The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-05-15
Beyond the County

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hard fighting by two fire companies
and several hundred farmers, a forest
fire, threatening the village of 500
has been put under control.
Using new chemical product, the
United States Bureau of Mines has
announced that all possible danger
has been eliminated in the operation
of mechanical refrigerators.
In Germany, the first transmission
of heartbeats and heart murmers to
Photographic records has been DEM
onstrated at Berlin school of physi-
cal culture.
At Cannon City, Colo, penitentiary
there are men in the death house,
awaiting execution, the largest num-
Der of condemned murderers to have
been in the prison at one time.
In Baltimore, with the week end
ing May 10th, the Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles reported that 80 driv-
er permits were denied and "a drivers
suspended for traffic violations. In
addition the report showed there were
six fatalities in the counties of Mary
land and total of $685. dollars in
fines collected.
In West Virginia, in the famous
Smoke Hole section of Pendleton
county, within the Monongahela Ma
tional Forest area, $4,000 additional
acres of forest land will be taken over
by the U. S. Government.
At Beckley, w. Va, the county jail
has been put under quarantine owing
to an outbreak of smallpox among the
"a prisoners incarcerated there.
At Milwaukee, in order to protect
a robins nest above the second floor,
the owner of house has stopped the
laying of brick until after the eggs
hatch.
In Texas, a mob which had taken a
negro rapist from Jail, burned and
riddled his body with bullets, was dis
persed by one man, a former pilot of
war tanks, without the use of tear gas
or fire arms.
In Alaska, a trapper who had not
been "out" for five years, having
toothache, drove his dog team to Van
couver, early last week, through the
Arctic night, in twenty days, in order
to get relief.
1t is reported that five Bishops of
the M. E. Church South, including
Bishop Canon, are under charges at
the quadrennial general conference of
the church, growing out of marginal
stock market operations.
In Germany, a newspaper circulat-
ing largely among ex-soldiers and the
army, predicts that the next war &C.
companied by motor invasion thru
Belgium, will occur in 1916.
In Chestertown, Md, at the third
annual Eastern Shore Institute of
Public Affairs, it was urged that other
Juvenile Courts, treating with youth
full delinquents, be established in the
several counties of the state.
In New York, Capt. Sir Arthur
Rostron announces that the Gulf
Stream is nearer to the shores of the
United States than it has been in the
forty years of his experience of ocean
navigation, and may alter the climate
of the eastern U. S.
In Chicago, bandits, ransacking an
apartment, when baby began to cry,
obtained milk from the ice box
warmed it, placed it in a feeding bot
tie and gave it to the crying infant
thus quieting the noise.
In Iowa, IA women bootleggers in
Jail, petitioned the jailor to add two
more women to their cell block SO
that they might complete four tables
of bridge.
From New York last week, the first
group of Gold Star mothers, to the
number of 232, sailed for France on
a pilgrimage to the graves of Ameri-
can bows.