The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-05-04

/ "Laurette, !" the country home Of the late
Edward L. Bartlett, on Charles street avenue
opposite Guilford, has been sold to Mr.. n. ..
Dulany for 1000. The place Is at present
PRSS1p1eC D synd ne Eleerc .ns
%"Dan" Christ, notorious character OF
the neighborhood of Glyndon, 4th district, mas
been committed to jail at Towson upon the
charge of assaulting with intent to kill MISS
Mollie y. Bollinger. 1t is alleged that Cnrist
struck the young woman with q stone.
| Announcement was made last SUNDAY
at Mt Washington Nj. e. Church that the bell
on the dome of the cotton duck factory, imme-
diately opposite the church, which has been In
service as the church bell for number OF years,
would no longer be used for that purpose
- William T. Dunn. race track man, was
shot and slightly wounded in the arm at Pim-
leo, on Friday afternoon of last week, by q
| woman who claimed to be his wife and VINO Is
now in Jail at TowsoD. Dunn is from Ogdens-
| burg, n. Y. He said the woman is not bis
wife.
City people will now begin to flock into
| Baltimore county and we will have thousands
of them with Us before the middle of June.
The popular suburban trolley lines have done
much to increase the desire for city folks to get
into the country as soon as good weather IS
assured.
- Mr.. John Sieber is now living on the
property recently purchased by him, on the
| Old Hartford road near Parkville. Until lately
this place was occupied by Messrs. q. o. Brown
| e. Son as poultry farm. Mr.. Sieber, who is
in the internal revenue service, has been living
| in Baltimore.
- While fishing for gudgeons on Back
River railroad bridge last Sunday morning,
William Hefner, of Highlandtown. was run
over by an express train and his body was cut
in two. The body fell into the water and part
of 1t was not found until the next day. He was
60 years of age.
IA jury in Dorchester county this week
gave lady verdict for 5000 against an auto
mobilist for damage by his machine friehten
ing the plaintiffs horse and causing 1t to run
away. She sued for $4,000. The case attrac-
ted great deal of attention, many ladies being
interested in it.
- While on his way to Towson in q trolley
car on Thursday morning last Mr.. Greenbury
T. Hackett, of Grange, 14th district, lost q
wallet containing $450and he thinks his pocket
was picked. He drew the money from bank
and was on his way heret to pay his taxes when
the loss occurred.
- Margaret Carey, the little daughter of
Mr. George @. Carey, of Sherwood, who was
accidentally shot about two weeks ago by her
S-year-Old brother, and who was under treat
ment at the Union Protestant Infirmary in
Baltimore, is now at her home and has almost
entirely recovered.
- The sale of the livery stable outfit of Mr.
Harrison Rider, in Towson, on Wednesday
next, May 9Th, will no doubt attract large
crowd of people, As Mr.. Rider is about retir-
ing from the business it will be clearing out
sale. Messrs. T. A. B. Dukehart & Co. will
take charge of the stables on the 10Th instant.
The State tax this year is only 16 cents
on the $780, which is about cents less than
last year. With our county rate at 70 cents
the total assessment is but So cents on the 500.
The largest item in the levy is for schools and
school buildings-S230,0 O0. The next largest
is for roads and bridges-a little over 100000.
- The Parlett farm. in lower Long Green
Valley, that was offered at public sale at the
Court House door on Tuesday, by the trustees,
Messrs. q. Howard Isaac, W. Gill Smith and
f. w. Herman. was withdrawn on bid Of
81, 500 The place contains 252 acres and is
thought to be one of the finest farms in that
section.
- One of the most extensive stock sales of
the season will be that of Mr.. Ed. ]. Bauer, on
the corner of Philadelphia and North Point
roads, on Thursday next, May 9th. Mr.. Bauer,
who is retiring from the dairy business, will
sell 20 head of cattle, horses, hogs and a COM
plete dairy outfit. The sale will be conducted
BY Ed. J. Hermann.
