Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-16
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Important Cases on the Docket for
November Term in WASH
inston County.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Nd. November II, 1900.
The building of a railroad from the Bal
timore and Ohio at Hancock. this county,
to McConnellsburg, in the adjoining coun-
ty of Fulton, Pa, heretofore mentioned in
The Star. is now assured fact. The
promoter of the enterprise Mr.. ]. ]. Van
Horne of New York has made the an
nouncement that the road will be built
within the coming year. This is highly
gratifying to those living along the pro-
posed line. and already movements are on
foot for the establishment of a number of
important industries. Mr.. B. R. Simpson
has already opened a coal mine on his
farm near Dickeys mountain and will de-
velop it at once, while Jacob A. Young and
S. w. Shoupe of Hagerstown have secured
a five-year option on large tracts of an
thracite coal lands in Fulton county, Pa.
The coal deposits are one side of
mountain Of the Tuscarora range, which
runs northward into the great anthracite
coal region of Pennsylvania DIR. Penni-
man of Baltimore, state chemist is analyZ-
ing the water of Fulton county's mineral
springs for hotel company proposing to
build a $4,000 summer hotel at Hancock
as soon as work on the railroad has been
commenced
The circuit court of Washington county
began Its November term here on Monday.
The docket contains number of important
cases, including two removed from Allie
gany county, one being that of Peter
Joyce, who sues for 5000 damages for in
juries received in 1897 by being struck by
a Baltimore and Ohio railroad train in
Cumberland, and the other that Of Arthur F.
Lottig, miner, who sues the mayor and
council of Cumberland for $4,000 for inju-
ries received by coming In contact with a
fallen electric light wire owned by the
city. by which he was so badly burned
that his hand was crippled for life.
A Suit for libel which &c attracting
siderable attention and causing much COM
ment In the community, dOcketed for trial
at this term of the court is that Of Major
Josiah Pierce, jr., against the HagerstOwn
Mail Publishing Company. The major re-
sides in Washington in the winter and In
the summed at "Dahlen,' on the South
mountain, in the Boonsboro district, where
he registered as a qualified voter. During
the late campaign he took a. prominent
part in the politics of the county, and was
president of the Boonsboro Mckinley club,
which was the first organization of the
kind to be sAarted In the county. Major
Pierce alleges that he was greatly injured
by the publications of the Mail editOrially
and by news comments made about him
during the campaign.
Business on the Chesapeake and Ohio ca
nal Is heavier at present than at any time
this season. Thousands of tons of coal are
coming down from Cumberland every
week. The coal shippers and. dealers at
Wiliamsport storing many tons of coal
on the wharves and trainloads of it are
being shipped over the Western Maryland
railroad to various points
Arrangements have been made, 1t is said
hero for the building Of the proposed rail-
road from Gettysburg to Washington.
This road is looked upon by Marylanders
as one Of the most important projects of
Its kind ever conceived in this state. The
road will be seventy-two miles in length
and the route will be through Montgomery.
Howard and Carroll counties in Maryland,
striking the Western Maryland railroad at
Westminster.
The accounts now being audited by the
board Of election supervisors show that the
recent election cost Washington county
about $1,000, several hundred dollars less
than the state election of last year, owing
to the economical management of the su-
pervsors.
Mica is being taken from the South
mountain near Womeldorf In considerable
quantities and is causing some stir in that
locality. r. s..-s : 800. *
Hunters are having some fine sport in
Blairs valley, in the adjoining county of
Franklin, Pa. Wild turkeys and deer are
plentiful. five Of the latter having been
shot in one day by party Of sportsmen