The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-07-28


by mutual consent, and the business will bt
continued by Mr.. Fischer. Their plant is 10
Gated south of the Belair road. in the reor OIL
Baltimore Cemetery.
- Kennedy c. Brown, member of the
Baltimore county fire department, who was
bitten on the hand June 18th, by dog thai
was supposed to be mad, has completed the
course of treatment at the Pasteur Depart
ment of the City Hospital.
- Multiply Council. Jr. O. U. A. NJ, OF
CockeysviIIe, has been incorporated by Messrs
VIM. w. Howard, VIM. T. Fulton, Robert b
Smith, w. q. Ambrose George B. Kenney,
Howard Sheeler, E. T. Harding, R. J. Linde
mon, ]. G.. Leaf and Adam Kramer.
- George Allison Brown, of Baltimore,
who died at Norfolk a few days ago from
morphine and cocoaine poisoning, was at one
time patient at the Sheppard Asylum and
frequently visited Towson. He was 46 years
of age and belonged to prominent family.
THE engineers of the BALTIC. q Lehigh
Railroad were in Toxson on Tuesday taking
measurements for the steel bridge which the
| company proposes to erect over the turnpike
in this place. 1t is said the structure will be
put up in twenty-four hours after it reaches
here.
- From temperature of 102 to one of 20
! is big drop but that is what we experienced
here within the space of two days the past
week. The great heat wave that continued
one week was broken by the rain that came on
Sunday and brought with it the long hoped
for relief
ION Tuesday last Mr.. d. H. Rice of
Valley View Stock Farm, near Towson,
| shipped fine young gelding of his own rails
ing to Mr.. Pritchard, of London, England, for
which he received long figure. This animal
was blue ribbon winner at the last limo
mum fair.
Next Sunday promises to be big day at
! Glyndon Park camp.meeting. In the morn
ing there will be an evangelistic service of
Gospel song and story, to be repeated at P. NJ.
n Col w Ravno of
lucky, will deliver his popular lecture. "A
Century Searchlight."
- Messrs. Hill and Sappington, Republi-
can Board of Election Supervisors for this
county, publish in the advertising columns of
THE UNION today their official list of judges
of election who will also act as officers of reg
istration. There are now two full lists of
such officials in the county.
IA very heavy electrical storm passed
over Green Spring Valley on Wednesday af-
ternoon. No buildings were damaged but
several telegraph poles along the Green Spring
Branch railroad were shattered and wires
Frustrated. For time, it is said. the thunder
and lightning were something awful.
- Within a few days two rattlesnakes were
killed in the 9Th district OF this county by
Clarence Bull, aged Is years, and Daniel Will
helm. One had IL rattles and the other IA. A
man in that district named Jack Schultz is
said to be a holy terror on snakes. Heis credi-
ted with already having killed over 500.
LAtcllolNc are uclDR ludu6
for the reunion of the churches of Parkton
Circuit, which will be an allday affair to be
held in Downs Grove, about half mile from
Bently Springs Station. N. G. r. R., on Wed.
nIesday, August 18th. Leading ministers will
be present and make addresses during the day.
> On the Doth of May last the boiler of an
engine on the Sparrow's Point Railroad blew
up and killed the engineer. William Fl.
Faulds. Now his widow has jointly sued the
Railroad Company and the Maryland Steel
fnr Tha - 1on
CINE also died from injuries sustained in the
same accident.
->Since the fire at Arlington last week,
when six buildings were destroyed. Mr. Noah
Walker, who lives near that place, has started
subscription to establish q hook-and-ladder
truck at Arlington. His efforts are proving
successful and he deserves much credit for
his public spirit. Arlington is without ade-
quate fire protection.
lin conversation few days ago with a
newspaper representative Mr.. VIM. B. Crow
ther, president of the United Milk Producers
Association, said: I'VE have just signed a con-
tract with an ice-cream company IN New York
to supply it with 400 gallons of cream daily at
a rate above Baltimore prices. We need from
5000 to 1O, 900 gallons more milk daily"
"A few evenings ago fellow who called
himself Jim Brown, while out at a Mt.
