Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-21


areas We may Be sure Of our saiubrious climate,
and, except for the suffering. which can b ALE
vtated 70 some degree, We should rejoice over
our cold waves and the health and vigor in tisir
wake.
HAGERsrOwN HAPPENINGS.
Serious Enscts OF the Long and Severe Cold
Snap-Notes.
Correspondents of The Evening star.
HAoERsrowN, Jan. %, 1898
For six weeks past this little city, nesting
quietly up in this beautiful valley, surrounded
by mountains, has been snow bound, ice bound
and generally isolated. A coal famine stares it
in the face, local dealers being without adequate
supplies, while the Washington County Water
Company has notified the city authorities Of its
inability to supply water for fire purposes. This
deficiency does not stop here, but many families
are bereft Of water for simply culinary purposes,
while manufactures arc compelled to shut
down. Wherever tho supply of water reaches
there IL much tribulation-frozen and burst
pipes and harvest for plumbers, whose serv-
ices are at q premium and can hardly be
obtained at any price. For twelve years past
no such weather as ID now being experienced
has struck this locality. Frozen water pipes
are bursting all over the city, and the main
pipes, four feet beneath the ground, are frozen.
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, this
city, was the scene OF . very pretty fashionable
wedding on Thursday. the contracting parties
being Mr.. Harry B. Irwin and Miss Lulu Nc
Laughlin, both Of this city. Mr.. Percy No
Comas of Washington was best man. the bride
being given away by Capt John R. King Of the
custom house of Baltimore. Rev. Hartsock.
pastor OF st. Paul's, performed the ceremony,
while Miss Rose Vost played the wedding
march. Both the bride and groom have
numerous friends in Washington.
"Uncle Sam Is looking out for recruits for
the army. Lieut.. Newton Of Fort McHenry,
Baltimore, has opened q recruiting office in
this city.
Kate Watts Is n colored woman residing at
Indian Spring. this county. She now occupies
states marshal for writing letter containing
improper language.
Denton Oliver, at one time q member Of the
Maryland legislature, is dead, at the age OF
seventy five years; Goo Fulton of Greensburg,
this county. at eighty-fye years; John Long OF
fohrersviile, aged thirty-one years, the latter
OF consumption; David Artz, formerly of the
wholesale grocery firm OF S. NJ. Bloom 4 Co,
this city. and Of one of the best known families
OF the county, at the age of thrty-nine years.
To-day an action for $4,000 damages was en-
tered in the circuit court Of this county against
the Hagerstown Daily Mail for libel BY Col.
W. +. III. McCarty OF this city growing out Of
structures made by the Mail on franchise
granted McCarty, who represents Washington
and Baltimore capitalists, for a street railway
for Hagerstown.
Mr.. Davis Starliper OF Washington is visiting
friends in this county
Mrs. Julia Kriner. residing near Roadside, in
the adjoining coanty of Franklin, Pa, was
frozen to death an evening or two ago. She
had spent the night with a neghber and left
Tor her home early the next morning. Several
hours afterward her body was found on the
roadside frozen stiff.
Our neighbors across the river at Martinsburg
are greatly rejoiced over Senator Faulkner's re-
election, which is Joined in by many friends and
admirers in this county,
Mr.. Henry Lambert Of this county is a sound
sleeper. His house at Locust Grove, this
county, caught fire a night or two ago. The
upper story of the building burned away and
he never awoke until aroused by his neighbors,
who found his bed afire from sparks from the
floor above. The house and its contents were
destroyed.
Mrs. Ann s. Ebersoll resides at Keedysville,
this county. She wishes to be divorced from
her husband and has instituted legal proceed
ings to that effect. In her bill she claims aban-
donment.
Col W. W. Stewart is supervisor of the C. Y.
railroad. His mother is dead at an advanced
age.
In the clerks Office Of this county the first
name on the insolvents' record is that of JOS /.
Sterrett, entered in 1917. The laws were then
that a man could be imprisoned for debt and on
up to the year 1852. Since then and up to date
1856 persons have applied for the insolvent
laws-the old law Of imprisonment being abol-
ished evidently accounting for the increase.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Is making extensive improvements at Harpers
Ferry and in awarding damages have granted
Mrs. I. A. kerwan, 81, $50; T. NJ. Conner,
81 500. and James Cassell, 81, 500. The parties
in these cases not deeming justice done them
have asked for jury at the February term of
court
T. Jones, at Shade Gap, was destroyed by fire.
Loss on building. $1,000; loss on furniture,
81. 900; insurance, $3, 500.
People who are careful in their observation
OF the conditions during winter declare that
the cold during the past six weeks in this re-
gion was greater than that experienced in the
past ten winters, being equal to that Of 1888,
which was a notably severe one.
Mr. Sa muel Tensinger, residing q short dis
lance west Of this city, is suffering from broken
Leg the result of falling upon the ice.
Much suffering is being experienced here
from the high price Of coal and the scarcity of
wood.
Mr.. Jacob H. Grove has sold his farm near
Greencastle. containing sixty acres, to Charles
Hesser for S82 per acre. Lewis Gantz has sold
to Mr.. Zentmeyer his two-story brick residence
on South Potomac street, this city, for o. 500
Samuel Seibert has sold his brick residence on
the same street to O. W. Miller for o. 900 cash
Mr.. James L. Wolf Of Cavetown, this county.
shipped last season 200 baskets of grapes and
made 10 gallons of wine.
citizens meeting has been called here to
take action to hold demonstration ON Wash
ington's birthday. B.
Have to Cut Through Several Feet of Ice