Evening star., 1901-10-25
HAGERsTOwN NEWS GRIsT.
Great Falls Power Company Case
Negro Editor Fined.


| Special Correspondence " The Evening star
HAGERSDOwN. Md. October -. 1901.
! Judge Edward Stake Of the circuit court
OF this county will hear argument in the
matter Of the Great Falls Power Company's
petition for ratification Of sale Of lands
and water rights by the canal company.
/ The hearing was set for September &. but
! carried over Another company claiming
TO nave offered more for the lands and
water rights. objected to the ratification
}. X, Chnord. editor of the Pioneer Press
a weekly newspaper published in Martins
/ burg in the interest OF the negro race and
who was fined sloo and costs a short time
| ago by Judge Faulkner for nbeling Mrs
Newman. wife of Rev. John Newman OF this
| city, has again been fined 500 by Judge
! Jackson in the United States court for Nio-
| lating the United States postal laws bv
sending unavailable matter through the
man, he having pleaded guilty to the
| charge.
Judge Jackson, sitting in the case OF the
Harper's Ferry Pulp Company against Jo-
| seph Thorpp. in the federal court at Mar
tinsburg, perpetuated the injunction grant
ed by him restraining the defendant from
running the waste from the Virginia iron
ore beds into the Potomac river Just above
the mills OF the plaintiff al Harper's Ferry.
Sunday last the hunting season for par
trldges and rabbits opened i'm this county.
Local sportsmen who were out report game
more plentiful than for several years. The
number OF patrldses In the nocks is un-
usually large this season and rabbits can
| be seen hopping I'm every direction The
dates for cunning in Washington county
! are: Partridges. October 20 to December "a:
woodcock. July IL to December "a; rabbits,
october 20 to December "a: pheasants Au-
| gust II to December "a: squirrels Septem-
Der IL to November 80; doves. August u
| to December "a; deer. November l to jan
4 uary Il; wild turkeys November l TO Ian
uary IL.
Miss Madeline Keith. daughter of Rev. J.
| w Keith of Gettysburg. will make a long
! TRIP across the sea to become the bride of
ReV sylvester Burger. native Of Frank
/ lin county, who is in charge of the Luther
| an mission at Guntur, India. She will be
accompanied by Rev. and Mrs. John Aher-
| ly, Lutheran missionaries. Rev Burger is
a brother of Mrs. David Whitmore OF this
| county, where he is we'll known especially
among religious people.
An epidemic Of diphtheria is prevailing at
Hedgesville, in the adjoining county OF
berkeley, w. Va, and is causing much eN-
citement. All the schools have been closed
on account of the outbreak and every ef-
tort Is being made to stamp out the disease.
A fire started by gInners has lust been
eNtinguished after burning for three days
on the west side of South Mountain de-
stroying several hundred acres Of timber on
the lands of George b. Oswald of this city
and John Hoover. Squirrels rabbits and
other small game were destroyed in large
numbers.
The battlefield of Antietam is shortly TO
be further beautifed by the erection Of
three additional monuments. Vermont reg
iments have just completed the arrange
ments for the erection of the three monu-
ments to commemorate their comrades who
fell on that field.
The town council of Shepherdstown has
granted franchise to the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company to extend a
line through that place from Sharpsburg,
this county, to cover the Valley OF Vir-
ginia.
Mr.. Samuel Easton, a well-known ma
chinist of this city, has accepted a posi-
tion In the navy yard at Washington.
Mr.. b. F. Snyder and Mr.. Charles Davis
of Washington are visiting here Mr.. Da-
Wis had not been in Hagerstown for thirty
years and was naturally surprised at the
growth of the city.
Mr.. and Mrs Edgar II. High of WASH
ington are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. J. f.
Felgley on East Antietam street, this city.
Mrs E. NJ. Holiday of Washington is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs Edward Beck on
West Franklin street, this city.