Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
CUMBERLAND.
Notes Of General Interest in Mary
land Town.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md. July 22.-The an
nual reunion and picnic of the fourteen
councils of the Jr. o. U. A. NJ. of Allegany
county will be held at Frostburg next Sat-
.urday.
The Buxton mine of the Davis Coal and
Coke Company. near Westernport is still
flooded with water from the storm of sew
eral weeks ago. and several new pumps
have been installed
The Cumberland and Piedmont Coal Com
pany has started up its mines after shut
down of three months.
The remains of Mr.. Stephen Casey, who
died in New York. were brought to Barton.
this county, his former home, yesterday,
for interment. He attended the College OF
st. Francis Xavier New York. Death was
due to prostration by heat. Among his sur
viving brothers is James Casey. noted
song writer of New York. Mrs John
Conner. Frostburg. is a surviving sister.
Samuel Stailey of Rays Hill, few miles
north of Hancock. has just celebrated his
ninety-third birthday. He voted at every
presidential election from William Henry
Harrison to Roosevelt. being first whig
and now republican. Since twelve years
of age he has done work in the harvest
field every year with the exception of this
year. He is mentally unimpaired. He had
been justice of the peace for many years.
The Pittsburg. Westmoreland and Somer-
set railroad has filed a mortgage for SOD.
coo at Somerset in favor of the New York
Trust Company, who is trustee for the
bonds issued. The road will build con-
nection with the Ligonier Valley railroad
at Ligonier and the Baltimore and Ohio at
Somerset, thirty miles. The company has
secured an option on ten acres of ground
near the Baltimore and Ohio depot at
Somerset.
City Councilman Thomas F. Smouse of
Cumberland was a. Saxton. Pa, today. ar
ranging for the reunion of the Smouse fam
lily at Ashcom Station in September. The
program for the event was agreed upon.
About 800 members of the family with con-
nections are expected to attend the reunion
The history of the Smouse family in
America can be traced back to 1881. 1t Is
now being compiled. and 1t is expected that
1t will be printed and ready for distribution
by the annual meet in 1906. Historians in
the family have been engaged on the work
for the past nine years.
Henry Rose, aged forty-five years. was
instantly killed. and John T. Stroup of
injured. by a fall of slate and roof coal in
the mine of the Piedmont Mining Company
at Barton. this county The fall came with
out warning on the men. who were working
together Mr.. Ross head, arm and leg
were almost entirely severed by large
rock. Mr.. Stroup was so badly crushed
that no hope of his recovery is entertained.
1t took nearly two hours on the part of
Mr. Stroups rescuers to dig him out. Ross
is survived by his wife and five children.
James Ternent, aged fifteen years, son OF
James Ternent of Homecoming. is dead from
lockjaw, having had his thumb and fore
finger torn away by the explosion of fire.
cracker on July 4. He was holding the
giant cracker in his hand. This is the sec
ond Fourth of July mortality in this local
ity, John Bowen, aged twelve years hav-
ing succumbed to lockjaw here from a toy
pistol wound.