The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-04-03
Beyond the County

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In Chicago last week a 10 inch snow
closed the schools and paralyzed the
city's traffic, and the death toll
amounted to ten, in the years worst
storm 1a't -. 80: t.5-r -''-
In Chicago, Harry Beck, a Balti-
more jewelry salesman, was held up
by three bandits in broad daylight and
robbed of two wallets containing
100000 worth Of diamonds. 81
Howard Sutherland, Alien Property
Custodian, announces the settlement
of a suit with the British government
whereby over IL million dollars of
stocks attached during the World War
will be returned to German owners.
In Scotland, to conserve the time
of laborers who smoke, an official
, pipe lighter has been employed, whose
sole duty is to refill and relight the
pipes of the men.
In Mexico City, corpse, the
body of an unclaimed man found on
the street, turned over to students
for dissection, loudly objected when
one of the students began to cut. The
corpse" may recover. ..
In Baltimore, five armed bandits
tried to hold up the Citizens Savings
Bank and were foiled through the
cool courage of an elderly Waterman,
who grappled with the leader as the
man fired shotgun at him. .
At Washington, Prohibition Com
missioner Doran announced that boot
leggers who sold connection of creo-
sote or crude carbolic acid rosin' and
castor oil, favored with ginger, named
"sheep dip cocktail" were responsible
for several hundred cases of paralysis
in the south and southwest sections
of the United States.
In Chicago, DR.. Walter E. Dandy,
brain expert, declares that unimpaired
human powers need only the mid
brain and left hemisphere, and that
two-thirds of the brain can be cut
away without impairing the intellec-
tual powers. .
At Arnettsville, W. Va, presumably
by the explosion of a gas pocket, the
Yukon mine of the Crown Coal COM
pany, let 60, killing number of men,
while seven others escaped. 4
1t has been determined that on
dry road, with a speed of approx
mately 20 miles an hour, on the level,
with rear brakes only, car should be
stopped within 81 feet; with four
wheel brakes, within % feet. Down
grade, one foot in five, rear brakes on
ly, within 1872 feet; with four wheel
brakes, within 80 feet.
Jack Hart, sentenced to the Mary
land penitentiary for life October rs,
1922, for murder, has made two es-
capes from prison, the last one March,
1929. Arrested inNSan Francisco, a
few days ago on vagrancy charge,
under an assumed name, he posts a
small bond and again disappears.
At New York, bride and groom,
disturbed in their sleep by the rumb-
ling of trucks, calls the police, who
arrest seven alleged rum-runners and
capture 200 cases of cogna, worth
$100 case. -,. &c
At New York, Allyn King, Follies
star and southern beauty, suffering
nervous breakdown from too much
dieting, jumped from a fifth story
window which resulted in her death.
The Turkish word of ice is booze.
Thus it was that waiter in promi-
meme hotel was startled when a very
digniied woman missionary ordered
him to fill her glass with "booze."
He complied. III
At Hagerstown, all preparations
had been made for the celebration
Wednesday of the 48th birthday of
George T. Unseld, Western Maryland
Railway conductor, when he suddenly
died of an acute heart attack.
Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew
Mellon, has approved the design of
a new medal for Charles Lindbergh,
to be cast in bronze, in honor of his
achievements in the air.
DR.. julius Klein, Assistant Secre-
ta1y of Commerce, has declared that
business has reached "the turn in the
road" and that material relief will
result from the end of the cold wealth
er and that building on substantial
scale will be begun.
Prohibition Commissioner Doran
reports that agents throughout the
country had seized 1858 stills, 1,069,-
1868 gallons of cane and beet sugar
mash, 100000 gallons of corn sugar
mash and 10000 gallons denatured
alcohol and alcoholic preparations,
during February.
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