Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-12-24
Domestic

The United States court of appeals
has alfred the three-year sentences of
Heramba Lal Gupta, George Paul
Boehm, Albert A. Wehde and Gustav
H. Jacobson, convicted at Chicago,
OF fomenting revolution in India and
organizing a revolution in India and
organizing a military expedition
against England.
Marion, Ohio, typographical union
recently elected and initiated Presi-
dent-elect Harding to lifetime honora
ry membership in the union.
A verdict Of acquittal was ordered
recently in the Detroit recorders court
In the case of Frank H. Dohany, a
prominent Detroit attorney, charged
with manslaughter in connection with
the death of August Dwyer of Middles.
boro, Ky.
Robert Battles, alias James Frank.
Ign, arrested five weeks ago at Tren.
ton, Ca, on the charge of attempting
to dispose of a stolen Ford automo-
bile, and who has since been in the
Hamilton county jail, Tennessee, has
confessed that he had stolen eleven
automobiles and has three living wives
whom he had not divorced.
But 1919 of Calhoun county's (Ala.)
cotto ncrop this year has been sold.
Farmers in many instances are not
having their cotton ginner, but are
holding it in the seed.
John Brennan, 81 years old, drop
ped in partly filled oil tank of the
Gulf Refining company on Hutchin-
son island. near Savannah, Ga, and
before he could be extricated, drown
ed. He was overcome by gas and fell
in the tank.
Hendersonville, N. c., citizens went
to Marion, Ohio, and invited President.
elect Harding to spend the winter va
cation in Hendersonville.
Four men entered an inn on the
outskirts of Newburgh, N. Y, stabbed
the proprietor and got away with the
hotel cash and valuables worth TWEEN
ty thousand dollars.
The Crawley brothers, convicted In
Towns county, Georgia, superior court
of completely in the murder of a dep
uty United States marshal, have been
denied a new trial.
Five men were killed and seven In
jured in an explosion at the Atlas
Powder company's lpant near Landing
Nj, on the west end Of Lake Hopat
cong.
| Explosion OF thousand kegs o.
powder at the. Atlas Powder compa
ny's plant near Pittsburg, Kans., kill
ed one workman and injured another
probably fatally. The packing house
|, In which the blast occurred was de
stroyed.
Suit for sS31,500 filed against Loui'
Krohnberg, by the state OF New York
revealed members of the poker part,
at the home of the husband Of Normi
Talmadge, in which the husband wa
accused of cheating.
Chief of Police Littrell and Deput,
Sheriff Blessing both of Big Ston,
Gan, Va, are dead, and Davy Greer
Walden of Appalachia, Va, is seri
ously wounded as the result of a shoot
ing ARRAY at the former place ii
which the officers are said to hay,
attempted to arrest two brothers nam
ed Snodgrass and woman.
! Enrico Caruso, the worlds creates
tenor. burst blood vessel in hi
throat, singing at the Brooklyn Acad
envy Of Music. The performance wa
stopped. 1t is stated that the iniur,
"a not serious, although It is the sec
, ond Of the same nature he has sui
Tered In two weeks.
). Money laid away by Walter Mood,
Cor his funeral expenses was founs
|, ~ bankers Of Elkhart, Ind. to b,
4 counterfeit after It had been spen
II "a meet burial costs for the man. Hi
] widow. q second wife. win have |.
make the amount coed.