The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-03-19

the several districts to collect the tax. For thi
work they are to receive % per cent OF tn
amount collected.
All the suburban lines of the United
Electric Railways Company have resumed
their regular schedules, to the great satisfac
ton OF suburbanites. scores of whom had t
walk to Baltimore during the tieup on accoun
of the fire. Most of the lines in the city ar,
also running as usual.
- The Edison Motion Picture Company, o
Washington, d O.. that delighted large audi
ence in the M e. Church here about two
years ago, will fill return engagement at th'
same church. Monday and Tuesday evenings
March 18th and 18th. The program for each
evening will be entirely new.
school Examiner Cook has issued cir
cuar stating that there will be no local insti
tutes for teachers this year of schools having
one or more assistants, but reading circles
among teachers are to be encouraged Some
definite work is to be assigned to each teacher
for the regular monthly meeting.
THE Gainesville combination baseball
team has been organized for the season, with
J. Cook, manager; E. T. Scharf. captain, and
c. G. Rothenhofer secretary. The club has
leased Diehlman's Park and will put it in first
class condition. Weregret tosee the announce
meDtt Sunday games preferred"
- The pretty new cottage of Mr.. Henry l..
Bowen, on the south side of May avenue, east
Of the York road. Towson, will be ready for
occupancy about May 1st Mr.. NJ. II. Merry
man is the builder. Mr.. Bowen, who has sold
the cottage be is now occupying. will move
into the new one as soon as it is completed.
THE Asbury Missionary Society of Tow
son NJ. E. Sunday school appropriately cele-
brated its tbirtieth anniversary on Sunday
night last, when Mr.. John f. Flayhart in an
address gave history Of the society, which
Rev. John r. Edwards, also made an address.
| MIR. William X. Burns. contractor and
builder, has sold his new house and lot on
West Chesapeake avenue, Towson, to MIR.
sof<1 IF nofol T1ruo
| The deal involves the transfer of some vacant
ground, west of Bosley avenue, from Mr.. Tracey
to Mr. Burns. The latter will continue to &C.
cupy the house until next fall.
For a week or more wild geese have been
on their northern fight, and this is believed to
be a sure sign that the winter has broken
| Occasionally one of these birds gets lost from
its mates and will light on pond or milldam.
| A few DAYS ago Webster Ensor, son of Mr..
James b Ensor, of the 9Th district, shot one
that had become thus stranded.
- Mr.. Alexander Mccormick, who is an
| extensive florist near Fullerton, Belair road,
says that this is the most severe winter he ever
experienced. 1t required double the quantity
ing any previous winter and the handling of
this and extra work otherwise required made
it altogether very bard winter.
- Messrs Benznger & Calwell, attorneys
for James c. Mcclure. have entered suit against
Albert Weber for So, 600 for an alleged breach
agreed to deliver to the plaintiff 5000 running
feet of curbing at 66 cents foot, but that he
refused to do so, and that the plaintiff was COM
PEELED to buy it at a great loss elsewhere.
"A gentleman who owns farm in the
upper end of Long Green Valley says there are
some people in his neighborhood who keep
beagle hounds that continually chase and kill
rabbits, and he wishes to know why the depu-
ty game wardeDs do not put stop to it. In
some cases the dogs are not half fed and they
IT. kn~1 f,w oIx
IAN erroneous idea prevails in some quar-
tiers that United States mail carriers can pass
through tollgates without paying anything.
The Towsontown and Dulany's Valley Turn
pike Company and the Duany's Valley and
Sweet Air Turnpike Company give notice in
THE UNION today that mail carriers using their
roads must pay toll just the same as any other
traveller.
- Hon. J. Fred. c. Talbot and Messrs. N.
Rufus Gill and Joseph Frieden valid, whose
names have been published as incorporators of
the proposed electric railway to extend through
Baltimore and Carroll counties, say they are in
no way connected with that enterprise. Other
names mentioned as incorporators are those of
Messrs Charles A. Councilman and Walter r.
Townsend.
