Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-02-25
Domestic

Rumors that mob violence would be
attempted against two negroes, Roy
Hardy and Arthur Hendrix, charged
with attacking white girl, did not
materialize at Knoxville, Tenn. The
police and sheriff, however, had prepar-
ed for trouble.
Six thousand bales Of cotton were
destroyed by fire recently at EMS, Tex
as. The loss is estimated at four hum
dred thousand dollars. Three ware
houses were burned.
Five bandits recently held up a mail
truck at Toledo, Ohio, in the main
postoffice with eleven mail sacks ready
to go to the train. The sacks they
got are unofficially reported to have
contained between three hundred thou
sand and four hundred thousand dol
lars in federal reserve notes. They
got away, and there is no clue.
Business men are urged to unite in
opposition TO the proposed sales tax
by DR.. Thomas S. Adams, chairman of
the advisory board, bureau of internal
revenue, and special adviser to the
United States treasury department.
James Steed, prominent resident
of Athens, Tenn. killed himself at his
home by placing a shotgun to his fore
head and pulling the trigger. Finan-
cial troubles is given as the cause.
The fremont Trust company, one
of Boston's largest banking institutions,
has been closed by the banker COM
missioners. This is the fifth trust
company closed in Boston since the
Ponzi crash of last summer.
Enirco Caruso, famous tenor, is
fighting for his life, and appears to
be winning His physicians report
him to be improving.
Sam fuckers wife left him, and he
committed suicide by stepping in front
of moving train at Woodruff, S. C.
Frank O. Lowden, ex-governor Of
Illinois, has notified President-elect
Harding that he cannot serve in the
cabinet of the new administration.
The Knoxille, Tenn, contractors say
they do not want to cut wages, but do
want days work for days pay.
Bishop John P, Farrelly of the Cleye-
land, Ohio, Catholic diocese, who died
recently was burned in the crypt of
st. Johns cathedral with fitting obse-
quies.
One hundred and twenty men, menu
bers of the painters, timers, carpen-
ters and bricklayers' unions. employ
ed at the Sugar Creek plant of the
Standard Oil company at Kansas City,
Mo-, failed to return to work because
of an announced reduction in wages.
The tin plate department of the
Werton w. Va. Steel company, COM
prising 26 separate mills, has resumed
operation on full time
DR., William NJ. Bryant, in charge
of the Boston, Mass, quarantine sta
ton, says the New York health au-
thorities have greatly exaggerated the
typhus scare.
The board of missions of the South
ern Methodist church announces that
it has distributed five hundred thou
sand dollars to various annual con-
ferences who have many poorly paid
missionaries.
A block of government war obliga-
lions sold at par on the stock exchange
at New York for the first time In
more than year.
The body of Mrs. Sadie A. White,
missing from Newcastle, Pa, since De-
cember %, was discovered recently in
barn where her husband kept his
horses. White, who told the police
he had given his wife thousand dol
lars and sent her to Chicago SO he
could marry another woman, has been
arrested and sent to jail in another
county to avoid an outbreak.
The state secretaries of the South.
ern Baptist church met IN Mobile, Ala.
discussed many important questions
and left the selection Of the next place
OF meeting to Or. Arch 9, Cree Of Al
lanta, Ga.