Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-04
MARYLAND NOTES.

Work is very dull in the coal mines In
the Broad Top region. The Thropp mine at
Kearney is about the only one working full.
The Huntingdon Coal Company is working
about three days week At Middlesburg
Just enough coal is being mined to supply
the Colonial iron furnace. 1t Is expected
that the Meyersdale mine will resume on
Monday next, and 1t will give an impetus
to work in the region as it employs large
number of men.
Henry Rose, rural free delivery carrier
between Bedford and Rainsburg, in the ten
years that he has been postman, has traV-
eed 10000 miles, always using the same
horse. The animal will shortly be given
rest.
The new bell of ST. Mary's Catholic
Church. South Cumberland. was blessed be-
fore a large assemblage and placed In po-
sition in the new tower Rev. Father Con-
stantine, q Capucian father of SIS. Peter
and Pauls Church, offftiated. The sermon
was delivered by Rev. Thomas ]. Stanton,
pastor of st. Mary's Church. Homecoming.
The grading on the Wabash connecting
link between Cumberland and Cherry Run
will be completed by September 1, the engi-
neers confidently assert The tunnels will
all be driven through by July l. The We'll
ston tunnel, with its approaches, has been
completed. and Contractor Doyle has al
ready shipped his steam shovels and other
implements to Danvile, H., where he has
another contract. 1t is believed that trains
will be running on the line by Christmas.
ana PROBABLY by lHdl ll1Te through Trains
will be running to Baltimore.
Ephraim Mervan, aged twenty-four years,
a miner employed at Kearney, was found
lying along the railroad track above Bed
ford, yesterday, with his head cut off. 1t
is supposed that he went to sleep with his
head on a rail. He was known among his
brother miners as 1.-The Frenchman" He
was unmarried.
The Cumberland council has passed an
ordinance increasing the time of the three
assessors, in which to complete the new
assessment of Cumberland, to May /, 1906
1t was found that not one-half of the work
could be done by July 1, the time named
in the original ordinance for the completion
of the work. 1t is believed that the new
assessment will increase the city basis about
81, 100000
Stanley Richards is the plaintiff in an
unusual suit for divorce filed against
Emma b. Richards. Once before Richards
had filed suit for separation, but his wife
filed counter bill and obtained divorce a
mensa ct thoro with alimony. Richards
alleges that she failed to take care of the
child, and, further. that March IS, 1905.
she was married to Charles w. CARMEL of
Keyser, w. Va. moving from there to
Parkersburg. The bill alleges that the de-
PENDANT was married under her maiden
name of Miller, that she was not single
woman, and had no right to get married.
She was therefore guilty of infidelity. He
also asks for the custody of their infant
child.
Herman Johnston, Union veteran of
Wittenbu-g, a few miles north of Frost
burg. was buried yesterday, his funeral
march having been beaten on the drum
which he carried in the army as q drum
mer boy. He enlisted in a company of
volunteers raised at Berlin, Pa. His COM
pany belonged to the 1A2d Pennsylvania
Regiment. The hard service it Is told
by the fact that it lost SIS out of 935 mus
tered in. Johnston was a drummer through
out the war. He was cabinet maker by
trade. Berlin Post, Grand Army of the Re-
public, and Berlin Camp, Sons of Veterans.
attended the funeral. There was a great
outpouring Of old soldiers for miles.
Phineas d. Getzendanner, republican. has
been appointed chief engineer at the Cum
berland water works in place of Frank
Brfnker democrat, resigned.
The remains of the grandparents of DIR.
William F: Twigg, this city, were recently
transferred from the Naughton farm to
Mount Hermon cemetery. His grandmother
died eighty-seven years ago at the age of
twenty-six years, yet her remains were
much better preserved than those of her
husband who died twenty-four years ago
at the age of ninety-four. The buttons on
her burial shroud and her rings were In
fine condition.
The Buxton mine of the Davis Coal and
Coke Company, near Westernport, this
county. broke its record on Monday of this
week. when $50 cars and LOO tons passed
over the plane and We're dumped into West
Virginia Central hoppers.
state Game Warden John w. Avirett has
caused the arrest of Mayor Clarence NJ
Alng, city Attorney +. Brooke Whiting and
all the members of the city council eleven
In number, for alleged failure In not pro-
viding fish ladders at the dam near the
tannery along Wills creek, In Cumberland
as required by law. Sheriff Deneen was
kept busy serving the warrants In each
| case personal bonds were accepted
Edward c. Herring, lifelong resident of
M.ddletoWn and one of the best known citi-
| Zens or the town, died suddenly Thursday
| from the effects of fall early last Monday
| morning. He was in his fifty-seventh year
| he leaves z widow and one daughter.
! Lharies W Adams, superintendent of An
| tietam battlefield, who had been removed
| has been reinstated. Mr.. Adams was for
| merly doorkeeper of the House OF Repre-
| sentatives. His home is at Sharpsburg
Charles Wilson. aged about thirty years.
| was lodged in jail at Cumberland in default
| of 5000 bah. charged with criminal assault
| upon Florence Sweiger, daughter of Henry
| Sweiger a tailor. and Eva Scarlet, daugh-
| ter of Richard Scarlet. Both girls are I'M
der ten years Of age.