- Baltimore will rise from its ashes, but it
will be long, long weary day before it does.
A business man thus delivered himself few
days ago. They talk about the old town be-
ing this, that and the other, but it was quite
it was before the 7th of February 1904" No
doubt there are many others who think the
same way.
I'VE still hear of corn of last years crop
that is standing in fields unhusked. The rea
son always given for this is the stereotyped
one-scarcty of farm help. There is one Sec
ton of Baltimore county where nearly all the
younger men who formerly worked on the
farms have gone to Philadelphia to find en-
ployment on the electric railways, where they
have shorter hours and better pay than on the
MSOId st. Patrick did himself proud on
Thursday and it rarely hagpsIn,s that y re ss per-
regarded as wholly his own. The sun shone
brightly all day and, although the air was
rather crisp, it was typical spring day. But
there came change in the night and snow fell
to the depth of several inches, and this in turn
was followed by rain and a much milder tenn
perature. So the willy old Saint caught us af-
ter all.
->Towson witnessed sight about noon OH
Thursday the like of which it never saw before
"a herd of 81 beautiful Jersey cows and heif-
ers being driven on the pike towards Baltimore.
They came from the widely known Filston
Farm at Glencoe, N. 9. r. R.. and no doubt
their departure marks the dsintegration of
this once noted herd. The men in charge of
| the cattle declined to give any information
about their destination, but it is inferred that
| the stock, in view of recent financial troubles
the Filston Farm Company, will find homes
| elsewhere.
- Mr. II. Clifton Mccormick, son of Mr..
| Alex. Mccormick, of Fullerton, Belair road,
| has a number of highly priced souvenirs of the
great Baltimore fire, that were carried by the
wind of Sunday afternoon, February 7th, to
/ his fathers farm. Amongthese are a Cancelled
check for S., 600 on the National Union Bank,
| one small check. q number of orders from
| physicians on wholesale drug houses, bits of
| CLOTH dress goods, etc.. all of which show that
/ thew had gone through the fire. The distance
from the burned district to Mr.. Mccormick
home is nearly miles.
-O One of the finest farm teams that travels
the York pike is that of Mr.. Benjamin NJ Ben
son, of Mt. Carmel, 9Th district, and the team
| ster, William Henry, is justly proud OF it.. 1t
came down on Wednesday with load of hay
for Pleasant Plains dairy farm, two miles east
| of Towson, and while the load was not excep-
tionally large, it was big one when the con.
dtion of the roads and the length of the haul
/ are considered 1t weighed little less than
| five tons. The team is composed of four large
horses and two extra fine mules in the lead.
| That section of Baltimore county claims the
honor of hauling the biggest loads of farm
! produce.
Watts, the Murderer, May Go Free.-It
| is now asserted that Edward =. Watts, who IS
under sentence of death for the murder of bis
wife, and who is now confined in the Towson
Jail, has good chance to escape death on the
/ gallows, owing to an alleged technical defect in
the Indictment against him. Watts case was
removed from Baltimore county to Hartford
county for trial. and he was convicted of muir
der in the first degree and sentenced to death
by Judge Waters. Watts counsel, Mr.. How
ard Bryant took an appeal, and the Court OF
Appeals granted the prisoner a new trial on
/ two grounds. as follows:
First, that the name of Watts wife had been
changed by the States Attorney after the grand
jury, which had returned it had adjourned,
from Caroline C. Watts to Katherine c. Watts
The only way, the court held, that this error in
the Indictment could have been corrected was
for the name to have been changed by the
grand jury before the prisoners trial. OF
course, as the grand jury which indicted
Watts is now out of existence, this cannot be
done. The Court of Appeals sustained the de-
murrer to the first count in the indictment for
the reason given above.
Second, that an alleged confession of the
prisoner was improperly admitted as evidence
Attorney General W. Sheppard Bryan has
notified States Attorney Sitter, of Hartford
county, that the only good count remaining in
the Indictment against Watts charges that be
stabbed his wife to death, while the evidence
shows that he shot her, and, therefore, it woule
be impossible to convict Watts under the pres