The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-01-23

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district. on Monday made application for the
| benefit of the United States Bankruptcy law
| As member of the s. N. Lawder Sons Com.
pany be owes s57. 345 and has no available as.
sets. Messrs. George Whitelock and Edward
| !. KoontZ are named as attorneys in the matter.
- At the annual meeting of the Maryland
Horticultural Society. held in Baltimore last
week, Mr.. Richard Vincent, Jr. of Baltimore
| county, read paper on Growing and Mar
keting Produce in England" Mr.. and Mrs:
| Vincent lately made pleasure trip to England
and visited. among other places, the birthplace
| of the former.
= Mr.. Charles H. Matthews, formerly OF
Baltimore county, writes us from Wayland,
Henry county, Iowa, under date OF January
10th, as follows: 1--WE have had another pros
porous year and business of all kinds is good.
There is prospect for an electric road here
and this will help matters greatly. Weare en-
| joying fine winter weatherS'
- Rev. Henry s. Nagengast, pastor of st.
Anthony's Church, Anthonyville, Belair road,
who was in Towson on Tuesday. says the bru-
tai murder of John Beckman IF j., which oc-
Cured in that community on Saturday night
last, is great calamity. Mr.. Beckman was a
member of Father Nagengast's church and in
all respects an exemplary citizen.
- Benjamin Best, colored, died at his home
in Sandy Bottom, north of Towson, on We'd
nesday last, aged about go years. He bad
been an invalid for long time and for several
years bad been totally blind. He came here
from Virginia when the Gunpowder water
works were under construction and he had
since lived in and about Towson.
- A pair of horses attached to sleigh got
out of the shed of public house in Tows0n,
early on Wednesday night, and made circuit
of part of the town at high rate of speed,
upsetting the sleigh and damaging it to some
extent. One of the horses sustained some
cuts. The team belonged to Mr.. Robert M.
Taylor, of mt Prospect" Hillen road.
- 1t is almost two months since the pink
slips went out with THE UNION and several
hundred of them have found their way back,
up. We hope those who received these will
not entirely overlook them. 1t is only once q
year that we bring this matter up and then
we expect some attention to bel paid to it.
lice yachting is sport that has been in
dulged in on some Baltimore county rivers
within the past week or two. A specimen OF
this style of craft is said to sail at the rate of
mile minute, carrying four men as ballast.
The skating on these rivers is also said to
have been unusually fine, the ice being like
glass and from IL to IA inches in thickness.
THE mercury went up to nearly 60 de-
grees in Towson on Thursday and caused the
snow and ice to vanish rapidly. For nearly
three weeks the walking in Towson had been
about the worst ever experienced here, but Old
Sol kindly helped matters on Thursday and
now it is possible to move about the streets
without the fear of wrecking ones anatomy.
MIR. Randolph r. Richards, a well known
contractor, has filed six ice. houses from Lake
Roland so far this winter, the thickest ice cut
being 81 inches The Water Board charges %
cents a ton for all the ice cut from the city
lakes. Mr.. Richards has almost determined
to abandon the business of contracting and
hauling simply because he cannot obtain help.
The case of Edward G. Watts, who was
convicted of murder in the first degree in the
Hartford county court last February. for the
killing of his wife at Phoenix. Baltimore coun-
ty. was assigned for hearing in the Court of
Appeals this week. Watts is still in Jail at
TOwson. There are many who believe the
man was insane when he committed the awful
crime.
Col. Milton w. Offutt had lived the projected
electric railway between Towson and Jockeys
vile would have been built. possibly before
the end of the present year. The gentlemen
whose names have been connected with the
enterprise are too public spirited to allow it to
fall through. We feel confident that, in time,
it will be built.
The estate of the late John E. Hurst,
the Baltimore merchant, is estimated to be
worth about 100000. A part of it is his
beautiful country place "Hurstleigh," located
at the head of Charles street avenue, near
iting married daughter in Italy, is daugh-
ter of the late Dr. Ephraim Bell, of the 7th
district of Baltimore county.
