The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-02-06
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TEN YEARS ago the wireless telegraph seemed
q visionary fancy, but its present practical
uses show how rapidly a good thing in this
age is pushed along.
THE POLITICIANS opposed to Governor Hughes
are warned that if they are not good be will
run for third term. This argument strikes
the machine in its tenderest spot.
Col. VIM ]. BRYAN believes that he could
cur this year. He is one of the greatest off
year candidates the country has ever produced.
THE REPUBLICANS of Oregon elected DEM
ocrat to the United States Senate. History will
probably have to wait a long while for DEM
ocratic Legislature to duplicate this magnani-
nous act.
CARNATIoN DAY was observed at Canton,
Ohio, January 10Th. by exercises in the public
schools in which facts were brought out con-
corning the life and work of the lamented
Mckinley. Carnations were worn by the citi-
zens to such an extent that the florists were
unable to supply the demand. McKinley's
tomb, and also that of his wife, was strewn
with his favorite flower.
THE OFFICIAL election of Taft and Sherman
as President and Vice President Of the United
States will take place on Wednesday, February
10th, when the House and Senate will meet in
Joint session in the House chamber to canvass
the electoral votes of the states. Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks has appointed Senators Bur-
rows and Bailey tellers to represent the SEN
ate in the counting of the vote. An immense
crowd will be present to witness this formal
ceremony.
A BILL was introduced in the Indiana Legis-
lature on Monday ordering the State Board Of
Education to provide for the singing of 1.-THE
Star.Spangled Banner in the public schools
at stated times. The bill provides that the
entire song shall be sung. The author of the
bill said that the third stanza is omitted from
the song books used in the public schools and
that the stanza was stricken out because an
Englishman objected to it. Under the bill the
State Board of Education will have to see that
the stanza is restored and the entire song sung.
On THURSDAY the State Good Roads Com
mission held lengthy session in Baltimore
10 consider routes in Baltimore, Carroll, How
ard and several other counties. County Com.
missioner Mann appeared before the Commits.
sion and advocated plan by which all the
turnpikes in Baltimore county are to be taken
over and reconstructed or improved as far as
possible. There is persistent fight from all
quarters against the toll-gates and it is more
than likely that most of the turnpikes will be
acquired by the State. The Commission will
hold another meeting on Thursday, 18th inst
HENDERSON CREMEANs, thought to be the
Oldest man in the United States, died near
Point Pleasant, Mason county, w. Va, on
strong and hearty until a few days before hi:
death. His father and mother are said to have
been the first couple married west of the Blue
Ridge Mountains in Virginia. His mother
died at 120 and his wife at 101. He was one
of the first settlers of the Ohio Valley, going
there from Virginia at the age of Is. He leaves
20 grandchildren, 131 great-grandchildren and
10 great-great-grsndchildre Mr.. Cremeans
never tasted liquor or tobacco in his life.
THE $4,000 young people of Cleveland, Ohio,
who pledged themselves to live as Jesus Christ
would for period of two weeks, ended the ex-
pertinent last Sunday with enthusiastic meet
ings, and most of them promised to continue
30 to live for the rest of their lives, thus MAX
ing the movement permanent one. W. D.
Price, the school student who started the move.
ment, said be would exert every effort to spread
II to other cities. He had letters from church
organizations all over the country pIedging
their support. A letter was received from
Charles M. Sheldon, author of I'm His Steps, +"
complimenting the Cleveland young folks on
their determination.
IF ANYONE wants to find a man with gall
sufficient to supply a regiment he should go at
once to Bridgeport, Conn.,, and seek out one
James NJ. Atlas, who has written letter to
President Roosevelt in which he says: Twill
you accept an engagement of 80 weeks at a
salary of SIC, 900 week-S300, 900 in all-com-
mencing the first day of May, 1909, to head a
Wild West exhibition entitled Theodore
Roosevelts Congress of Rough RidersT An
early reply will be greatly appreciated by
yours truly" etc. Atlas, who is hotel pro-
prietor, is an old Snowman. He says he is
backed by circus syndicate and is ready to
advance the 100000.
IT LOOKS like merry war is on between the
Prohibitionists of Maryland and the Anti
Saloon League. The former believe in State
wide prohibition, while the League, without
committing itself to the candidates of either of
the old parties, is seeking to secure through
them jointly, or separately, local option law
by which voters of the several counties and
wards of Baltimore city may determine by
ballot whether the sale of liquor shall be per-
mitted. The Prohibitionists declare that they
will nominate legislative candidates in the city
and counties. They are willing, however, to
withdraw their candidates and to vote for can
didates of the old parties who will pledge
themselves ten days after their nomination, to
vote for Statewide prohibition.
A REsIDENT of Memphis, Tenn, who does
not believe that John Wilkes Booth, the re-
puted assassin of Lincoln, was killed by the
party that pursued him, has sent bill to
Speaker Cannon proposing that amnesty be
extended to Booth The is still alive The sug-
gestion is made that the one.hundredth ami
versary of the birth of Lincoln could not be
better commemorated than to settle this alleged
disputed historical fact The bill proposes that,
upon making full and complete confession,
which shall be made public, those who aided
or abetted in the assassination of President
Lincoln shall be given full and complete
amnesty by the Government in 1.-The name of
and by the forgiveness of Abraham Lincoln"
The author asks that the bill be read to the
House on Lincoln's birthday-February 18th.
It is not likely the bill will ever be introduced.
THAT BALTIMORE is growing very rapidly is
shown by a communication from sx-Mayor
Latrobe on 1.-THE Future of the City" published
in the Star. He says: "I had the honor of
being the mayor of this, my native city, for
seven terms. When first elected, in 1875, the
of Baltimore by the United States
census of 1870, was 267,354 the police census
of 1906 gave us 5S4, 0S4, indicating that we more
than doubled in about thirty years. The
United States census of 1900 gave us sos, 957
at the same rate of increase, the census of 1880
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