The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-09-01


week of the drowning of Joshua lowering, Ut.
and VIM. T. lowering, Jr.. at Connelly's BREAK
a very dangerous place in the Susquehanni
river. Mr.. Charles Fisher, of Ruxton. balfi
more county, who is a well known athlete
was with the young men when the SAD accl
dent occurred and gives the following account
of it:
1--WE were canoeing down tie river and al
was going smooth. ] was in the rear canoe
and the Messrs. lowering were in the othel
canoe about length ahead. ALI OF sudden
the canoe ahead of me turned over. 1 hao
been working to guide my canoe and had not
been watching the other canoe closely. so thai
have not the least idea what caused 1t To
turn. When looked up it was turned over
and the boys were in the water.
Immediately they grabbed the canoe and
seemed determined that it should not be lost.
They were not frightened or even alarmed IN
any noticeable way. Willie climbed up on
top of the canoe, which hoated bottom up IN
the swift current. Joshua chung to the end,
where it is cut down to fine point one OF
the paddles had been lost and Willie called 70
me to get it for them. did so, and Willie
leaned down and got the paddle when threw
it to him.
of course making preparations to get the
canoe righted when she suddenly struck
rock which had been concealed ahead. II 1t
had not been for this rock they could have
floated in safety. The jolt when the rock was
struck threw them both away from the canoe,
| which whirled around and around
Joshua lost his coat and called to me to
look ont for it. l at once attempted to get
! hold of it. Willie meantime apparently struck
out for the shore. He was not more than 10
feet from land, and supposed OF course he
could reach the shore. Joshua was 10 feet
farther outin the stream. While was trying
! to get his coat he called out to me:
You needn't mind my coat now. Come
to me- .t8
II at once started for him in my canoe, but
had hard work to guide it to him in the eddiess
1t was so difficult to get it headed over to him
that he sank once while was working with
it. Then I saw that quick work must be
done, and / abandoned the canoe and jumped
in the water after him. / swan to him and
he threw both arms around my neck in tight
clasp. ~
"'Look out, Josh, l said; don't hold me
too tight. You may choke me-
sat that he loosed his hold on my neck and
pressed his arms down until he got me around
the waist, leaving my arms free.
Just then we were caught in big eddy,
which swirled US around and sucked us down.
We went under just in the position have
described to you, with Joshua clinging to my
waist. We went down and down. 1t seemed
an awful way to me. / suppose it was 10 or
Is feet. The water was boiling and swirling.
1t was tearing us and pulling US in every d.
rection.
SIN the swirl down under water Joshua and
became separated When ] came to the top
again he was not with me. looked for him,
but saw nothing of him. was then in an al
most exhausted condition, and | struck out
for land, expecting, of course, to find Willie
on the bank. The time from that until /
reached the shore is almost blank to my
mind. ] couldn't tell you how got to land.
| was confused and daZed.
when / reached shore I, of course, did not
find Willie There were no signs of either of
them in the water. | am sure Joshua never
came up again. heard nothing from Willie
at all after the timeI jumped out of my canoe
and started for Joshua. / lay on the bank
and rested for few minutes and then walked
mile and a half and summoned help
The accident occurred on Thursday, but the
bodies were not found until Sunday. This
was accomplished by the use of dynamite the
explosions of which brought them to the sur
face not over fifty feet from where they went
down. They were brought home on Monday
and inferred in Greenmount Cemetery the
same day. Joshua lowering, Jr., one of the
unfortunate young men, was son of Mr..
Joshua lowering, who was the Prohibition
candidate for President of the United States
four years ago. The summer residence of the
family is at Ruxton, N. G. r. r.
Resurveying the Mason and Dixon Line.
The resurvey of the Mason and Dixon boun-
Diary line between Pennsylvania and Mary
land was begun last Saturday under the direc-
ton of commission consisting of DR.. Hem
ry S. Pritchett, superintendent of the survey;
DR.. William Bullock Clarke, of the Johns
Hopkins University and State Geologist of
Maryland, and Major Brown, of Harris
burg Pa. Z.