Two young couples from Orange, Va.
eloped to TOwson on Wednesday and were
married by Rev. w. H. II. Powers, rector of
Trinity Church. One of the grooms was Mr..
Thomas e. Perry and one of the brides was his
sister, Miss Madge Perry. They are brother and
sister of Mrs Robertson, wife of Rev. w. E..
Robertson. of Richmond. Va, until lately
pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Towson.
THE annual meeting OF the Maryland
State Horticultural Society, which took place
in Baltimore last week, was the most success
full yet held by the society. The attendance
was larger and the exhibits more numerous
and finer than ever before, while much interest
was manifested in the addresses as also in the
papers that were read. This society is des-
tined to accomplish good work in Maryland
The large coachmaking shops of Mr..
John e. Eckenrode. in Westminster, were de-
stroyed by fire on Friday night of last week,
causing loss of over $4,000. which is only
partially covered by insurance. The fire
would have been much more serious had it
not been for the fact that the roofs of nearby
buildings were covered with snow. Mr..
Eckenrode is yearly exhibitor at the Balti-
more county fair.
RidgeIy, of the 9Th district. with big load of
hay on the wagon, was struck by an electric
car on the York road line, on Greenmount
avenue, Baltimore, on Tuesday last, and the
load scattered over the street, causing damage
to the amount of about $50. Jacob L. Ness,
the teamster, escaped without injury. The
front part of the car was damaged considerably
and the motorman slightly hurt.
- When a south bound freight train on the
Northern Central Railway passed the Parkton
tower a few days ago the operator noticed that
one of the cars was badly broken and likely to
fall to pieces at any time. He wired the opera
tor at White Hall to stop the train, which was
done. and what might have proven a serious
wreck was thus averted. The condition of the
car was such that it must inevitably have
broken down had it gone much further.
Al &c loor. oil ho hnI DIV for
the year take jump of one day. Election
day will occur as late as possiblein November,
falling on the 9th day of the month. Memo
rial day and the Fourth of July both fall on
Monday. Labor day will be observed on Sep
TENDER 9Th. Thanksgiving day will be on
November oath, the earliest date possible for
its observance. Christmas day will fall on
Sunday. The Lenten season will be ushered
in February 18th, trifie earlier than last year.
1t will close on Easter Sunday, April 9Th.
The Dissenting Opinion in the Wilson
Case.-The dissenting opinion of Judge j..
Thomas Jones, of the Court of Appeals, in
the case of Mrs. Hattie E. Wilson, wife of Mr..
Cuttings Wilson, q farmer of the 10th district
of this county, against the County Commits
sioners, has been made public. Mrs. Wilson
sued the County Commissioners for injuries
alleged to have been sustained by the presence
of pile of stones on public road near her
home She recovered substantial damages
in the Circuit Court for Hartford county,
where the case was removed. The County
Commissioners took an appeal on the ground
that the new road law took the control of and
the responsibility for the condition of the
roads from the County Commissioners and
transferred it to the various road commission
ers. The Court of Appeals sustained this view
in an opinion written by Judge Schumacher
and concurred in by Chief Judges Boyd,
Pearce and Fowler. Judge Jones dissenting
opinion was concurred in by Judge Briscoe.
Judge Jones makes an exhaustive argument
to show that the new road law did not relieve
the County Commissioners from all liability
and responsibility, and states that if such was
the intention of the Legislature it is fair to pre-
sumo that such intent would have been ex-
pressed in the law. Judge Jones cites num-
Der of decisions to sustain his position, and
says:
lit would seem much more reasonable con-
struction of the legislation in question to hold
that the corporation represented by the County
Commissioners could only excuse itself from
a liability, such as is sought to be enforced
here, by at least being able to show that it had
gone to the extent of the powers conferred
upon it in providing against conditions from
which the injuries resulted"
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