Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-03-18
Domestic

Fire recently broke out in the Stand.
ard OIL company's plant in the Green
point section of Brooklyn, where the
battle Of Brooklyn was fought in the
Revolutionary war, which, more than
a year ago, was the scene Of one Of
the biggest oil fires in the history of
the city. Four tanks exploded, endan-
gering others. Police reserves were
rushed from five stations. The dam
age has not yet been placed.
The proceedings for impeachment
against Judge John Wade who re-
Gently made a criticism that was
taken to reflect on the female EN-.
ployees of the Legislature, have been
withdrawn.
Rev. Cornelius Densel, former pas
tor Of Netherlands Reformed church
at Passaic, N. j., will be arraigned on
an indictment charging violation Of
the Mann white slave act before the
April term Of the United States dis.
trict court at Newark, N. J.
A petition for an Injunction to re-
strain the packers from reducing the
wages or readjusting the working
hours has been planned for presen'a-
ton in federal court in Chicago at
an early date.
Practically every barrel of oil taken
from the oil wells is shot through a
labyrinth of pipe lines $4,000 miles
long, and in this way reaches the
oil refineries and oil markets weeks
and sometimes months sooner than
II shipped by railroads.
The finding of the wrecks Of seven.
teen automobiles at the foot Of cliff
near Buffalo, N. Y, is believed by
the police to have been the method
employed by automobile owners to col
lect theft insurance from the insur.
ance companies. The cars were wreck
and then obliterated to prevent detec.
ton.
Mystery surrounding the death OF
Russell w. Metcalf, rs years old, the
lifeless body Of whom was found In a
wrecked automobile at Asheville, N
c., will be investigated by coroners
Jury.
Railroad labor leaders who have re
Gently charged that the proposed i'm
mediate abrogation of the national
wage agreements is pilot of Wall
street financiers to break unionism'
and establish the open shop, plan ia
begin their offensive before the Unit
ed States labor board with cross-ex
animation of railroad executives at the
resumption of the hearings by the rail
road labor board at Its next meeting
in Chicago.
The general executive board of the
Amalgamated Textile Workers OF
America has recommended that the
national convention Of the organiza
tion, planned for May at Lawrence
Mass, be postponed until fall, has
been announced in New York. The
postponement will leave the textile
workers and union officers free to con
duct organization work and strikes.
The Southern Pacific railroad com
pany announces, effective April 16. q
reduction in the wages of common
or unskilled labor. The minimum will
range from 80 to so cents an hour.
The appeal by the conference OF the
Meat Cutters and Butchers Work
mems Association to President Hard
ing to try to prevent wage reductions
and changes in working house from go
| ing into effect March IA, has beer
taken by Mr.. Harding and the de
partments OF justice and labor
The leper. colony that Massachu
sets has maintained at Penikese is
land, in Buzzard's Bay, has been evac
utaed in order to give the inmates the
benefit for a possible cure offered IL
revised experiments with chalmugrs
oil at the feleral leprosarium.