The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-01-30

"a portion of the stone tower of the nes
Methodist Episcopal Church in GOvanstOwl
fell to the ground last Saturday night, maxim
loud crash and causing a loss of about $200
The wall was put up in freezing weather ant
when the thaw came the mortar lost its adhe
siveness and gave way.
- Luther Q. Voris. soldier in the u. )
Army, and Miss Margaret Breneman, o
Orangeville. Philadelphia road, came to Tow
son on the I'D instant and, after procuring
license at the Court House, repaired to the par
sonage Of the NJ. e. Church and were married
by Rev. John r. Edwards.
"a political equality club has been OF
ganized in Belair, with Mrs John H. Reckord
president, and Mrs. NJ. Stanley McComas
secretary. This is the first movement in tina
town looking towards woman suffrage. Mrs
Emma Maddox Funck. Of Baltimore, organ
lied the club and made an address.
- The Belair Times says: ssThe Baltimor,
county custom of holding, annually, Tax
payers Convention is good one and might b
prohtably adopted by taxpayers Of Hartford
county. 1t is partisan and considers mat
tiers Of public interest to the people of til.
county and records its views thereon"
"A number of gentlemen in Green Spring
Valley have inaugurated amoyement to organ
ize a polo club and it is said fine club house
1 will be built on the Fernwood property, now
owned by Mr.. Robert N. Sloan. Polo will b.
something new in Maryland, although it has
long been popular sport in the North and
/ East
lis it not rather far-fetcbed, to draw il
mildly, to publish in the Baltimore newspa
/ pers that person died at TowsOn who never
| lived here in his lifetime and was known to nc
! one here? This was done last week in the
case of man who died at an institution q
mile from the town, and we protest against il
being done again.
- Next Monday will be the LIST day of Feb
ruary and pretty soon the poets will begin to
sing about spring. We would be almost will
ling to let the poets continue to live ii the
vernal season would only hurry along. We
have had beautiful sufficiency of old winter
and we're willing to wait long time for other
manifestations of it.
- Mr.. Harry Norwood has had contracts
for the erection of several cottages at Rock
going on there all winter when the weather
would permit. 1t is being done under the SUI
pervision of his father, Mr.. James L. Nor
wood, an experienced contractor and builder
of Upper Falls, 18th district.
"a few days ago one of the tank wagons
of the Standard Oil Company, with several
hundred gallons of oil aboard, slipped on the
ice near Ady's Hotel, Long Green Valley, and
upset. The driver made.nO attempt to save the
contents, but invited those near at hand to
help themselves and several secured enough
oil to last them for some time.
THE season for public sales of farm stock
and implements in Baltimore county usually
beginsabout the LIST of February. Those con.
templating making sale should bear in mind
the fact that THE UNION is first class medium
through which to make the announcement.
Those who have tried it readily admit that
they have been benefited thereby.
- Regarding the discharge of prisoners
from the Jail States Attorney Bussey says: II
have no judicial authority, and cannot order
the discharge of prisoners. Nor has the war
den of the jail or the County Commissioners
the authority to do So" Prisoners can only
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ter how defective the commitments may be.
- It is said that Delegate Cockey. of Balti-
more county, has written home for his shot
gun. There must be stop put to the publica-
ton of those horrible pictures of him in the
daily papers and he has decided to slay the
men who make them. Nobody ever accused
Col. Cockey of being pretty" man. but
those pictures No wonder he wants to shoot.
The rewards offered for the arrest of the
murderer of John Beckman of j.. including
the $500 offered by the County Commissioners
now amount to $500. OF this sum 5000 is
offered by the Catholic Benevolent Legion, of
which Beckman was a member. Up to this
time there is no clue to the perpetrator of the
deed and it looks like the crime will go un-
punished.
County Commissioners on Wednesday directed
Road Commissioner Shepperd, of the 9th dis
trict, to remove quantity of dynamite that
was stored on the Breckenridge property in
Govanstown. The people in the neigh borhood
became apprehensive lest there should be an
explosion and send them skyward much
against their own inclinations.
"a few days ago crossed electric wires
came very near setting fire to the large she'd
ding at Linzey's saloon in Towson. Fortu-
nately Mr. Thomas w. Offutt, manager of the
Mt. Washington Electric Light and Power
Company, was near at hand and by cutting
the wire the danger was averted. Several
horses in the shedding felt the electric shock
and were made little nervous.
THE stories that some people tell about
the size of the cakes of ice that came down the
Gunpowder in last Saturday freshet make the
hearers of them open their eyes wide with
wonder. No doubt the blocks were big and
very thick, because foot or two in size and
few inches in thickness are always permissible
when describing an unusually large object.
And these were large and thick, no doubt
about that.
- Mr.. r. Grason George, of the Towson
bar, walked around Loeb Raven on Sunday
morning to see the effects of the food of the
day before. He says that unless he had seen
it be could not have conceived of such sight
as presented by the immense blocks of ice that
hoated into the roads and lowlands and which
look as though they might remain there until
next June The road around the lake was en-
tirely blocked to travel by the ice.
IA prosperous Baltimore county farmer
who called at THE UNION office few days ago,
farm for which he paid $3.50 a year rent and
in that time he had also spent out of his
own pocket in new buildings. fencing, &C., a
considerable sum in addition, as the owner OF
the place refused to make any improvements.
What the farmer lamented was that he had
not bought place when he started out for
himself and paid for it, instead of blowing in
his hard earnings for rent, &c.
lit is said that the water in the Guupow-
der last Saturday, caused by the heavy rain,
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was higher than it had been in many years.
Some of the bridges over the stream. notably
that at Merediths ford, made narrow escapes,
the water having risen to within two feet of
the bottom of it. The water covered the flats
near the bridge othe depth of several feet and
immense quantities of ice in large blocks were
left on the ground. The road along the west
side of Loeb Raven was entirely blocked by
the ice that had floated in over the hedge and
was left when the water receded.
Great Ice Gorge in the Patapsco One
of the greatest ice gorges that has been seen in
the Patapsco river for over forty years is at
present causing the residents along the river in
The vicinity of Orange Grove some uneasi-
ness. In the neighborhood of the Gambrill
Flour Mills the ice has gorged to height of
80 feet and has damned the river at that point,
causing the surrounding country to become
flooded. The river back of the ice dam has
risen 10 feet, it is said, and there is grave dan
ger of the water rising higher unless the gorge
gives way.
The swinging bridge across the river at
Orange Grove has been carried away by the
ice, and the county bridge nearby has been
moved over 80 feet from its original position
by the jam of ice against it. Owing to the rise
in the water the lower floors of the Gambrill
Mill have been flooded. Considerable damage
has been done to machinery, &c.
Besides this the rush of ice down the river
completely demolished the pump house, paint
house and Toulouse at the Gambrill plant.
Residents along the banks of the river have
been compelled to vacaie their homes and seek
quarters on higher ground.
The ice gorge began last Friday evening be-
tween the dam at Avalon and the Orange Grove
dam. The river had previously been full of
floating ice, which after the gorge became es-
tablished began to pile up until dam had
been formed across the river. Higher and
higher the ice piled until it reached a height
of 80 feet at the highest point. Back of this
great gorge the ice piled up until thousands of
tons Of it filled the bed of the river and COM
pletely choked up the waterway.
Some of the cakes of ice which came down
the river were nearly 30 feet square and from
16 to 20 inches in thickness, and as these were
hurled high by the rushing water the noise
which followed sounded like the firing of
heavy artillery.
In five minutes after the gorge formed the