Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-10
Domestic

Judge Julian w. Mack of New York
has been selected to serve the unex-
pired term of Judge Kennesaw Noun
tain Lands, whose resignation is al
ready effective.
Minor disorders accompanied the
re-opening of the Hope companys
textile plant at Hope Village, r. l., IN
the Pawtucket valley, with score or
more of employees.
William G. McAdoo and Mrs. Nc
Adoo will, in the near future, respond
to the lure Of the vast and open
spaces" and settle in Los Angeles.
Calf, permanently.
Kennesaw Mountain Lands, COM
missioner of baseball, who resigned as
federal judge, will not go into poll
tics in Chicago, he has informed a
friend in a letter, it became known.
Sylvester S. Shoemaker, 70, Men,
phis, Tenn, could not raise enough
money to pay his life insurance pre-
MUM and suicide. His farewell let
Five men held up and robbed Will
liam Ormsby, payroll clerk of the Palm
Olive company, of ten thousand dol
lars just as he was getting out of
taxcab in the companys Milwaukee
plant,
Mrs. Mollie Turner, Kentucky's first
woman moonshiner in so far as 1t is
known, is under sentence to serve
three months in Jail and to pay fine
as a result Of being convicted on that
charge in circuit court at London, KY
The threatened nationwide strike
OF bituminous coal miners on April |
may be averted, it is asserted in Chi
cago, if the policy committee of the
miners will allow district presidents
to frame state wage agreements with
operators.
Mrs. John Rupp recently told the
Los Angeles police that she kept
house" for the six drug peddlers who
are said to have been implicated in
the murder of William Desmond Tay-
lor, film director. The police attach
much Importance to her story, and
say that il her story is true, the muir
der mystery is solved.
William F. Wendt, Los Angeles mil
lionaire, formerly known as the iron
king" of Buffalo, N. Y, where the
courts recently held him incompetent,
has been found to be mentally sick"
at session OF the Los Angeles coun-
ty lunacy commission, and paroled to
Mrs. Jean McCracken, a court at
tache. 1t is planned to place him in
sanitarium.
The special grand jury investigating
the Lexington hotel (Richmond, Va)
fire, February 7. found that the own
ers had been too prodigious in the
use of the word new" instead of fix
ing the hostelry for the safety Of the
lives of the guests and employees.
Theodore Roosevelt would give the
country one of his broad smiles II he
were alive. Mr. and Mrs. William Po-
teet of Brownsville. KY, have been
married six years, in which time, four
sets of twins and one set of quadru-
pies have come to bless their home
twelve in all.
Representatives of the manufacture
ers and of both unions involved in
the strike in cotton mills in Rhode
Island rejected the proposition of the
state board of mediation and concili-
alton that the wage controversy DO
submitted to Judge ]. Jerome Hahn,
chairman of the board, as sole arbi.
ter.
Mary Pickford does not have to pay
Mrs. Cora C. Widening any part Of
the $10S,000 which Mrs. Widening
claims was due her as commission for
getting the film star raise to $4,000
a week, was the verdict OF federal
jury at New York.
Six more indictments, naming ten
men whose affairs have been investi-
gated in the bucket shop inquiry, were
returned by the grand jury, at
New York, and three more broker
age houses became involved in flnan-
cial troubles and were forced to sus.
pend.
Whether Harvey w. Church, con.
victed murderer, is an untra-skilled
malingerer or the most remarkable
example of mental death by self
hypnosis ever coming to the attention
of medical authorities will be proved
on the gallows In Chicago.
Mrs Thomas MeGovern complained
in city court at New York, that her
husband sent out a report OF her
death which caused their home to be-
filled with mourners and kept the
doorbell ringing necessarily as mes.
sengers delivered floral pieces ana
messages Of coincidence.