Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-12-16
Domestic

Legal proceedings to restrain the
striking packing house workers from
interfering with the operation of pack.
ing plants by picketing or molesting
employees are either pending or in eff
feet in five cities in the middle west.
Rioting was renewed in the stock
yards district Of Chicago, when mobs
Of striking clearinghouse employees
fought police trying to control work.
ers to the gates. Hundred of strikers.
led by woman, fought with mounted
police at Racine avenue and forty-sev-
enth street, during which one man
was shot and four others so badly in.
jured they were taken to hospitals.
Gladys M, Rhodes, seeking divorce
from Rolley Rhodes, of Basley, S. c.,
testified that she had married him
when she was 10 years old only as
means Of avoiding attendance at
school. The marriage took place in
Philadelphia She charged cruelty and
non-support.
labelling vinegar from dried apples
as "apple cider vinegar, is a violation
of the pure food act, Federal Judge
F. A. Gieger, ruled recently at Milwau-
kee, Wis, in the case of the govern.
ment vs the Douglas Packing COM
pany, Fairport, N. Y. 1t is expected
that the case will be carried to the
supreme court.
Two unidentified men believed by
the police to have been car burglar.
were shot dead at Dunkirk, N. Y.
Whether they we're killed by railroad
detectives guarding freight trains, or
met death in pistol fight between
themselves, the police have not been
able to determine.
A preliminary hearing was waived
by the defense recently in the case
of Roscoe c. (Fatty) Arbuckle.
charged with violation of the Volstead
prohibition enforcement act. The case
will go directly to the United States
district court, at San Francisco, Cal.
Thomas H. Poole, one Of six men
charged with wrecking a street car
at Nashville, Tenn, recently, with in
tent to commit murder was acquitted.
Counsel for Mrs. Geraldine Farrar
Telegen, opera star, has laid before
the supreme court a motion to have
treated as nullity on the ground of
being frivolous and shame" GER
tain allegations made by Lou Telegen.
her actor husband, who is suing for
a separation.
A verdict of mot guilty" was rem.
dered at Nashville. Tenn, in the case
of five former employees of the Nash
vile Railway and Light company, who
we're charged with wrecking a street
car with intent to take human lives
during a recent strike.
Over 1000 bales of long cot
ton were destroyed by fire Of unde.
termined origin which broke out in
the warehouse Of the Greenwood Com
press and Storage company at Green.
wood, Miss, recently.
Complete destruction of YUMA Ariz.,
is threatened by a fire which started
recently from mysterious source.
Twenty store buildings and rs business
houses in the central district have
been reduced to ashes.
Charges that attempts were made to
intimidate Mrs. Helen M. Hubbard,
Juror In the Roscoe Arbuckle man.
slaughter trial at San Francisco, CAL,
will be laid before the grand jury, it
was announced by Milton U'Ren, as
sistant district attorney.
After forty-one hours Of dellbera.
ton, the seven men and five women
on the jury which tried Roscoe Ar
buckle on charge of manslaughter in
connection with the death of Virginia
Rape was discharged recently when
1t was unable to agree upon verdict.
Mike slime, Bulgarian, has been
arrested and held without bail in
Omaha, Neb., for investigation In the
Wall street explosion. dispatch to
the Wall Street Journal recently
stated.
Frank Dietzel, of Union City, serving
life sentence In the state peniten-
tiary, charged with one Of tho most
notable murders occurring In 1ennes-
see In the past ten years, was par
doned recently by Governor Taylor,
man named Semones, 1t is stated, hay
ing recently confessed the crime In
Tampa, Fla.
Investigation Of the collision OF
Reading railway passenger trains at
Bryn Athyn recently in an effort to
; determine the responsibility has been
continued by Philadelphia officials Of
the company and representatives OF
the interstate commerce and state pub
. lie service company. The investigators
plan to visit the scene OF the accident
and examine members Of the trains
crews.
A charter was recently filed at the
Delaware state department at Dover