Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-03
HAGERsToWN NEWS GRIsT.
Items of Interest From Western Mary
land and Vicinity.
Special Correspondence. of The Evening Star.

special correspondence OF Inc Evening Star.
HAGERSTOWN. Md, October Q, 1902
The first indication of practical work on
the proposed Improvements to the Western
Maryland railroad to be made, under the
new management comes in the announce
ment of the award of a contract for 5000
tons of heavy steel rails. The contract has
been placed with the Maryland Steel Com
pany for delivery in April. They will weigh
ninety pounds to the yard, and will be the
heaviest in use on the system. They will
be laid on the third division and will dis
place sixty-pound rails. The new rails viii
be laid on the line between Cherry Run and
the Potomac Valley Junction, near Will
Transport, between that point and Hagers-
town. on the westbound track, and on the
Westbound track between Chambersburg
and the Conococheague. On the eastbound
track, between Chambersburg and the third
crossing of the Conococheague and be-
tween the Potomac Valley Junction ard
HagerStOwn, the present eighty-pound rails
will not be disturbed
The Western Union Telegraph Company
had until September 80 to remove all its
instruments and offices which are now To-
Gated along the line of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company When this order was
issued there were about $50 offices which
were occupied by Western Union telegraph
erS, but since then many of these have been
removed. and it is understood only about
one hundred still remain. The officials Of
the Pennsylvania railroad say there will
be no trouble in regard to the Western
Union taking out It's instruments and wires,
requested by President Cassatt.
General Manager Potter Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, has appointed
W II. Williams assistant to the general
manager.
A committee of prominent men, of which
General Steward L. Woodford is president,
has sent out an appeal to the public for
aid in erecting monument to the late Gen.
Franz Sigel.
On October a big republican rally will
be held in Hagerstown, when Senator L. E.
McComas will speak at the Academy of
Music. Several other speakers of national
reputation will also be present.
Commissioners of Frederick county will
erect corner stone on the Mason and
Dixon line at Blue Ridge Summit, to mark
the beginning of the dividing line between
Washington and Frederick counties.
The meeting place of tie west Pennsyl-
vanla synod of the Lutheran Church has
been changed from Mount Holly to Car
lis,e, Pa, because there IS not polni Of
coal on hand n Mount Holly, and the peo-
rle there were afraid they could not keep
tie pres chers warm There is not pcurd
of anthracite or soft coal to be purchased
In Chambersburg, either.
The police census of children of Washing
ton county of school age gives the total
number as So, 143 of whom 1872 attend
school The school boards reports show
only 6G,0S3 enrolled in the public schools
Mrs. William McEirlry has sent to the
women of the Sh:ppensburg M thc st
Church a pair of bed room slippers, the
work of her own hands, to aid them in
their building fund. The gift was made
through Mrs. He stand, WIFI of Colonel H.
o. 5. Heis.and, now in the PHILIPPINES, and
a former resident Of Shppersburg.
Frederick Snyder, sixtyfive years old,
farmer, died at his home in New Chester,
netr-Harover, as result of drinking pofs-
oned coffee. The kettle in which the cot
fee was cooked was much worn, AMI the
poisoning may have come from the lead
Ire crouth of the past six W. eks has been
broken by several days of heavy and re-
freshlng rain in this section. Streams have
peen epltnished and eli fear of a water
famine has ben abated. Farm work is
progressing rap:dly.
- Rev. c. B. Wingerd formerly pastor Of
the United Brethren Church in Greencastle,
but now stationed at Shippensburg. is Sc
riously Ill with typhoid fever, contracted,
1t is believed. while attending the Orrstown
camp meeting.
MIR. and Mrs. Albert Funk. Hag rstown,
are in Washington on their wedding trip.
Miss Agnes Thompson, III from typh i'd
fever in a Washington hospital for several
months, Is at her home at Williamsport,
TINS county, to recuperate.
Mr.; r; W. Nee. Cost. Washington. is
visiting in this city.
Mrs. j. Walker Miller, Washington, is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. w.
Byers, Williamsport, this county.