The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-08-22
DEATH OF N. w. oFFUTT.

DEATH OF NJ. w. OFFUTT.
1t is rarely that this community receives
such a shock as it did on Thursday at the sud
den death of Col Milton w. Offutt, which oc-
Cured at his residence in Towson, at $50 P. NJ.
that day. He returned from Atlantic City on
Monday, with his family, and complained OF
feeling unwell, but nothing serious was APP
pretended On Tuesday he was out driving
about the town, but on Wednesday, by the
advice of his physicians he did not leave the
house and on Thursday he was thought to be
progressing favorably when he suddenly passed
away from an attack of heart disease.
Col. Offutt spent the greater part Of his life
in this community and he was we'll known to
thousands of Baltimore county people By
his individual efforts he bad risen to posi-
ton in the business world of which any man
might feel proud. OF kindly and generous
disposition-always ready and willing to assist
those who appealed to him for help to attain
positions. or those who asked assistance for
church or charitable objects-he had earned
position among the people that it is the lot OF
few to reach A man of most generous i'm
pulses he was friend in need and many can
attest the kindly acts he did without ostenta-
ton. lie was consderate and loving hus-
band and father, and lawyer and business
man of marked ability. A man of large ideas
in the way of public improvements, in tho
death of Col. Offutt Towson has lost citizen
whose place may never be filled. The editors
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though widely divergent politically, and we,
in common with the community generally,
deeply deplore his untimely death.
PLANS FOR combining farmers, fruit growers,
dairymen and all other producers of natural
food products into one national organization
were considered at a conference held in Chicago
on Wednesday between representatives of sew
eral farmers cooperative associations. This
movement has for its purpose the maintaining
of prices, the control and distribution of pro-
ducts and the saving of large sums of money
paid in commissions. The plan under con-
siGeration contemplates the erection of grain
elevators and cold storage warehouses in all
parts Of the country, where products may be
held, if necessary, until such time as they can
be marketed at fair price. AS result of the
conference it was decided to hold a farmers
convention in Chicago, September 9Th, to con-
slider detailed plans Of organization. Progress
sive farmers are all invited to attend so that
one of the present plans may be adopted or
that from all of them one may be devised that
will be most acceptable to the agricultural in
terests and in which all workers for the up
building of the country can unite.
IT IS said misery loves company Unjust be
confessed that we have had the land over an
unusually large number of horrors, the result
either of accident or the outcome of mental
and moral degeneracy. In O sense this is
natural, for as population increases so must
accidents, and proportionally certain num-
Der of characters who will return to the status
of a crude ancestral type. The world is not
growing more reckless of life but its careless
ness is more generally recorded. II we keep
this in mind we will not rashly Jump to the
conclusion that sin is on the increase or reck-
lessness more common.
THERE is over 500 900, 600 in half dollars
quarters, dimes, nickels and cents in circula-
ton, $50, 600 900 in silver dollars SIS 00O 600 in
one dollar bills and s45, 000, 600 in two dollar
bills. And still the cry is for change, change
In New York the street car companies instruct
conductors to refuse anything larger than 50
bill for fare, owing to the impracticability of
carrying enough change to break up the fives
and tens that would be forced upon them. A
majority of fares are paid in nickels, then
come, in the order named--dimes, quarters
halves and pennies. There is an occasional
THE REPUBLICANS of Howard county had a
regular monkey and parrot time on Monday.
Theirs is little county and they are not nu-
merically very strong, but they can make an
awful lot of fuss. They held two conventions
in Ellicott City that day and nominated two
full tickets and the State convention will be
called upon to decide the trouble between
them. One of the tickets nominated-that
representing the McComas side of the house
Baltimore county for State Senator.
IMMENSE DEPOSITS of sulphate of barium
have been found on farm in Frederick county
and company of Northern capitalists is being
organized to mine it. This mineral is worth
from 1918 to 50 ton in the crude state
Finely pulverized it brings from $40 to $40.
1t is used in the manufacture of open hearth
steel, as a filler in making white paper in beet
sugar manufacture to separate the sugar from
the molasses, and as a substitute for white
lead. 1t is also of great value in chemistry
and the arts, and is coming into general use as
pigment.
THE PRIZE fight that took place in San Fran
cisco on the 14th instant, between Jeffries and
Corbett, was won by the former in nine rounds.
The gross receipts from this exhibition by the
heavyweight bruisers amounted to 500, $40.
Of this sum the men received 70 per cent,
Jeffries getting 49,, 728 and Corbett 1920.
The betting ODDS were two to one on the win
ner. Jeffries remains the heavyweight cham
pion of the world. AT the time of the fight he
weighed 2l7 pounds while Corbett weighed 1856.
Ohio some days ago Bryan said the trouble
in the Democratic party began in 1892 when
bunco-steerer led the party into the net of
Wall street." He declared that the exploit
can not be repeated, nor can those who "have
not been loyal resume leadership until after
they are at least repentant." There will be
grand and vociferous time next year when
the two leading kinds of Democrats try to
meet in one hall.
DR.. ]. w. H ERING, who is filling out his
second term as Comptroller of Maryland,
announced on Wednesday that he would not
be a candidate for denomination. Perhaps
the good Doctor sees the handwriting on the
wall. He doubtless remembers that at his last
election he got through on narrow margin
and had it not been for the infamous election
law adopted by his party he would not be
holding the Office today.