Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-13
Domestic

District Attorney Charles +. Clyne
brought suit in the circuit court OF
appeals at Chicago to have Victor Ber-
ger, convicted Socialist congressman,
sent to Leayenworth penitentiary to
serve out his tenyear sentence The
suit is based on new evidence alleged
to have been procured
Virtually the entire detective force
of New York is searching for some
clue which may lead to the arrest OF
the murderer OF Miss X. Constance
Hoxie, the talented l7.year-old music
student who was brutally slain with
a hammer in her home in West SSth
street. The police are in doubt as to
whether the girl was killed by an ac-
quaintance or by a man who called
to rent room.
Two trainmen are known to have
been killed and fifteen to twenty.
five negroes are believed dead in the
wreck Of the ST. Louis, iron Mountain
and Southern passenger train, which
plunged through an open drawbridge
over the Tensas river, in Louisiana.
Six children-two sets OF triplets-
within fifteen months, is the birth rec
ord in the family of Mr. and Mrs Po-
sey Livingstone of Albany, Ala The
second trio of children was born Feb
ruary ?, and all are we'll
Damages running into the hundreds
Of thousands Of dollars at ST. Angus.
tine, Fla, have resulted from a tre-
mendous downpour OF rainfall. which
to 1856 inches in forty
hours.
The potato section around ST. Au-
justine, Fla, is under water, and the
oss to that crop is estimated at sew.
,ral hundred thousand dollars.
Announcement by the prosecution
It Tombstone, Ariz., that dismissal OF
he charges against three defendants
BECAUSE Of absence of witnesses was
)eing considered, was followed by abb
'upt adjournment of court in the trial
If 210 men charged with kidnapping in
with the deporting OF 1,1S6
striking copper miners and their sym.
at Bsbee, Ariz.. in 1917.
Robert p. Hamilton, Jr., University
II Virginia graduate, Charlottesville,
Ia. Paul Robinson Norton, Princeton
University graduate, Princeton, N. j..
nd Theodore S. Wilder, Oberlin Col.
eye graduate, 1875 East Twenty.
ourth street, Cleveland. Ohio, have
'een selected as the three Rhodes
cholars at large allotted to the United
,tates by the Rhodes trustees because
+ the unprecedented competition for
be sixty-four scholarships filled last
november
An outline of what the government
xpects to prove against Truman II.
Jewberry, United States senator, and
is 1913 associates, charged with con-
piracy in connection with the 1918
enatorial campaign, was started in the
ederal district court at Grand Rapids,
lich.. by Frank D, Daley, special as
istant attorney general.
Drastic reduction in the number of
ational bank depositaries is being
lade by the treasury department, with
le result that less than 400 of the
1871 such institutions holding federal
lnds on June 30, 1919, are expected
} survive the pruning knife
Lieuts. e. F. Davis and G. E. Grimes,
nited States aviators, who have been
ED by Mexican authorities ten days,
fter they made forced landing near
uerrero, have been released at Nue.
0 Laredo, and have crossed the Rio
rande to Laredo, Texas.
Tentative plans for transcontinental
r race this year between New York
nd Nome, Alaska, distance of A.
10 miles. have been announced in
ew York by the American Flying
ub, which is cooperating with the
aiming and operations group of the
my air service in the project.