Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-04
HAGERSTOWN NEWS GRIST
RUMORED RAILROAD DEAL INyOIy-
ING CUMBERLAND VALLEY LINE.
Deaths of a Week - CatOctin Valley
Iron Ore Property Sale
Postponed.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.


HAGERSTOWN. Md. January 3, 1901.
A rumor. bearing marks of authenticity,
Is in circulation at Hagerstown and VIM
chester, and throughout the entire valley
generally, to the effect that the Cumber-
land valley and the Baltimore and Ohio
railroads will connect at Winchester by
building the road which was surveyed q
number of years ago. 1t Is proposed to
build the road with view of giving the
patrons of the two roads a better service
In view of the fact that the Cumberland
Valley railroad IS practically owned by the
pennsylvania, It is believed that the latter
is conducting the proceedings
Inc much-talked-of railroad from Cherry
Kun the Junction of the Western Mary land
ana baltimore and Ohio roads, to and
through large portion of Fulton county,
Ia, now bears evidence of becoming a
reality The people of the county seem to
be in earnest to have the road, and Tor
this purpose. at public meeting at the
court house in McConnellsburg organized
company to be called the McConnells-
burg and Potomac Railroad Company with
capital stock of $500 600 to be divided into
shares of $500 each. The preliminary sur
vey has been made and the road to be COM
pleted within two years from the date of
the charter. The owners of land rich in
minerals, lumber and coal, heretofore I'M
developed for the lack of railroad facilities,
forward rapidly and subscribing for the
stock of the new company, which assures
an early completion of the road
Z. Edward Wise. a prominent merchant
or Hagerstown and former ex-county
commissioner; Charles Fl. Smith, young
man. former member of the Maryland
Legislature; Michael Tenant of Sharps-
burg, efshty-five years old, and pioneer
of this county; Philip Neibert, aged seven
ty-four, a priminent farmer of the Broad
fording district; George. Keller "a native of
Germany. and for fifty-fve years a resi-
dent of Bellevue, this county; Mrs. Amanda
Rohrer, mother of Postmaster Martin
Rohrer Of Rohrersville, aged seventy-six
years and c. Clyde Shade, son of DR..
Shade, a practicing physician of Washing
ton, among those who have died in the
past week.
The sale of the Catoctin Valley property,
situated In the mountain in the adjoining
county of Frederick, and occupying large
tract of iron and furnaces, over which
there has been much litigation, has been
again postponed, this time because of an in
junction by Judge Fidelter of the court of
common pleas of Philadelphia restraining
j. Morris, assignee of mOrtgagee, from pro-
Ceedng with the sale.
Rev. Jacob Burkhart of Baltimore has
accepted Il call to become the pastor of the
Hawley Memorial Congregational Church
at Monterey, in the mountains near Pen
Mar.
The pastoral relations of Rev. A. B.
Bauman of Harrisville. Va, well known il
TINS city ana county, and Rev. j. b. Stone
sifer have been dissolved by the Reformed
Chassis of Virginia, and Rev Bauman goes
to Pittsburg.
Rev. Martin Hoover, one of the most
prominent Of the ministers of the Reformed
Mennonite Church, died at Waynesboro' in
his seventy-ninth year He or
dained minister for forty-eight years, and
was particularly identified with the Ring
gold charge. this county.
The quarterly distribution of the state
school fund gives Washington county ST.
1868. and for colored schools, $41293.
Rev. f. H. Jones, for the past ten years
pastor of St. Peters Lutheran Church at
Clearspring. this county, having resigned. |
has moved with his family to his new neld
Of labor at Shelsburg, Pa.