Evening star., 1909-06-30
News Briefs.

Miss Ethel NJ. Miller and Jacob S. La
Toilette. both of Capon Springs. w. Va.
visited Hagerstown and were married.
Miss Edythe NJ. Readmond of Balti-
more and Charles Seibert LOSh of Hagers-
town were married In Baltimore. Immedi-
ately after the ceremony they left foI
Brooklyn, n. Y, where they will reside.
James Phillips. aged fiftyfour years. OF
Dobbin, w. Va. who jumped from the
third-story window of the Somerset
juries.
The twelve-year-old daughter of Val
entine Gross of Meyersdale. Md, who
was burned in a stove explosion which
damaged the house to the extent of
$1,000, is dead.
T. o. Burns, about whom little is
known except that he was from Mary
land, was struck by a Baltimore and
Ohio train while walking on the track
near Connelsville. Pa, and killed.
Ground was broken on the O'Leary
property, east of Frederick. Md, for the
erection Of a large milk-concentrating
plant. with a capacity of 5000 gallons
daily.
movement is on foot to supply elec-
trio current for lighting purposes to Blue
Ridge Summit and Monterey from the
electric plant at the State Tuberculosis
Sanatorium at Sabilasville, Md.
Large quantities of raspberries are be-
ing shipped from points on the Western
Maryland and Baltimore and Ohio rail-
roads. Monday six carloads 10000
pounds) were shipped from the southern
part of Washington county. Most of the
berries went to Pittsburg.
The marriage of Miss Emma Carter,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Carter.
and w. Guy Bristow of Urbana, Va. will
take place in Middlesex county today.
Cards have been issued announcing the
approaching wedding of Miss Nellie De-
luce Peek, daughter Of Mrs. j. H. Peek.
of Hampton, Va. and Herman r. Smith,
formerly of Iryington
McDuff Skidmore and Miss Bette Perry,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Perry.
of Stafford county, Va, were married at
Fredericksburg. Va. The couple will re-
side in Stafford.
George NJ. Triplett. farmer of near
Alexandria, Va. and Miss Cecil NJ. Talia-
ferro, daughter of William Taliaferro.
were married at MofTatts Creek.
After a long illness and following a
stroke of paralysis, Mrs. Evelyn Kirk.
wife of DIR. W. V. Kirk, died at Roanoke.
Va, aged fifty-seven years. She is sur
vived by her husband and six children.
three sons being physicians in West Vir-
ginia.
Thomas w. Catlett. formerly of Caro-
home in Chesterfield county. aged fifty
seven years. He was son of Capt.
Fitzhugh Catlett of Caroline county, and
is survived by his wife.
Robert A. Hart, slXty-seVen years Old.
died at Warrenton, after a lingering ILL
ness. He was a member of the famous
Black Horse Cavalry, C. s. A.. and served
throughout the entire four years of the
civil war with distinction and. gallantry.
Robert c. Breckenridge, son of Capt.
Robert Breckenridge, of Winchester Va.
died suddenly of heart disease and heat
prostration at Columbus, Ohio. aged fifty
nine years. He leaves his wife and
several childreR in Columbus. father, two
brothers, Alexander and William Breck-
enridge of Winchester. and one sister,
Leonidas Harrel. seventy years old, died
Monday at his home near Whaleyyille,
Va. Five daughters, some sons, brothers
and sisters survive him.
Ii is rumored that a new company is
contemplating putting a steamer on the
Chesapeake bay to run from points on
the Rappahannock river TO Crisffeld, Md,
thence to Baltimore.