The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-09-19

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, sentenced the boys to life imprisor
ment.
A monument at Mere point, nea
. Brunswick, to commemorate the frs
landing In home waters of the Ameri
can round-the-world fliers was pro
posed at Portland, Maine by Senate
Frederick Hale. He said that a
J the next session Of congress his of
ficial act would be to introduce /,
bill calling for the erection of such
a monument
Maine Republicans rolled up g
plurality of $4,000 votes in the Unit
ed States senatorial contest and q
plurality of $4,000 in electing Re
publican governor, tabulation of I'M
official returns indicate.
President Coolidge has reappointed
David j. Lewis, Democrat of Mary
land, as a member of the tariff COM
mission.
Having confessed, according to the
police, that she killed a sweetheart
four years ago, after she had helped
him hide the body of her eighth hus-
band, whom he had slain, Mrs
Euphemia Modich of Detroit was be-
ing questioned by the authorities in
an effort to determine where her
other husbands are.
The steamship South America, one
of the finest passenger boats on the
Great Lakes, virtually was destroyed
by fire which broke out at Holland,
Michigan while the boat was in dry,
lock for the winter here. The crew
which has been cleaning the boat
escaped.
The capitol building of the United
States, which houses both branches
Of congress and the supreme court,
has been valued at s25,000,000. This
figure represents actual cost. Were
current local real estate values taken,
{ would be much higher.
Representatives of the Ell Paso G.
Southwestern Railroad company and
he Southern Pacific company will
appear before the interstate CONNER
e commission at Washington to urge
he acceptance of their petition for
merger. The hearings will be con-
ucted by Charles d. Mahaffie, direc-
or of finance of the commission.
Ferdinand Bittner is in a hospital
t Chicago undergoing a successful
peration for the removal of his
tomach. Doctors say that he will
scover and eventually will be able [
} eat liquid and juicy foods just the (
ame as if he had stomach. At [
resent he is being fed through /
lbe. Doctors who operated on Bit {
sr for stomach ulcers found that |
, also had concer of the stomach c
I'd decided to romove the stomach,
the esophagus to the up
n end of the small intestine.
Flying fish, believed by anglers to I
i've been driven inland by heavy t
Drms at sea, invaded Ocean City, I
j., and Cape May, breaking down f
egraph wires in their flight and f,
ppling service. 1t is believed there e
re several hundred of them. Il
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Money circulation in Italy now
counts to about $40 lire per capita,
compared with n lire in 1914. In d,
Ter words circulation has increased o.
sr $50 per cent, while the bold u
ne of the lire has deprecated a II
lie over 400 per cent. W
after a clash near Tibircia, Brazil, to
olumn of more than 1000 we'll A
tipped rebels was obliged to re- in
at, leaving some war material and gy
,oners in the hands of the Bra eli
ans federal troops says Santos
patch to La Nacion. The fed
Is lost four killed
elgium has notified the league Of WI
ons that it has ratified the in IN
rational labor conventions fixing so
age of children for employment
industries, and limitations of br
It work for women and children. No
ssertion that the late Hugo Stin- ne
used his influence in German pol 'e'
for personal gain is made by eel
Socialist party, which recently 'n'
oduced the draft of an amend
t to the taxation law of 1922. pa,
act, sometimes called the Stin- VIII
law, prohibited the state from ter
ing inheritance taxes in cases we
re the entire estate is bequeathed off
ne widow. ma
'ficial tests of a new method by
h crewless ships and pilotless
anes can be Unanswered by ~
rs of wireless waves have been -"
ed out at Spezia under the aus {
of the Italian navy. The apara- and
was perfected by Signor Erman- inst
iamma, an engineer, so years of mo-
after years of research. The thr'
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