The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-05-11

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EC. P. AND MARYLAND PHONES a
HEcRErARY OF Agriculture Wilson stated in
recent speech that the agricultural production
of the United States last year was &c. 794 900 0O0
an increase of "A per cent. since 1900. Why
boys on the farm should run away from this
bonanza is getting to be a mystery.
I'VE hope, in time" says the United States
Department of Agriculture, ito grow all the
tobacco now imported from Cuba and Suma-
tra.'' This achievement is promised as re-
suit Of the study Of soils. The department is
aiming high and has a general tendency to
make good.
II APPEARS from Investigations carried on by
the Interstate Commission in Kentucky that
the coal which costs 95 cents ton at the mines
il sold to consumers in Louisville at $465 a ton.
Another point brought out is that there seems
to be collision between the railroads and the
coal operators in the shortage Of cars that limits
the supply.
GOVERNOR WAKEFIELD celebrated his fifty
ninth birthday on Tuesday and in the evening
gave an elaborate dinner at the Executive
Mansion in Annapolis to the directors Of the
two companies Of which he is president-the
Fidelity and Deposit Company and the Fidelity
Trust Company, which are among the leading
financial institutions of Baltimore city. The
affair was thoroughly enjoyable one.
THEY ARE getting severe on the breakers of
automobile speed laws in Massachusetts,. at
Worcester. in that State. few days ago
prominent business man, who had been con-
victed Of exceeding the speed limit of twenty
miles an hour and colliding with horse and
carriage, was sentenced to two months in Jail.
The accused Immediately took an appeal.
This is the most severe sentence ever passed in
this country for breaking the automobile speed
laws.
A. w. STANTON, of Great Falls Montana,
who is well-to-do stock raiser, says the world
will come to an end on or about the 14th of the
present month. So sure is he of this coming
to pass that he sold all his property for $3.50
and is now living in a rented house in an ele-
waited part Of the town. Stanton has eight
followers and they have also disposed of all
their belongings and are quietly awaiting the
end Of all things. These people think they
are to bestraightway translated to heaven.
CHAIRMAN VAEDrvER, of the Democratic
State Central Committee, has issued call for
a meeting of the committee to be held in Bal
timore, Thursday, May 23d. In this connec-
ton it is stated that the State convention of
that party will be held in July. There is said
to be general sentiment in favor Of an early
convention, which will mean an unusually
long campaign. The friends of Governor
Warfeld believe that he will be renominated,
although there will doubtless be other can
didates.
A CAR of lumber was loaded at Bangor. a
station on the Rutland Railroad near Ogdens-
burg N. Y, nine years ago and it has not yet
reached its destination. On September 18th,
ls9e, it was taken to Rouse's Point. 1t was
billed to the J. A. Shepard Lumber Company.
On October 9TH of the same year the car had
reached Burlington, VT, and last week it was
pulled into Maiden, Mass. 1t has been cast at
the doors of one firm after another, only to be
refused, and continued on its way in search of
a home. Where the Shepard Lumber Com
pany is located no one seems to know.
IMAM address before the graduating class Of
the Northwestern University Law School in
Chicago, on the Sd instant Col. VIM. Jennings
Bryan gave the lawyers of this country a Sc
we're 'jolt." The subject of his address was
"The Price of Soul" and his concluding re-
marks were as follows: IT believe that the
day will come in this country when we will
not have so many men who will sell their souls
to make grand larceny possible. Perhaps some
time il will not be less disgraceful for lawyer
to assist in gigantic robbery than for high
wayman to go out and hold up the wayfarer.
knew of case recently in which they had to
go to New York to get lawyers to represent the
people because all the lawyers available nearer
at hand had been bought up"
WHILE IN Baltimore on Thursday Hon. J.
Fred. G. Talbot was asked by reporter about
his Senatorial candidacy. After saying that it
was a laudable ambition for man to be can
didate for the U. s. Senate Mr.. Talbot added
my Senatorial candidacy is secondary with
me to the success of the Democratic party.
would rather have the Democratic party sue
cessful than go to the Senate, and / do not pro.
pose to have the party handicapped or embar-
raised by my candidacy. I am not going to
stump the State or make myself an issue in the |
campaign. After the Legislature is elected if |
the Democrats have a majority, 1 shall take
my chances with the rest. If my friends can |
elect me, 1 will be glad of it. If they can't, |
and the people want someone else, why. that's |
all right, too. won't be aggrieved and will |
be just as good Democrat as if 1 had gotten |
the place. | won't sulk, and the man who |
wins will have my support
BALTIMORE c1rYs municipal election on
Tuesday did not result in the 10000 majority |
for Mahool for mayor that was so confidently |
predicted by Boss Frank Brown. but Mr.. |
Mahool proved himself strong candidate and
won over Mr.. Timanus by plurality of 4, Asa. |
His running mates were also successful, Mr..
Hooper, for comptroller, by a plurality of
4, 1900, and Mr.. Numsen, for president of the
Second Branch City Council, by S,615. The
total vote for mayor was 81, 420-a heavy falling
off from the total registered vote. The DEM
ocrats also carried majority Of the wards for
the City Council and will control the First |
Branch by 10 and the Second Branch by
votes. The utter route ofthe Republicans is as
cribed to several causes the chief among which
is the fight that exists in the party between the
organization people and the friends of Mr..
Wachter It is thought that while their leader
was true to the party hundreds of his followers
knitted the ticket sufficiently to encompass its
defeat. If this conclusion be correctitshows a
bad state of affairs in Baltimore for the
Republicans.
TIE BODY of Horace Marvin, the four-year-
old son Of DR.. Horace N. Marvin, of Delaware,
who mysteriously disappeared from his home