Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-04-28
Domestic

Harry C. Hervey, formerly manager
of the Bienville Hotel at Mobile, Ala.
endid his life at San Francisco, Cal.
according to kilograms received in Mo
bile.
John Duvall Dodge, Detroit million
aire. and Rex. Earl, an architect OF
Kalamazoo, were convicted in circuit
court at Kalamazoo, Mich, on a charge
OF illegally possessing, transporting
and furnishing liquor Attorneys for
the defendants Immediately gave no
tice of appeal and Judge Weimer with
held sentence.
The lines of controversy in the an.
thracite strike situation will become
clearly defined within the next few
days, anthracite operators announced.
and in a short time they will make
known the terms upon which they will
offer to settle with the strikers.
A demonstration typical of his turbu-
lent Russia greeted Gen. Gregorie Sem
enoff, Cossack chieftain, as he left the
New York City jail the other after
noon. Released in $4,000 bail fur
nished by his friends, the Cossack alta
man, surrounded by detachment Of
police, appeared at the Jail door and
cringed into his coat collar as the
jeers OF thousands fell upon his ears.
Thomas Joseph West of New lorl;
City, who celebrated the 10t0h ami.
versary of his birth recently. believes
that he Is the only person living who
shook hands with the Marquis de la
Fayette, when the great Frenchman
was a guest ,of the city of New York
in 1924 Mr.. West at that time was a
baby in arms, having been born on
April 10, 1922, at 492 Greenwich street
Julius X. Romano, known for wears
as the man of mystery of Thunder.
bolt, Ca. suburb of Savannah, drop
ped dead one morning recently. He
appeared at Thuhderbolt about a quar-.
ter of century ago and no one has
ever known anything of his past life.
He spoke of a mother and sister
and is supposed to have come from the
North.
Alexander Forward of the Virginia
commission was recently
appointed by the interstate commerce
as member of commit
tee OF state commissioners from South.
eastern states to sit with the federal
body to hear and determine the gene.
raj freight rate case from his terri
DRY. The other members of the COM
nittee are Commissioners Burr Of
Florida, Maxwell OF North Carolina,
Patterson of Alabama and Perry OF
ieorfia.
The contest for control OF the Sub
marine Boat Corporation which en-
ived the recent annual meeting in
View York City resulted in victory
or the organization ticket, the cor
'oration announced when the counting
# the votes had been completed. Three
organization directors, Frank Wallace
stephen Peabody and Otto Marx, were
lected to the board, succeed Isaac
:. Rice, Jr, Thomas Cochran and
William H. Remick.
Radio phone concerts from Newark
!. j., and Schenectady, N. Y, are re-
orted to have been heard in San Fran.
lsco homes through a repeating de.
ice at the Rock Ridge radio station
Oakland. The Oakland station es-
iblished connection with the two
astern points two weeks. Henry NJ
haw, in charge of the station. said
lat he manifolded the sounds that
ad Travelled about three thousand
lies so that they were picked up in
Re home sets here.
The director OF the United States n.
ince corporation says that conditions
the agricultural sections are 100 er
mt better than six months ago.
Farmers are working to create cheap |
ops and pay of ftheir debts, and
erefore the buying of the farmers I
IS been restricted for the past three
onths.
From reports all over the South. Il
pears that there is a satisfactory
rm labor supply, and the Southern
rmer will be more able to cope with
e boil weevil than he has been for :
veral years,
Frank Muller Of New York kissed his
fe goodbye on subway platform, \
OF her and then killed himself The
,man was taken to a hospital In a p
rious condition.
The editor of the Oakland, Calf.
ee Press, weekly, was taken from
5 office recently, at night, and tarred
d feathered n
Conan Doyle lectured to New York "
dience the other night on the sub. CT
ct of spiritualism. The audience was p
thralled, and went away seemingly 81
ry much enthused over Sir Arthurs "
eculations, "