Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-05-20
Domestic

Ihree automobile bandits recently
robbed in Chicago the Commercial and
Savings bank of $1,000 and escaped.
The National Retail Coal Merchants,
In session recently at Richmond Va.
declared there would be no further
drop in the price of coal.
A terrific storm visited the Chester.
S. c., section recently, destroying sew.
eral bales of cotton. There was an
unusually heavy rainfall.
]. F. Hawk. foreman in a Chatta.
nooga, Tenn, foundry, was shot dead
recently by negro whom he had Just
discharged.
Walter Bowers and his son are held
by a Greenville, s. c., coroner's Jury
as responsible for the death of Andy
&. Wells, farmer of Travellers Rest,
who died as a result of heavy blow
on the head with heavy iron bar.
Bread is two cents cheaper in New
Haven, Conn, than it was year ago.
and is expected to become still cheap
er In the near future.
The Alabama, Tennessee and North.
ern railroad has filed a petition with
the Alabama railroad commission for
permission to make a reduction OF
16 2/3c In its passenger rates. There
seems no doubt that the request will
be granted.
His body wedged into very narrow
WELL rescuers worked for eight hours
before they released Walter Troy,
aged two. from his perilous position,
In Dyersburg, Tenn. The child had
fallen head first into the well. Efforts
to extricate him were futile. Finally
hole was dug three feet from the
well and tunnel cut through to the
bottom. The child appeared little
the worse for the accident.
The Southern Baptist convention is
in its sixty.nine annual session in
Chattanooga. Tenn. Thousands of peo-
pie throng the streets of Chattanooga.
Edward N. Mittle, prominent Green.
vile banker and business man, convict.
ed of the staying Of ]. H. Patterson.
near Rowesville, has been sentenced In
the court of general sessions at Or.
augsburg, S. c., to serve nine years at
hard labor in the state peniten.iary.
No plans for the re-arrest Of John
]. Mcnamara, Los Angeles dynamit.
er. were known to prison officials when
he left San Quentin, Cal, prison at the
expiration of his 15-year sentence. Nc.
Namara. who pleaded guilty to charge
of conspir acy to blow up the Llewellyn
Iron Workers, earned the maximum lie.
gal reduction of sentence for conduc,
so that he actually served less than ten
years
The National Advertisers conven.
tion in session at Atlantic City, N. J..
discussed the abuse Of advertising by
and advertising mediums.
Directors of the Southern Railway
at their semi-annual meeting
in New York took no action on the
dividend of 2 1/2 per cent
on preferred stock due at this time.
No explanation was offered.
International money markets as
represented by foreign exchange, were
further stimulated by Germanys &C.
ceptance OF the allied reparations ultl
matum.
A protest against passage Of the bill
creating a welfare department as a
new governmental branch and re-
quest for hearing was wired the CON-
mittee in session at Cincinnati, Ohio,
by Samuel Gompers,
Governor Morgan of West Virginia
responded to the request Of the Off
,ials Of Mingo county and asked the
var department for federal troops to
estore order in Mingo county. A state
nent from the governors office says
hat "the greater amount of the firing
n the recent terror-day ca me from the
side"
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