The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-06-26
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THE ANNUAL meeting of the Maryland State
Bar Association will be held at Hotel Cham
berlin, Old Point Comfort, July 7th to 9th, in
elusive. Members of the Virginia bar will
meet at the same place on the same dates.
THE HEAT has been intense in New York
city this week and on Tuesday the mercury
marked 90 in the shade. The day is said to
have been the hottest June 29d of which there
is any record. The heat wave appears to have
extended over the entire country.
A BALTIMORE paper stated on Monday that
Republican primary meetings would be held
in this county the same day as the Democratic
misunderstanding, June Goth. This is
mistake, as the Republican primaries will not
be held here until Friday July 10Th.
FIRST THE "center of the Black Hand was
believed to be in New York. Then it was To-
Gated in Paterson. Now it is placed in Gin
cinnati, or some other town in Ohio. But how
about Italy? The world has long had sus-
picion that the focal point of the Black Hand
diabolsm is somewherein Victor Emmanuels
country.
THE DEATH of Mr. John v. Slade, which &C.
CURED at his home at Corbett, N. G. r. R.. on
Wednesday morning. came as shock and
surprise to thousands Of his friends and ac-
quaintances in Baltimore county. Born in
the neighborhood where he spent his entire
life he was known to almost everybody and
had warm place in the hearts Of many. As
business man and public official be bore
stainless reputation and in his death the county
has sustained distinct loss.
TUESDAY WAS known as Fresh Air Day. in
Baltimore city when large number of young
ladies-appointed by the Fresh Air Society as
colectors-were stationed in the large stores,
banks and public offices to accept voluntary
contributions to the Fresh Air Fund. The
sum collected aggregated about 81, 200. Last
year plan of tagging was tried and proved
quite successful, although there we're some
disagreeable features about it. 1t brought the
society $1,000. This money goes to most
deserving charity and it is surprising that the
sum collected on Tuesday was not much larger.
In THE New York Central Railroad excava-
ton at New York for the new station, recently,
a new rock-cutting device which works with
out blasting or drilling, has had successful
test. The new machine is operated by COM
pressed air and weighs about fifteen tons. The
head of the cutting surface is 8 feet in dame
ter and has four connecting arms upon which
twenty-five rock clipping drills cut while the
head rotates. The broken pieces of rock are
picked up and carried back by belt conveyor
to car at the rear of the machine. In this
way the machine cuts from 25 to IS feet into
solid rock in day, according to the hardness
of the material. The drills strike from 400 to
800 thousand-poundb blows minute each. The
face of the rock is sprayed constantly with
water to keep the dust down and the tools cool.
IT HAS been given out from Washington that
Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture,
will retire from President Taft's Cabinet in
December next. A dispatch says "Mr. Will
son had an ambition to serve in the Cabinet
for longer continuous period than any other
man. That ambition has been realized and be
will now be able to retire with entire satisfac-
ton to himself Mr.. Wilson is nearly IA years
old. His service at the head of the Agricultural
Department has been marked by many impor
tant and valuable improvements in farming
methods due to his initiative. He entered the
Cabinet in President McKinleys first term"
The man who will succeed Secretary Wilson
is Congressman Charles Frederick Scott, of the
Second district of Kansas. MrScott is AZ years
of age and is serving his fifth term in the
House of Representatives. He is chairman of
the House Committee on Agriculture.
BIG vote was polled at the Democratic
primary held in Hartford county last Saturday
and the contest was hot one. Mr.. William
j. Forsythe the successful candidate for sheriff,
polled the highest vote ofany ofthe candidates,
and Mr.. Charles A. Andrew, for the State Sen
ate, came next. The contest for everyone of
the officers was very spirited and the vote ex-
ceptionally close. The ticket was long one,
there being SO names on it, and heavy vote
was poIled in every precinct. The ticket nom
mated is as follows: State Senate-Charles A.
Andrew; House of Delegates-Joseph W.
Archer, Martin L. Jarrett, Henry A. Osborne,
Jr., and Fleury F. Sullivan Clerk of the Cir
cult Court-William S. Forwood, (the incum
bent); Sheriff William ]. Forsythe; County
Recommendation ]. Shannahan County
Commissioners-Georg W. Jones, James T.
Norris, Denis J. Shannahan and Alfred H.
Wilson County Surveyor-W. Elijah Som
erville.
In THE last issue of the Comnloner Editor
Bryan leads off with this question-What is
Democratic?- Pin view of the action of certain
Democratic Senators in voting against free
lumber. He declares that in doing so they
voted to repudiate the party's platform, to
encourage the destruction of our forests, to
raise the price of one of the chief necessaries of
life, to tax the industries into which lumber
enters, to tax the people of the whole country
for the benefit of few owners of timber lands,
and to tax majority of their own constituents
for the benefit of minority of their constitu-
ents. The CommOner offers space to any Sem
ator to defend his vote against free lumber.
This editorial caused quite stir among the
Southern Senators referred to and several of
them have taken occasion to reply-BaiIey,
Simmons, Tillman and others-taking the
ground first, that the national platform binds
candidates, but not legislators, and asserting
that Bryan had no right longer to dictate to
Senators how to vote. Stone and Money also
criticised the Nebraskan, saying that his record
did not justify his position.
BRADsTREET's, in speaking of the outlook,
among other things says: Wheat supplies
in the United States and Canada declined
sharply during May, while those in Europe
made very slight gain, so small, indeed, as
hardly to deserve mention. The movement in
the United States and Canada in fact set the
measure of the entire worlds decrease Taken
in conjunction with the very light export
movement, the very high prices ruling Isl so
to S1.65 being paid at leading interior markets,)
and the shipment of some wheat from New
York to the westward, these visible supply
figures point to the cereal year ending with
grain bins swept clean. Inasmuch as the
winter wheat crop, the first to be available for
is not so large or so early as last
year, it would seem as if the period of high
prices might be prolonged beyond earlier ex-