Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-28
Assignment Of Gen. John E.
Roller Causes Surprise.
TEST OF INSURANCE CASE
Policy Alleged to Have Expired
Nine Days Before Fire.
DANCERS FORGET TO QUIT
Police Called Upon to Stop a Ball at
Harrisonburg-Corn Blamed for
Killing Horses.
Special Correspondence OF The star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, January %. 1914
considerable unrest Is felt in financial
and real estate circles I'm the large county
OF Rockingham by reason OF several re-
cent failures. Practically every one was
astounded this week when Gen. John r..
Roller. regarded as one OF the most pros
porous residents of that county. filed a
deed OF assignment, conveying all his
realty and personal property to Trustee
George q. Grattan. jr., to secure all the
debts for which Gen. Roller il bound
either as principal or security, until Icy
are paid.
Gen. Rollor pays taxes amounting TO
about 5000 on Rockingham realty acne.
and he also has vast .rac,s of land in
Texas.
Commissioner II. W. Bertram, who has
been endeavoring to untang.e tue affairs
or the defunct Colonial Company, liar
risonburg real estate concern, which went
to the wall over year ago repoi t. that
the assets OF $4,000 are held PRINCIPALLY
by persons whom he refers to as being
straw men, and questions whether
more than 1o cents on the dollar will be
paid.
Crushed by Wagonbed.
David r. Coffman, married man.
twenty-eight years old and member OF a
prominent Shenandoah county family.
was fatally injured Wednesday AFTERNOON.
when wagonbed fell from the second
floor of a barn, crushing him under as
weight Charles Harmon, who happened
to be passing, found the man. HIS sxuli
n cf1 roA \, iC In hsnk nd
lips mashed, his teeth knocked out and
he was otherwise injured. IT Is believed
the horses he had in charge ran on and
dragged him some distance just as he
was about to let the wagonbed down with
pulleys. He lived six hours. and lost
over a gallon Of blood.
Fire insurance people are much inter
ested in the outcome of a case which Is
soon TO be decided by Judge L. W. siarri-
son OF Winchester in the circuit curt OF
Clarke county. Mrs. Harriet 5. Turner'S
house, insured for $1,000 by the Loudoun
Mutual Insurance Company, burned down
January 8. 1911. and according 20 the
company the policy expired December 81.
1910. because of Mrs. Turner having fall
ed to pay the 1911 premium.
Two Enter for Judgeship.
Judge E. Boyd Faulkner of Martins
burg. who has for twenty years presided
over the circuit courts of Berkeley. JEFF
ferson and Morgan counties. w. Va. an
nounced this week that he would not be
a candidate for reelection, but large
number Of his friends are trying 10 pre-
vail upon him to reconsider. In the
meantime. James NJ. Mason of Charles
Town has announced his candidacy, and
A. c. Nadenbousch OF Martinsburg stated
he would not decline the judgeship. but
would enter into no scramble for the
position.
Former Commonwealth Attorney Rich
ard s. Ker has been elected judge of the
corporation court Of Staunton, succeeding
Judge Henry w. Holt. who has been
elected to succeed Circuit Judge S. III.
Letcher, who resigned. after service
of many years.
Several of the horses at the govern
ment remount station at Front Royal
week, Notwithstanding the efforts OF
Capt c. III. Conrad. jr., and other OFF,
GERS to stamp out the disease. lnnocu-
lation, ii appears, was not altogether
satisfactory. However, renewed enorts
are being made to eradicate the disease
and horses exhibiting symptoms are at
once quarantined.
People i'm the lower Virginia valley
Calming to be heirs Of Gen. Andrew
Wertz of Germany. whose vast estate II
seeking to get into correspondence with
those German authorities who are sup
posed to be holding the cash. The Tor
tune is said to amount to $2O.oOO.OOO. ana
there Is a claimant for nearly every
dollar.
Ball Stopped by Police.
About fifty young people. holding q
dance at Harrisonburg. became SO en-
thusiastic and interested in the waltzes
and two-steps a few nights ago that the
oh
the police. who ordered the hal c'osed.
Many more than a sufficient number Oh
freehode.s OF Jefferson county, w. Ne-'
have petitioned the county court to or,
der the immediate erection of a free steel
bridge over the Shenandoah river from
a point near the end of the BlooInery
pike to the Keyes Ferry road.
The burning of a la; &c stable in the
rear of the establishment of LORD az
Lord threatened for a time TO DESTROY
the Martinsburg City Hall and many
buildings i'm the heart OF the business
section one night this week. III was an
unusually stubborn blaze. but the nremeh
finally got IL under control
Full Uniform Ordered.
A general order received this week from
the adiutant general of the Virginia mi
litia requires all officers and enlisted
men to attend drills in full uniform until
when Ad Seabright and a party or man
friends were having trough house at his
home in the southern end OF winchester
a few nights ago a policeman appeared.
only 20 be covered with shotgun In tho
hands of Seabright. who attempted to
shoot the policeman. During the strug-
gle. however. the gun was taken away
from him, and Seabright was sent 10 jail
for six months.
Preparations are being made to bring
TO Berryville the remains of Miss Louise
Travers Lewis. daughter of the late Maj.
George Washington Lewis. who died
week ago today of typhoid fever III
Rome, having contracted the disease
while on a pleasure trip. Miss Lewis,
who was forty-five years Ola. Vas u
of Eleanor Parke Sustis,
a niece of George Washington. Her
father was a major in the Confederate
army Her mother. who was Emily
Contee johnson OF Baltimore, was q first
cousin OF Robert f. Lee. Four brothers
and three sisters survive.
Solomon Holloway lies IN a precariouS
condition In Harrisonburg as a result "a
having been hurled ten feet when kicked
by a vicious horse In a stable this week.
One side of his face was crushed Lito
q pulp and physicians have found IL diff
cult to stop frequent hemorrhages.