The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-12-07


fused admission to the county bar on the ground
that he is addicted to the use of tobacco.
Samuel Miller, ex-convict and burglar of New
York, said TO Judge whitman II never like to
be sentenced on Friday but the Judge sent
him up.
receiver at Kansas City is puzzled to dis
cover how to divide $4,000 worth of stored eggs
among creditors who have $4,000 of negotiable
receipts.
States in 1906, according to the Geological Sur
vey, aggregated .936 barrels. valued at
500, 444,735.
The biggest estate in the United Kingdom is
the lordship of Sutherland, the property of the
Duke of Sutherland. The estate is no less than
10000 acres.
Ostrich feathers can be taken every eight
months. The plumes are not as some suppose
pulled, but are cut with sharp knife. The
stumps wither and fall out.
Prohibition has pursued loon-keeper Mess
mer of Chillicothe, Ohio. so vigorously that he
has been compelled to move out of six town
ships, and he is still moving.
William P. Hall, of Lancaster. NO., is said to
be the greatest horse, mule and wild animal
dealer in the world. From 5000 TO 10000 ami
mails pass through Mr.. Halls stables in year.
Ricka Good, of Reading, Pa sued her hus-
band for divorce on the ground of cruelty. They
separated Is times, four times during the first
year of marriage. The jury decided against the
wife.
Mrs. John Shilling, of Lewistown, Pa, has kept
with cloves, allowing the heads to rest against
the skin. The apple retains perfectly its origi-
nal shape.
The ear of William s. Brobst of Pottsville. Pa,
a bridegroom, was so severely injured at the
wedding on account of two grains of rice having
lodged on the drum that an operation has been
necessary.
Alexander II. Fullam, walking along near the
tracks of the Erie railroad at Mantus, Ohio, was
struck by package of newspapers thrown from
a fast train and his back was broken. He died
in two hours.
Walter Scott, the late inventor and builder of
printing presses. was one of the 80 inventors
who were mentioned by the Commissioner Of
Patents as having obtained patents each year
for Is years.
Mrs. A. G. Saures, of Fall River, Mass. got
verdict of $4,000 from manufacturing COM
pany because her husband in kicking rat in the
factory grabbed an electric light wire and was
killed by the shock.
william Shirk, of Lebanon, Pa, and George
Eckman, of Illinois, met recently in Lebanon
after separation of 40 years. Each thought the
other had been killed in the battle of the Wilder
ness in the Civil War.
A New York Methodist church, which lately
gave the use of its building to a congregation of
Jews. who temporarily were without place of
meeting, received in return not only vote of
thanks, but check for $1,000.
Lieutenant Colonel John N. Coyne, who re-
ceived medal from Congress for having cap
tured the first Confederate flag in BATTLE died
recently in New York. He had been employed
in the New York Custom House.
Apples costing six cents each wholesale are
offered in Covent Garden market, London. They
come from Tasmania and are said to be the
largest apples ever grown. They are equal in
size to the small English melon.
Paul Firman, living near Caledonia, Pa, is
fencing in a field of ITO acres, which contains
large grove of wild persimmon trees, and will
stock it with 'possums By next fall he expects
to have several hundred 'possums.
An eagle feet inches from tip to tip attack
ed John Higgins, hunting near Elizabeth, N. J.
His clothes were nearly torn from his body and
he was gashed in several places. With the help
of another man the eagle was captured.
At Milford. DEL, boy who wanted holiday
10 I,oI lak ox.l kI,<,
schools were closed and the town nearly thrown
into panic. When the boy was found to be all
right his mother gave him some attention.
Being unable to live amicably together as man
and wife and disliking divorce, Peter Nocci and
his better half went before Alderman Masterson
of Wilkesbarre, Pa, and signed an agreement to
live apart for period of ninety-nine years.
While cutting down pear tree at Wissahickon
Pa, John Bently struck with his axe a diamond
studded watch charm lost by his maternal grand
father in 1852. The charm had lodged in a crack
and the tree had grown completely around it.
Since June the beard of John B. Roberts, a
grocer Of Wichita, KAN, has been growing on
the left side of the face inward instead of out
ward, Notwithstanding efforts to check it. Sur
geons say it is the strangest case they have ever
seen.
Southern California has completed its annual
harvest of English walnuts. The total crop is
approximately 100000 pounds, 100000 less
than last year. The growers receive from IL to
Is cents for the crop, or total of about ST.
100000.
A jury at Johnstown, Pa, assessed $500 dam
ages against DR.. William P. Shaw, who operated
on the left shoulder of Robert B. Walker which
was sound, removing a muscle, instead of cut
ting into the right shoulder, where there was a
tumor.
Andrew Carnegie's "hero fund" was estab-
ished in 1904 with S. 900 at its disposal. The
commission has awarded SO medals up to January
1st, 1907 and disbursed about $4,000, aside from
about $65 900 given San Francisco and other suf-
ferers from disasters.
A rooster stolen from Richard P. Bliss, of
Cleveland, crowed so Justify that policeman
was aroused, who chased the thief mile before
he was captured. In the fight the thief used the
rooster as a club on the officer, and the bird was
nearly stripped of his feathers.
In dispute over the ownership of chickens at
Columbia, Pa, the magistrate had the chickens
collected midway between the houses of the
two contesting women and fed. After hunger
was satisfied the chickens went to one house, the
owner of which was declared to be entitled to
the fowls.
Rev. John Schaeffer, said to be the Oldest
minister in the world. celebrated his one hum
bred and second birthday anniversary on No
vember ed at his home, near North Benton.
Ohio. Mr.. Schaeffer was in the active ministry
for 60 years. He now can read without glasses,
and his mind is active.
Policeman Robert Dunlop, of Kansas City,
says big negro woman was trying to enjoy a
sermon, when something in her shoe bothered
her, and she was compelled to take it of. When
she did so mouse jumped out, a stampede fol-
lowed. and he was forced to arrest the woman
for disturbing public worship.
1t is not generally known that the wife of
Senator Lafollette took her university degree
in the same class with her husband. AS Miss
Belle Case she vanquished bob" Lafollette in
a joint oratorical contest at the University of
Wisconsin. Before her marriage she had been
admitted to the practice of law.
Electric cooking may be the rule in the mod