Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-01-21
Domestic

of John Orlander latest victim, with
his wife and two children, of fiend
who, the authorities believe, is the
same that seven years ago claimed
forty-five persons as his victims in
a trail of terror that reached from La
fayette, La, to Houston, Texas.
The Southern Swine Growers AS
ISOLATION met in Columbia, S. c.. dis.
cussed important matters and elected
officers for the ensuing year. The
next place of meeting will be decided
by the new executive committee.
Joseph Grichvich, five years old,
committed suicide in Detroit, Mich.
by shooting himself In the head. The
boy had been punished for coming
home with wet feet and sent into the
kitchen to dry them. A moment later
the family was startled by pistol
shot and found the boy dying ON the
kitchen floor.
There is such thing as being too
impetuous in the choice of a mate,
but to court girl for twenty years
and then marry some one else is car.
rying precaution much too far for Miss
Lillian Boyle, daughter of a contrac-
tor at Hammonton, N. ]. She is SUI
ing James E. Baker for $4,000 not
so much for the money, but to teach
him a much-needed lesson.
A repetition of the nationwide stage
strike of the actors may ensue as
a result of the breach OF relations
between the Actors Euity Association
and the Producing Managers Associ-
alton.
Merriment along the gay white way
of New York City received a severe
jolt recently when police made the
rounds of all cabarets and dance halls
with orders to rigidly enforce the
state excise law forbidding them to
remain open after one o'clock.
The planters warehouse at Crow
ley, La, containing $4,000 bags OF
rice was recently destroyed by fire,
the loss being s250,OOO, covered par
TALLY by insurance.
Charles Evans Hughes of New York,
some time candidate for the presiden-
cy, is in the limelight as being the
probable choice for secretary OF state
in the Harding administration.
Col Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., re-
Gently called on President-elect Hard
ing seeking the appointment of Gen.
eral Wood as secretary of war.
Mary Garden, celebrated actress, has
been elected head Of the Chicago Op-
era Association. She is the first
woman in the history of the world
to head such large institution.
William Beard, miner held in con-
nection with the killing of James Nor
ris. a guardsman at Jasper, Ala, was
recently taken from the Walker coun-
ty Jail and lynched.
The convention of the American
Bar Association will be held in Gin
cinnati August 30-September l and 2.
John Wagner, moulder of the West
Milwaukee (Wis) shops, said he GER
tainly would refuse fortune Of five
hundred thousand dollars willed to
him by Otto Burlingame of Buffalo.
N. Y, whom he was reported to have
saved from drowning 80 years ago.
Resolutions adopted at a meeting
in New Orleans of Louisiana bankers.
merchants, cotton farmers and own
ers of cotton growing land favored de-
NAL of credit to planters who refused
to curtail 1921 cotton acreage 50%.
Beneath false floor and the real
bottom of an auto, which firemen OF
Weehawken, N. j., were recently
called upon to save when 1t caught
afire, was found thirty-nine gallons
of alcohol. The owner declared he
knew nothing whatever about how the
alcohol got there.
The trustees of Keswick colony.
Pennsylvania, q refuge for inebriates
conducted for years In the heart Of
the pine belt. closed up the place
when prohibition became partly Ell
fective. So many cases OF alcoholism
have developed In Philadelphia thar
the institution will reopen.
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