Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-18
CIVIC GUARDS Or ANTWERP
AGAINST ONcog1uIe% GERMANS

SILK, ladies' undergarments OF the best
grade of linen, dozens of pairs of ex-
pensiye silk stockings and numerous
other things. all indicating that they
had been In the homes of wealthy peo-
pie: A large number of Hagerstown
residents recently reported petty rob-
berries.
Blankets for the soldiers of France
are now being manufactured at the
wooden mill at Brucetown, several
miles north of Winchester, which was
recently bought from the w. H. Craw-
ford estate by Philadelphia capitalists
and reopened. The contract is the larg-
est the Brucetown mill has worked
VII! be turned out as rapidly as pos
sible for some time to come. A Mar
tinsburg mill Is making blankets for
the British government.
A. L. Wilson. a former prominent
business man and farmer of Berkeley
Springs. w. Va. has been released on
$1,000 bond by United States Commits
stoner Downs at Martinsburg, to ap-
pear for trial on charge of concealing
assets after he had been adjudged
bankrupt. The arrest was made at the
direction of District Attorney Stuart
w. Walker. Wilson declares that he
had no intention whatever of conceal
ing any property from the court officers
and that he will fight the charges to
the end.
ACCUSSu OIL @I,OOU inert.
Frank Harris, an orchard employee,
has been arrested and held for hear
ing, being suspected of the theft of
bonds and securities worth over $1,000
belonging to r. Lee Gum and Swadley
Brothers OF Highland county, which
were taken from an iron safe after it
had been dynamited at the Panderpool
post office on the night of September
=. A tin box containing the valuable
papers was found in a bag in fence
corner day or two ago by boy who
was driving cows home from pasture
Harris had been arrested once before
and discharged. The officers are con-
ndent now that he was implicated, and
they are of the opinion that another
man, known as "Rattlesnake Jim"
helped Harris pull off the job.
In spite of the threatening weather
today the democrats of Jefferson coun-
campaign, which will be in full swing
from now until the day of election next
month. Judge w. A. Cullop, member of
Congress from Indiana. smoke at
Her of Mississippi addressed a big
meeting at Harpers Ferry. Solicitor
General John w. Davis. Col. John T. |
McGraw of Grafton and the democratic
candidates for Congress will speak in
he county during the campaign. The |
district is now represented by Repre-
sentative Junior" Brown, and Prof.
Thomas e. Hodges is the candidate at
arge.
A great many of the owners of the
arge commercial apple orchards of the
fruit belt are needing the
ldvice and edmonton of the experts
If the United States Department of
Agriculture in the matter of placing
Lpples in cold storage. It is the belief
hat the price for the best grades of
ruit will advance considerably after
he lower and more perishable grades
ire disposed of. A prominent grower
Who was In Washington a day or two
lgo investigating market conditions
md comforting with wholesalers was
old that the bulk Of the apples now be-
ng used there were seconds and thirds,
which had been bought cheaply and
.dvised to store his best fruit until a
yssk or two before s1s.sa the holiday season,
much better market. The apple move
nent from this section. however, con-
inues heavy.
Lewis B. Bloyer Dead.