The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-27

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ONE OF the leading santo Domingo revolu-
tionists recently killed left a score Of wives and
q hundred children. The trouble experienced
with such publicists in Utah discourages the
industry of hunting for more in the West
Indies.
AT THE Boston poultry show few days ago
q buff Plymouth Rock hen sold for the ex-
lraordinary price Of $3.50. She was bought by
Drevenstedt & Hutchins. of New York, who
wanted her for show purposes. This is be-
sieved to have been the largest price ever paid
1Of d chicken in this country.
GOVERNOR WAKEFIELD will give State dinner
at the Executive Mansion in Annapolis. on
Thursday evening" February 15th to the judges
of Maryland. Among the invited guests will
be Chief Judge N. Charles Burke and Associate
Judges George L. Van Bibber and Frank 1.
Duncan, Of the Third Judicial Circuit.
In THE City Court of Baltimore few days
ago. after long trial, a jury gave verdict
for $4,000 damages to ex'State Senator Olin
Bryan against the Belvedere Hotel Company.
In December, 1908, Mr.. Bryan was injured in
an elevator accident in the hotel and he sued
the company for $4,000. The case will 20 to
the Court of Appeals.
BISHOP JOHN CHRISTIAN KEENER, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, died sud-
denly in New Orleans, on the Goth inst, aged
81 years. He was a native of Baltimore and
in early life was a druggist, entering the Meth
odist ministry in 1885, In 1S4S he went to
New Orleans as presiding elder. All five of his
sons entered the Methodist ministry and all of
them except one preceded their father to the
grave.
ARRANGEMENTS ARE being made by Crusade
Commandery. Knights Templar, o: Baltimore,
for grand charity ball to be held at the Fifth
Regiment Armory, Oh the night of February
22d. The affair will be given in aid of the
Maryland Hospital for Consumptives, located
near Towson. Much interest has been awak-
ened in this institution and it is becoming
recognized as among the most deserving in the
State.
HoLDUPs HAVE been frequent in Chicago
lately and the courts have determined to put
an end to them if heavy sentences will &C.
complish it. A few days ago man named
Holland Sc years of age, was convicted of the
charge of attacking little girl on the street.
The judge sentenced him to ninety-nine years
in the penitentiary. Three other men con-
victed of robbery were sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
AN AMERICAN officer who has spent several
years on the island Of Guam says the United
States authorities have established there sys-
tenn of public schools, which are attended by
1900 pupils in the evening, after they study
some trade in the daytime. Thirty boys are
in an agricultural school, and many others are
apprenticed as carpenters, blacksmiths ma
chinists printers. plumbers. electricians. butch
ers, clerks, dentists, hospital nurses and musi-.
clans. This sample of Uncle Sans methods
resembles all the rest of his Imperialism.
-Ir WOULD seem from recently published sta
tistics that Baltimore is more justly entitled to
be known as the "City of Churches than is
Brooklyn, N. Y. The Monumental City has
$40 churches. Ofthis number the Methodists
have 90; Catholics 58; Baptists, 81; Evan
gelical Lutheran. 40; Protestant Episcopal.
Al Presbyterian, So; African Methodist, 81;
Jewish Synagogues, q Methodist Protestant,
IS; Reformed, IA; Methodist Episcopal South,
II. A number of denominations have 8 and 7
each, six have 2 each aud five have l each.
JUST NOW the Police Board Of Baltimore
kcity is having lively time with some of its
officers Within a week two were dismissed
for rowdyism, twenty or more were fined for
various infractions of the rules, and one has
actually been locked up for burglary, the
stolen goods having been found concealed in
his house. It can be said to the credit of the
Board that it is doing its best to weed out the
bad material and it appears there is plenty of
it TO deal with It is strange that men of such
character get on the force in the first place.
DELEGATE EyLER. of Frederick county, has
introduced a bill in the Legislature making
September 18th Defenders Day. legal holt
day in Maryland. 1t is a municipal holiday
in Baltimore city, Under article ID, section 8,
the Governor of the State can make the day
legal holiday from year to year by proclama-
ton, if be so desires. This be has done every
year for the past ten years. The bill was pass
ed by the House on Wednesday, but met with
ing against it because, they said, there are al
ready too many holidays, alleging that they
interfere with work on the farms.
ArA meeting of the Presbyterian Ministerial
Association in Philadelphia on Monday last
Rev. DR.. W. H. W. Boyle, of st. Paul, Mimi,
spoke on Links on the Firing Line" Among
other things he said: 1.-The singing of The
Star-Spanged Banner is a mockery, so long
as there are 1900. 600 children not attending
Sunday school in the United States" He de-
clared that 1.-THE strategic moment for the Pres
byterians is at hand, as our Church is the
leader of evangelistic work in America, and is
fast becoming the bridge on which to settle
the difficulties between the employer and the
employed 1.-THE Presbyterian Church" be
continued, sis the only Church that sends
delegates to labor councils"
AT THE last meeting of the Junior Gnnpow
der Agricultural Club the members expressed
themselves favorable tc the Shoemaker road
law. It was said that it was not the fault of
the law, as some Hartford county farmers
claimed, that roads are built extensively, but
the contractors are to blame; also that we
ought to make good roads and those who
travel them should help to pay for them, but
not through toll-gates, as the day has come for
their adjustment. The National Government
should lend aid for roads as well as for deeper