The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-07-18

w ard Beecher.
The Secretary of the Treasury received few
days ago in an envelope, postmarked Boston, d
conscience contribution of $500.
A pension has just been granted to Thomas
B. Howard, of Houston, Tex, for service In the
Seminole Indian War in 1885 and 1886.
There are probably 1000 women in the United
States today who make their living as insurance
solicitors. The idea is becoming very popular.
Illinois ranks first among the states in the
manufacture of agricultural implements, Dlcy,
Giles, cars, glucose and distilled liquors ana
meat packing.
Salem, Mass, has 1000 employees, at wages Of
$500. 900, making $3OOO,OOO in shoes year i,OOO
workmen, at wages of 100000 a year, making
$3,5OO,OOO of leather.
Twenty factories of Utica, N. Y, represent
ing various industries, are waging bitter war
against union labor The employers will not
now engage any man belonging to union.
State Entomologist Smith, of New Jersey, who
has dug ten miles of bitches and stocked them
with fish for the extermination of mosquitoes,
says that Elizabeth viii soon be mosquitoless
city.
most times as much protein and over 10 times
as much energy as 10 cents worth of cabbage.
Thus a ow-priced article is not necessarily
cheap source of nutrients.
Joseph IT, Bristow, Fourth Assistant Post
master General-the man who has come to De
called the sleuth of the department-is feet 2
inches tall, but so thin that when standing erect
he seems to be fully feet.
The western Federation of Miners is said to
he the richest labor organization in the world.
1t has been in existence but IL years. and has
200 affiliated local unions with about 70 OOO mem
bers and 100000 in its treasury.
= Mrs. Luther r. Holland. who died in Salem.
Va, July 9Th, bequeathed her entire belongings,
amounting to some $l5 600 to her physician, Dr.;
Georgia to whom she left nothing.
Carl Meier, of st. Louis, is said to be the
Meier, who is four years old, is conducting a
series of concerts at one of the st. Louis parks
He comes from family of musicians.
The nitrate of soda, the important element in
fertilizers, in sight in the recently discovered
deposits in the Mohove Desert, California, is
said to be more than 20 100000 tons. Hitherto it
all came from the rainless coast of Chilli.
The Baptists of the United States, according
to the latest official returns, number 1880 462.
They are gathered in 1880 churches and are
served by 30, 500 ministers. The gains last year
were 3T5 churches 64S ministers and 1889 mem
bers.
After losing $45, 600 in cornering the lima bean
market and securing 5000 600 pounds to find that
nobody wanted the beans, Lyden g. Co., of San
Francisco, have assigned. The liabilities
amount to 100000 and the assets are estimated
at $685. 600.
Eugene F. Ware. of Kansas, United States
Commissioner of Pensions, has undertaken to
secure and restore for presentation to the Kan
sas Historical Society the scaffold from which
John Brown was hanged in Jefferson county,
w. Va, in 1859.
At the tenth annual convention of the Savings
Bank Association of Pennsylvania the report
presented showed that IN III years the total
over $629000,000 to an aggregate of much more
than 81 900, 100000.
Ex-Governor Boutwell,. Silas Dean and Hon.
Robert T. Davis, three surviving members of
the Massachusetts convention of 1853, have just
held reunion in Boston in commemoration of
the iftieth anniversary of that famous event in
Massachusetts, history.
General De Wet has become the head of a
large political party in the Orange River Col
ony. Every Boer returned from British prison
camps at once Joined General De Vets party,
and it now comprises majority OF the white
population in the colony.
The harvest of this year in the Argentine Re-
public is unprecedented. Exact data cannot be
obtained, but the best estimates show that the
crop of corn (maise) will be approximately $500,
600 tons, of which 100000 will be retained for
home consumption and seed.
There are in New York city today 1870 mil
lionaires as against 294 twenty years ago and %
in 1858. There were no miliionaires in the city
100 years ago. The first person to reach that
distinction was John Jacob Aston, who became
a millionaire about the year 1920.
Elsie Ward. the young New York artist who
won the $1,000 commission to make drinking
spent her childhood on her fathers Missouri
farm. She was born in Howard county and
lived there until few years ago.
The venom of snakes contains only intermedi-
airy bodies, which alone would not be virulently
poisonous but the normal blood serum of sus-
of the venom, cause the deadly poisoning.
The amount of and per cent. bonds re-
ceived to July 10th at the Treasury Department
15O 1t is expected at the Department that by
July 3lst, when the refunding operations cease
about SIS, 10000 will have been exchanged.
The most surprising property of aluminium is
its newly discovered power of giving fine,
edge to steel e1tery Magnd
ordinary milestone appears rough and jagged,
while that welded by the aluminium sharpener
is straight and smooth.
The United States Patent Office issues one
third of the whole number of patents issued in
the world, or nearly as many as France, Ger
many and Great Britain combined, and four and
half times as many as Germany, the only one
of our near competitors which makes novelty
researches before granting patents.
Mrs. Lillian NJ. N. Stevens, of Maine, vice.
president of the Worlds w. G. I. U. and presi-
dent of the W. G. L. U. of the United States,
who has returned from the convention at Gene
va says the women are going to make strong
effort to prevent the Mormon Apostle Reed
Smoot from taking his seat in the United States
Senate.
Many insects unable to produce sounds which
we can distinguish possess, nevertheless, sound
producing apparatus, and elaborate organs of
hearing analogous to those belonging to other
and in general larger species quite capable of
making themselves heard. 1t is certain that a
number of species of animals hear sounds that
we cannot hear.
weather shooting" has assumed such impor-
lance in Southern Europe that not less than
three international congresses to consider it
have been held. me latest report shows that
useless for influencing rain or hail, although ex-
periments are urged until the possible effects
are fully understood.
In Greenwich records for 81 years. a warm
summer has been followed by a severe winter
in cases, and by mild one IN ~; cold sum,
mer by severe winter in II cases, and a mild
one in IL. OF summers both wet and cold, the
mean temperature being below 6O.5 degrees
Fahrenheit, were followed by severe winters
and only by mild winters.
Charles Filler, burglar released from the
three years of four-year term, has succeeded
in selling for $4,000 the English rights for a
blind lockstitch sewing machine he invented
twenty years in prison. His machine has been
patented in thirty-four countries.
In Germany electricity, among other curious
results, has rehablitated the discarded windmill.
At Neresheim windmill supplies power for SO
incandescent lamps that light large paint fac
tory. Another in Scheswig- Holstein keeps up
a steady current of 80 volts. At Dusseldorf
windmill winds up heavy weight of which the
descent works powerful dynamo.
The grave of Miss Robbie Yeager, of Culpep-
per county, Va. the nurse who died of small
pox contracted while nursing patients at the
City Hospital at Richmond, has been surrounded
by an iron railing and granite headstone erect
ed over her last resting place. In addition to
this marble tablet in her memory has been
placed in the hallway at the hospital.
A former private soldier is to be head of the
Army under the President. General Young be-
gan his military career as a private in the
Twelfth Pennsylvania Infantry in 1861. When
he retires next January he will be succeeded by
another former private soldier-Gen. Chaffee.
Gen. Chaffee enlisted as private in the Sixth
Cavalry in 1861 and will not retire until 1906
United States Senator William A. Clark, of
Montana, intends to build the finest house in
Washington. To make sure that it will surpass
any other mansion and will possess all the best
features of others he will not break ground oh
the site of the old Stewart Castle, facing Du-
pont Circle, until the Massachusetts, avenue
residence of Thomas f. Walsh Colorado mill
lionaire, is completed.
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