Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-12-09
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Gold bullion to the amount Of $50.
900 was obtained by bandits, armed
with sawed.off shotguns, who held up
the Argonaut mine at Jackson, ANA
dour county, California.
Six persons were killed in a head.op
collision between the eastbound Port.
land-Spokane limited and westbound
Oregon-Washington limited trains OF
the Oregon-Washington Railroad ard
Navigation Company, two miles east
of Cello, Oregon.
A strike of all union packing house
employees In all plants where wage
reductions were put into effect recent
ly was ordered for December by the
executive committee Of the Amalga.
mated Meat Cutters and Butcher Work.
men of North America. The strike
will involve about forty-five thousand
workers in fifteen Western cities.
Fay Poston. IS, was killed and his
brother, Alger Poston, probably fatal
iy injured near Johnsonsville, S. c.,
when they and other members of
hunting party are said to have been
fired upon when trespassing upon a
farmers land. Other members OF the
party were also said to have been
wounded.
The poisoning Of Mrs. Irene Morgan,
a leading witness for the defense, and
the beginning of the closing arguments
OF both sides. were outstanding devel
opments In the closing hours of the
trial of Roscoe C. Arbuckle In San
Francisco.
Fifty million dollars Is trimmed
from railroad payrolls by he decision
OF the United States railroad labor
board, made public, announcing the
new working rules for six shop craft
declarations. While the decision is In
the main pronounced victory in the
carriers, as 1t greatly mobiles the ma.
jority Of the working rules granted the
shop crafts under federal control. not
all of the requests of the carriers are
granted and some OF the older rules
sanctioned by long experience are re.
tanned practically unchanged The new
rules go into effect Immediately.
Lieut.. Col Charles Whittlesey eco.
to-Hell' Whittlesey), hero of the fam.
Gus lost battalion" disappeared from
the steamship Toloa onswhich he sail.
ed November rs from New York for
Havana, according to wireless mes.
sages received In New York.
The Gulf, Florida and Alabama rail.
road, 1874 miles long, has been sold
under a federal court decree for 500.
900.
Robert H. Moore, noted New York
City criminal lawyer, died recently ais
the result Of having been struck by
an automobile.
Nearly three quart bottles of Cana.
dian per cent beer were confiscated
by the Toledo, Ohio, police and pro.
hibition officials after the cargo had
been hauled into the Ironville slip In
Maumee Bay.
Red tape Of Ellis Island was swift.
~ unwound one day recently to save
the life Of fourteen-year-old Manuel Sa.
ZONES. who arrived from Panama on
the steamship Colon to undergo a deli.
cate brain operation at the hands OF
DR.. Charge H. Frazier of Philadelphia.
A dispatch from Charlotte, N. c.,
says the historic Chambers building at
Davidson college, used as a dormitory
In which 1870 students Of the institu.
ton were living, was burned on the
morning OF November 49, The stu.
dents succeeded in saving the greater
part OF their personal effects.
Announcement is made after a con.
ference at Memphis, Tenn, between
Asa ]. Rountree of Birmingham, Ala.
director general of the Bankhead
Highway association, and representa-.
tives of the state branches of the or.
ganization In Tennessee. Mississippi
and Arkansas, that the next annual
meeting OF the association will be held
In Phoenix, Ariz., April 1929, 1922.
Bessie Lee Sisk Is being held In
Memphis, Tenn, by the police pending
into the death Of Herbert
Bingham, musician, who died from gun.
shot wounds recently.
A campaign to have the New Eng.
land hospital for crippled children of
the Shriners, located in Springfield.
Mass, was started recently as a result
OF a conference between Executive
Secretary B. F. A. Hapgood, Of the
chamber OF commerce, and Potentate
Walter H. Damon, Of Melba temple.
Ten high school students were killed
recently south of Red Bluff, CAL, at
the Proberta crossing when Southern
Pacific train No. Is, southbound,
struck the high school automobile In
which they were riding. Four chill
rem and the driver were injured.
Sylvester Rosenthal and Samuel
owners and contractors of
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