Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-14
SHENANDOAH VALLEY.
Incidents and Happenings in and
About Winchester.
,ecial Correspondence Of The Star

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, May 10, 1905
Henry Pressey of Washington and N. Will
son Davis of Harrisonburg, Va. are making
final surveys and Investigations of probable
power from the Shenandoah river in Clarke
county for the projected Winchester and
Washington electric railway, for which a
charter was recently granted by the Vir-
ginia corporation commission. 1t is proposed
to run the new road through by way of
Ashby's Gap, in the Blue Ridge, passing
Bull Run, where a $4,000 summer hotel
will be erected by a syndicate of Washing
ton and Virginia capitalists. 1t is expected
that work on the line will begin this sum-
mer Among those interested are Frank
Carpenter, the correspondent; Maj. Holmes
Conrad of Winchester, Gen. Charles Thur
man, A. Moore, Jr.. and Charles Mullikn of
Clarke county, and w. II. Baker, Lewis F.
Cooper S. H. Hansbrough. Shirley Carter
S. l.. Hoover and DR.. W. S. Love of VIM
chester.
According to decision of the Pennsylva-
MIA supreme court at Philadelphia this
week, the city of Winchester is to receive
all of its share of the veral-mllion- dollar
estate left by the late Judge John Handley
of Scranton, Pa, who was president of the
Equity Improvement Company of this city
Several charitable institutions at Scranton
contested the will, but the court decided in
FAVOR or winchester. by the f1dnUlet VIII,
Winchester is to have a $4,000 library
which will be the finest In the south, and
It will also get about $1,00O,000 worth of
coal lands in Virginia and West Virginia
Winchester firemen who attended the an
nual convention of the Cumberland Valley
Firenlen's Association at Waynesboro, Pa
this week, returned last night. The Friend
ship Company of this city, known ''Old
Tammany," won first prize for the finest
parade hose carriage. which cost over $500,
and got third prize in the free-for-all 90
yard reel race, their time being 40 seconds.
The Junior Company of Hagerstown won
first in 81 4-5.
The Capon Springs commission, recently
appointed by the governor of West Virginia
to consider the disposition of the states
property at that famous old summer resort,
has decided to offer the states holdings at
public sale. The sale, however, will not in
terfere in any way with the season at Ca
non.
Unknown parties placed a sufficient guam
uty of strychnine to kill 100 people in
spring the farm of Joseph Fawcett of
this county and his entire family was made
desperately i'll by drinking the water. They
were fortunately saved by doctor who
happened to be passing when the poison
began taking effect
Among the visitors here this week were
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bonsall of Wash
ington. Prior to the civil war, and during
that struggle, Mrs. Bonsall was Miss Rebec-
ca Wright who will be remembered by
many old soldiers who fought under Sheri-
dan in the valley as the Quaker woman
who supplied the famous general with in
formation as to the situation at Cedar
creek, while he made his alleged break
neck run to the battlefield and saved the
day for the federals. After the war Con-
gress gave her gold watch.
Old Fort Loudoun, built in revolutionary
times by Gen George Washington, on which
was built the handsome Valley Female Col
lege buildings, has just been sold by Mrs.
German Smith to James Brown for S6,ioo.