Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-12

! ter Miss Elizabeth IT. Muir, was grad
| uated. sailed today for Europe and au-
| thorized a denial of the report that she
| is to be married. Mrs. McComas is the
widow Of United States Senator McComas
of Maryland.
| Robert Beatty has confessed that he
burned down the stable of Rev. d. w.
Allison at Shippensburg, stating that he
was jealous of a young man calling on
| the minister's daughter, and set fire to
the stable in an effort to burn the young
| mans horse and buggy.
George S. FearnOw, a native of Berk-
eley Springs, w. Va, who is now spe-
cial government agent, and Miss Annie
f. Widmyer of Berkeley Springs came
to Winchester this week and were mar
ried by Rev. I'll. f. Richardson OF the
United Brethren Church
| Mrs. Mary a. McFaden. widow of
Rev. Joseph McFaden of the Methodist
Protestant Church. died at Harpers
Ferry. aged eighty-three years.
| About 5000, visitors from various sec
| tons of the Shenandoah and Cumber-
| land valleys attended Confederate me-
mortal exercises in Winchester Monday.
the principal address being made by Her
| bert s. Larrick of the Winchester bar.
Gen. r. d. Funkhouser of Maurertown.
| Va. was chief marshal of the parade.
Nearly every camp of Confederate vet
Grams in northern Virginia was repre-
| scented.
| W. Lee Fisher OF Winchester and Miss
\ Katharine Estelia Hamilton We're mar
ried Wednesday at the home Of the
brides parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank l..
Hamilton, at Berryville by Rev. Edward
Wall, rector of Grace Episcopal Church.
They left for Washington and Atlantic
| City on bridal tour. They will live in
Winchester.
Ex-Postmaster Convicted.
! Former Postmaster Thomas ]. Stillwell
OF Stonebridge, Clarke county. was fined
| $9091 and costs in the United States
court at Harrisonburg this week for
| converting stamps into cash and buying
merchandise, whisky and other salable
articles for his personal use. He was
| removed from Office soon after the
! charges were preferred against him last
December.
The federal grand Jury at Harrison
| burg found indictments against Edward
| Morris, Charles Beavers, Sam Dant and
| Daniel Mcfarland for breaking into the
post Office at Clearbrook. Frederick coun-
| ty, the night of September II last Since
| that robbery all the men have been ar
| ing long terms in various state prisons.
| The indictments. however. will stand
| against them.
Prof Henry S. Coe of Randolph Macon
|
| ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Winfield A. Corron,
| were married in the Presbyterian Church
at Front Royal Tuesday afternoon by
! Rev H. S. Coe, father of the groom Miss
| Jean Richards of Riverton was maid OF
! honor and Bernard Coe Of Washington
was best man. The ushers were Gwyn
| Coe of Bedford City. II. w. ThraS her
and w. II. Kline of Randolph Macon
Academy. Front ROYAL. and Lester Evans,
| also of Front Royal
| Preston Smith of (.OrdOnSVlle a mail
| clerk on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
| way, has been indicted by the federal
grand jury for the western district of
Virginia charged with stealing money
from registered letters and packages.
Capt. John II. Grabill, editor of the
| Woodstock Herald, who was thought to
have been killed at Fredericksburg dur
| ing the civil war, caused CONSERVATION
the Phi Kappa Sigma Society of Dickin-
| son College at Carlisle Pa.
He was a member of the class of 1860
and shortly after graduating enlisted in
the Confederate army. DR.. Hines. presi-
dent of the society. had portrait of
Capt. Grabill. on which was card
bearing the inscription Killed during
the battle OF Fredericksburg"
| When the veteran appeared al the
banquet board, however, there was great
| rejoicing among the members of the So
| ciety. His narrative of his army eX-
periences was thrilling and eectrifying.
| Mrs. Florence Virginia Rutherford, wife
of Albert G. Rutherford, a prominent
Frederick county farmer, died of Bright's
disease Wednesday night, aged fiftytwo
years. She was daughter of the late
John Boyd and leaves her husband, seven
children. her mother one brother and
| three sisters.
William F. Pannett died on his farm in
Jefferson county Wednesday evening from
tuberculosis of the bone, which he con-
| tracted while serving in Cuba with the
| 9Th United States Cavalry during the
| Spanish war.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Snyder of Shenan-
| doah. Junction have issued invitations for
| tine marriage of their daughter, Miss Sada
| Elizabeth Snyder, and H. w. Hammond
of Kearneysville, W. Va, which is to be
! solemniZed in the Duffields Presbyterian
! Church at ; pm. June 23.
| Roy Carlton Grove ard Miss Ada Nir-
| ginia Geyer. members of well known
| Martinsburg families, came t Winchester
| this week to attend Confederate memorial
! exercises, and left on the next train,
| going to Hagerstown, where they We're
married.
| Beatrice Sanbower, daughter Of George
| SanboWer,' was saved from drowning
| few days ago in a well on the place of
/ William Bell, in Shepherdstown. Mrs.
Bell grabbed the child with a garden
rake. Michael Shell descended and
brought the girl to the surface.
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