The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-07-26

Hard times in Germany. are said to have
caused large dimunition in the consumption
of wine and spirituous liquors.
Citizens of Healdsburg. Cal, get their light,
power and water from hill streams ~ miles
away. and the city owns the plant.
The average weekly earnings of the women |
wageworkers in the large cities Of Ohio is $4.oS |
a week, and their living expenses 1923.
A new trial has been ordered in Kansas for
man who was hanged for an hour by mob and
lived. He was convicted later and sentenced.
General Passenger Agent Ford. of the Penn
sylvania Lines, predicts the establishment OF
1S-hour trains between Chicago and new YORK.
Insane because white woman had refused to
marry him; Evans Brady; full FLOODED lnoian'
b. D. Walsh, one of the best entomologists of
his day. in 1867 estimated the total yearly loss
in the United States from insects to be from |
s3OO,OOO,O0O to $4OO,OOO,oOO
Frank L. Coombs, who represents the First
Congressional district of California, is the only
man in Congress born on the Pacific coast. He
was born In the Napa Valley in 1858.
John Pierson, of swedesboro, N. j., who was
member of the New Jersey Senate during
President Lincoln's term, is 81 years old and has
lived in his present home for 90 years.
Mourning the loss of Leonard G. Neighbour,
of Califon. N. j., who was buried few days
ago, are ten widows, all near relatives, and all
wife a "a yoeG aS Rsht 81
| months visit. Her husband concluded to put
| in fresh straw and emptied the tick in the hog
| pen.
| AS many as 1881 men have been elected to the
| National House since the American Congress
| began. The number does not include those who
| have occupied seats and been thrown out on a
| contest
The commission appointed to reapportion
| Oklahoma has announced the total population
| of the territory to be 6O0,000, with one Repre-
sentative for every %, 600 people and one sena-
| tor for every $4,000.
Tie preservation is question of growing i'm
| portance to many railroads which do not own
timber suitable for the manufacture of ties, and
| several new preserving plants are going up in
| several parts of the country.
The great advantages that have accrued to
California cities from using oil to lay the dust
| instead of water are being recognized by many
| Cities and especially in those in which the sup
| ply of water is rather limited.
Marshall Field, of Chicago is heading move
ment to eolonlze the nn nun abandoned
| chanics from the Old World. Several railroads
are also interested in the project.
Rev. James H. Halpin, of st. Francis de Sales
| Church, Herkimer. N. Y, is president of the
Board of Trade Of that town. He is a keen
tieth anniversary in the priesthood.
Adm Mann, city engineer of Elgin, ILL.,, and
| perhaps the oldest civil engineer following his
profession. has retired. He is So years old; and
county in the capacity of civil engineer.
The greatest dandy in the world is Prince AL
| bert of Thurn, Germany. This fastidious young
man attires himself in new suit of clothes
every day-enough to keep 20 Experienced work
men going, and to run up bill of $4,000.
Colorado is a great honey-producng state
| One Colorado aparist keeps his bees busy col
| lecting honey all the year around by turning
| them loose in his alfalfa fields in the summer
and in winter shipping them to a plantation in
| Florida.
| In putting down test well the Logan Natural
| Gas and Oil Company of Mt. Vernon, Ohio,
| struck gold in quantities assaying SIS ton. A
small vein of coal was also discovered There
| is great excitement and the price of land has
| gone up.
Evanston, suburb of Chicago. proposes to
| put tax on cats. One cat will be allowed to
| each family free of charge, but beyond that a
| tax of So for each tomcat and 81 for each female
| will be imposed Unlicensed cats will be ex-
| terminated.
DIR. Sarah Brown Belcher, of New York.
56actteroogst Of great ability is credited With
farm as pure as source of milk supply as the
large completely equipped farms, backed by
There is salmon trust. The idea is to save
wasted. The canned product will be, as usual.
a portion of fish chucked into tin of grease.
| From the scales aud bones will be manufactured
| guano and glue.
| Albert W. Payne, of Bangor Me- is possibly
the oldest practicng lawyer in the country.
He is 90, still writes legible hand and does his
own office work. Besides his regular law prac-
| many corporations.
A little book on an early Territorial Governor
| of Mississippi. William G.. G.. Claiborne. has heen
| discovered among the archives of the State. 1t
contains letters written by the Governor to
| Jefferson, Madison and other officials in regard
| to the Louisiana purchase.
There seems to be delicacy about giving
publicity to any information of McKinley's
doctors bills When the accounts are adjusted
corning the distribution of the $4,000 appro-
priated by Congress for this purpose
Palestine is a small country, not more than 15O
| miles in length from Dan to. Beersheba, and an
average breadth of not more than so miles, The
calculated at 600 square miles. and the popu-
lation is between 100000 and 100000
Mrs. Adelaide Augusta Jones Dean, of Boston.
now nearly "a years old, is the only surviving
member of jouvenie chorus that gave the
| nous America" at patriotic celebration held
| in the Park Street Church on the evening of the
| Fourth of July, 1882.
The wife of Methodist minister in West Vir-
| ginia has been married three times. Her maiden
| name was Partridge, her first husband was
| named Robin, her second Sparrow and the pres
| ent one is named Quayle. There are now two
| young Robins. one Sparrow and three little
| Quayles in the family.
Representative Sheldon, of the Twelfth Michi-
gan district, is the fourth Michigan Representa-
| tive to be defeated for denomination and it is
a coincidence worth noting that all four of
these Michigan Republicans were men who
were in the forefront of the fight against the
Cuban policy of President Roosevelt
Paul Morton, vice-president of the Sante Fe
Road, predicts record crop of corn for the
West and the entire country this season. He
estimates the total crop, at $500 100000 bushels,
have all they can do to take care of the in
creased traffic that will result therefrom.
joy Morton, son of the late ]. Sterling Nor
ton, has decided Arbor Lodge, which he re-
ceived by his fathers will, to an association.
consisting of himself and his brothers, who
have created fund sufficient to maintain it for
ever as country home, which shall always be
open to any member OF the Morton family.
A statement has been prepared at the Immi-
grafton Bureau showing the number of immi-
grants who arrived in the United States during
the fiscal year 1902. as compared with 1901. The
total arrivals for the last fiscal year 64S, 743
and 81 055 other alien passengers, making total
of 730,79S This is an increase of 0,S25 over
1901.
I'm 1910, when our next census is taken, ex-
pect the population of the United States will
reach the 100,000,0O0 mark" said William r.
Merriam, director of the Census Bureau. 'This |
will include our new possessions Hawaii, Porto |
Rico and the Philippines-but it will demon |
strate in no uncertain terms what world pow
er this country is
The commission appointed by the Georgia |
Legislature to report the names of two Georg- |
ians worthy of occupying inches in Statuary |
Hall at Washington has decided that but one |
name should be selected as long as Gen. John |
B. Gordon lives, and has therefore fixed upon |
the name of DR.. Crawford W. Long, the dis |
cOverer of anaesthesia.
Roswell Beardsley has been postmaster of |
North Lansing. Tompkins county. N. Y, for |
seventy-four years, having been appointed by |
John Quincy Adams July IA, 1925 Mr.. Boards |
ley has served under twenty Presidents and |
thirty five Postmaster Generals. His wife. |
whom he married in 1922 died seven years ago. |
He was born July 5, 1909.
Woman suffrage was Endorsed by unanimous |
vote at the recent national conventions of the |
Western Labor Union and the Western Miners |
Union held in Denver. Each organization rep |
resents many thousands of workinRmen. A |
number of the delegates at the conventions /
were from Colorado and three neighboring |
states where women vote.