Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-04-02
Domestic

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Ger and fireman OF Southern pasaen
ger tram No Il, the Royal Pam LIN.
lted, nouhDouud, were kiled wnen
the engine ran into an open switch at
Adams Park, ten miles south OF Ma
con.
Fifteen cases OF sleeping sickness,
three OF which resulted III deaths. are
reported III Louisville, ny.
Atlantic coast steamship traffic from
Maine 70 Mexico IS likely to be tIea
Up indefinitely by the strike ul .aug
shoremen. Not only has the strike
stopped the movement OF perisua0.e
lood from the south, but II has ID. 81.
lumber being shipped North.
The interest manifested in the ap.
preaching season OF Metropolitan
grand opera i'll Atlanta Apr 70. 10
May | inclusive. is SURPRISING tie
most sanguine expectations OF the Al.
lanta Music Festival Association ana
officials OF the Metropolitan vino are
responsible for the great annual least
Ci music held each spring
Mental sponsibility as result
Of being gassed in France Was put
forward in testimony by Mrs. Z. V.
McGinnis of st. Louis, pleading tor
the acquittal of her husband, a for
mer army captain, charged wltn bring
ing Miss Esther Bolts, his stenogrd
pher, TO California in violation OF the
Mann act.
Mrs. Ida Mae lines, wno has Just
finished three-year term at the state
with her husband, Victor innes. Tor
farm following her conviction jointly
defrauding the Nelms sisters Of At.
lanta, Ga, Out of their money, is a
prisoner in the Bib county, Georgia,
jail, because she was unable to make
the $4,000 bond assessed by the United
States commissioner after she had Oh.
tanned continuance OF her preliml
nary hearing Mrs. lines eventually
expects to make bond.
Congressman Hal d. Flood, called
to Richmond, Va, to participate in the
West Virginia debt case, stated that
as soon as he returns to Washington
he will offer resolution instructing
President Wilson to write new peace
treaty with Germany.
The New York state assembly, by
a resolution adopted unanimously Will
compel William H. Anderson state su-
perintendent OF the Antl.Saoon
League, to appear before the assembly
judiciary committee to explain the
Of statements, utteranees
and publications alleged to have been
made by him against members OF the
legislature.
Prices of standard shoes will be re.
duced during the spring and summer,
the president of the retail shoe deal
trs' association announced in New
York City recently.
Explosion of an ammonia pipe in
the plant of the Griggs Packing com
pany at Roanoke, Ca, caused the col. .
lapse of three brick walls, killing three
men and injuring eight to twelve 9th
9rs. The cause of the explosion has
not been determined.
Previous Texas court records, in.
yolving the death penalty, probably
were broken at San Augustine when
John Hood Price, negro, was hanged
for the murder of John Kennedy,
farmer, less than twenty-four hours
after the arrest
The Central Pennsylvania Method
list conference adopted resolution
to the general conference
the elimination of the church rule
making members who attend theates,
lance, play cards or indulge in other
worldly" amusements liable to ex-
)ulsion.
Frank Pinano, Jr., is in Chicago
hospital with three bullet wounds in
lis body. His father is held at po-
ice station and a murder charge will
,e docketed against him if the boy
lies. The father said he shot the
10Y to save his soul. The boy had
ecently committed nearcrime. and
ad become a recognized gangster, and
is father became alarmed for his soul
Welfare.
All seniors, all but four juniors and
inety per cent Of the sophomore and
eshment classes of Clemson college
ave returned to the institution.