The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-03-10

Several were named for the place. but the sue
cessful man, who is Democrat, was the choice
of Mayor Hayes 1t looks like there is going
to be trouble in this Board also, the first meet
ing having been little breezy.
THE LATEST statistics from the Census Bureau,
in short form, show that there are 1882, Alb
surviving soldiers of the Civil War, excluding
deserters. About $4,000 of these are unpen-
stoned The average age of the survivors is 60
5wurvs- cst1Fuuscu rfar IN fyfU there VIII
be 100000 survivors, not including militia or
CARNATIONS called on for temporary service.
Hon. JOSEPH SrBLEY. Congressman from the
Twenty Seventh district of Pennsylvania, d.
vides his salary equally between the five hos
pitfalls in his district and thus each one of those
institutions is richer 81 900 at the end of each
year. Mr.. Sbley, who is a very wealthy man,
was an earnest advocate of Bryan in 1896, but
lately he has been acting with the Republicans
and is a warm supporter of President McKin-
ley's foreign policy.
THE NEGRO Black, who criminally assaulted
Miss Jessie Bradford, near Aberdeen, Hartford
county, about two weeks ago, has been fully
identified by her. He is still in Jail in Balti-
more and WILDE kept there until he is arraign-
ed for trial at Belair. 1t is said that if he were
taken to Beair now the people, who are much
excited over the outrage, would lynch him.
Black still stoutly denies his guilt, but the
officers are fully convinced that they have the
right man.
Hon. ALFRED c. HAMMER, member of the
House or Representatives from the Fifth Penn
sylvania district, died at his home in German
town, on Tuesday last, aged seventy-four years.
He had served fourteen full terms in Congress
and was known as the Father of the House."
Although not prominent for his ability as
speaker, Mr.. Harmer had been telling worker
in committees, and throughout his long career
as a Congressman attended closely to the duties
of his office.
MAYOR HAYES, of Baltimore city, appears to
have no end of trouble with his appointees
several of whom have already resigned. Among
these is Mr.. Bernard Carter, who was appoin-
ted City Solicitor. His reason for resigning is
that he is counsel for several large corporations
in the city and that he could not do justice to
them and at the same time serve the city in
legal capacity. Hon. William Pinkney Whyte
was appointed in the place of Mr.. Carter and
he has consented to serve.
Mr.. ALEX. Y. DoLFIELD, cashier of the Ger
man American Bank of Baltimore, who is also
a large taxpayer in Baltimore county, being
a resident of the 4th district, favors the
issuing of bonds to meet the county's indebted
ness. He says this plan Twill wipe out the
floating debt and put the county on cash
sner MINUS siS Jig 1s
mentsj to prove that it would be bad pre-
csdsnb to issue bonds.
THE REGISTRATION books of Baltimore city
and the several counties of Maryland disclose
the fact that there are in this State A 923 llit
crates, of which number 49, 1907 are white, and
26,616 colored The total registered vote of the
State is 2S1 $780, showing that nearly one ont
of every six voters is an illiterate one. These
\fgures will no doubt be great surprise to
many. In view of the fact that education is
now absolutely free in Maryland it seems al
most incredible that there is such very large
number who cannot read and write.
The SAME products of no two countries or
districts are exactly alike. Even coal has its
own peculiarities. Australian soft or btu
minous coal produces twice as much gas as
European or American coal. For this reason
the Australian coal is imported into Europe,
although it is very costly. This is case of
the best coal going to Newcastle to Gust an in
ferior kind. Pennsylvania anthracite weighs
twice as much as European anthracite and
takes but half the space. This fact enables it
to compete on favorable terms with the Euro
pean product, because of the advantage in rail-
road freiEhts.
PROFESSOR DEwAR and other scientific men
have been testing the power of extreme cold
on the microbes of typhoid fever, diphtheria,
cholera and other diseases. The temperature
of liquid air-190 degrees centigrade-had no
effect on bacteria subjected to it for twenty
hours. The light-giving bacteria lost their
luminosity in the cold, but recovered it on
being thawed out. The experiments will be
continued with liquid hydrogen. If all this is
true the thoughtful man must conclude that
the only sure way to get rid of microbe is to
catch him and pulverize him under trip ham,
mer of twenty tons weight.
In WASHINGTON, on Tuesday last, Adjutant-
General Corbin, who was treasurer of the fund,
handed to Mrs. Lawton, widow of General
Lawton, a check for the handsome sum of
SOS, 407.07 1t will be remembered that soon
after Gen. Lawton was killed in the Philip
pines this fund was started for the benefit of
his widow and children, who were left with
comparatively nothing. 1t grew rapidly until
1t reached the amount stated. In addition to
the money the committee also turned over to
Mrs. Lawton all the letters received from sub
scribers to the fund, many of which contain
beautiful tributes to the memory of her lamen-
ted husband.
On TUESDAY Governor Smith signed the bill
introduced by Senator Williams, of Hartford
county, to authorize courts to again summon
grand or petit Jurors after they have been dis
charged, should any criminal case occur which,
in the opinion of the court, required that |
prompt action should be taken. This will, |
il is claimed, render invalid any excuse for |
lynchings upon the ground of the laws delays. |
Doubtless this is very good law but that it
will have any effect in the matter of lynch
ings we do not for one moment believe. In
stances have occurred in this State where raw
ishers have been lynched after their convic-
ton of the crime.
A WASHINGTON county public school teacher
named Charles H. Bowers was tried in court
at Hagerstown on Tuesday, upon the charge
of whipping a male pupil, and acquitted.
Chief Judge Boyd who delivered the opinion,
said that the only difficulty which presented
itself was that during the whipping the teacher
got the boy down on the floor, put his knee on
his neck and fiogged him. Under ordinary
circumstances, he said, this might amount to
an assault, but the testimony of the pupil him.
self was that he was very obstinate, refused to