Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-04

Waller Tompkins, William Waggaman, Cy
Cummins and DR.. Pippin of Washington,
Miss Bosley of Baltimore, Miss Margaret
Moore of Virginia. Miss Maud Stalnaker of
West Virginia. Mr.. and Mrs F. Hazel
Cashell and Miss Griffith of Redland. Miss
Bessie Riggs and Mr.. Douglass Riggs of
Laytonsville, Miss Bessie Brooks of Wash
ington Grove, DR.. Perry Of Frederick coun-
ty, Misses Anna and Lucy Waters of
Brightwood and the following from Rock
vile and vicinity: Misses Barry Albert,
Mary Almoney. Lille Anderson, Virginia
and Mary Brewer, Eliza Choate. Margaret
and Priscilla Dawson, Mildred Higgins,
Margaret Stokes, Lavinia Dawson, Virginia
Lamar Jane and Irene Yearley, Marie
Jones, Florence Vers, Lucy Mason. Cora
and Louise Edmonston, Matte England,
Geneveve Fields, Emma Carr Mr.. and !Irs.
Roger Shaw, Mr.. and Mrs Thomas M. Tai
bolt, Mrs. Lawrence Flack. Mrs. Charles B.
Dowden, Mrs NJ. A. Hall, Mrs. Edward
Anderson, Mrs. william Dorsey, Mrs. Henry
Bradley, Mrs. Richard H. Stokes and
Messrs. John Anderson, John and Russell
Brewer, Darby Bowman, Harry A. Daw-
son, Edwin g. Hege. Wilson s. Ward VII.
Kemp, Roy Warfield, Abbott Beard, Charles
Jones, Walter Williams, Julian Whiting,
Somerville and Eddie Dawson. Stewart
Campbell, George Allnutt' Robert Higgins
don Hilliard. John H. Starkey and others.
AS required by the new county treasurer
law, County Treasurer Robert G.. Hilton
will, next Monday at 10 o'clock, in front Of
the court house door here, offer for sale to
the highest bidders forty-eight pieces of
property on which county and state taxes
for the year ending June &c remain unpaid.
The total amount Of taxes uncollected 10
but about $500 out of $4,000.
Mr.. John Hugh Walker and Miss Frances
Rebecca Mullican. both of Gaithersburg,
visited Rockville this morning and were
quietly married by Rev. 8. r. White. the
ceremony being performed at the minister's
home. Immediately afterward the young
couple left for short trip.
Dorsey Gibbs, young colored resident Of
this place, was before Justice Of the Peace
Joseph Reading here this morning on a
charge of disturbing the peace and quiet OF
Rockville. He was adJudged to be guilty
and was fined SIS and costs. Minnie Gid
dings and Mamie Griffin were also before
the Justice on similar charges but the trial
of their cases was postponed.
William H. Mckay is reported to be con-
siderably more talkative since he was sen
fenced to three years in the Maryland peni-
Tertiary for killing his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Lang. 1t is stated that he has changed his
tune in regard to the dead woman and in
stead of telling how much he thought OF
her he is said to be speaking Of her in far
from affectionate terms. He is reported to
have said this morning that she was a
terrible woman that she cursed my chill
dren" and that she COMMANDED my wire
when 1 first married her not to raise any
children" Mckay, however, still says he
did not kill Mrs. Lang.
What is said to have been probably the
Oldest and largest walnut tree in Mont
gomery county was q day or two ago cut
down and will, it is said, be shipped abroad
for manufacturing purposes. At its largest
point it measured seven feet In diameter.
Twelve large horses were unable to move
one twelve-foot log, SO it had to be cut In
two in order that 1t might be hauled to the
railroad The tree stood near the road lead
ing from here to Wheaton.
John Simpson, a contractor and builder,
died yesterday morning at his home near
Forest Glen, aged seventy-one years He
had been suffering from the grip for several
days, but his condition was not regarded as
serious and he was not confined to his bed
until the day before his death. He leaves
his wife and several grown children. Mr..
Simpson was highly regarded by a wide
circle and was known as man with a high
sense of honor. The funeral will take place
at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon from Ed
brooke NJ. f. Church at Tenleytown, inter-
ment to be Rock Creek cemetery.
Mr. Kirke p. Hopkins, aged thirty-nine.
and Miss Ada v. Pullinger, aged thirty
eight, both of Washington. were married
in Rockville yesterday afternoon. he cere-
mony was performed by Rev. Thomas H.
Campbell, pastor of the Baptist Church, at
the home of the minister.
Earlier in the day Mr.. Harry Service