The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-05-09

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
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are requested to leave positive orders
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advertising to appear in THE BALrr-
MORE COUNTY UNION. If they fail to
give such order the business may be
diverted into other channels.
ONE OF the Astor farms in New York City,
bought in 1888 for 1000, has just been divi-
ded among the heirs at valuation of $780,
600. And yet there are people who say that
farming doesn't pay.
THE BALTIMORE law firm of Sans & John
son has been dissolved by the elevation of
Hon. Conway W. Sans to the bench. Mr.. ].
Hemsley Johnson has formed partnership
with Messrs German H. II. Emory, Walter
G. Olmstead and Benjamin F. Gator.
JUDGE GRAY, of Delaware, who has been
mentioned as a probable candidate for the
Democratic nomination for the Presidency.
says emphatically: II am out of politics and
am going to stay out" The Judge evidently
sees the handwriting on the wall and discerns
the name Bryan.
CREscEus, the champion trotting stallion of
the world, has been sold by his owner, NJ. W.
Savage, of Minneapolis, Mimi, to a Russian
horseman for $4,000. He will be sent to his
new home across the water this month. Cries.
ceus, record 2O21 is son of the famous
Robert McGregor.
AT meeting of the board of directors of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, heldin Phil
adelphia on the LIST instant, a semi-annual
dividend for 8 per cent was declared-a per
cent basis. Last year the dividend was per
cent the highest paid in a number of years.
They aggregate number of shareholders on the
S1st of March last was SO, 4S6, 1851 of whom
were women.
THE SENATE Committee on Privileges and
Elections has received petitions from only six
states demanding a convention to amend the
constitution so as to provide for the election of
Senators by popular vote, and it will, there
fore, take 10 action as the law requires calls
from three-fourths of the states. The six which
have petitioned are: New Jersey, Illinois,
Wisconsin. Iowa, Montana and Nevada, the
Legislatures of these states having adopted the
petitions.
THE NATIONAL convention of the Christian
party-an organization composed of men and
women-was held at Rock Island, ILL.,, on the
1st inst, when Rev. Daniel B. Turney, of
Decatur, ILL.,, was nominated for President
and L. s. Coffin, of Fort Dodge, Iowa for
by about forty delegates. The platform de-
clares for the Decalogue and the Golden Rule
as the basis of all laws, and upholds female
suffrage.
In THE town election in Still Pond Kent
county, Nd women had the right to vote on
Monday last. An act passed at the last session
of the Legislature provided that the legal
voters of Still Pond, females included, who
pay taxes and who have resided within the
corporate limits six months, of the age of q
years and upward, should have the right to
vote at this election. There were rs registered
voters, II of whom were white women and
2 colored. Three of the former and none of
the latter voted.
If THE assertions of the political managers
may be credited, the two Presidential candi
dates this year are as good as chosen by the
Republican and Democratic parties, namely,
Taft by the former and Bryan by the latter.
Up to April 23d the Taft managers had counted
500 delegates to the National Convention
pledged to their man, and 491 is a majority
This estimate did not include any Southern
State where there is contest. The Bryan
bureau at Lincoln claimed that three-fourths
of the Democratic delegates were on record for
their man.
Mr.. VIM. w. JOHNSON, ex-Postmaster of
Baltimore city and also an ex-member of the
Board of Police Commissioners, died at his
home in the city, on Monday last. He was
born in Baltimore in 1854 and spent bis entire
life there. Mr. johnson was an earnest and
active Republican and was the originator, and
for many years president, of the Young Mems |
Republican Club. He was a genial, whole |
souled gentleman and had hosts of warmly
attached friends. The cause of his death was
an affliction of the heart from which he suf- |
fered for some time.
THE Cry OF BRoTHERLY LOVE has just |
passed through a new religious experience,
namely, six weeks series of stirring meetings |
under one general management, represented |
by the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES forces, but con- |
Quoted simultaneously in numerous churches. |
Under the name of the kings Business the |
movement gained great Roadway and it was
the application of modern business methods in |
alliance with the press of that city that brought
success. The North american in particular |
set a new pace in the recognition of this great |
activity as a legitimate field of news for the |
community.
As result of the paving scandal in Balti- |
more city J. Arthur Wickham, Democrat, and |
James H. Marine, Republican, Commissioners |
for Opening Streets were summarily fired by |
Mayor Mahool on Monday. The charges |
against them were receiving money for award |
ing contracts for paving. As further result of |
some of these transactions Harry Welles Rusk, |
who occupied prominent position in Demo |
cratic politics and was chairman of the Demo- |
cratic City Committee, was Obliged to resign |
that position and is now in disgrace. He con-
fessed that he was the briber in at least one in
stance and that he paid Marine $500. He |
made this confession in order to save himself |
from criminal prosecution. Rusk is an ex- |
member of Congress and had borne a good |
reputation before the exposures in this graft
transaction.
THE REFORM LEAGUE of Maryland, at a
meeting held few days ago. elected the fol-
lowing officers: President-Mr. Summerfield |
Baldwin; vice presidents-Dr. ]. h. Hollander, |
Messrs Francis M. Jencks, Henry G. Hilken |
and Archibald H. Taylor; secretary-Mr.
Charles Morris Howard treasurer-Mr. Ernest
J. Knabe, Jr.; executive committee-Messrs.
William Reynolds Henry W. Williams, Eli |
Frank, Bernard G. Steiner, Gordon Wilson, |