The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-08-19

Copies OF the new Methodist hymnal the !
fruit of six years labor on the part of a joint
commission of the North and South Confer.
ences Of the Methodist Episcopal Church, have
arrived in this city, says the Philadelphia
Ledger. The new volume, aside from being |
great undertaking from a literary viewpoint, |
marks an epoch in the history of the denomi- |
nation. More than the mere selection of the
hymns and tunes devolved upon the commits.
sion, for it was intended, through the medium
of this joint hymral, to bring closer the two
great societies that have been separated by
sectional differences since period antedating
the Civil War. They have been one in doc
trine and in methods of government, but they
have been distinct in all else. The new hymn
nal it is expected, will cement the ties which
have gradually been growing stronger and
stronger in recent years between the two bodies.
Its preparation was authorized by the General
Conferences of the two churches in 1900 and
within a few months thereafter the joint com.
mission was organized and began its task.
THE MANAGEMENT of the Chicago and Alton
Railroad is about to equip its locomotives with
wireless telegraph apparatus. Each engine,
carrying its own wireless signal apparatus,
constitutes the center of movable block,
travelling with the train. Near the engineer in
the cab is an indicator which keeps him in
formed of the conditions within the block of
which he is the center. If train approaches
within two miles to the rear green light
shows on the indicator and a warning bell
calls the attention of the engineer. If the
train is in front a red light flashes and the bell
rings.
Hon. AUSTIN l.. CRoTHERs has again been
nominated for the State Senate by the Demo-
Gratis of Cecil county. He was elected to the
Senate in 1893 and became the Democratic
leader of that body. Mr.. Crothers who is in
the prime of life, is native of Cecil county
and when young man was a school teacher.
He then studied law and is now among the
most prominent members of the Elkton bar.
Mr. Crothers is brother of the late Charles
L. Crothers, who once represented Cecil in the
Senate.
THE NATIONAL convention of wholesale grocers
has adopted a resolution in favor of national
pure food law. Congress should pass such
law. The law to be passed, however, should
be one which. while protecting consumers
against adulteration and impurities injurious
to the health, shall not be drafted in the in
terest of any proprietary article. In other
words, it should be law in the interest of
consumers, and not u law in the interest of
any food monopoly.
YELLOW FEVER at New Orleans continues to
spread notwithstanding the efforts ofthe health
authorities to check it. Up to Wednesday last
there had been 1,146 cases and 176 deaths.
Eminent authorities on the subject say that
the fever cannot be stamped out until frost
comes.
Hon. CHARLES J. BoNAPARTE, Secretary of
the Navy, was the principal speaker at the
celebration of Hibernian Day at Riverview
Park, on Thursday last. Over $4,000 people
attended this great annual gathering. The day
being fine the affair was great success
LAWYERS ARE engaged in a wrange over
fees in the bankruptcy case of Mrs. Cassie
| Chadwick. These claims amount to $10, 300,
out of total of 1926, 900 assets. Taking nearly
half is pretty fair average and should keep
up 1.-THE dignity of the profession"
THE POLICE census of Philadelphia, just COM
| pleted, shows that more than 10000 bogus
names are being carried on the registration
books of that city. To get rid of these is an
other reform instituted by Mayor Weaver.
REAR ADMIRAL EVANS declares that our navy
is not strong enough to meet any of the first
class powers. Congress will not be doing its
duty unless it shall provide more and better
battleships at the earliest possible date.
UNDER THE impression that oil exists there
company has been organized to bore for Pc
troleum in Prince Georges county, Md. A
pittsburg oil concern is interested in the pro-
ject. In all twelve wells will be bored.
THE pRIvER of an automobilein Philadelphia
has been convicted of involuntary manslaugh-
ter for running down and killing five-year'
old boy. He got eighteen months in the
penitentiary.
THE DEMOCRATIC State convention of Penn
sylvania endorsed Judge John Stewart, Of
Chambersburg, the Republican nominee fol
Judge of the Supreme Court Of that State.
FARMERS IN several states are considering the
advisability of joining the federation of labor
When the farmers are put out on strikes We
will all be in the left field
THERE ARE now two full. fledged Democratic
tickets in the field in Anne Arundel county
In such condition of affairs the Republicans
should have walkover.
A HANDSOME new station, to cost about 5000,
900, is about to be erected at Wilmington, Del.
by the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing
ton Railroad Company.
ELIHU RooT is an expert fisherman and &
hunter of more than local renown. Anybody
can see where the Cleveland influence will b.
thrown in 1908.
INTRODUCING CHILDREN as peephole witnesses
in q divorce suit is about one of the strongest
arguments against the divorce evil which ha:
yet been offered.
PropertyTransfersi in Baltimore County
Deeds etc, received for record in the Office oil
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore
county:
Harriet v. Mitchell ct al; to Gathering Doonan.
Ann E; Polk to August WaRp and wife.
]. c. Fitzgerald and wife to Joseph Luczkowsk
and wife.
Ceiestia E. Penn to James NJ. Hackett and wife
Mary E. Mcdonald to H. A. Iglehart and wife.
George ]. Bell to Paul r. Buttner.
Charles B. Reeder and wife to Mary E. Cochrane
and Anne E. Harr.
Julia A. Hauff to John E. Balm and wife.
]. w. Barntz and wife to VIM. H. Fales ct al.
Overlea Land Co. to j: M. and ]. N: Horn.
Frank A. Hack and wife to Ernst Weikert.
Charles Schuszler to Adolph Abend and wife.
Henry Roth to New Michaels P. 8. & L. A.
g. C. Goldman to Charles Demling and wife.
Lewis Lentz and wife to Rob't Jackson and wife
Iohn T. Ensor of / To Charlotte O. Ensnr.