Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-04-14
Domestic

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Three robbers drove up to the store
of S. G. M. Sandberg, furriers, New
York City, walked in and gagged and
bound the four men present and then
carried off $65,O00 worth of furs, $500
worth of jewelry and $500 in cash.
They left no clue.
The mayor of McMechen, Va, has
complained to the governor that state
policemen are mistreating striking un-
ion miners in that section, and says
he will drive the policemen out If they
are not curbed.
Alfred Roman, who has travelled I'M
der many aliases, arrested in New Or
leans on the charge of assaulting two
women, 1t now develops, is wanted in
Cleveland on the charge of having
swindled people out Of large sums Of
money in coal company.
The Illinois commerce commission
has reduced Chicago street car fares
from to 6 cents, effective May l.
Twenty-eight hours after the death
of her mother and the serious injury
of herself in an automobile accident,
Mrs. c. E. johnson of Memphis, Tenn,
gave birth to a ten-pound normal baby
boy.
The Tennessee, Alabama and Geor-
gia railroad was sold recently to C.
E. James of Chattanooga, Tenn, for
$4,000.
Sir Conan Doyle - he OF Sherlock
Holmes fame-is in the United States
to convert ministers and laity and the
general public of the Grass material
ism" into which they have fallen. He
says he will make a regular raid"
The wreck Of large steamship was
recently sighted off the Lower Califor-
mia coast, about three hundred miles
from San Diego, by the freighter Ne
ponset, according to a radio message
picked up at the eleventh naval district
headquarters.
An alleged oil fraud, said to involve
the loss of $1,OO0OOO to investors at
Boston, Mass. and possibly millions
in other parts Of the country, was
disclosed by federal attorneys when
they made public the names Of IS oil
financiers in New York, Boston and
Holyoke who have been indicted Sc
cretly by the federal grand jury for
fraudulent use of the mails.
Dealings in all classes of stock on
the New York stock exchange recent.
ly amounted to about 1,575, 900 shares,
the largest total of any session since
1920, when market values were sub
jected to considerable depression.
The number Of stocks traded in, most
ly at extreme gains OF to points.
was estimated between 440 and 450
separate issues, this about equaling
the record made last March.
Arrested at New York upon his ar
rival from Washington in connection
with civil suit involving the theft
in Transkaikalin in 1919 Of goods
valued at $475,O00, General Gregorie
Semenoff. antibolshevik military
leader in Siberia, was released on
$4,000 bail after being held under
guard in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel
for five hours.
Olivio M. P. Stone, former trained
nurse, was found not guilty of the
murder OF Ellis G. Kinkead, former
corporation council of Cincinnati,
whom she shot to death on the plea
that he had abandoned her after max
ing her his common law wife, by a
fury which reported after nine hours.
deliberation.
Somewhere in Pasadena, Cal, Is a
thief who loves home SO much that
he Is stealing TO get one. For some
time hardly night went by that
some small quantity Of building ma.
terial--a door, a window or a bath.
tub-was not stolen from some house
under construction.
Increased fears are felt that the
leyee protecting one side OF Boards
town, ILL.,, from high water from the
Illinois river would break when the
water reached the highest point on
record. All-night rains had the river
constantly rising, gaugers say.
Heavy winds of cyclonic velocity
and transforms swept north Texas and
and southern Oklahoma recently, caus-
ing the death OF about twenty-five per-
sons and immense property loss, ac-
cording to meager reports received in
Dallas, Texas.
Rose Coghlan. adored comedy star
of the SOS, has taken her first trag-
edy role. II is that Of broken. pen-
niless old woman. waiting and pray
ing In her room IN the "rNring For
ties for death to come am take her
away rpm q world that has passed
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