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

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UNDER THE financial law passed by the Sem
ate town with less than 1900 population may
establish national bank with capital ofnot
less than $4,000. The money power can
be distributed anywhere popular demand ex-
lists for it.
MAYOR HAYES sent the names of the new
Jail Board to the City Council on Monday
night and they were promptly confirmed.
They are as followse Harry R. Jones, George
w. Mowen, James L. Herman, Patrick Martin.
Thomas f. McNulty, Diederich Holljes, Isaac
8. Field. Thomas Ireland Elliott and Mrs.
William Emory Waring. They serve four
years and receive no compensation.
The BRITISH troops in South Africa have
been making some small gains this week. but
their progress is slow. The Beers are showing
themselves to be not only fighting men, but
men of great endurance as well. 1t is said that
up to this time the British have lost in killed
wounded and missing 5000 men. The Boer
loss has not been nearly so heavy because their
fighting has been mostly done behind breast
works.
THE CocKEYsvnLE postoffice robbers are
now operating in Cecil county. On Friday
night of last week they paid visit to Rising
Sun, in that county, blew open the safe with
dynamite and got away with nearly eight hun
bred dollars in stamps money orders and
postal cards, and about fifty dollars in money.
The explosion wrecked the office and walked
several people in the town, but the cracksmen
got away.
THERE DIED at Morgantown. West Virginia,
a few days ago, Hezekiah Thomas, who was one
hundred and three years old He leaves four
children, the oldest eighty three and the young
bacco from the time he was ten years of age,
and be estimated that be had disposed of
$1,000 worth of the weed in that way. Mr..
Thomas was a farmer and was never cut of the
comfy in which he was born.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO the Republican National
Convention fund amountto s45,O14.5O. Mayor
Ashbridge informed the meeting a few days
hot ba icoJ 70 xxy1o ho
visited Washington that Philadelphia had been
on the verge of losing the convention alto
gether. The National Committee, he said, had
in contemplation renting Madison Square
Garden and holding the convention in New
York. Now the National Committee is salts
fled that Philadelphia will raise the desired
fund of 100000.
THE GREAT hall in Kansas City in which the
Democratic National Convention will be held
in July, is one of the largest buildings of the
kind in the United States. 1t is built of stone,
cream brick and terra-cotta, is 200 by 314 feet
in extent, two stories high, and cost S225 600.
all of which was raised by public subscription.
This fine auditorium has seating CAPACITY of
nearly 10000, with standing room for several
thousand more 1t is estimated, the coustruc-
ton being SO perfect. that the hall can be
TREAcY admits frankly, even merrily,
he offered a Justice of the Montana SUI
preme Court bride of $4,000 to dismiss the
Welcome disbarment case but explains that
it was simply joke. After reading the testi-
mony in the Clark case the public will be slow
to believe that anybody in Montana politics
treats bribery as subject of levity. On the
other hand, it seems to be universally regarded
out there as a serious and entirely practical
Ahasiness. There is cynical frankness in some
of the testimony which is distressing and dis
heartening. Enough has been heard to con-
vince the reasonable man that Clark should go.
IT APPEARS to be already pretty well settled
that Mckinley and Bryan will be the nominees
of the Republican and Democratic parties this
year for the Presidency. Chairman Jones, of
the Democratic National Committee in an in
terview few days said 1.-THE Democratic
party is the party of bimetallism, and its decla-
ration in the next platform on this question
will be as strong as it was in 1896 But
whether silver, or opposition to trusts, or i'm
perialism will claim most attention from the
people is something cannot tell" Mr.. Jones
has no doubt about the nomination of Mr..
Bryan, but says he has no idea who his rum
ming mate will be.
THERE IS good deal Dissatisfaction expressed
in some Democratic quarters that ex-senator
German has re-entered politics and will take
an active interest in the management of the
coming Presidential campaign. He took
prominent part at the meeting of the National
Democratic Committee in Washington last
week. He has openly declared for Bryan and
it is said he will be asked to write the platform
that it is expected the Kansas City convention
will adopt in July. 1t is said the Chicago plat
form of 1896 will be reaffirmed. but the main
planks are to be devoted TO anti-imperialistic
and antitrust declarations.
THE EASTERN Shore of Maryland was bereft
of the law that made it obligatory upon the
Legislature to elect one United States Senator
from that section of the State every six years,
but it is now about to get the cream of the
offices at the disposal of Governor Smith. The
Executive, himselfan Eastern Shoreman, took
pains to see that his friends and neighbors
from over the Bay should not lack for any
thing and as a result nearly all the biggest
plums at his disposal went to them. Other
sections may kick if they want to, but all the
big slices of s'pie" are gone and they can't get
in the game again for a matter of four years.
A LETTER from Centreville, Md, to the Bal
timore Syss-sags:- Those promoting the move
.,paeiit to tax every dog in the county have re-
ceived letter after letter in favor it, Those OPP
posed to it, as q rule, are dog owners who pay
no property taxes. Nearly every farmer is in
favor of the dog tax. Every year they lose
thousands of dollars in sheep killed by worth
less dogs. Last winter several farmers residing
near Centrevile had nearly every sheep of
their entire flock killed by dogs The same
state of affairs exists in other counties of the
State and sheep husbandry in them has been
almost entirely broken up. There undoubt-