Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-03-11
Domestic

Rev Joseph Meyer, Jr., Kansas
CITY Mo. pastor, has resigned hi.
charge and gone to work as com
mon laborer. in order that he NAV
get nearer to the hearts OF the men
who really work.
Two indictments containing names
OF nearly fifty corporations and indi.
yiduals included in the membership
of the marble contractors association,
have been returned by the New York
City grand jury.
Indiana coal operators under fndict.
ment on charges of violating the Sher.
man antitrust law through conspir.
acy with miners and retailers TO in.
crease soft coal prices have surren.
dered and given. bond for their re.
lease.
w. II. Knox, Alabama state law en-.
forcement officer, was found guilty in
Birmingham Of an assault on Phil
Painter, publisher of a local weekly
newspaper. and fined $500 and sen.
fenced to thirty days in Jail. He will
appeal
Between forty and fifty persons were
reported killed and an unknown mum.
Der injured when westbound New
York Central train crashed into de.
rallied eastbound Michigan Central
tran at Porter, Ind, in which railroad
officials say may be one of the most
disastrous wrecks of modern times.
Election of presiding officer and
appointment Of committees were ex.
pected to take up the major part of
the time OF the first days session OF
the Louisiana constitutional conven.
ton which is to have seventy.five days
to frame new constitution for Louis.
lana.
Mrs Isabella c. Orthwein, who shot
and killed Herbert Zeigler, manager Of
the Chicago branch of the Goodyear
Tire and Rubber company. told the
police Zeigler had been keeping com.
pany with her since she divorced her
husband, a wealthy resident of st.
Louis, six months ago.
Four armed men recently robbed
sixty year old postoffice messenger at
Jefferson City, Mo-. of three pouches
Of registered mail Of undetermined
value.
An attempt was made recently at
Jacksonville, Fla, to kidnap Mrs. Eu.
gene Elmer, former wife of the late
Frederick D. Shepard OF Fort Valley,
Ca, in her home there. The man was
but got away. Only a mea-
ger description of the man is in the
hands of the police.
In the presence of the moving pic.
ure men, Secretary Daniels recently
an oil painting of the new
battleship, the first
If this type in the history of the world,
New Mexico.
The prosecution in the Mattewan
trial at Williamson, W. Va,
announce that only five more wit
lesses will be introduced.
william S. Livezey, resident of the
little Motor Kar comany Of Dallas.
Texas, was found guilty in the federal
curt of using the mails to defraud.
lie was sentenced to five years i'm.
After debating the question more
han As hours, watchers over the body
L Louis Silovitz, suffering from the
leeping sickness, declared that he
la3 dead.
Edwin DENLY gunners mate In Ad.
liral Simpsons fleet and sergeant of
,arines In the world war. has formal.
, accepted the portfolio of the navy
, the next cabinet. DENLY is said to
q a 'real man." Of the mans man
,pe.' and will be the hero Of Ameri.
an youth.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, son OF the
PEAT Theodore, will be assistant sec.
,tary Of the navy In the Harding cab.
let, position his father held and
hich he resigned to become lieu.
nant colonel In the American army
ring the spanish-American war. n
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