The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-12-30
The closino davs Of The old Year have

- The closing days of the Old Year have
been busy ones in THE UNION Office, large
number Of persons having called to renew their
subscriptions, while many others dropped IN
on other business matters and to pay their
respects and extend the compliments of the
season.
- While engaged at shooting match for
poultry on Chestnut Ridge last Monday Mr.:
George Simmons was shot in the arm and
breast by the accidental discharge of Mr.. How
ard Baublitz's gun. The wound is not serious.
Mr.. Simmons is IS years of age and has
family.
"A 20 pound turkey raised by Mr.. Thos.
r. Jenifer,~ of Loeb Raven, was ratified in
Busick,ssaloon in Towson. last Saturday night.
The>man who bad next to the last chance
threw z2-the highest up to that time. Then
the last man on the list came up, threw AZ and
got the bird.
=. The carriers at the Towson postal station
had heavy work on their hands for several days
owing to the vast quantity of Christmas pres
ents that were sent through the mails. This
traffic has grown immensely in the last few
years and it must mean big source of revenue
to Uncle Sam.
- Some drivers of automobiles who pass
through Towson go at a rate of speed that is
really very dangerous to pedestrians, to say
nothing of vehicles. Some of these days a
serious accident will occur and then an effort
will be made to enforce the law. Why not do
something now?
- Rev. re. Campbell. pastor ofSt. Joseph's
Church, Texas, N. G. X. r.. was presented by
his congregation on Christmas morning with
purse containing $3.50. The committee who
made the presentation was composed of Messrs.
NJ. +. Conner, Peter Mulcahy, Michael Padlan
and Thomas u Hara.
Last week a man came to THE UNION
Office and subscribed for the paper for friend
as a Christmas present On Sunday we re-
ceived check for 81. so from Topeka, Kansas,
to have the paper sent for a year to the same
person. Of course the check had to make the
return trip to Topeka.
I've never before knew of Christmas
when so fewexplosives were used in Towson as
this year. 1t was formerly the custom to make
aIfkinds Of rackets to announce the advent of
christmas, but this sort of thing now appears
to go over until the New Year comes in when
the din is sometimes terrific.
The weather of the Christmas season this
year could not well have been finer, and it
added very much to the pleasures of the day.
The first of the New Year is almost upon us
and still we have experienced very little winter
weather Looks as if the mild winter forecast
ers were going to make good.
- The "Towson Circus" composed of lot
of small boys, dogs, goats and other things.
psraded the streets on Tuesday and afforded
much amusement for the onlookers. Jack"
<Andersons dog, that knows as much as almost
any ordinary boy and greatly enjoys the fun,
cut large figure in the show.
--George Kelso, q Towson young man, was
indicted by the late grand jury on the charge
of robbing the mansion at Aigburth Park, ad
Joining TOwson, of lot of plumbing fixtures,
but the officers of the law have not yet been
able to come up with him. The family of the
accused are respectable people
- Mrs. Katharine Kuehne, who lives with
her son on Oak avenue, Waverly, was struck
by Towson trolley car at Chestnut Hill ave.
nue. and the York road, last Sunday and suS-
tanned fractured skull. DR.. H. p. Reiche
sustained fatal injuries from the same cause at
the same place about three weeks before.
ION Christmas night an attempt was made
to enter the house of. Mr.. John G. Schmidt,
who rents the Long Quarter Farm, near where
the Rnehart murder was committed on Thurs
day night of last week. Muddy tracks were
found on the porch and there were indications
that window had been tempered with.
"A gentleman who has been familiar with
Dulany's Valley sixty five years said on Thurs
day that the Rinehart murder was the first
crime of that kind to be committed in that Sec
ton of the county. He also said that in that
time he never knew OF but one incendiary fire
in the valley or its immediate environment.
- Mr.. Albanis L. Anderson, who died sud
denly of heart disease at bis residence in Balti
more on Thursday morning, was the father
n-law of Mr.. w. Stewart Diffenderffer, well
known resident of Green Spring Valley. Mr..
