The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1890-11-08

Rossville, 18th District.-A meeting ofthee
trustees of the church and all members Of
FORCES appointment who are of the age OF q
years and upwards, will be held in the old
church, next Wednesday forenoon, at which
business of importance pertaining to the build
ing of the new church. &C.. will be transacted
and vote will also be taken on the question OF
the admission of woman delegates to the Cen
eral Conference.
The third quarterly meeting of Great Falls
Circuit will be held at Back River Church, on
the 22d and 23d of this month. Preaching on
at II o'clock, by the Presiding Elder
and at the close of this service luncheon will
be partaken of by the officers after which the
quarterly conference will be convened. Preach
ing ON Sunday forenoon also, by the Rev. Mr.
Speake.
The School Board has purchased lot from
Mrs. Ellen Brown, adjoining the Dulany school
house property, for the purpose of having a
house built thereon for the use of the public
school now being kept in Rechabite Hail.
This is certainly move in the right direction
Mr.: Charles Van Cleaf, who had been run
ming Trump's mill for the last eight years, has
recently removed therefrom to place in this
The mill is now vacant.
Mr. Charles Van Cleaf, Jr, who met with an
accident on the B. & o. r. r. short time ago.
as noted in my last letter. was not so seriously
injured as was first reported. One of his feet
badly injured that part of it had to be ampu-
tated. At last accounts he was doing as well as
could be expected. ..3
There are some sick in this community at
present, among whom are Messrs. Andrew
Kautz and VIM. E. Barbecow.
The election on Tuesday passed off quietly IN
this section so far as / have learned. Some
however, was expressed by a
number of Republicans at the polls OF the 4th
precinct because of the fact that both of the
clerks were Democrats. This, | think, should
not be done, but on the contrary one should be
selected from each of the two leading political
parties. PRINCIPIo.
Govanstown Items.-I saw an item in your
paper of last week about Mr.. George Marley
killing a rabbit in the park attached to the
Court House, with pen knife. l think the
law prohibits the killing of rabbits in any
manner before the LIST of November. Now, if
this is So why not prosecute Mr.. Marley for
violation of it. .t'...
No doubt everybody who reads the papers
read of the sudden death of Miss Roche, of
Baltimore, which occurred Sunday, October
Goth, on the Shell road, on her way home from
Point Breeze, III company with her friends. 1t
has been stated that they visited drinking
places on their drive, the proprietors of which
defy the law. The duty of the Grand Jury is
to break up such places as these and unless it
does so why not do away with the jury entirely?
The lecture on the "Passion Play" which
was delivered by the Rev. d. i. Lyman, Sun
day afternoon last, was well attended, the
church being filled to its utmost capacity:
of Mr.. Frank W. Wilson and Miss Celia Duke
took place in the parsonage of st. Mary's
Church. The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. D. E. Lyman. The night following the
bride and groom were given calithumpian
serenade by the boys. A. X.
Reisterstown, 4th District.-The Demo-
cratic meeting held at Goodwin's Hall on Sat-
urday last was addressed by Hon. Herman
Stump, Mr.. Chas. E. Fendall and Mr.. Edward
n Rich
The cornerstone for the new All Saints P.
E. Church, which will be built by Mr.. Will
liam Keyser as memorial to his mother, was
laid on Saturday last, by Bishop Coke, of New
York, assisted by number OF clergymen
There was a large attendance.
Mr. Harvey Baker, of Washington. d. c., is
visiting his mother, Mrs. John Baker, of this
place.
Miss Rich, daughter of Rev. DR.. A. J. Rich,
had the misfortune to scald one of her hands
quite badly few days ago.
Mr.. Samuel Keyser is visiting his brother,
Mr.. William Keyser, at his country residence
near this place.
Miss Nettie Warner, of st. James, My Lady's
Manor, has been visiting the family of Rev. DR..
Rich. ]. n. o.
A Man Killed by Blows from a Club
The Supposed Murderer Colored Man.
A rather mysterious murder occurred on the
farm of Martin Lynch, on the Pot Spring road,
about four miles north of Towsontown, some
time during Friday of last week. A young
man who gave the name of Vernon Arnold,
and who was thought to be tramp, applied
at Mr.. Lynch's place. day or two before, for
work. On Friday morning Mr.. Lynch went
away from home, leaving Arnold and colored
man named Henry Smith, who had been in
his employ for some time, working about the
barn. Later in the day it is supposed the men
got into difficulty when Smith, it is alleged,
beat Arnold over the head with club. inflict-
ing injuries which caused his death some
hours afterwards. After he was beaten it is
said that Arnold went to the house and told
Mrs. Lynch what had taken place. She advised
him to go to the room which he had been oc
cupying and lie down. He went in that direc
ion and then Smith came up and told Mrs.
Lynch that he had struck the man. He asked
her for a dollar to get Arnold off the place,
saying it would not do to have him sick there.
She gave him the money, but instead of going
TO Arnold'S assistance he left the place. The
injured man did not reach the house, but was
found several hours afterwards lying dead by
the road side.
The strange part about the affair is that the
body was left lying where it was found until
the next day, no steps having been taken to get
the officers to apprehend the colored man.
Justice Joshua Cain, of Warren, heard what
had taken place and proceeded to the scene of
the tragedy on Saturday. After considerable
difficulty he secured jury who, after hearing
hot IF 7 md fxxrN
others, rendered verdict that Arnold came to
his death by wounds inflicted by Smith.
DIR. r. G. Massenburg of Towsontown, made
a post mortem examination and found that
Arnold had been struck two blows on the head,
both of which had fractured the skull.
When the news of the affair reached Towson-
town on Saturday the Sheriff's officers started
out to find the supposed murderer. 1t was
learned that he had not left the neighborhood
at once, but that when he did he came to Tow
sontown and from here went to Baltimore and
then back again. Smith came here from Vir-
ginia some time ago and is well known in the
He is five feet eight or nine
inches high, black in color and weighs about
$50 pounds. Hewears a long thin mustache,
and his right front finger has been cut off.
The only thing found on the person of the
dead man was small strip of paper purport-
ing to be signed by Mr. B. f. Pope, whose
farm is on Bellona avenue, near Lake Roland.
vi JIllS was WTllIeIl IueSSdBe 10 OdpC her
man. of the Sheppard Asylum, requesting the
loan of some article. From this circumstance
it is inferred that Arnold worked for Mr.. Pope
before going to Mr.. Lynch's place. The body
was removed to the county alms-house where
it was inferred.
1t was ascertained on Tuesday that the muir
dered mans mother lived in Baltimore. When
she learned of her sons death she sent her
brother to Towsontown to obtaina permit from
the authorities to remove the body from the
alms-house and it has since been inferred in
Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Arnold is said to have
been weak-minded and was in the habit of
wandering away from home.
Smith has not yet been arrested and it is like
ly he has skipped the county.
The Towsontown M. E. Church Case
Friday of last week Judge Fowler
filed an opinion in the equity case of ID. II.
Emory against Oliver p. Merryman and others,
involving distribution of $4,000, derived from
the sale of the NJ. E. Church in this place. The
points at issue arose on exceptions to the audi
tors report filed by Mr.. Boyce, are fully set
fourth in the courts opinion, which is as
follows: 49,
The questions here presented for considera-
ton were upon exceptions filed to the account
of the creditor in this case. The bill was fled
by D. H. Emory in his own behalf, and in be-
half of all other holders of bonds secured by
the mortgage mentioned in these proceedings,
provided such holders had, like himself, on the
security of such bonds advanced money to erect
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