The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-12-11
Beyond the County


lation of the prohibition laws.
At Fairmont man, SO years of
age, murdered his wife, CT, Tuesday,
and then killed himself with a pistol
At Cleveland 70 persons were over
come by amonia gas, when refriger-
ating system broke in a down town
store, Tuesday.
At Wichita, Kansas, Ruth Nichols,
society girl, landed from plane after
having completed nonstop flight
from Los Angeles in 7 hours and 1
minute.
In West Virginia, second so mil
lion bond issue for good roads is
urged by Phil Conley, Charleston
magazine publisher, who predicted
that it would be ratified by the voters.
At Winnipeg, 24-year old Esqui-
mo girl was picked from two dozen
entrants in the first beauty contest
ever held within the Arctic circle, as
the Queen of Beauty, and received as
the prize a mirror, the first she ever
owned.
At Washington, the House Appro-
priations Committee approved the I'M
Employment bill, providing ITO million
dollars for highway aid and river. and
harbor improvements, Baltimore get
ting 797 thousand for harbor and
channel improvement and Maryland
gets an allotment of 678 thousand for
highway construction.
In New York, tear gas pistol in
the pocket of Chief Magistrate Jos.
E. Corrigan exploded in the office of
Mayor James ]. Walker, routing the
Mayor and about so other persons
who were in conference.
At Bucharest, King Carol has re-
quested the allowance to the royal
family be cut % per cent, so he and
his relatives must now struggle along
on 300 thousand year.
At Woodmont Rod and Gun Club,
Hancock, Nd, Attorney General Mil
Ter and party killed large buck, six
wild turkeys and English Pleas
ants, part of which will be eaten by
President Hoover.
In Baltimore, workmen excavating
for the new postofice building, dis
covered an old cannon ball, the horns
of a buffalo and bones, the latter be-
lieved to be human, 81 feet below the
surface Of Lexington street in what
was the bed of a stream that emptied
into Jones Falls. A Revolutionary
Fort once stood in the vicinity, erected
in 1745.
At Wilmington, Del, a Chesapeake
Bay dog, 10 years old, captured a
marine creature weighing 80 pounds,
on the order of turtle, having fins,
short legs and two horns. The dis
patch failed to state what kind of
liquor the owner of the dog was drink
ing, if any.
In Chicago a professional bonds
man was instantly killed by black
powder bomb delivered through the
mails disguised as Christmas gift.
In New York, it is announced that
a new process gasoline can be made
from crude oil, the result being bar
rel for barrel.
In New York City, Ben B. Lindsey,
former Denver Judge and apostle of
companionate marriage, was force
ably elected from fashionable
church, when he attempted to answer
a scathing word trouncing admins
tered by Bishop Manning.
At Washington DR.. Doran, Commits
sioner of Industrial Alcohol, reported
that during the last fiscal year Jail
sentences aggregating more than H.
900 years had been imposed on violat-
ors. Of the Volstead Act under the
Jones Give and ten" and other laws.
At Onancock, Va, A. E. Mercker, a
recognized expert on crop analysis,
declares that Eastern shore farmers
must cut their acreage ten per cent
next year or face potato crop fail
ure.
According to the new manual just
issued by the Maryland Department
of Forestry, fine of from ten to one
hundred dollars may be imposed on a
person causing a forest fire through
carelessness or neglect.
At Cumberland, the offer of man
ager of a local picture house to donate
to charity all proceeds if permitted to
open on Sunday was tuhned down by
the City Council last Monday.
In Nebraska, two men, while "bum-
ming" their way east, found a pocket
book containing fifteen hundred dol
lars and turned it over to the station
agent, receiving reward of one dol
lar and ''thanks".