Winans resort, 18th district, got gay spell ON
him and made lot of fun for the assembled
sports by declaring that he was a county po-
doggoned pleased Pretty soon a sure enough
county officer came along and took Mr.. Jim
into camp He didn't feel quite SO gay after
he had laid down $40 and costs.
1.-THE Sunday school of Trinity Church,
Towson, of which Mr.. o. /. Yellott is superin-
tendent, and the school of the Protestant Eps-
copal Chapel in Lutherville held a picnic in the
woods at the latter place on Tuesday and had
a very enjoyable time. The Towson school
was taken to the place of meeting by the two
hicr 70 foo, ns.fl -
Cowpens.
IA runaway couple from Baltimore came
to Towson on Wednesday and were married by
Rev. w. H. H. Powers, rector of Trinity
Church. The groom was MIR. Lloyd A. Spicer
and the bride Miss Estella NJ. Hopkins When
the license was procured in the Court House
the brides age was given as IL, but she after
ward said she was only 16. When they went
back to Baltimore they returned to their re-
spective homes.
-In accordance with a long established
custom the harvest home festival of Filston
Farm, Glencoe, N. c.. r. R., was celebrated
last Saturday evening, all the employees OF
the farms and their families joining. in. A
number of neighbors also participated in the
enjoyment and partook of the good cheer
MI Asa B. Gardiner, Jr., manager of this ex-
tensive business enterprise, was present and
gave the affair his personal supervision.
"A gentleman who saw the fire at Airing
ton, Sd district, on Friday morning of last
week, said since that he believes the entire vii
lage would have been destroyed had it not
been for the engine that came out from Balti-
more. Mr.. A. Fenneman, of the Electric
Park permitted the city fremen to draw
water from his supply. He also said that the
county engines were entirely unable to check
the spread of such a serious confagration.
MIR. T. NJ. Corcoran, who is manufacture
ing icecream at Butler, has made and sold
since the first of January last nearly 5000 gal
Ions His 4th of July orders aggregated be-
tween five and six hundred gallons. The
cream goes to villages six and eight miles dis
tant from the mill. Mr.. Corcoran lately in
vented an icecrusher which has proven a
great help to him in bis business. 1t will
crush ice to the required size as fast as one
man can throw it in.
A Giant of the 'Woods-Remarkable
Colored MAN. ilton Howard, colored,
thought to be at least 65 years old, vertible
giant, who has spent all his life in the woods,
never wore shoes or stockings, has never been
sick and never been in Baltimore, or any other
city before, is remarkable patient at the City
Hospital, says the Baltimore Sun.
Howard is a wood chopper and claims to be
from Soldiers Delight, Baltimore county.
While loading heavy log on a wagon May
18th last the chain broke and the log fell back
| to the ground, knocked Howard down, rolled
| completely over him and broke his right leg
near the knee He was brought to the hos
pital in farm wagon May oath by order of
the physician who attended him.
Howard is jet black feet 81 inches tall and
he weighs over $50 pounds. His hands and
| feet are of enormous size. Each foot measures
little over IA inches in length and inches
across the toes. The soles are fiat and the
great toes are about four times the normal
size. According to Towards account he was
not able early in life to get shoes large enough
to fit his feet, so he concluded to go shoeless.
| The skin is thick and so hardened by exposure
as to resemble leather. He says he has en-
| dured the coolest weather and walked in the
snow without discomfort.
Towards forehead is extremely low, the
hair growing to within two inches of his
heavy eyebrows. A thick growth of straight
but rather short black hair, sprinkled with
gray, covers his head. His face bears growth
of black hair of varied lengths and thin in
spots. razor has never touched his skin and
in all his life he has only had his hair cut
| once. That was many years ago.
Howard says that his father and mother
were of ordinary size and thinks they are
dead though he is not quite sure. Prior to
the Civil War he was a slave and belonged to
Walter Ford, farmer in Baltimore county.
He SAYS he remembers the war because it gave
him freedom. He has always lived in the
woods, chopping wood for whoever employed
him. In the winter be sleeps in a little cabin
in the woods. In summer he makes his bed
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