The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-07-17
Beyond the County


freight service between that city and
Hamburg, Germany, has been inaugu-
rated by a company of which Kermit
Roosevelt is vice-president, which is
expected to greatly benefit the eastern
shore.
In Italy, to dispose of the unstable
wine stocks, the government requires
that certain quantities of alcohol made
from wine be added to gasoline in
tended for use as carburant.
At Washington the Treasury De-
partment reports that during the last
fiscal year of prohibition enforcement
68, 1856 persons were arrested, 24,373
stills were seized and destroyed, and
SITS automobiles were confiscated.
In Pennsylvania Clifford Pinchot,
Republican gubernatorial nominee,
plans to run as an independent in the
general election this fall.
At San Francisco, owing to a
trade war, gasoline retailed as low as
S cents a gallon, including the 3 cents
tax, last week, with predictions made
that the price would go as low as the
state tax before the price cutting is
ended.
In Baltimore, owing to the lower
price of wheat, housewives will be
benefited by bakers selling larger
loaf of bread, increasing the size two
ounces on the large loaf, and one
ounce on the small.
In Pittsburgh a policeman seeks to
divorce his wife, charging that she de-
manded he get up from bed in the
night and get her package of ciga-
rettes and on his refusal hit him over
the head with the telephone receiver.
In California, yellow jacket,
which had apparently fed on the ven
ON of a dead rattlesnake, stung a
man on the top of his head, which
swelled and turned black, almost
causing his death.
In Chicago, the will Of John Nor
ris, famous 80 years ago for drawing
perfectly alright wills, has been in
litigation % years, having just been
judiciously interpreted by the courts.
In the Central western states last
week, more than two scores died and
many others Frustrated by tempera-
lures quite generally higher than 100
degrees.
In Australia, Charles McNess, mil
lionair, being discourteously treated
by the Secretary of charitable insti-
tuition, tore up check for 80 thous-
and dollars, which he intended to pre-
sent.
In Colorado, because debt of $24,
balance was owing, a grant dealer
seized and carted away 16OO-pound
tombstone from the head of a grave,
was arrested and placed in jail.
In Fairmont, w. Va, last Friday, at
Shaver Field, an airport opened that
day, plane, piloted by Charles s.
Seman, of Uniontown, crashed after
rising to height of only 100 feet, in
juring three, who are expected to
fully recover, one minus few teeth
In Maryland, so far this year, re-
ceipts from the gasoline tax amount
to the sum of more than 8 million dol
lars, a gain of more than 357 thous-
and dollars over last year, the total
receipts for 1929 being 5 million zoe
thousand.
At the memorial services held fol
the late Sir Canon Doyle in London
an incensed crowd of scoffers broke
up the meeting after professional
clairvoyant claimed to have received
spirit messages from the deceased.
DR.. J. S. Winters has lived in Miss
issippi, Kentucky, Indiana and Ala
bama, but always in Jefferson county
in each state.
On the Fourth of July, the holiday
| celebrations caused the death of zoe
people, IA from fireworks injuries, 10i
by automobiles, and 65 by drownings