1t is probable that granite posts three feet in
length will be used to mark the line. About
the only inscription on the posts will be an
IN" on the Maryland side and "P'' on the
Pennsylvania side, which will be chiseled in
the hard granite.
reference to the authority under which
placed al tfs sha 81 aacf Ss Rn esf
with the location of the posts and with theif
frequency. 1t is proposed to place them so
that straight line from one to the next one
nearest can be easily determined by the sur
veyors. Stones will also be placed at high
ways and important streams for the convent
ence of officers of the law.
The stones with which the greater portion
of the present line is marked were brought
from England. In the western part of Mary
land and in West Virginia, however, earth
and stones were heaped up to height some
times of eight feet.
The work was done in 1867 and yet in 1885
there were still two feet or more of each
mound, which served all purposes OF deter
mining the boundary. The surveyors OF the
historic line had also cut great yistas through
the woods along the line, and these still re-
main with great distinctness.
Mason and Dixon's line was famous for
long time as the limit between the free" and
the ''slave' states, but does not coincide with
the limit assigned by the Missouri compro-
mise of 1920, to the north of which slavery
could not be introduced The latter was the
parallel of north latitude 36 degrees 30 minutes,
while the former is SO degrees 43 minutes 1858
The line was surveyed by Charles Mason,
fellow of the Royal Society, and jeremiah
Dixon, who began their work in 1853 and
C1,.w 0xYoA
west from the Delaware river distance of pa
miles, leaving only SO miles to be completed
| of Pennsylyania's southern boundary, which
was surveyed in 1924. Besides Maryland,
Delaware and West Virginia are directly
! south of the line.
Mr.. Governs Coming Trotters.-Mr. q.
| O. Wilson has been giving his personal super
vision to the young trotting stock owned by
| Hon. John X. Cowen, whose beautiful farm of
500 acres is situated in lower Long Green Val
| lev, and has heretofore been fully described in
| THE UNION. Mr.. Cowen does not race his
horses leaving that for their subsequent
owners. He has capable trainer in William
! E. Lake, who was brought from Columbus
| Ohio, to Mr.. Governs farm by Mr.. Wilson to
care for the stock. Lake is not only fine
| trainer, but is driver of the first class and
| thorough horseman.
At "Notchclif' Mr.. Cowen has three stall
lions in service. They are Notchclif, by AL.
cantara: Cabash, Jr, by Cabash, and Admiral
Kuser, by Colonel Kuser. He also has a yalu-
able lot of brood mares. They are by such
sires as Allerton, Sir Waikiki, Dark Night, Cal
labar, Buccaneer, Stranger, Oxmoor and King
Red. Among the promising race horses at the
farm Mr.. Wilson mentioned the following
Three 2.year-olds, three 3-year-olds, one 4-year-
old and one 5.year-old, by Colonel Kuser. now
the champion stallion of Austria
Mr.. Wilson has lately sold from the Notch
cliff farm three Colonel Kuser colts. lilly
Kuser, 3 years old, is now in Mr.. Ormond
Hammond's stable at Gentlemens Driving
Park. Belle Kuser, 4 years old. who has
shown 2:10 gait was sold to DR.. ]. Cron-
we'll; 5-year-old, out of q sister of the horse
Frank Brown, owned by August Fenneman,
is said TO have shown half miles in Ill. he
is now owned by Mr.. Ormond Hammond.
Among others mentioned by Mr.. Wilson as
owned by Mr. Cowen is the big 4.year-old son
of Notchcliff, Harry H. Last Friday Lake
drove this horse mile over the Gentleman
Driving Park track in 2:23, last half in Ill
The Court Granted the Injunction.
Messrs Miller & Bonsal. counsel for Edward
G. Cherbonnier, have filed bill in the Circuit
Court here for an injunction against Messrs.
Robert H. Bussey and Osborne /. Yellott,
trustees and executors of the late Charles Z. Il.