The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-08-11

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rwC. & P. AND MARYLAND PHONEs.-@i
Mr.. ALFRED s. NILES, lately appointed
Judge of the Supreme Bench Of Baltimore city
BY Governor WarfieId to succeed Judge Baer,
deceased, has been reelected dean of the Balti-
more Law School. Mr.. Niles is still abroad
and his friends in Walbrook, where he resides,
are arranging to give him fitting reception
upon his return.
The REPUBLICANS of Carroll county held
their convention at Westminster on Monday
and elected twenty delegates to the Second |
Congressional district convention that will |
meet in Belair, on Tuesday, August 18th. The |
delegates were instructed to vote for Mr.. Robert |
barrett, baltimore county, as the nominee |
for Congress in this district.
DR.. SAMUEL l.. FRANK, q prominent and |
highly esteemed Baltimore physician, died
suddenly on Friday night of last week at the
Chattolanee Hotel. Green Spring Valley, where
he was spending the summer. He was born
in Baltimore in 1871 and spent bis entire life
there, except when he was studying abroad.
The wife of DR.. Frank is sister of United
States Senator Isidor Rayner.
On THE Sd instant Governor Warfield issued |
q commission to Mr.. Augustus W. Bradford |
as q notary public for Baltimore city to sue
coed bis late brother, T. Kell Bradford, who
had held the Office many years. Mr.. Brad
ford was not an applicant for the place ard |
the appointment was personal one on the |
part of the Governor, his intimacy with the |
Bradfords having been of almost lifelong |
standing as they were school-fellows at old st. |
Timothy's Hall, Gainesville.
THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD purposes re- |
ducing its passenger rates. This is wise policy,
whatever may have prompted it. Low rates |
induce more travel. 1t pays better to haul |
full car at the lowest possible rate than one |
quarter full at high rate. This is something |
trolley lines should take notice of. OF course, |
where travel is limited pretty high rate must |
be maintained but where travel can be in
creased by lower rate it should be chosen.
As a general rule, low passenger charges are
the most profitable
q REPUBLICAN, PRIMARY meetings will be held
in Baltimore county today-Saturday, August
11th-between the hours of 6 and 8 O'Clock P.
NJ, where there is not any contest, and be-
tween the hours of4 and O'Clock P. NJ. where
there is contest. So far as we have been able
ITO ascertain there will be no contests in any of
the districts. The delegates elected today will
meet in county convention at Towson, on
Monday next, 18th instant, and elect delegates
to the Congressional. convention that will
meet in Belair the next day.
THERE SEEMS to be prevailing opinion that
relatives have a natural right to dead mans
fortune and that it should be distributed to
them even as against charity. In a sense
$4,000 is not bad legacy even if it comes out
ola hundred million fund. Thesum of S25. 900
would make most people happy and contented.
nFaitaa h % faFds N ipGamf thai Ti eeo
nomically. Sothe general public is not giving
the greedy nephews and nieces of Russell Sage
much sympathy. If he had left them MOTH
ing the case might be different. But he has
left them a fair start and they should be
satisfied.
A DISPATCH from Harrisburg says the annual
report of the chief of the State Department of
Mines for the year 1905 shows that Pennsyl-
vania continues to lead the mining industry
of the country, producing practically all of
the anthracite and 80 per cent. of the bitumin-
Gus coal. The total coal output Of Pennsyl-
vania for 1905 represents a value at the mines
of about S350.Oc 900 and at points of distribu.
ton of about $3.50 900 00O The anthracite pro-
duction was rs, CAT 900 short tons and the btu
minous 119, 1851, 514 short tons. In producing !
the tonnage of the year the total loss of life in
and about the anthracite mines was GA and in |
and about the bituminous mines 479.
In CECIL county the School Board has taken |
the first step towards the consolidation of |
schools. A school about three miles from |
North East has been closed and its pupils are |
to be transported TO North East High School /
in wagons being built especially for the pur-
pose. Since the fact has become known that /
q wagon is to convey the children of this school |
demands ara being made from other schools
that children who are far enough advanced to
enter the high school be permitted to go in the
wagon and be enrolled as pupils of the high |
school at North East. The County Commits
sioners have made special appropriation of |
81 900 to give this plan a trial and its out
come will be watched with much interest.
PRIVATE banking institution in Chicago, |
known as the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank,
was found this week to have been looted to
the amount of several millions of dollars and
a search for the officers revealed the fact that
they had skipped to Canada. Paul Stensland
was president of the bank, his son was vice
president and another relative was cashier. It |
is said the bank had nearly 10000 depositors,
most of whom, being poor people, had small
amounts to their credit. Wreckless specula-
ton on the part of the officers caused the
trouble, so it is asserted. The cashier, fellow
named Herring, was sort of broad-guage sport |
and thought nothing of betting $1,000 in the
pool rooms on a single race. And so it goes.
ABOUT TWO years ago William 81. Belchsr,
mayor of Paterson, N. j., mysteriously disap-
peared and an examination of his affairs
showed that he was a defalter for something
like $4,000. having financially ruined some
of his most intimate friends and totally wreck
ed building and loan association of which
he was an officer. Belcher, by roaming over
the country under an assumed name, managed
to keep out of the clutches of the law, but last
week he returned to Paterson and, after plead
ing guilty to the numerous charges against
him, threw himself on the mercy of the court.
In sentencing him to twelve years at hard
labor in the penitentiary the judge said it was