The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-04-15
Domestic

TLirty-two persons sleeping in the
| Newport rooming house at Ponca City,
Okla, are thought to have been killed
by an explosion believed to have been
due to an accumulation of gas.
The American woman, in the aggre-
gate, is an animated Interrogation
point" in the opinion of Mrs. George
Bass, head of the woman's division Of
the Democratic national committee,
who is opening headquarters in New
York City.
Lost in a taxicab in the center of
Brooklyn, and due to leave for Valpa-
raise, Chile, William e. Gonzales, the
United States ambassador to Peru,
caused the liner Santa Teresa to be
held up for half an hour while the
taxicab driver and policeman joined
their energies in searching for the
missing pier.
An unauthorized strike of railroad
employees which started in the Chi
cago stitching district by the discharge
of yard conductor, has spread until
it has affected 25 railroads and in Chi
ego has thrown more than fifty thou
sand men out Of work, either directly
or indirectly.
A political organization that will be
model of thorOughness and effective.
ness" is being perfected for the COM
ing election by the West Virginia Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. The organization
will function in every political subdi-
vision.
Indications are that within another
two months, Washington Lott, the ~
year-old farmer who is serving a life
term for the murder of his son, War
rem, in 1914, in Coffee county, Georgia,
will be given a parole.
At liberty for the first time in seven
years, Mrs. Ida Mae lines is on her
way to Portland, Oregon, to stay until
time to return to Georgia for her trial
in Atlanta in June on a charge of
using the mails to defraud in the
helms mystery case.
The New York Socialists announce:
'Plans are being considered for car
rying the fight into the district of
every man who struck down the repre-
sentative system, who DISTINGUISHED
more than sixty thousand voters and
who seek to disfranchise one hundred
thousand more.
Maj. Gen. w. L. Sibert gave up the
command of Camp Gordon and, retir-
ing from the army, has gone to his
farm in Bowling Green, KY. He re-
tired under an act of congress passed
several years ago upon the compile |
ton of the Panama canal.
Jimmie the pet parrot of Capt. |
Fred Brooks of the steamer Curacao
which touched at San Francisco re-
Gently, repeated remarks attributed to
a sailor on the ship and accordingly a |
search was instituted which resulted |
in the finding of 374 bottles of liquor
which were thrown overheard before
the ship reached the three-mile zone.
"Pussyfoot'' Johnson, famous dry
organizer, is coming home from Eng
land, it was announced by the anti
saloon league officials at Yves tviIle.
Ohio.
Bringing from Southampton, Eng.
land, bodies Of 81 American soldiers
who died in the service of their coun-
try on foreign soil, the army transport
Nansemond locked at New York, her
flag at halfmast. The bodies were
those of enlisted men, most of whom
died during the war at aviation and
base camps of Great Britain. They
were brought home by the government
for delivery to relatives and friends
and for final interment in cemeteries
Of their native land. From that pct
they will be shipped to virtually every
state in the Union.