Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-12
Election and No Candidates.

county. is a hotbed of politicians. the
official ballot to be used at the election
on the 14th instant will be a blank, as
no one has declared his intention of run
ming for Office. A mayor and members
Of the town council are to be elected. but
| there are no candidates.
| The judges and clerks will, however.
conduct an election just as If the ticket
| was crowded. Such a condition never
| existed before in that town..
Notwithstanding thes fact that the ex-
ecutor of the estate of the late Col.
| Thomas H. Swope has declared that
Elmer c. Swope of Martfnsburg. W. Va,
| has no claim upon the estate, the latter
| has formally filed a claim to that por-
ton Of it not beueathed by the will
| to the wife of Dr. B. c. Hyde.
Young Mr.. Swope has retained counsel
to represent his interests. He claims
that the late Col. Swope was his father,
Jersey during the civil war.
o. Henry Plagarist Punished.
In the United States court for the
western district Of Virginia, at Harrison
| burg. this week Frank II. Sweet Of
Waynesboro entered plea of guilty
| of having used the mails to defraud, and
was fined $50 and costs.
| Sweet. who occupies a handsome resi-
dence at WayneSboro, sold a large num-
| Der OF stories, under his own name, to
publishers. 1t was afterward discov-
| cred that some of the productions were
almost identical to those of 20. henry,'
whose death occurred just the day before
| Sweet entered his plea of guilty.
The annual memorial services at the
| historic old chapel near Wildwood. Clarke
county, where many men prominent In
| colonial affairs of northern Virginia are
| buried, were held this afternoon. The
| principal address was made by William
| A. Bradford.
Woman Shoots Neighbor.
i dispute over the boundary line be-
| tween the properties Of James West and
Charles Johns, near Hedgesville, Berkeley
county. wound up in Johns wife grab
bling shotgun and firing two shots at
West. He was not fatally injured. The
woman was held for trial.
Charles Elliott of Washington, who
went TO MartinSburg last week on visit
to his daughter, Mrs Clarence Stolliper,
died at her home few days ago. aged
| eighty-seven years. During the civil wal
he served in the Federal army.
A son, Alexander Elliott lives in Wash
| ington.
Miss Sadie Virginia Bridner, daughter
of John c. Bridner Of Harpers Ferry,
who went to Martinsburg recently to visit
ISld llNeSs was JOl1eu tnGT6 DS George Eli
mer Bequette of Washington. They were
married by Rev w. F. Locke of the
| Southern Methodist Church.
| Maurice NJ Marble of Washington and
Miss Lelah Mary Undertook, daughter of
| John Underdonk of Vanclevesville, Berke-
| ley county. were married in Martinsburg
| by Rev. w. D. McCurdy of the Baptist
| Church.
Delbert Strother. a young man of War
| rem county, who was married less than a
Winchester a
! charged with horse stealing. His young
! wife is at her home in Warren. StrotheT
| has been indicted here for stealing q
| horse from his uncle, Scott Strother of
Frederick county.
Boy Kills Negro.
A quarrel which arose over his failure
to clean hogpen led to Oliver Poindex-
ter, a colored youth Of fourteen years
shooting and killing an old negro named
Jerry White at the latter's home near
Winchester early this week When ar
| raigned for trial the boy entered a plea
| of self-defense. He was committed Il
| the colOred reform school,
| The voters Of Shepherdstown, Jefferson
| county, recently elected, by two majority,
| a town council which recommended sew
eral applicants for liquor licenses. When
the matter came before the county court
! this week a delegation appeared to pro-
test. The court declined to grant the APP
plicants licenses. ShepherdstoWn will
| continue dry indefinitely.
Ten liquor licenses We're granted al
| Charles Town and three at Harpers
| Ferry, and a wholesale beer license a.
| each place.
| Sixteen saloons and three beer agencies
were licensed at Martinsburg this week
| The licenses-city. state and federal
| and fees cost each saloon man about
1900 All the saloons have large mail
orde" business in nearby Virginia points
! Announcement is made of the approach
ing marriage of Miss Gertrude Richards
daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Richards OF
Norfolk, to f. NJ. Louthan of Clarke
| county, which is to take place next week
at the home of the bride.
Thought Snake Was Stick.
While Charles H. schoening of Berke-
ley county was picking strawberries q
few days ago he picked up a blacksnake
six feet long, which he mistook for q
| stick. He succeeded in killing the rep
tile
held at Shepherdstown Saturday, and q
large crowd heard addresses by Repre-
sentative John Lamb of Virginia ant
Cant. Robert E. Lee of Fairfax.
| Harry B. Childs. prominent young
farmer Of Stephenson. Frederick county
was accidentally shot in the knee with
q 22-caliber rifle the other evening by
DIR. James B. Cole who was shooting
sparrows. The rife became entangled in
a wire fence and exploded Young Mr.
| Childs is in serious condition. but will
| recover.
Arthur Windell postmaster and mer-
| chant at Warren, Shenandoah county
who went out hunting squirrels the other
afternoon, was found dead by q searching
party the following morning. death re-
| sulting from heart disease
Miss Naomi Coffman, the Shenandoah
| county girl who was shot seven times
recently by her jealous lover. Perry Hot
| tel, who then committed suicide and for
whose recovery the phys icians entertain
ed no hope whatever, is now able to
| walk.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Richard B. Lawson OF
| Fauquier county have issued invitations
for the marriage Of their daughter, Miss
| Matte Robertson Lawson, and Andrew
| Flynn Dickson of Fredericksburg Va.
which is to be solemnized at 7:3O pm.
June %, in Trinity Episcopal Church at
| Upperville, Va.
|