- What is thought to have been the largest
chicken hawk ever seen in Baltimore county
was shot q few days ago by 15-year. old son of
Mr.. Jacob B. Wilhelm, one of the bailiffs in
the Circuit Court, on his fathers farm in the
9th district. The huge bird measured six feet
from tip to tip of the wings and it took two
shots to bring it down.
- w Qll6 new W. J IlOIudus tuc pdStOT,
was absent on his recent pleasant trip to Eu.
rope the main altar of st. Charles Church,
Pikesville, was enlarged and pedestal erected
in the sanctuary for a marble statue of st.
Charles Borromo. The work is gift of Mrs.
Adam Deupert and was delightful surprise to
Father RiOrdan on his return.
-Mr. Harry Malcolm, of Towson, exhibit
ed in THE UNION Office on Monday large and
beautiful butterfly that was Matched from
cocoon in his room. Its spread of wings was
over inches, and its coloring was dark and
very rich Mr.. Malcolm, who has all his life
given attention to such things, says he never
saw a larger or more beautiful butterfly.
Robins, jay birds, black birds and hickers,
besides other smaller birds, can be heard sing
ing in the trees in Towson every pleasant morn
ing now. Boys are still seen with their rifles
and no doubt they are after mischief. Any of
them caught shooting a bird should be promptly
arrested. A good stiff fine and the prospect of
going to jail may cure them of their cruelty.
The hundreds of beautiful maple trees in
Towson are rapidly putting on their spring at
tire and when they are in full leaf they add
very much to the attractiveness of the town.
Towson is generally conceded to be one of the
prettiest towns in Maryland in summer. And
what can be truthfully said to its credit it is
one of the healthiest to be found in the United
States.
Even the ministers of the churches at
Hamilton, Hartford road, have taken up the
wafer QUESTION anu are pT6dCulUR III IdVOI Oh
an increased supply. Rev. L. s. Reichard, of
the Presbyterian Church. was especially en-
phatic on the subject last Sunday and spoke in
high praise of those who are exerting them
selves in the movement urging his hearers to
pray for their success.
MIR Robert W. Powers, president of the
Powers-Taylor Drug Company, of Richmond,
Va, who died in that city few days ago, was
an uncle of Rev. W. II. 81. Powers, rector of
Trinity Church, Towson. He was rs years of
age and had been in the drug business in that
CITY fifty years. MIR. Powers was member of
Richmond Howitzers in 1859 and participated
in the capture of John Brown.
THE attention of those cynical people
who say that improvement associations don't
do any good is invited to the good work
that the Towson improvement Association has
thus far accomplished. Among the most i'm
portant is the extension of the gas mains from
Govanstown to Towson, which is promised in
the near future. 1t took united effort to bring
about this result and here is where the inn
provement association comes in.
IA terrible affair occurred at Gainesville
on Thursday morning last when ]. 81. Middle
kamp, Jr., aged IL years. shot and almost in
stantly killed his father John Henry Middle
kamp, night. Waterman at the Sub Treasury
in Baltimore. Mlddlekamp was cruelty beat
ing his wife-something that he had been in
the habit of doing-when the boy went to the
assistance of his mother, with the result stated.
A coroner's jury exonorated the boy from
blame, after States Attorney Bussey made
plea for him on the ground that the killing was
justifiable.
Liquor License Cases Consume Much
Time of the Court.-In the Circuit Court
here on Monday Judges Burke and Duncan
overruled the protests filed to the granting of
liquor licenses to the following saloon-keepers
at Catonsville John 9. Morseberger, James
W. Stoddard, b. s. Mcdonald Louis Bloom,
Frank F. Ruff, Cornelius Scanned, Angelina
Flanagan and John F. Hesse. The licenses
were granted with the restrictions announced
last week by the court
Mark Rigor, private detective, testified to
having seen gambling and liquor sold at some
of the saloons on Sunday. Rev. John R. Ed
wards and Rev. John Nesbitt testified to al
legged violations by some saloon keepers in Ca