Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-02-20
Domestic

TWO alleged burglars were killed
at Sound eBach in gun battle in a
dark cellar with Maj Alden l.. Nc.
Murty, a business man, and state
policeman. The shooting occurred
in the summer home of Mrs Eliza G.
Morris, at Rocky Point, Sound Beach,
Conn. One of the supposed burglars,
John Noccia, 80, was killed outright
by a bullet through the stomach, and
the other, Anthony Florence, %, died
in the Greenwich hospital. Both for.
merly lived in Stamford, Conn
Twenty.nine radicals, said by Sc
cret service agents to include the
most dangerous terrorists in the
United States, were captured by 100
picked agents OF the department OF
justice at Paterson, y. j., in a dra-
matte raid on red headquarters" at
that place.
New York City adyices from Vienna
say that babies are being wrapped
in newspapers instead of swaddlng
clothes. The message was in reply
to a cablegram from the committee
promising relief for the starving chill
dren Of Vienna.
The storm that swept the south
east assumed tornado proportions in
Irwin county. Georgia, cutting a swath
200 yards wide and mile in length
c. j. Henderson. farmer near the
town OF 0cilla, and his wife and four
children had just eaten dinner when
the tornado lifted the roof from their
home One woman was seriously in.
jured when eight houses were de-
stroyed in two different neighborhoods
south TO Meigs, Ga.
Two ll2-pound bombs dropped from
an airplane 5000 feet in the air dur
ing proving process at the Aber-
deem poving ground. in Aberdeen, Md,
missed their mark and, falling on a
railroad track in the aviation field,
tore up the rails for 300 feet. Naval
officers from Washington were at the
proving ground to see the proving.
The Merchants association Of
New York announces that congress.
sional investigation of the causes
which have brought about the break.
down of the postal service" has been
requested through Senator Charles Z.
Townsend, chairman of the commit.
tee on postoffices and post roads.
The total crop and live stock jro-
duction of the South is estimated to
be one hundred billion dollars, an in
crease Of three million dollars over
the value Of all crops produced in the
United States in 1915.
1t is announced that three hundred
thousand railwaymen and shopmen OF
the railroads will go on strike very
soon because they can come TO no
agreement with Director General
Hines.
William Howard Taft, in an address
Of political nature to Duluth. Mimi,
said that Herbert Hoover, IL
nominated by the Democrats and the
Republicans choose to make the league
an issue, would poll many Republican
votes"
Cracked and storm-battered from
stem to stern, almost broken in tow
the Old Dominion liner Prin-
cess Anne, abandoned except by her
.wo first officers, was slowly being
by the seas as she lay
,trander on the sand shoals off Rock.
away, New York.
S. Gordon Cumming, brother of DR..
Hugh Cumming, recently nominated
surgeon general of the United States
public health service, and former SEN
ltor, one of the most widely known
attorneys in Virginia. died. at Hamp-
on, Va, Of wounds received when
lie was shot down in one of the p-in-
.ipal streets in the business section
# that place by his divorced wife.
Rev. James Monroe Buckley. SO
ears old, clergymen, editor and au-
hor, and who had held many pas.
crates in the Methodist Episcopal
hurch, died at his home in Morris
own. N. j., recently.