Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-04-01
Domestic

me Bank or Rlnggold, at Ringgold,
Ca, was recently broken into by yegg-
men. who failing in their attempt to
blow open the vault doors, dug through
thick brick wall, effecting an en-
trance. They got away. No clue.
Two masked men late at night re-
Gently held up a Denison, Texas. post
office messenger while he was on his
way from railroad station to the
postoffce with quantity of mail and
forced him to accompany them to the
outskirts of the city, where they rob-
bed him.
George Washington Knight, 90, at
New Brunswick, N. j., was found guilty
of numbering Mrs. Edith Wilson,
church organist, and will die during
the week of Nay 2.
John magnolia, known as "Dago
joe who was being held in connec-
ton with the death near Warsaw, Ind,
Confession of another culprit exoner-
ates him from any connection with the
crime
Barron Field, the last of the three
aviation fields established at Fort
Worth, Texas, by the British and Unit
ed States governments during the war,
have been ordered sold at auction.
Three railroad presidents, members
of the former labor committee of the
Association of Railway Executives,
will be summoned to testify before the
railroad labor board in Chicago if a
request Of employees is granted, as to
why they have changed their views
since the government released the rail-
roads.
A suit to determine what au-
thority the federal railroad labor board
may have in backing up its ruling that
railroads may not reduce wages until
after conference with employees has
been filed in the federal district court
at Columbus, Ohio, by attorneys repre-
senting employees of the four subsid-
larry lines of the New York Central
railroad
Fire of undetermined origin recent
" destroyed the wholesale fruit and
storage warehouse of Hurst of Co., at
Lexington, Ky. Damage $125,00O.
All efforts to locate the United States
navy free balloon and five men miss
ing from Pensacola since it left on a
practice flight have been unavailing.
Carrier pigeons received on the Flor
ida coast brought messages that the
balloon had fallen into the gulf and
was slowly sinking.
James Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop
of Baltimore and primate of the
American Catholic church. died at
the arch-episcopal residence at Balti-
more March a. after prolonged ill
ness which mainly affected his heart.
He was in his eighty-seventh year, and
was born on farm in North Carolina.
Five men shackled hand and foot
and guarded by armed policemen are
under arrest in New Orleans pending
their transportation to New York,
where they are wanted in connection
with the Wall street bomb explosion of
September 16, which cost two-score
lives and millions of dollars in damage
to property in the heart of the finan-
cial section.
News has been received at Jasper,
Ala, that Chief of Police Hurd OF
Dora, mining town, and H. N. Ham,
mer, miner, were slain in pistol
duel on the streets of Dora recently.
Northern Idaho residents, fostering
formation of the new state Of Lincoln.
which would comprise ten counties of
north Idaho, part Of western Mon
tana and eastern Washington, are to
raise fund to be used for propa-
ganda In the interest Of the new state.
Charges that the Pennsylvania and
the New York Central railroads domi-
nate the policies of other roads In OPP
position to the national agreements
with labor unions have been made
before the railroad labor board by the
unions attorney In cross questioning
railroad officers. at Chicago.