Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA
Business Stops at Winchester
During Boyd Funeral
PROF. HEDRICK GETS CHAIR
Washington Man in Observatory for
Twenty-Three Years.
T. A. BLAKEFACES BAD CHARGE
Fatal Malady Puzzles Frederick
County Horsemen-Charter
to Lime Company.
PROF. HEDRICK GETS CHAIR
"A. BLAKE FACES BAD CHARGE
Special Correspondence of The Star.

special correspondence or The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, January D 1910.
Practically every line of business was
suspended in Winchester this afternoon
during the funeral of the late E. Holmes
Boyd. one Of the most prominent lawyers
Of Virginia, who dropped dead Wednes-
day night while delivering an address at
the Lee birthday celebration in Asbury
Camp Hall. The funeral services were
held in the Presbyterian Church, and
were conducted by the pastor, Rev. DIR.
J. III. Lacy. assisted by other local minis
ters. Many people came from distant
parts to attend the obsequies. Mr.. Boyd
was born at Boydsville, the home of his
father, the late Rev. Or. Andrew Hunter
Holmes Boyd. near Martinsburg, w. Va.
seventy years ago, and served in the
Rockbridge Battery and later In the ord
nance department during the civil war.
When Mr.. Boyd was stricken with apo
plexy he fell over dead. and the BAN
quet came to an end at once. Both men
and women wept as his Hfeless form
was taken from the banquet hall.
Plans prepared bt Baltimore engineer
have been accepted by the board of direc
tors of the Winchester and Washington
City Railway Company FOR large auXil-
larry steam plant to be erected and used
in connection with their water-power
electrical plant along the Shenandoah
river at MilIville, Jefferson county, w.
Va. and 1t is expected that the
work will be begun at an earlyN date and
rushed to a rapid conclusion In order to
meet the demands for power for COM
mercial and Illuminating purposes in
Winchester, Berryville Charles Town and
other sections.
Prof. Henry B. Hedrick of Winchester
and Washington, who has been in charge
of the Nautical Almanac in the Naval
Observatory at Washington for the past
twenty-three years, has accepted a chair
in the department of astronomy at Yale
University, New Haven, Conn. His work
there will be in conjunction with that OF
Prof. e. w. Brown in calculating new
tables of the moon. for which the uni
versity has appropriated $4,000. Prof.
Hedrick is a native of Georgetown, d. G.
T. A. Blake, until recently a Cumber-
rested in Martinsburg, W. Va, yesterday
and held in $1,000 bond for his appear
ance before the grand jury of the cir
cult court charged with attempting to
commit q. criminal assault upon Susie
Hite, a white girl of seventeen years, who
theater several nights ago and enticed
into lumber yard. The girls
screams attracted the attention OF
people who notified the police, and Blake
was captured ana taken TO pOhce Hedu-
quarters. He waived a preliminary hear
ing.
Many fine young horses in the southern
part of Frederick county have been rem
dered dangerously sick during the past
week by strange and unusual disease
which has broken out and which has SO
far baffied the efforts of the veterinarians
to diagnose the malady. Four blooded
horses belonging to j. 3. Beavers died in
one day and others are still sick. A
state veterinarian is conducting an ex-
animation.