Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-20

had to be dug out. His daughter. Mrs.
Maynard Baker, who was with him at
the time. escaped injury.
Jacob Buckeman, for thirty years an
employee OF the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road at Martinsburg, was burned to
death few days ago, and his wife, who
crawled on her hands and knees from a
sick bed In an adjoining room to save
him, is now in d precarious condition as
the result Of exposure and prostration. He
got up during the night feeling ill, and
was carrying a lighted lamp to a closet
to get a dose Of medicine when he was
stricken with apoplexy and died. He
caught fire after dying, and his body was
burned almost TO a crisp. He was sixty
three years old.
Herbert Brumback. a nineteen year-old
student at the AIiddletown Agricultural
High School, won first prize in the recent
n-judgng contest, held in Richmond in
connection with the annual meeting of
the Virginia Corn Growers Association.
\ company composed of some of the
leading residents of Charles Town and
jefferson county has been organized for
the purpose of establishing large whole
sale mercantile concern at Charles Town.
Application will be made at once for u
charter.
The Martinsburg W. Va common
council has declined to issue franchise
to the Winchester and Washington City
Railway Company to do business In that
city. The company had many prospective
customers for electricity for power pur-
poses.
Mrs. James NJ. Painter, who died re-
Gently at her home at Edinburg, Shenan-
doah county, aged seventy-one years,
was the first member of the family to
die since she was married. Mr.. and Mrs.
Painter only recently celebrated their fif-
tieth wedding anniversary, and all of
their seven sons and three daughters
were present, as we'll as ten grandchil-
dren.
Inhaled Coal Gas.
Capt. Joseph T. Griffith, commissioner
of the revenue and a prominent Confed-
crate veteran, and his daughter, Mrs. w.
NJ. S. Hammond, are slowly recovering at
Berryville from illness caused by inhal-
ing coal gas a few nights ago. Capt.
Griffith managed to crawl to q telephone
and summon a physician.
II. G. Moffatt. president of the Shenan-
doah Valley Importing Company. cabled
from Paris yesterday that he had just
shipped twenty Percheron and Belgian
stations with which to stock his new
stables. in Winchester. The company
was recently organized here and local
horsemen and farmers are interested in
it. Mr.. Moffatt already has contracts
aggregating 100000.
3. d. Sampsell. member of an old Page
county family. who was formerly con-
nected with the national reform school
at Washington and later disciplinarian of
the Indian school. and has been en-
gagged in educational work for some time
past ut Albuquerque, n. NJ, has been
, appointed assistant superintendent OF the
New Mexico reform school at Springer.
that state.
Mrs. Eliza Ann Parshall, dow of
Vincent Parshall, formerly of Pennsyl-
vania, but for many years past of Berry
vile, Clarke county died at her home,
In that place. Thursday morning, aged
eighty seven years. She leaves two sons
and three daughters. Her funeral took
place today from the Baptist Church,
of which he was a member.
Efforts are being made to organize a