Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-21
HAGERSTOWNf NEWS GRIST
1 10.
SUIT OVER DELIVERY OF A TANK
OF OIL.
Shutdown Factory to Resume-yew
Enterprises Starting Up
In the City.
Special Correspondence Of tn. Evening star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, September %, 1900
A suit has been instieuted in the circuit
court OF Washington COUNTY at Hagerstown
by Messrs. Cooper & Bros. of Winchester
Va. against the Cumberland Valley Rail-
road Company This Is an action for dam
ages for the non-delivery of tank carload
of coal oil shipped from Pittsburg to Hag-
erstown by an Independent oil refinery to
Cooper Brothers, who had sold the oil to
merchants here. The railroad sidetracked
the tank in the northern suburbs of
Hagerstown. The railroad claims that to
have hauled the oil into the city they would
have violated an ordinance prohibiting the
storing of quantities of oil inside the city
limits. This is denied by Cooper Brothers.
who contend that the Standard on Com
pany is back of this and that this COM
pany Influenced the railroad in it's action
The Standard OIL Company, it is under
stood. will be made a party to the suit.
The rope halter factor at Clearspring
the most extensive industry in the western
section of this county, after long period
of enforced idleness.. due to the advance of
manila rope. occasioned by the Philippine
war, will resume operations next week on
full time and full force of hands Its
resumption is looked forward TO with much
gratifica ton.
The Hagerstown Stock Company. recently
incorporated here with d capital of $3.50.
has begun the erection in the southwestern
suburbs of Hagerstown Of forty stalls
These stalls are 300 feet in length. supplied
with every convenience for watering, feed
ing and quick handling of the many thou
sand head of cattle coming to Hagerstown
from points south to be shipped north.
The erection of another monument on
the Antietam battlefield has been decided
on The 124th Pennsylvania Veterans, at
a reunion held on the. grounds on Monday
last determined to erect one on the ave-
nue. In front of the Massachusetts state
monument, the design TO be selected at an
early date.
Mrs. Ann Amelia Beachtel died at Bridge
port, this county, September IS. aged
eighty-three years She was the toligate
and Smithburg turnpike ever since the road
was constructed.
Miss Ella Trmble of Washington. a grad
uate of the Corcoran School of Art, has
assumed the head of the art department
of Kee Mar College at Hagerstown.
The Presby terrain congregation at
Waynesboro, has called Rev. George Full
ton Of Lebanon, Pa. to the vacant pas
torate of that church He Will accept
DIR. G. e; Flora. rising young physician
of this county was. married on Wednesday
in Waynesboro' to Miss Anna G. Stouffer.
q popular young lady and a teacher in the
public school of that place. Hey: r; -;
Church. officiated They will make their
home in Shasta county, Cal
Judge Stake of the circuit court here has
granted Mrs Mary q. Boward Of Hagers-
town divorce from ner husband s "liiiam
Among the late arrivals of Washington
fans at Hagerstawr 8re Captain Algernon
Sartoris. Miss Rose Saftoris Mrs. 8. c. cald-
well Mrs G Mfs,sy MRS Mrs r Jacob bf Kroan
Mrs. J. G. Heard, Miss Evelyn Willet and
Mrs c. Clendenin.