Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1919-09-05
Domestic

Lieut.. John *. MaCkae ana frlVate
Robert A. Brook were instantly Kill.
ed at Souther Field at Americas when
the airplane in which they were TAX.
ing practice spin collided with an.
other ship piloted by Lieut. Wilfred
3. Warie, at an altitude OF between
500 and 1000 feet
President Wilson will tour the coun-
try to give an account Of the hego-
tiations Of the treaty OF Versailles it
is announced by Secretary Tumulty.
The trip will occupy twenty-five days.
Campaign badges will be issued to
officers and enlisted men OF the or
ganized militia who have the requi'
site service, the war department an.
nounces.
More than thirty persons in Chi.
cago lunchroom were poisoned by
drinking coffee, and it is said that sew
eral OF them are in serious condi.
ton.
The former Count Johann Wilhelm
Won Loewenel Brandenburg Hohen'
zollern. 40 years old, resident OF
Detroit, since 1911, and a nephew OF
former Emperor William. is now Mr.
Vaughan Lionell Mr. lionel has his
first naturalization papers, and says
be is through with European rela
tives, He came to this country IN
1898 to look after some business af
fairs for Emperor William He came
again eight years ago and decided to
stay.
Governors OF seven states have is.
sued a call for a meeting in New Or
leans September and to fix a
minimum price on cotton, 1t is an
nounced in Dallas, Texas, by Mai
Robert c. Lowry, secretary of the
Texas division OF the American Cot
ton Association.
Increases ranging from so to $50
per cent in the monthly compensation
paid under the war risk insurance act
to disabled soldiers and sailors, are
provided by a bill recommended for
passage by the house interstate com.
merce committee.
Bound for the North pole. Roald
Amundsen, Norwegian diseoverer OF
the South pole, is at present drifting
in his ice-locked schooner. the Maud,
somewhere north Of western Siberia,
according to beliefs acid by the Sc
attic, Washington, yice.consulate and
Vilhamur Stefannson, Canadian Arc
tic explorer
Three hundred American cavalry
troops made their way back to the
Rio Grande. through a driving rain.
storm, after an unsuccessful cam.
pagn begun to oyertake the bandits
who captured and held for ransom
Lieuts. Harold G, Peterson and Paul
II. Davis. Contact with Carranza sol.
diers on the trail of the bandits and
a heavy rain which wiped out the
fresh trails resulted in decision TO
abandon the chase The Mexican fed
rto and after a conference army Of
ficers decided TO abandon the pursuit. |
Although Andrew Carnegie, steel
magnate and philanthropist, declared |
during his lifetime that he expected |
to give away his huge fortune and
die a pauper," his estate to be dis.
posed of in will which will be filed
for probate, was several times S..
100000.
Four Mexical bandits were killed |
by American troops in MeXica, Cap. |
tain Leonard Matack, who arrived by
airplane, reported. They were sur.
rounded in an adobe blockhouse that
the Mexicans had constructed in
mountain pass.
In Newark, N. j., an airplane landed
on the roof of building then made a
flight from the roof. Edwin e. Bal
Tough, formerly of the Canadian avia.
ton service and now in the employ Of
a local dry goods firm as an aviator,
carrying one passenger, circled the
army quartermaster stores building
from a height of 700 feet ard landed
on the roof, which is 9S7 tact long
and so feet ide. The mathine then
was wheeled to one end OF the roof,
TAXED short distance and took the
air.