The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-08-01
IrEMs oF GENERAL INTEREST.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
There are in use in the United States 1,6iO,22O
railway cars and Al ,228 locomotives.
Automobiles made for the German Army haul
five to eight ton loads through billy country
Tho limited States consumes half of the 49,
100000 bags which constitute the world cropoi
coffee.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works, at Philadei,,
phia. employs 1900 men, with weekly pay roii
of $4,000.
There are 1900 negro farmers members OF the
Farmers Improvement Society OF Texas 1ncy
own $4,000 acres OF land
DIR. Mary Chandler, of LOWELL Mass, is SAID 70
be the only woman in America VINO Is enUi'i00
to practice both law and medlclne.
The New York Central and Pennsylyan1a
Railways each estimate their receipts IrOm suin-
mer vacation travel at more tnan Sl,UVo,V"'
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has u de-
cided to spend $5,0OO,OOO in building ne" sE Inn
at Altoona. Employment will be given 10 oVVo
more men.
Samuel r. Cox died near Bristol, Pa, at tne
age of 50 in the house wherein ne w FTom the
never having been absent one nlsh1 iionn 'Ao
old homestead in all his Gays.
A church recently dedicated in st. Paul and
cost1g The novelty of the request bringing
pennies from all over the country.
e w. Keiter, of Kutztown, Pa, owns a
msrshv piece of ground which he is lifting up
as bullfrog farm He expects y 10 aaiSe inc
| greeubacks in large numbers for marKeI.
Cuba is still exempt from yellow fever and and
| sroaIlpoY owing to the excellent sanitary ad-
| Tninietration of the island, while under the con,
| troll of the United States, by Governor WOOD
| and his associates
Rufus Young. who died in a. Vermont prison Prison
the other day of injuries received WINE o pSs
ppenitentiaries more than two-thirds OF his 10
Years. always under sentence for horse Inert.
Five-sixths of the clay pipes, SO MUCH a gSsa
Now the nsS Is f the largest in the world It is
not an unusual thing for boy to make 1900 in
one day.
The tea garden of Dr. Sheppard at Summer
Vile 20 miles inland from Charleston, s. c.. now
worth dollar pound. The United States i'm
poses no duty on tea, while England taxes it IL
| cents pound and France 20 cents.
Geronimo and a dozen Apache warriors have
Joined the Methodist Church at Fort Sill. With
| the Comanches sitting on one side or the taoer-
| nacle and the Apaches on the other, each tribe,
| with its interpreter standing in the foreground,
| repeated the words of the preacher.
william X. johnson, colored, died at Paw
Paw, w. Va, at the reputed age of liz years.
His children are dead, but he leaves grand
children, q great-grandchildren and 40 great
0reat-grandchdren. He said he remembered
distinctly incidents of the War of 1872.
James Robinson, grand chancellor of the
Knights of Pythias of Minnesota, has just de-
cided that man initiated into the order within
the last two weeks is not a Pythian. The man
in question is engaged in the retail liquor trade.
and by the laws of the order is not eligible.
The American Bridge Company completed 81
bridges on the Ugadda (Africa) railway in 81
| in two wears previous. The British builders
| employed more than one hundred w0rkmen in
putting up a bridge, while the Americans used
, | five.
Dr. John T. Crippen. of Waterloo, Ia, q
pioneer in the Methodist Church, will this
month celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of bis
entrance into the ministry. In As years he
missed but one Sunday, and IN the entire nall
century he mas missed Dut Iour, Ill tnrougn III
ness.
hundred carloads of fruit day are now
coming east from Sacramento. Both the rail
road officials and the orchardists say that the
prospects are favorable Die for the shipment East
this season of 49,, 600 pounds of all sorts OF
green fruits. This Is equivalent to 5000 car
, loads
Phineas G. Wright, of Putnam, Ct, one of the
! weathiest residents of that town, is now pre-
pairing his own tomb. He drew plans for it, and
| is seeing that his contractor is carrying them
out He was born in 1929, in New Hampshire
and boasts that his first dollar was made carry
ing the hod
Prominent Baptists of New York city have
l completed the purchase of tract of land OF
the west bank of the Hudson river a short dis
| lance south of West Point where it is planned
to establish Baptist summer resort, with edu
cational features somewhat similar to those Of
, Chautauqua.
Mrs. Lawrence Hunter, of Chester, W. Va, il
believed to be the youngest great grandmother
in the country. She is only 80 years old. and OF
3 Sunday night her great granddaughter was born
Mrs Hunter, her son and her grandson were al
came to them early in l1fe
The annual report of the auditor for the Wal
Department shows that during the year enlisted
! men of the Army made 12l,709 deposits under
a the Act of May 10, 1877 amounting To Ss,.el,6ls
!, Lolita NJ. Crabtree, once stage favorite, ha
= | just sold for $4,000 piece of San Francisc,
real estate for which she paid $4,000 some 2
+ years ago. Miss Crabtree made considerable,
/ money as an actress, and is now reputed to b.
4 several times a millionaire, owning 81 100000
0 worth of property in Boston alone.
James Buchanan Duke is president of tw,
4 tobacco companies and receives a salary of $50,
600 from each of them. A shareholder one,
turn for such handsome pay. II am not pait
+ for what do,'' was the reply. THE companies
pay me for the mistakes avoid making"
e New York State will collect s137, roo from tn,
| heirs of Ezra G. Benedict, the wealthy lumber
man of Albany. according to the report of AID
: praiser Templeton. This is the largest inheri
> lance tax ever levied in Albany county. Ezrs
H. Stevens, the largest legatee, alone pays $72,
515.5l The entire estate is appraised at So 754,
, 015.S5.
Colorado today cultivates about z, 800 1000 acres
of land. 1t has nearly $1,000 miles of irrigatins
canals and bitches, and the combined capacity
of its storage reservoirs is than 100 900 0O0
600 cubic feet of water. Although Colorado
leads all of the states in the Union in mineral
production its agricultural products exceed by
far the mineral
Several hundred descendants of BENJAMIN
Nye, who settled in Sandwich Mass, in 1886
constituting the Nye family of America will
meet there on August 9th, 9th and 18th for their
first family reunion. There are 81 graves in the
old burying ground bearing the name of Nye
and 100 families in Sandwich alone are descend
ants of the Nyes.
Kingdom Gould. son of George J. Gould, aged
49, has passed with high marks the examination
for entrance to the School of Mines, Columbia
University, and will begin his studies there in
October. Four years will be consumed in the
technical course which young Gould has elected.
The boy studied SO hard last winter that his
health was impaired.
The largest dairy farm in New York State is
tains 1000 acres. It is owned by N. ". Aver.
the Philadelphia millionaire. On the farm is
the largest creamery a. IL 0od the country where
made into ton and half of butter. There
are $50 head of thoroughbred Jersey cattle on
the farm.
The scarcity of oak timber and its high price
have led some of the great railroads of the
country to purchase forest lands from which
they may obtain ties. 1t is proposed to use
cheaper wood than oak subjecting it to pro-
cess that will make it last in good condition for
years. About 100000 ties are used every
year in replacing decayed ones and making new
roadbeds.
A violent fit of sneezing accomplished for
Samuel Veale, of Hazleton, Pa, what number
of physicians had failed to do-restored his
hearing. For several years he suffered from an
affection of the head, which finally closed the
| ear drums and practically made him deaf. He
| sneeZed the other day and heard what sounded
| to him like miniature explosion, after which
| he could hear.