Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-02-18
Domestic

! X. Peters, president or the FAIRBANKS
company, New York scale manufacture
ers, was killed when she jumped or
fell from an eighth story window in a
fashionable apartment house She
had been suffering from nervous dis
ease. and was in the care of trained
nurse.
Part of the 1000 unemployed men
OF Great Falls, Mont, were given jobs
on city work by Mayor Newman at
SIS a day, are out of work again be
cause waterworks employees, members
of the union, threatened to walk out
unless the emergency employees were
given S. day.
Decision OF the United States rail.
road labor board, sitting in Chicago,
that the national agreements shall re-.
main in force until completion of the
present hearing is characterized by
complete victory for the contentious
of the railway employees.
Coincident with the announcement
of the regular quarterly dividend, the
Packard Motor Car company announc-
ed unemployment of an additional one
thousand men, effective Immediately.
1t is announced in Mobile, Ala, that
l.. H. Metzger has purchased the Lud-
owici and Collins railroad in Georgia.
Swooping down upon the small town
of Oconee and the Gardner settlement,
Georgia, near the southwestern border
of Washington county, tornado took
toll of at least thirty-two lives and
seriously injured more than forty per-
sans. A stretch of land extending
from Oconee almost to Toomsboro,
in Washington county, nearly five
miles long and about half mile. wide,
is as barren as a prairie, not build
ing or tree being left standing.
James NJ. Cox, now the nominal lead
er of the Democrats, has been asked
to participate in the proposed reor-
ganization of the party, according to
Thomas B. Love, national committees
man from Texas and head Of the pres
ent movement to reorganize the party.
A six-hour battle between negro
who had shot and killed woman in
the house where he was living, and
nearly a score of policemen and fire
men, resulted in the capture Of the
man MORALLY wounded and the injur-
ing of four policemen in Philadelphia.
Lieut.. d. A. Rupp was found dead
in his quarters at Langley field, New
port News, Va, recently. His mouth
was badly burned by poison and
friends believe he went across the
great divide via the suicide route.
AL Jennings, reformed Oklahoma
train robber now living in New York
City, was recently held up and robbed
of all his money except car fare home
The Nebraska house of representa-
tives refused to permit Miss MacSwi-
ney. sister of the deceased Irish lord
mayor, to speak in the capital,
jap. Coates, thread manufacturers,
of Philadelphia, announce that business
is so good that they will Immediately
put on a night shift They have COM
piled with all union regulations, and
will run both shift eight hours a day,
and pay union wages.
William jennings Bryan will soon
present a plan to put the Democratic
party absolutely in the hands of the
voters, thereby eliminating the practi.
cal, s-for-business-only politi.
clan in the background, stripping them
OF all influence and power.
A blanket indictment naming 20 cor.
porations, all members Of the Associa.
tion of Dealers in Masons' building ma.
trials, and charging violation of the
state antitrust law, has been returned
by the New York state supreme court
grand jury investigating the alleged
building trust.