The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-08-13

mistake when they think they can buy from
to 10 acres of ground in this county all the
way from $500 to 81, 200.
--%Among those named as incorporators OF
ganized this week with q capital stock OF
$4,000 are: Robert s. Rodgers, James G: Rod
| gers, Jr., George Rodgers and Robert Hocka-
day, all Of Baltimore county. :.
upon the recommendation of Roads
Engineer Shirley the Highways Commission
| ers, at their meeting on Thursday. ordered
Road Supervisor Shanklin OF the 9th district,
! to suspend James Mulligan, a road foreman,
for thirty days for neglect of duty.
The storage and pattern shop OF the
/ Maryland Steel Company at Sparrow's Point
was destroyed by fire last Sunday causing q
loss Of about SAC, 600, which is fully covered by
| insurance. The fire is supposed to have been
caused by defective electric wire.
| - Mrs. Drach, wife Of DR.. J. III. Drach. OF
| Butler, has been very successful this season
raising chickens. So far she has Matched with
| hens and an incubator between four and five
hundred chicks. She says that cleanliness is Q
| great factor in the raising Of chickens.
DGovanstown Parker and Davis Club will
door meeting to be held next Monday night.
Messrs. Albert Sidney Johnston Owens. Peter
| J. Campbell, Frank I. Duncan and Isaac Lobe
Stratus have been invited to make addresses.
- Mr.. g. 0. Wilson has just completed at
Embla Park, near Charles street avenue,
handsome colonial cottage that cost "a. 900. and
/ he is about to erect another at the same place
to cost about SIC, 900. The first mentioned will
be occupied by his son, Mr.. Fred. E. Wilson.
1.-THE corn fields now present beautiful
| appearance with their sea of waving tassels,
but in few weeks the scene will have greatly
| changed and the fields will present the appear
| ance of soldiers standing up in battle array,
| but with sombre and unattractive uniforms.
- Louis Wechter white, and William John
SON, colored, were lodged in Jail here on Mon
| day upon the charge of stealing lot of butter
from the dairy of Col. d. M. Matthews, in Du-
lany's Valley. They were arrested in Balti-
more and the butter was found in their pos
session.
- Baltimore has man 20 years of age who
was born there and who has spent his entire life
in the city but who prides himself on the fact
that he has never been on railroad train and
has never ridden in trolley car. Mild cranks
of this type are too harmless to be given much
attention.
=. Rev. Robert A. Castleman, of Belair, will
conduct service at Trinity Church, Towson,
Sunday, August l4th. morning and evening"
and at Lutherville in the afternoon of the
same day. The following Sunday (21st) Rev.
w. Dudley Powers, D. D., of Flint, Michigan,
will officiate.
- Mr.. Clifton Merryman, who had been en-
gagged in the lumber business at Corbett, N. G.
r. R.. left his home about three months ago
and has not since been heard from. He is q
years Of age, son of Mrs. Ida Merryman and
grandson of the venerable Justice Thomas
Kaufman, o. Monkton.
-sThe Belair baseball team got up against
the real thing when it struck the Towson team
last Saturday afternoon. They couldn't beat
them playing ball. but they thought they could
euchre them out of the game with the assist
ance of the UMPIRE and still our boys won out
in ten-inning game-1 too.
-DSome property-owners along the lower
end of the Hartford road are beginning to COM
plain because work is not progressing more
rapidly in the construction of the Baltimore
and Belair Electric Railway. It would be
good thing for all concerned if the enterprise
could be pushed with more vigor.
MIR. Richard Sheffels, who has been con-
Quoting the Smile House on the York road,
has given up the same and removed to Magno-
lia, Hartford county. He has been succeeded
by Mr.. Frederick Cypull, a farmer of the 9th
district, who has also been q rural mail car
rier. The house is temperance hotel.
-Mr. and Mrs. Walter II. Thorne, of the
Hillen road, met with an accident while dri-
wing on Charles st. avenue Wednesday after
noon. One of the spindles oftheir buggy broke
off throwing them both out: Mr.. Thorne es-
capped, but Mrs. Thorne sustained a severely
sprained ankle and was badly shaken up.
