Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16

by gravity and will be used to distribute
the cars and to make up the trains. The
Baltimore and Ohio railroad has award
ed the contract for the work. and the
contractors arrived yesterday to begin
operations.
William Cooper has been arrested and
jailed at Berryville. charged with forging
checks, all of which were drawn, signed
and Endorsed in the same Handwriting.
He WAS held for the grand jury. The
grand jury will also take up the case of
Oscar Swartz. who has been arrested on
the charge Of breaking into the store of
Pierce Bros. at Swimley and stealing
lemons, pop and butter He has made
confession.
A Pinkerton detective was in Winchester
this week looking for man who is trav-
cling under an almost endless variety or
names and flashing bad checks, princi-
people. A hotel manager at Berkeley
Springs cashed one for $3.50. and a Win
chester hotel was victimized to the ex-
tent Of $40. Each check purported to be
on Florida banks. The man. who was Of
progressing appearance, claimed to be
an editorial writer.
Miss Jennie Smith, the little mother
of the railroad men," will come from
Washington July q to make the principal
address at the thirteenth annual reunion
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad en-
ployes at Harpers Ferry. Special trains
will be run from Washington, Baltimore,
Cumberland and the Shenandoah valley,
about 5000 people on that day. Many OF
the employees now on the retired list, who
attended the first reunion, are planning to
go this year.
Funeral After Thirty Years.
When Mrs Mary Pingley. eighty-five
years old, died In Winchester this week
relatives decided to have double funeral
for her and her husband, the late John
Pingley. whose death occurred about
thirty years ago, and, accordingly. an
undertaken was sent to Mount Olive,
Frederick county. to disinter the remains
OF the husband. The double burial was
then made in Mount. Hebron cemetery.
His mind snS e Ss
North Shirley. together with other trou-
bles. Christian Thomas Shirley, member
of a well known family Of Frederick
county, was taken to the asylum at
be done for his relief. and he expired this
week. Andrew ]. Cloud, brother-in-law
of young Shirley, who did the shooting.
acted, 1t is claimed, In self-defense, and
he was acquitted by the jury.
Now that the wheat harvest Is over IN
the Cumberland valley. authentic reports
from that section are to the effect that
the yield was worse than disappont-
m ent to large NUMBERS OF farmers. ,InOu-
sands of acres planted last fall have re-
turned hardly as much in grain as was
used to seed the fields, and in many sec
lions farmers did not take binders into
the fields. but cut the small amount OF
wheat with moving machines and raked
1t as they would hay. 1t is claimed that
the Hessian fly ruined the wheat. In the
valley. however, the yield
was much better than had been antict-
pated a month before harvest time.
Pigpen Political Issue.
The question as to whether a citizen Of
the fashionable section Of Winchester
should be allowed to maintain q pigpen
on his premises In spite of the protest
of an abutting property owner was to
have been threshed out on the council
floor a few nights ago, but in view Of the
fact that the matter suddenly became q
political ISSUE members of the council
are said to have gotten "cold feet and
refused to listen to a lengthy opinion
prepared by City Solicitor Williams.
Mayor Burke, however, had the courage
to make q personal investigation and he
found the premises in q sanitary condi-
ton and well lined.
While John Larrick. son OF J. w. Lar
rick. was shoeing horse on his fathers
farm near Winchester last week. horse
shoe nail ran into his knee. But little at
tention was paid to 1t until few days
ago. when blood poison developed. and he
clans at the Memorial Hospital. with q
probability Of his left leg being ampu-
tated.