The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-08-09

AAChb 10 AOb yet III cl6Ats ~ 10 cctiludltQ THAT
upto this time the loss of the different interests
concerned amount to the enormous sum of
s65, 900, of which amount the miners them
selves lose in wages s13, 100000. To this loss
must be added the cost of keeping troops in
the field to suppress disorder This amounts
$1,000 day.
THE PosroFFIcE of North Lansing, New
York, was robbed few nights ago of about
$50 worth of stamps and postal cards. This is
the Office that is presided over by Roswell
Beardsley, the oldest postmaster in the United
States He is SO years of age and held the
office continuously since 1928. This was the
first time the Office has sustained loss of any
kind.
THE DEMOCRATS of the Third and Fourth
Congressional districts, both of which are
within the limits of Baltimore city, have de-
termined to nominate their candidates for
Congress this year by the Crawford county
system, that is by direct vote of the people
This will be the first time this plan has been
tried in the city and the outcome will be
watched with some interest.
THE DEMOCRATS of Carroll county held their
convention at Westminster OH Monday last
and adopted resolutions unanimously indoors
ing Mr.. Charles e. Fink, of the Westminster
bar as their choice for the Congressional NOM
ination in this district. The resolutions are
highly complimentary to Mr. Fink and say
that Carroll has not had the honor of NOM
ination for Representative in Congress for six
teen years"
ACCORDING TO a decision Of the United States
Court of Appeals at ST. Louis saloon. keeper
may be held responsible for the death of pa
tron OF his place in the event that death fol-
lows an accident resulting from the inebriated
condition OF the patron. The suit was fled by
widow and daughter against man named
Moser and others who were engaged in the
saloon business at Ashland, Neb. Plaintiffs
charged that the man drank intoxicants to ex-
Cess at Mosers saloon and in consequence
was thrown from buggy and killed.
NEWS COMES from Salt Lake, Utah, that the
Great Salt Lake, which for several years has
been slowly but steadily receding, has, accord.
ing to Director Murdoch, of the United States
weather Bureau, now reached the lowest level
recorded since observations have been taken
by the department. Up to August LIST, the
lowest mark ever recorded was on July 18th.
Since that time the lake has receded four
inches. The fall of the water since 1894
amounts to nearly six feet, and on the low,
fiat eastern shore this has resulted in a recess
sion of the water line during that time of fully
threequarters of mile.
A PRESS dispatch from Winchester, Va,
tells pathetic story. Mrs. Eliza Bean, widow
of Mordecai Bean, died near that place on
Sunday last aged Sc years. Her husband was
Northern sympathizer, and in 1862 was ar
rested and sent to Libby Prison. From there
he was transferred to Salisbury, N c., and was
killed by guard while disobeying rule. In
the insane asylum at Staunton its Oldest in
mate is daughter of Mr.. Bean, who became
crazed at her fathers death, and for forty
years has been confined in the asylum. The
mother had waited alone during all the inter.
yening years for the return of the daughters
reason, but died in disappointment.
IT DOES seem that each succeeding season
brings in its trail greater electrical disturbances
exceptional storms and increased destruction
from lightning than the old folks witnessed in
parently the case. The country has become
thickly populated. We have now hundred
barns and thousand houses to one of fifty
years ago, and so millions more points to court
the thunder bolt. All these are recorded mi.
nutely in the newspapers. We read more
about casualties than our forefathers did, and
naturally think we have more of them. A rise
IN river half century ago was not accom-
panied by much damage; now it would sweep
millions away from cities and towns along its
banks. In all probability storms are no worse
than they ever were, but they have chance
to make more wreckage.
NEW trouble is said to confront President
Palma, of Cuba, in an attempt on the part of
certain of his constituents to provide from the
National Treasury for the payment of the
soldiers who served in the Cuban instruction
against Spain. A thousand dollars apiece is
the sum settled upon by those who proppse to
carry their claims into law If the1IIItiIo
actually served were to receive thisAmount it
would make heavy dreft upon the Treasury
~ feared that more than three times
their number will have to be provided for
under the bill that is contemplated and that,
if the President should veto it, the result would
be political revolution. if not of more vio-
lent character. The providing against the pay
ment of Cuban bonds was clear act of states
manship on the part of the country in her
preliminary legislation for the island, but the
danger of bankruptcy now appears in another
quarter. Perhaps, however, the very extrem-
ity of Cuba under the effect of her deprecated
cu0or ;pforocF oporofo in hor 20 WOW fb;c
question. 1t would be absurd to saddle the
island with debt such as this project to pay
the soldiers must create at the present juno
ture. But the Cuban problem bristles with
difficulties at every point.
Col. WIN. ]. BRYAN delivered an address at
Mountain Lake Park, Nd. few days ago and
afterwards, in the course of newspaper inter-
view, be discussed national politics at some
length and declared that he would not be
candidate for the Presidency in 1904. Hesaid:
II don't care to discuss candidates. l am per-
fectly Indifferent as to candidates beyond the
suggestion I've already made, namely, that no
man should be considered for the nomination
whose loyalty to the platforms of 1896 and
1900 is questioned. A man may support
ticket without agreeing to everything in plat
form, but all things considered, he may prefer
the platform which he supports to any other.
But when he offers himself as representative
of the people he must agree with them on all
questions which they consider important.
There is consistency in the human mind that
must always be taken into considerations
consistency which leads man to measure all
public questions by the same fund of mental
principle. That is the reason why the Demo
Gratis who oppose money monopoly and
bank trust are opposed to all other kinds of
monopoly and trust, and it also explains why
those who favor a money monopoly and
bank trust are suspected by the people gener-
orally when they attack some particular in