->Senator John s. Biddison, attorney for
Louisa Cox and husband and ]. Harry Richter
and wife, has filed bill at Towson against
Jerome Christopher and William Christopher,
real estate Of the late Carroll H. Christopher
and for distribution of the proceeds of sale.
THE farm of the late Peter e. Hunter, at
Wiseburg, 9TH district, has been sold to Mr..
Michaels, of Baltimore for a. 900. Itcontains
128 acres and is well improved. Mr.. John R.
Griffin, Of Baltimore, is now occupying the
place. The sale was made by Messrs. Thomas
J. Hunter and Clarence M. Hoshall, trustees
- Mr.. Robert II. Bussey, States Attorney
for Baltimore county, says that he will again
try wife murderer Watts some time next
month. Watts, who is in Jail here. was tried
at Belair, convicted of murder in the first de-
gree and sentenced to be executed. The Court
of Appeals granted new trial because Of some
informality.
- Frederick c. Ortel, young farmer liv-
ing on the Eastern avenue road, was arrested
obstruction 5s on the tracks q sEe Electric faI
that he did and said it was because several cars
ran past him and would not stop when he sig
nailed them to do so.
THE wise fellows who predicted long
and hot summer for 1904 have slipped up very
badly in their calculations. We have now
hot days experienced so far could be numbered
upon the fingers of ones hand. Those who
depend on 'signs" as weather indicators go
wrong oftener than not.
MRS Warthen, of Baltimore, has secured
limited divorce from her husband, Thomas
v. Warthen, with permanent alimony of $40
month. Cruel treatment on the part of the
husband was the alleged cause. The Warthens
formerly lived at Sherwood, Baltimore county.
Mr.. Warthen is employed in the treasurer's de-
partment of the Northern Central Railway
Company.
- Roland B. Rigor the young man ar
rested in Ohio upon the charge of being one Of
the men engaged in the holdup at Lakeside
Park some time since, was brought to Towson
q few days ago by Baltimore detectives: Sub
sequently he was removed to the city jail for
safe keeping. The officers say that he is I'M
doubtedly the right man, and that he was en-
gagged in q similar transaction in the same
neighborhood two years ago.
THE great thoroughbred colt Racino,
owned and bred by Mr.. w. Stewart Diffen-
derffer at his farm in Green Spring Valley,
died at Detroit, Michigan, where he was en-
tered at a race meeting, on the 18th instant.
He had started in seven races this season and
had either won or been in the money in six of
them. Mr. Diffenderffer, who owns Racine
the sire of Racino, refused an offer of 5000
for the colt only few days before.
->States Attorney Bussey says the deci-
sion of the necessity of holding inquests in the
cases of persons dying suddenly Is vested in the
coroDers of the county and not in the County
Commissioners, who have not the right to sit
in review on the manner in which coroners
exercise the discretionary powers vested in
them by law. 1t is understood that Major
John 1. Yellott and Mr.. John F. Centrum con-
the ground that many inquests are held that
are unnecessary when death plainly results
from natural causes.
Ofacer's Shot Kills a Man.-Robert Jones
Cook, the negro who was shot while resisting
arrest by Patrolman Bell, night officer at Gov
anstown, early Saturday morning last, died
Sunday night at Franklin Square Hospital.
Cook was walking down the road with chick
en- under his arm and when asked by the off,
Ger where be obtained the fowl bis explanation
was not satisfactory and he was placed under
arrest. Before Patrolman Bell reached the
patrol box, however, the negro broke away
from him and ran about square before being
caught. A fight then took place. but the negro
being much heavier than the officer he again
succeeded in breaking away. Patrolman Bell
pursued the fugitive and ordered him to halt,
at the same time firing two shots over the fee
ing mans head. The negro paid no attentiun
| to the shots and increased his speed. The off,
Ger then took deliberate aim and fred the shot
hitting the negro in the thigh. When it was
found that the inan was wounded DIR. II. G.
Hess was called and probed for the bullet, but
did not succeed in extracting it and he was re-
moved to the hospital in Baltimore, where bis
death occurred.
An inquest was held at the Southeastern
Police Station on Monday night and the jury
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