Anderson, who was a retired business man,
was 65 years of age. He was native of Will
mington, Del.
SThe bodies from the family burial ground
of the late DR.. Grafton M. Bosley, on West
Joppa road, Towson, were this week taken up
Authenticated in Prospect Hill Cemetery. Mr..
John Tyrie, of Cockeysville, did the work and
will erect fine monument in the cemetery,
he having secured the contract from Mr.. Ar
thur /. BOsley.
->The attention of the 9th district road
supervisor is called to dangerous hole in the
floor of the small wooden bridge on South ave-
Al. IT, yoka rrnrtld
cost, perhaps, dollar to repair the damage
now, but if a horse should have leg broken
there the county might be put in for large
sum. stitch in time, etc.
Mr.. Theodore Fornwalt is temporarily
fillingthe position of gate. keeper on the Du-
lauy's Valley turnpike where Frederick T.
,Kinehart was murdered last week. The board,
at its meeting next week, will select sue
cessor 10 the deceased. The widow and her
two children will next week go to Hartford
county to live with her brother.
- Mrs. Bridget Fitzgerald, of Texas, N. Q.
R. R., died suddenly on Sunday last while
visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Charles O'Neill, in Baltimore. She was 70
years of age and the widow of Patrick Fitz-
gerald. She is survived by several daughters
and one sonIRey. James Z. Fitzgerald, pastor
of st. Patrick's Church, Havre-de- Grace.
- The selfrespecting and orderloving
people of Towson had an exhibition of lawless-
ness on one of the principal streets of the town
on Christmas day that was simply shameful
and an outraged community would like to
know how long such state OF things can be
tolerated. Cannot something be done to put
stop to this intolerable nuisance and disgrace
to Towson?
> Last week THE UNION contained an item
about Joseph Crawford, colored, 80 years OF
age, who had been a slave of the family of the
late Micajah Merryman, father of Mr.. George
H. Merryman. Before most of our subscri-
bers received their papers Crawford was dead,
after an illness of two days. He was never
away from the Merryman farm any length of
time but once in hislife.
With the current issue The UNION closes
the seth year of its publication in Baltimore
county. Originally it was the Baltimore County
ADVOCATE established at Cockeysville by the late
E. f. Church. About forty years ago the name
of the paper was changed TO THE BALTIMORE
COUNTY UNION. by which it has since been
known. THE UNION is among the Oldest coun-
try newspapers in Maryland.
- Toney Petel, a young Italian from High
landtown, was arrested on the grounds OF the
Sheppard-Pratt Hospital near Towsop, on
Tuesday last, upon the charge of having killed
three woodpeckers and one bluebird. He plead
guilty before Justice Herbert and was fined
$21, which included the costs. 1t is safe to say
that Toney won't do any shooting soon again.
Others should take warning by his experience.
THE December term of the Circuit Court
will be resumed next Tuesday. On the same
to take up the case of the Winders, the brutes
who so cruelty murdered Mr.. Rinehart, the
gate keeper on the Dulany's Valley pike. 1t
IS thought that these men will be brought to
speedy trial and, if proven guilty, swift justice
will be melted out to them for their heartless
crime.
"A good many other crimes in the way of
big and little thefts are being charged to the
Winders the confessed murderers of Gate
Keeper Rinehart. They have been operating
some time in that section of the county and
henroosts, cornields, etc., are believed to have
suffered through their nocturnal visits. They
are very bad lot and believed now to have
been capable of any crime if they could make
dollar without work.
"a subscriber at Woodlawn writes as fol-
lows to THE UNION II would like very much
to know the reason why do not receive my
paper. Sometimes l get it the middle of the
following week, and some weeks do not get
it at all. hope you will give this matter your
immediate attention" We are powerless to
do anything in the matter. ALI We can say is
that the paper leaves Towson every Friday
night-and never misses.
AT an early hour on Sunday morning
last the family of Mr.. William s. Cowley, who
lives near Loeb Raven, was awakened by
the rooms filling with smoke. Investigation
Oh that tho sitting rom the lower floor