The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-07-05


States from 100000 to 720.OOO.0OO barrels.
A Chicago woman has declined proffered
nomination for school trustee on the ground
that her wo-year- old baby requires all ner Time
Emperor William has turned over several
hundred souvenirs of the trip of Prince Henry
to the United States to the Hohenzoilern Mu-
scum.
The Columbia which sailed from Boston in
September, 1857, was the first ship that carried
the Stars and Stripes completely round the
world.
The largest goat ranch in the world is owned
by Charles S. Onderdonk, of Lamy, N. M. He
has 10000 goats and they have 20 in which
to roam.
Frozen meat, which has been eaten extensive
ly in Durham. South Africa, since the war, is
held responsible for the dyspepsia prevailing in
that town.
The Massachusetts Legislature has adopted
bill to compel the manufacturing companies IN
the State to pay their employees in cash instead
of by checks.
From the census of 1890 the United States De-
partment of Agricultural estimated that we
had within our borders 900 trotting bred or
roadster horses.
little more than 2S per cent. of all the strikes
are for higher wages, ii per cent. for higher
wages and fewer hours, and IL per cent. for
fewer hours alone.
Robinson Crusoe's island. Juan Fernandez,
lying 800 miles west of Valparaiso is to be given
a civil government by Chile on account of its
lobster-canning industry.
The nest of the tree wasp or hornet is made
of true paper, wood being ground to pulp by
the jaws of the wasp and treated with an adj
hesive matter secreted in the creatures mouth.
The widow of the late Senator Cushman K
Davis has started new fad-that of wearing
around her left arm a deep band of black crepe,
attached to which Is miniature of her late
husband.
The 5000 employees of the Pittsburg Plate Glass
Company were notified this week of an increase
of per cent. in wages. Skilled men will also be
given premiums for least breakage of glass in
handling.
By order of King Alfonso Santiago court
martial has acquitted young soldier who re-
fused to kneel at mass because he was q Protes-
tant The sentence asked was three years.
penal servitude.
One of the most important industries attach
ing to the cheap power now produced by Nj
agara is the electrical tearing apart of the mole
Guile of common salt resulting in the formation
of caustic soda and bleaching powder.
Mrs. J. G. Mclaughlin, of Seattle, Wash. has
made fortune in real estate the past few years.
making maps of the Klondike, which she has
sold to railroad and steamship companies.
Thirty years ago the census discovered but
four ice plants in the country, all of them in the
South. In 1900 the number had increased to 1877
not including firms that made ice for themselves
and not more than half of them are in the South
Mayor Swink, of Rocky Ford. COL, who has.
perhaps, the largest bee plant in America is
going to take his bees to the Worlds Fair at St.
Louis. He proposes to construct of bee hives a
miniature of the Colorado State House at Den
yer.
There is a revival of interest in old-fashioned
cameo jewelry this year. One of the large
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says that it has done more work altering and re-
storing old cameo jewelry than it has for 20
years.
William d. Arnold, of Iona, Mich, and Walter
ID. Arnold, of Iona, his twin brother, a few days
ago celebrated their seventy-sixth birthday in
the home of the former. William had been a
farmer all his life, while Walter has followed
mercantile pursuits.
The management of the Grand Trunk Railroad
has very considerably advanced the wages of the
tra1nmen and conductors. in some exceptional
cases as much as 40 to so per cent. being added.
This was done without any demands being made
by the men of formal nature.
Less than 300 men went from Kansas CITY to
the wheat field on June goth, although 5000 could
have found work ~, Some farmers are offering as
Agency at Topeka reports inability to supply
one-tenth of the men asked for
Col. ]. 7. Marsh, late of the Royal Engineers,
has six sons holding commissions in the English
Army, all of whom have seen serious fighting
BY one or other of its members this remarkable
family seems to have had at least one repre-
sentative in all recent campaigns.
House. who lost his right arm in the Union SER
vice, and General Hooker, who parted with his
veil snnn M enc t % are always
pair he gives the odd glove to the other.
The capacity of Ireland for sending out emf
grants has been one of the marvels of the world.
During 1901 the island sent out $3.50 emigrants,
or 9in every 700 OF population, Of whom SO;5 per
this large total is some 1000 smaller than that of
1900
A Prohibition journal claims that fully 30,OO0,-
600 of the inhabitants of the United States, or
more than one-third of the population, are now
living under prohibition, either by state law or
by local option. Forty-one states of the 40 are
included in the Enumeration, either in whole or
in part.
When Andrew Carnegie was struggling for
wealth in his early days the only recreation he
petition. Now that the wealth has come to
him he is an ardent angler, and he has given
ders for the building of salmon and trout hatch
cries on the banks of the Evelix.
Johann Most, who was convicted on charge
that he printed an incendiary article in a news
paper conducted by him, has been sentenced to
serve one year in the penitentiary. The article
was printed at the time President Mckinley was
SUOb. l0c case WAS carried the Court OF AD-
peals, which confirmed the judgment of the
lower court.
Union painters affiliated with the Hudson
County On. j. Building Trades Council have sent
petitions to the various health boards in the
county asking them to adopt ordinances COM
pelling paperhangers to remove old wallpaper in
rooms before new paper is placed on the walls,
the painters claiming that disease germs Turk in
old wall paper.
A petition setting forth their grievances and
demanding an advance of wages being circulated
ductors now has 1900 signers. 1t demands that
all new conductors are to be paid $65 month
dor tne nrst SIX months OF tneir service $40 the
served one year.
David Crosby Foster, president of the Pough-
keepsie IN. " Savings Bank, is believed to be
the oldest active bank president in the country.
He is in his 9th year, but is at his desk every
morning unless the weather is very bad, re-
naming until the bank closes at p. NJ. He was
first elected director in 1853, and became presi-
dent on July l, 1877.
The New York Department of Health: having
on June 18th declared that opthalmia is a conta-
children, has appointed a number of ocnlists to
visit the various public schools, examine the
children and report each case to the Board. They
will pay daily visits to the schools until they are
closed for the season..
Representative Mahon, of PENNSYLVANIA. has
introduced bill in Congress authorizing the
Secretary of the Navy to determine Just COM
pensation to the sufferers by the destruction of
the battleship Maine and appropriating 81 100000
for adjustment of these claims. the limit for
cases of personal injury being placed at $1,000
and on account of death $1,000
There is a labor famine in the wheat belt of
Oklahoma, and railroad companies and farmers
are bidding high for men. The Frisco Com
pany has been forced to cease the construction
of the Blackwell, Enid and Western road toward
Vernon, Texas, because the wheatgrowers have
employed the men at higher wages than they
were getting for shovelng dirt
Pendleton county, w. Va, comes to the front
with an equine freak, the property of Mrs Chris
tiana Judy. This freak is fine colt. with but
three legs. 1t has two perfect shoulders, but
only one foreleg, that being on the left side.
The left eye is smaller than the natural size and
a glass eye adorns the right side of the colts
head. The colt travels with its dam at good
speed.
The population of the State of South Carolina
is shortly to be converted by law into light
artillery. The 'toting'' of weapons after July
lst will handicap man somewhat in the per-
Torrance of ordinary sublunary vocations, as
the law says: mo person may carry a pistol
about him, either concealed or unconcealed,
unless it is at least 20 inches long and weighs at
least three pounds"
From 1890 to 1900 the United States Weather
Rureau Drnted statistics 0f losses of life nv