Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-30
Colored People Heavy Losers
by Savings Bank Failure.
SEEKS ARREST OF ROGERS
FatheI of Girl Would Prosecute Man
Who Denies Marriage.
PASSION PLAY IS SCORED
Preacher Returned From Europe
Says Oberammergau Players Are
a Set of Grafters.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, October 20 1910.
Hundreds of Woodworking colored
people in the Shenandoah valley were
caught in the wreck of the Savings
Bank of the Grand Union Order OF
True Reformers at Richmond this
week, and they have little, if any. hope
Of getting a penny Of the money which
they have been paying in on insurance
policies for number Of years.
The news that the insurance COM
missioner of the state mad had the
company's charter suspended on ac-
count of gross Encouragement m the
savings bank came as staggering
blow TO many thrifty colored people
who had policies of insurance in the
company. IN Winchester alone there
are five fountains or branches Of the
order, with between $50 and 400 active
members. Many of the people had been
having assessments into the concern fof
years and their chances OF getting any
thing whatever are very slim. Nearly
every town in this section of the state
has a branch society, and they have like
wise been caught in the failure of the
bank.
Denies Marriage; Arrest Ponds.
A warrant is out for the arrest Of F. j.
Rogers, the young man of Bunker Hill
who is charged with being the husband
of Miss Anna Rutherford and then de-
nying it. The warrant was issued at the
request of George Rutherford, father OF
the girl, and he wants Rogers prose-
cuted. Miss Rutherford asserted that
she was married to Rogers during the
recent fair at Hagerstown, but Rogers
said he knew nothing about it, stating
that 1t may have taken place, but he
did not remember all that transpired
while he was in that city.
The court records do not show that a
license was issued, but Rutherford de-
clares his daughter said so, and that it
must be correct Young Rogers has not
been seen for several days, and it is
believed that he has gone to another
section of the country. Mr.. Rutherford
went to Martinsburg, where his daugh-
ter has been staying, and took her home.
Assault Causes Bitterness.
Bitter feeling bordering on feud has
broken out among members of the
Smithey and Swimley family at Bruce
town, Frederick county, as a result Of
young Clinton E. Swimley being charged
with assault with intent to kill Charles
r. Smithey, proprietor of a summer re-
and Baltimore people. Sinithey accused
Swimley Of poluting the. water in a well
on the Smithey place and claims SWIM
ley attacked him on the public road and
beat him into insensibilty with a black
jack.
Swimley denied using anything but his
fists, and then only after he had been
cursed by Smfthey. The court held
Swimley for the grand jury, and friends
of both men are now taking part in their
neighbors' quarrels.
The warning factions among the re-
publicans in the seventh congressional
district continue at daggers' points, and
in Rockingham county the. quarrel has
become acute, with new developments
each day. Friends Of Capt. John Paul,
one of the republican candidates for Con-
gress, were much elated when they read
in Washington paper that he had been
chosen as federal referee to succeed John
Acker. the leader of another faction,
and the same day Mr.. Acker received
letter from Postmaster General Hitch
cock, addressed to him as referee. and
requesting him to act in the matter of
recommending some one for postmaster
at post office in the district. Mr.. Acker
declares that he is still referee, and it
has been pointed out that Capt. Paul
simply received one of several hundred
letters sent out all over the country by
the Postmaster General appointing addi-