Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-03-04
Domestic

Elizabeth Mabel Lance, Is years old.
stabbed her father to death recently in
Philadelphia, defending her mother.
during quarrel between her parents.
Thomas b. Fielder, formerly an At
lanta, Ca, lawyer, but now Of New
York, has ben appointed receiver for
the Leslie-Judge company, publishers
Poor business is alleged to be the
cause of the receivership.
Sharp contention over the powers
Of the United States railroad labor
board and the provisions of the trans
portation act marked the hearing OF
employees of the Erie railroad against
their employers before the board at
Chicago.
New York, after having suffered two
days of the most severe snowstorm
in years, awoke on Washington's birth
day to find a second heavy fall in
progress.
w. F. Lewis, air pilot, in an attempt
to lower the record between Reno and
Salt Lake City, fell and was killed.
An unidentified man held up a mes
senger employed by the Memphis
branch of the federal reserve bank
as he passing through Court square,
Memphis. Tenn. robbed him of a
satchel said to have contained about
twenty-seven hundred dollars in cur
rency and escaped in the crowd.
The United States government,
through Assistant United States At
torney Barnes, has filed suit federal
court at New York to obtain an as
counting from the Postal Telegraph
company for the money paid to that
company as agent of the government
in operating the system for one year
during the war alleged to be two mil
lion dollars.
Running through the streets of New
ark, N. j., lodging occasionally be-
hind trees as a bulwark from which
to fire at his pursuers, James Alex.
ander. negro, was arrested after
chase of mile and q half by a
mob of more than five hundred citi-
zens and police. Although more than
fifty shots were fired by the fleeing
negro, the casualties were light. The
negro had held up" Chinese laun-
dry.
Approximately fourteen hundred
striking coal miners of Alabama will
be required to seek new places OF
residence as a result of the refusal
of the Alabama supreme court to grant
a re.hearing on the unlawful detain-
er" cases previously decided in favor
of the plaintiff coal operators, whose
lease contract with their former miner
employees containing 24-hour noti-
fication clause, has been upheld in the
original decision. 1t is announced from
Montgomery.
Brought from the Pacic coast by air.
plane in the record time of 80 hours
20 minutes, $50 pounds of California
man ItdtHVu NSh VI anu wan uih-
tributed.
Silas Blevins, tenant farmer, Is re-
ported by county authorities at Scots
boro, Ala to have been recently taken
from his home and whipped.
Cries Of graft" raised by members
of the New York police force follow
ing an order requiring the force to
wear two and half inch cuffs on
their summer uniform pants has been
put under official investigation.
The womens shoes for this spring
and summer will be strapped on, and
the mud puddle and the light fantastic
toe will have no terrors for the las
sizes.
Passenger rates from the United
States to European ports have been
advanced 10.
Diptheria patients, especially small
boys and girls, virtual prisoners of SCI
ence at the Philadelphia hospital, win
be given home Of their own at the
institution.
Twenty thousand negroes are out OF
work In Chicago, and said to be Oh
iects Of public charity. ]