An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

As we understand, this directive was given to all city and county employes.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

It's at the far end of the county and the last time I came here was for a hit and run manslaughter -- about seven months ago.

The third amended the enabling act for creation of the Lamar county Hospital District, for which a special constitutional amendment previously was adopted.

A baby was burned to death and two other children were seriously injured last night in a fire which damaged their one-room Anne Arundel county home.

Mr. Simpkins is a resident of Somerset county, and he and the Governor, also a Somerset countian, have been friends since Mr. Simpkins was a child.

He was among the richest men in the county.

The highest temperature ever recorded was 109 ° F ( 43 ° C ) in Talladega county in 1902.

The campaign was sure to be a struggle ; the Whigs nominated their " Eagle Orator " Gustavus Henry, and Johnson wasted no time in calling him to task for his " Henry-mandering " of the First District, as their debates made their way across the state from one county seat to the next.

Johnson was critical of the Tennessee common school system and suggested funding be increased via taxes, either statewide or county by county – a mixture of the two was passed.

In January 1864 Johnson organized a gathering of his state's Union loyalists, where resolutions were passed to elect county officials throughout the state, including a plan for a convention to dispose of the slavery issue ; also adopted was a very controversial and mandatory oath for voters, to protect and preserve the Union in the future.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

The county of Toulouse, since them, was joined to the Alphonse's appanage.

He was then taken to Europe and his brother Bertrand gave him the county of Rouergue.

In his tenth year, upon Bertrand's death ( 1112 ), he succeeded to the county of Toulouse and marquisate of Provence, but Toulouse was taken from him by William IX, count of Poitiers, in 1114, who claimed it by right of his wife Philippa of Toulouse, daughter of William IV of Toulouse.

Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

Bornholm was one of the three last Danish municipalities not belonging to a county — the others being Copenhagen and Frederiksberg.

Fermanagh District Council is the only one of the 26 district councils in Northern Ireland that contains all of the county it is named after.

A county park in East Meadow, New York ( Long Island ) is named in his honor.

In 1843 he was named a county commissioner in Platte County, where he then lived.

The town ( and county ) were named for him.

* the geographical area comprising the two westernmost provinces of the Flemish Region, West Flanders and East Flanders, parts of a former county named Flanders.

Kernite was discovered in 1926 in western Kern County, in Southern California, and later named for the county.

The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire.

These counties are typically ( though not always ) named after their county town.

The county in which Toledo sat would, later in 1835, be named after incumbent Governor Robert Lucas, a move that further exacerbated the growing tensions with Michigan.

* The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Kingston, named for King George III of the United Kingdom, as the county seat of Dobbs County, North Carolina.

* The North Carolina General Assembly passes an act establishing the town of Martinsborough, named for Royal Governor Josiah Martin, on the land of Richard Evans, which will serve as the county seat of Pitt County.

The General Assembly also establishes Warrenton ( also named for Joseph Warren ) to be the county seat of Warren County and Louisburg ( named for Louis XVI of France ) to be the county seat of Franklin County.

* The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Lincolnton, North Carolina ( named for American General Benjamin Lincoln ) as the new county seat for Lincoln County.

The county is named for Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who married George III of the United Kingdom in 1761.

In several other cases, such as Buckinghamshire, the town which came to be accepted as the county town is different from that after which the shire is named.

Some of the Obotrites also migrated to the south and settled in the Pannonian Plain, where the Bodrogiensis county of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary was named after them.

The southern portion of the county, of which Rockville was a part, was named Montgomery County.

Across the county line in Bourbon County, an early distiller named Jacob Spears is credited with being the first to label his product " Bourbon whiskey ".

The county ( and the county seat ) may have been named for Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore.

Anglo-American settlers named the county for Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales ( 1707 – 1751 ), the eldest son of King George II of Great Britain.

named after its former county town, Antrim ) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland.