Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-04
NEWS OPTW0 STATES
SURVEY PROGRESSING OF NEW
BRANCH OF B. AND o. RAILROAD.
Improved Service at the Post once
in Cumberland-Bridg
Collapses. -

CUMBERLAND, Nd, February 4-Rapid
progress Is being made on the survey OF
the new branch Of the Baltimore ana Onlo
railroad from Benwood Junction to Connu-
ence. where connection will be made with
the direct line from Pittsburg. The project
will entail an expenditure OF ABOUT $@o'VVV'-
OOo. The engineering work Is Delng oohe
under the direction Of C. MacLemly' VINO
With his force of surveyors has been max
ing his headquarters at Elm Grove w. va
for over a month. The survey calls 1oF
tbree-degree curves with a very low grace
and double track. The proposed line com.
mences in the Benwood yards, where al
the branches of the Wheeling system Hiahe
connections, and follows the ravlne Sothe
distance. h pir
wheeling creek at a point three mics easI
of Elm Grove, thence along Big WheeLns
creek to Majorsville, where II WIZ iea &c
the creek and follow Grove creek 10 i.s
head. passing through Bristoria, Pa, anu
across divide by tunnel to Ten-Mlle cre se,,o
making a branch pass through RoSeisNlI
to Waynesburg. Following ZEN 1niie s,,Sd,,
for some distance it crosses TO Muuus
creek. which is followed some distance
when a tunnel takes it to Little w hlteiH.
Thence the line will run to Mononsanel"
ing through Uniontown to Connuei, .i's
where connection will be made with the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad again.
The American Coal Company w. De h,c -,
Walbridge of New York, president, "hicn
has purchased control of the Cumperlano
Basin Coal Company near Mount Sava 1se
this county, proposes to reorganlzs lne co IN
pany and issue $5O),0oo OF per oe'' ,tnoL
ferred stock and S5OO,W0 of common STOCK
and develop the proptreies, which comprise
about 10000 acres of coal lands: IL Is co.
terminated to build a branch railway 10 tLe
Georges Creek and Sumoerlanu ,'anI a
lad hxf
distance of four miles. in order to proViue
TRANSFORMATION facilities. Ihe propea.tt'
which has been operated to small e ~ ~,
is estimated to contain between 4,oU ,S
and ~ 600. 900 tons of big vein coal besides
Miss Katie sarsfeld of Piedmont; for
merly of Oakland. Md, has gone 10 tmiia a.
delphia, where she WILL petohie '
ST. Joseph S Convent
Improved Postal Service.
A day and night service has been estan-
rshed at the Cumberland post office through
tn, efforts Of Representative George a,
pearre. James Kirk, who has been mall
messenger for nineteen years, and recently
resigned. has been redesignated messenger
and has been given two assistants and a
regulation mail wagon. An addltlonal cleih
has been appointed at the post oHice.Asa
w Kline The Office is now open all night.
All mail is taken at once from the tra.ils
70 the most Office and distributed. Hereto
fore the sending out Of mail and the ois
tribution of mail at the post once ceaseo
after pm. The Increase OF receipts al , ooe
Cnmberland post office for the year 1910
over 1905 was 81 297.S0. The new arrange
ment is of great value to local business men
and will be appreciated by dealers II BAIT
more, the trade with Baltimore being very
extensive. ..;,
while cutting wood on Tussey mountain,
near Clearville, James Brantner vas at
tracted by a peculiar sound near him he
locked about to discover a Wilaca. W,
few feet away. The animal apparently
famished on account of the recent cold
weather and snow-coveret mountain,
showed fight. Mr.. Brantner USED ms ak
with telling effect on the ferocious little ami
NAL and succeeded in killing IT.. Mr. Brant-
ner saws there are a number Of wildcats on
the mountain and he has secured traps Ill
the hope of catching them
Creek Bedford county, that netted olO
pounds Last year he slaughtered two that
weighed $40 and 623 pounds. respectively.
has been established at Hartman, w. Va,
on the Dry Fork railroad. 1t will be inoe-
Rev. j. w. Purcell preached special SER
mon to Friendship Council, No. 4, knights
of the Mystic Chain, in the Presbyterian
Church at Key'ser, ". Va, yesterday.
New Company Incorporated.
The 7 F.. POLLING Company has been che
tered at Hendricks, w. Va, to conduct
wholesale and retail mercantile business,
the capital stock being $4,000. The incor-
norators are ]. E. Polling, C. w. Mosser and
C. w. Minear.
The mine at Bonafield. Preston county,
w. Va, which was recently pumped out, is
on fire. Gas escaping from the mine was ac-
cidentally lghte,-
Al ]. Reynolds, member of pioneer
family of Harrison county, w. Va. is
dead at Clarksburg, aged eighty-three
years. He owned 575 acres OF me ia mo
wings when that party was in existence.
His father, John Reynolds. left Frederick
county, Va, in 1875. with wagon drawn
by five horses. and settled in Harrison
county, Va, now West Virginia. Three
children survive.
Emory P. Albright is dead at Kingwood,
w. Va, aged twenty,seven years. ne re was
bright was married less than year. He
was a graduate of the business department
Of the Wesleyan University at Buckhannon,
w Va and had been engaged In insurance
work at Kingwo I'd. for some time He was
a member of the Masons.
John l., Gibson died at TunneltOn, w Va,
aged fifty-five years. He is survived by
wife and four children He was leading
Postmaster F. B. Blue of Grafton. w. Va,
has been advised of the death of his cousin,
Col. Richard w. Blue, a native on Taylor
ritory He was captain in the 9th West
Virginia Regiment during the civil war. He
was sixty-five years of age, and left for the
west thirty years ago. He was once MEM
Der of Congress
The rails for the street railway at Graf
ton. W. Va. have been shipped by the Car
negie Steel Company OF Pittsbu-s, and
the work of constructing the line will be
commenced as soon as the weather breaks.
Fred c. Keighley, vice president of the
Preston County Coke Company, which Will
develop coal lands and manufacture coke
near Masontown, W. Va, states that the
property to be developed comprises about
5000 acres. 1t is proposed to construct 100
coke ovens, to be ready for operation by
July /, and to enlarge the plant later by
the construction Of 200 additional ovens,
developing it's capacity to about 700 tons
a day. The coal production is expected to
be about 200 tons per day. Approximately
500, 600 will be expended when the coke
plant is enlarged. H. c. Greer of New
castle, Pa, is president of the company.
Missing Boys Found.
Theodore and Harry Rogers, the two boys