The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-11-02
maryland NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
Latest Doings in Various Parts
Of the State
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS

Oakland.-Game Warden Richard L.
Browning reports wild deer have again
appeared in Garrett county. During
the past four weeks several have been
seen by different parties on the State
Reserve at Swallow Falls.
Baltimore.-Fire destroyed a FIVE
room bungalow on Deep Creek avenue,
Rossville, Baltimore county, belonging
to Julius Oehleo. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000 Mr. and Mrs Oehleo
and their family were out when the
fire occurred. Daniel Harrison, a
member of the Essex Fire Department,
was badly scorched on the face by
sparks from the burning building,
Characterization E. Stillwagon,
sixty-seven, who has preached in the
Connellsville vicinity for rs years, but
held no permanent passionate, was
killed at the Baltimore and Ohio shops
at Connellsviile when struck by an
engine that had just been detached
from a train arriving from Fairmont,
pit when the accident occurred. Mr..
Stillwagon was member of the Chris
tian Church, known as the New Lights.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 1000 carloads
of apples have been shipped to points
east and west over the Cumberland
Division, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
from the belt extending from Harp
ers Ferry and Martinsburg to Keyser
and Romney UP until Sunday, accord
ing to official records, Fully 1000
more carload lots are expected to
move over this division by the latter
part, of November, which will estab-
ish record dispatch over this sec
ton of the Baltimore and Ohio.
MISUNDERSTANDING that his sister
had attacked him with gun after an
alteration, Michael Schultz appealed
! to police of the Northeastern district
/ for protection. He was treated at st.
Josephs Hospital for what he declares
Is bullet wound in the wrist The
sister, Mrs Rose zahner, % years old,
denied she had caAsed the wound and
said her brother had come home in
toxicated and had abused her. Both
were held on charges of disturbing the
peace,
Hagerstown.-One person was per-
haps fatally injured and score of
others were badly shaken up when
box of dynamite exploded here Prop
erty damage caused by the explosion
is estimated at $4,000. Daisy Ben
nett, housekeeper in the home of Will
liam McHenry, who owned one of the
houses shattered by the blast, suffered
serious injuries and her condition is
considered grave. The dynamite be-
longed to contractors working on the
new sewerage system The scene of
the explosion was directly across from
the Washington county Jail. Cause of
the blast is unknown.
Baltimore delegates to
the recent American Legion .conven-
ton at San Francisco denied the for
nation of an anti-bonus league at the
convention. The delegates headed by
Col D. John Marley, State comman-
der, arrived, here last night "Not in
any of the committee meetings nor on
the floor of the convention was an
anti-bomus league mentioned or anti
bonus activities introduced" Colonel
Markey said. ut is ridiculous for any
one to say different. The legion has
placed itself on record concerning the
soldier bonus and there is nothing to
.retract." Colonel Markey said leg
islative program concerning the bonus
would be mapped out at the State ex-
ecutiye meeting of the legion next
month.
MISUNDERSTANDING appears to be
one of the nations banner States in
the matter of tax contributions to the
Federal Government This is indi-
Gated by comparison of the Mary
land figures with those Of the other
States contained in comprehensive
report issued by the Treasury Depart
ment and dealing with statistics on
income during the 1921 fiscal year.
Ranking twenty-eighth in population,
Maryland allowed only Is other States
to exceed it's figure ON the number of
personal income tax returns, only ~
on the total net income reported and
only nine on the total amount of in
come tax paid. Furthermore, the aver
age net income per return reported by
Maryland was larger than that of any
of the other States except New York
and Rhode Island. The average amount
of tax per return was larger than all
the other States except New York,
Rhode Island and Pennsylvania
Baltimore.-Judge John C. Rose, of
the Fourth Judicial Circuit, will come
to Baltimore to sit in Federal cases
for one week. He will succeed Judge
Charles A. Wood. senior Judge of that
circuit, who has been here for the last
two weeks. Judge Rose formerly was