The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-02-27
Beyond the County

AT Seattle, woman, aILnOuSn Nv
ing alone in squalor in small cot
tage for many years, was found to
possess 100000 in cash, stocks and
bonds, when search was made of her
home after she was removed to a
sanitarium. -,
At Juneau, Alaska, not having ex-
perienced below zero weather for
five years, was totally unprepared to
fight a continuous snow fall of three
days, the city finding only IL shovels
available at the hardware. stores.
b. At Cleveland, in the Bell Telephone
Laboratories, spoken words were
placed in electric storage four and a
half seconds, then passed into mans
body in high voltage waves and fin
ally transmitted from the man thru
finger into the ear of another man.
James Baker, 25, held in Detroit,
has confessed to killing by poison, 9
persons, giving as reason that kill
ing "gives me funny sort of mental
satisfaction" His confession is not
believed, as one of his victims" has
been found alive.
At Washington, D. c., a travelling
salesman, parked his car in front of a
business house and when he returned
found that his automobile had been
rifed of all his sample shoes. The
thief could get but little satisfaction
as the shoes were all for the left foot.
In Arizona, Eva Dugan, convicted
of the Staying of A. ]. Matthias in
1927 and sentenced to death, was
hanged last week, being the first
woman to pay the death penalty in
that state, six women witnessing the
execution. She was the 26th woman
to be hanged in the U. S.
In 1929 more than 3,246,200 auto
mobiles were sold on the time pay
ment plan. These cars were handled
by 400 finance firms which advanced
more than $780, 100000 for the pur-
chases.
At Baltimore, a triple street car
crash occurred, owing to fog, when
two of the cars crashed and while
workmen were inspecting the wreck a
third train doomed out of the fog,
crashing into the rear end of the sec
ond train, killing two and putting 46
other passengers in the hospital, Mon
day morning.
On last Monday, Charles Evans
Hughes, appointed by President Hoo
yer to succeed William Howard Taft,
resigned on account of serious illness,
took the solemn oath of Office and be-
came the eleventh in the succession, of
Chief Justice since John Jay, in 1889.
On Monday of this week, EX-Presi-
dent Coolidge received letter warn
ing him that gunman had arrived
at Los Angeles, with the intention of
taking his life, which letter was de-
livered by local police to be the work
of a crank.
In Wisconsin, eleven persons were
killed and over one hundred injured
when two trains running in opposite
directions struck an automobile at a
grade crossing.
At St. Louis, the family of Charles
w. Pershall, wealthy grocer and
banker, kidnapped for ransom last
week, obtained his release by paying
$4,000 to his kidnapers, bringing the
total payment in four recent kidnap-
ings in that city to $4,000.
1t is stated that in the United
States 81 tons of dope-marijuana,
heroin, cocaine, morphine and opium
are manufactured and distributed
when three tons only are needed for
legitimate medical purposes.
Maryland included, ten states re-
duced infant mortality during the
year 1928, this state having 80 deaths
under one year of age to every 1000
live births.
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