Clemens of Greene
county, Tennessee, has thrown her
hat into the ring for legislative hon
ors. She is the wife of the president
Of Tusculum college, and is the reg
ular nominee Of the Democratic party.
President Wilson recently, due to
the cold wintry snap took his morn
ing ride in an old fashioned victoria,
which is seldom seen nowadays ex-
cept in Charleston, S. c., where all
the customs of the other days" are
still observed.
Determined Citizens" ordered that
no more cotton be ginned at Bono,
Ark, and the gin was closed immedi-
ately.
The soldiers of the Confederacy
have marched again. The thin gray
line" wendell its way heroically
through two miles of the streets Of
Houston, Texas, with the same old
undaunted, unterrified carriage, even
though their locks were white and
their eyes were dim, their backs bend
ing low with the weight and burdens
Of the advancing years. Emotions
words cannot depict stirred the breasts
of the onlookers, and the dreams and
love-scenes of yester-years chased
each other along the gamut of the
tender tendrils of their heart-strings
lingering and passing like the words
of a whispered song.
The inquiry being conducted at New
York into local phases of the worlds
series gambling scandal Of last year.
has come to a standstill. Detectives
have failed to locate 3 alleged gam
blers, one of them Abe Attell, former
featherweight champion, in a three
day hunt through the city.
~ hn nd
iation service at New York were pre-
pairing reports to the government on
the flying demonstration of a flaming,
oil.soaked, fire.proofed airplane and
its midnight landing device, witnessed
by them at Mineola.
An explosion occurred on tank
steamer said to be the G.. r. Grow,
British, tied up in shipyard at the
foot of Twenty-seventh street in
Brooklyn. The number of persons re-
ported to have been aboard was at
from forty to one hundred.
An Italian, said by the police to be
a widely known radical, was arrested
by the bomb squad and taken to head
quarters in New York to be question
ed regarding the Wall street explo-
sion.
Capt. Charles Johnson, master Of the
American steamship Speedwell, lost in
a recent tropical hurricane, obeyed
the unwritten law of the seas and
went down with his ship. according
to a wireless message received by
the naval station at New Orleans
from the steamship Lake Superior now
near Santiago. Cuba, with thirteen
survivors of the Speedwell.
The population Of the state OF New
York Is lO,3S4,144; increase since last
census, 1,27O,5SO. The population Of
New York City shows two-thirds of
he entire states growth. The revised
population of the city is announced as
,,e20,04S.
American industry can be contract
ID toward normal dimension without
ragic economic results. This was
made public In Boston recently by
he leader and official spokesman of
he largest industry in the United
States, Thomas Il. Wilson, president
# the Institute of American Meat
The board Of directors OF the Broth
rhood OF Railway Clerks has made
permanent the suspension of Grand
lice President ]. w. Nelson, 1t is an
ounced at the international headquar.
ers at Cincinnati Although num-
,er of technical charges were sus-
aimed against Nelson for alleged VIC
atoms OF the brotherhood constitu-
ion and laws, 1t is said the principal
Indictment was because Of his actions
a connection with the vacation" or
strike that started last
lay on the Central Of Georgia rail-
cad.