The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-05-05

Saturday, May 5, 1900.
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JosEPH CH1DEsrER, of Lynden, Clay county.
Mo-, calls himself 1.-The solid Republican vote"
of that town. Out of 262 voters in Lyndon be
was the only one who voted for Mckinley in
1896. The other 262 voted for Bryan.
DR.. G. G. ToDD, brotherin-law of Abraham
Lincoln, died in Barnwell, South Carolina, on
Saturday last, where he had been many years
successfully engaged in the practice of his pro-
fession. DR.. Todd, who was native of Ken
lucky, served in the Confederate army all
through the War Of the Rebellion.
THESE PEOPLE are early in the field with
and Silver League of Maryland has nominated
the following candidates for Congress First
district-W. E. Willis; Second-William E.
Beveridge; Third-Wiliam Toner; Fourth
Samuel s. Field; Sixth-R. W. McClintock.
FRIDAY, APRIL 9th. was the seventy eighth
anniversary of the birth Of Ulysses Simpson
Grant, general of the United States army and
eighteenth President of the United States. He
was born April 9th. 1922, at Point Pleasant,
Clermont county, Ohio, and died July 23d,
1885, at Mt. McGregor, near Saratoga, N. Y.
THE ILLINOIS Audubon Society, now three
years old, is the youngest but largest State as
ISOLATION of the kind. 1t has nearly 10000 en-
rolled members. Nearly all are children,
there being about 800 adults, most of whom
are residents of Chicago. A new Illinois
statute makes it misdemeanor, punishable
by fine or imprisonment for any person to
have in his possession the body living or dead,
of any wild bird-the English sparrow, the
crow and the chicken hawk excepted.
A TERRIBLE fire in the towns of Hull and
Ottawa, Ontario, ragged from II A. NJ, on the
Goth of April, until midnight. Five square
miles of territory was burned over and between
twelve and fifteen thousand people were rem
dered homeless. Several lost their lives and
many were injured. A terrific wind was blow
ing at the time and the flames spread so rapid
ly that it was almost impossible to get out of
their way. The estimated loss is SIS, 1000. 600
and it is believed there is not more than one
third that amount of insurance.
THE TOTAL vote in the electoral college will
be the same this year as it was in 1896, when
Mckinley received oil electoral votes and
Bryan 176. The Bryan leaders calculate that
Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland and
West Virginia are more likely to favor than to
be against Bryan this year. But if these five
states should give Bryan their electoral votes,
and he should lose none of the states that he
carried in 1S96he would have only 200 electoral
votes, against 227 for Mckinley, assuming that
the latter's losses were confined to these five
states.
On MONDAY last the House of Representatives
passed the Lacey bill to enlarge the powers of
the Department of Agriculture and to prohibit
interstate commerce in game killed in viola
-. q Local Laws. II authorizes the Secretary
restoration Of game, song and insecure to
mi r. ,g5 iyeSsi \ hi lMQ,i the pqTeign
Kids and animals, and prevents the killing q
,,a,,,o in violation of state laws for conceaiFd
ees:.,o,,t IN states where it can be sold IN The
open markets -
oo...n.,op 7 ,oIrNsBURY- Of connecticut, in his
,,-c.l-1dation, worked in fine lit
nAOo- y for the birds. And l especially
recommend" he says, ito all the teachers that
in the schools they teach the Importance of
forestry to the wealth, the comfort, and the
beauty of the State and that in the tender and
receptive minds of all the children they incul-
cate this truth, that no material ornament can
compare with that culture AMI gentleness of
soul which delight in the graceful flight and
the beautiful song of birds" There is as much
truth as poetry in that remark and we submit
it to the kindly consideration of every school
teacher.
Ex-GovERNoR PATTIsoN, of Pennsylvania, is
lay delegate from that State to the Methodist
General Conference now in session in Chicago.
In an interview on Tuesday be said Jam a
delegate to the National Convention on the
Pennsylvania delegation and shall go to Kan
sas City. If the convention sees fit to nomi-
nate me for the Vice Presidency l shall esteem
it an honor and shall accept it accordingly. l
am not seeking votes or the support of any
state. If they come to me Of their own Volt
ton, or my friends are successful in their adj
vocacy of my interests, shall be glad to re-
ceive the nomination. The naming of Mr..
Bryan for the Presidency will not cause me
to decline the second place."
THE REPUBLICANS of Massachusetts, in their
State convention at Boston, warmly endorsed
the administration of President Mckinley and
had the following to say on the Porto Rican
question mo greater trust than the uplift-
ing and educating of these defenseless people
has been imposed upon the United States. The
Republican party believes it to be the high and
solemn duty of the nation to accept and exc
cute this trust, with all the responsibilities it
involves, by retaining the islands and by pro-
viding for their adequate government upon
the principles of liberty and humanity" The
convention also passed resolution urging the
nomination of Secretary of the Navy John D.
Long for Vice President.
ARRANGEMENTS are in progress for the con-
solicitation of the First National and Equitable
National, two of Baltimore city's many solid
banking institutions, and the Equitable will
go out of existence and the new bank will be
known as the First National Bank of Balti-
more. Capt. John w. Hall, who has for years
been president of the First National, will retire
and hereafter devote his entire attention to the
affairs of the Consolidated Gas Company, of
which he is president. Major James D. Fer
guson, president of the Equitable, will be at
the head of the new First National which will
continue to occupy its handsome building on
South street. 1t is said controlling interest
in the stock of the First National was sold at