Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-02-04
Domestic

Policemen on downtown beats Of
New Orleans recently began their
goats of Jelly BEANS" or young men
commonly called sports" who the po-
lice say have been conTegating on
the streets and annoying passing la
dies by rude remarks. AS result Of
the first days drive on those who APP
parently toll not neither do they spin,
about dozen were taken into court
and fined for making offensive re-
marks in the presence of ladies'.
Detectives investigating the killing
danseuse of the Metropolitan Opera
mutilated body was found near his IA
theirs house in suburb Of Memphis,
Tenn, announce that their investiga-
lions thus far discredit statements al
legged to have been made by Matthew
Houston, 16-yearold negro who is
said to have confessed to the crime,
that white youth witnessed the kill
ing and aided in disposing Of the
child's body.
Mrs. Anna L. Worley, of Bluff City,
Tenn, was elected to the state sem
ate in the special election in the sec
ond senatorial district, which com.
prises Sullivan and Hawkins counties.
She Is Democrat.
The death of Lawrence Hill of Sum-
merfield, Mich, an orderly at a hos
pital, brought the fatalities from eat
ing spoiled meat food to three.
Ivis Hornocker, an eliminate of the
Central hospital for the insane, shot
and killed his father, Dennis Harnock'
err, and his younger brother, Everett,
in their home, Indianapolis, Ind, re.
Gently.
Mrs. Marie Bonfanti, former premier
danseuse of the metropolitan Opera
company and noted for her dancing
nearly half century ago in THE
Black Crook" died in New York City
at the age Of 70 years,
BY decision of the United States
railway board notices of wages reduc.
ton on the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic railroad, which were to have
been effective February /, were or.
dered rescinded. The board in making
this decision decided that the railroad
must present petition be-
fore the board for any reduction in
wages of employees wages.
Engine and train crews to move
fifty million bushels of wheat to be
donated by western farmers has been
offered by the chief executive of the
big Four railroad" brotherhoods
without charge for the mems labor.
Edmund D.. Bigham, held in jail at
Florence, S. c., since shortly after
live members of his family were
found shot to death at Pamlico, S. c.,
has been formally charged with muir.
Ter by the coroner's jury.
Fires starting in the Sarsfield OPP
era house at Avoca, Pa, swept the
JusiuoSp uCoiL VI llC iiiuiliB lOWu, anu
caused loss estimated at one hun.
lred and fifty thousand dollars. The
'iremen worked in zero weather.
Harold Terhune, alleged to have par
icipated in the robbery of a mail car
1t Atlanta last November, is under ar.
est at Ell Centre, Cal.
An Atlanta woman, in turning
states evidence at the trial of c. B.
Gordon, alias G. B. Gibbons, who was
to sixteen years in the PEN
Tertiary for robbing the bank at Hal
fax, Va, last November, testified that
IN organized band of robbers had
obbed five banks of Virginia, Ken
lucky and North Carolina and had fur.
her planned other bank robberias in
he South, operating out of Atlanta, Ga.
Villages through the Glenns Falls,
\. Y, section were recently shaken for
he third time in less than ten days,
" what is believed to have been an
The vibrations were re-
'orted from Lake George, Hudson
'alls, Fort Edward, Greenwich and
ther places.
Two bandits recently entered the
ffice of the county treasurer in tho
curt house at Marion, Ohio, knocked
he treasurer unconscious with the
utt end of a revolver and escaped in
n automobile with fourteen thousand
ollars In cash.