Evening star., 1916-01-02


Of j. W. Austin, disappeared last week.
and SO far no trace of her has been
found. The young woman's trunk was
gone when her absence was discovered.
She had prepared breakfast for the
family before leaving. No cause for
| Miss Moore's action is known.
LEXINGTON. va-The board Of visi-
tors of the virginia Military Institute has
decided that the death recently of
Cadet Tnurber Sweet of Chicago was
not due to injuries caused by haZlng.
/ Young Sweets father. a Chicago mil
| l1onaire. has fully acquiesced In the
finding of the board.
| HARRISONBURG. Va.-Disputing over
| responsibility for payment of taxes on
a farm. William H. Rexroad. ffty-one
| years old. and Early c. Snyder. both of
| Pendleton county. w. Va, engaged In
scuff1e, during which Rexroad dropped
dead of heart disease.
! ANNAPOLIS. Md-Frederick Fehrman,
| fifteen years old, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Frederick Fehrman. tried to show a
| crowd of boys how high he could shoot
a marble with his new Christmas rifle
| Placing a marble on the muzZle of the
| rifle, the boy pulled the trigger. and six
| boys in the crowd yelled with pain.
The bullet, instead of driving the mar
BILE into the air. shattered it into frag-
ments which lacerated the faces of the
quiring the attention of physician
| sixteen years old. skated on thin ice on
Blue Dam pond Christmas day. His
body was recovered from forty feet OF
water the following day
CUMBERLAND. Md. - Thieves who
| worked the combination on an old-fash-
| ioned iron safe in the CARPENTER hard,
ware store got $179 cash and overlooked
more money and checks in another part
| of the safe. They left no trace as to
| their identity.
DANV1LLE. Va.-Floyd Banner Ball.
nine years old. found a half-pint flask
of whisky while alone in the house.
He drank the liquor, and although doc
tors worked with him for several
hours the boy died the next morning.
KABLETOWN, W. Va.-Fire which de-
stroyed the store and residence of c. d.
johnson caused loss of several thou
sand dollars. partly covered by insur-
ance. An exploding coal oil stove
started the blaze.
WARRENTON, Va.-"Institute farm"
500 acres. near Oatlands. Loudoun county.
has been purchased by Ramsey Turn
bull of New York for the National
Beagle Association. 1t is understood
future field trials of the association
are to be held there. The organization
held its first field trials in Loudoun
county last fall. thirteen of the best
beagle packs in the country competing.
CULPEPER, Va.-"Aunt Martha"
Payne. Culpeper's best known colored
resident, was burned to death in fire
that totally destroyed her home early
Sunday morning. She was an example
of the fast st-disappearing type OF col
ored nanny and was held IN n1gh
esteem by everyone in the community.
HOPEWELL Va.-Citizens Of this
place have set on foot a movement to OBJ
tot IaI m,
the eleven-year-old hero of the recent
Hopewell fire. The boy. at great risk
of his own life, saved two babies from
burning when their home was de-
stroyed by flames.
ROANOKE. va.-James B. Bolts, city
tax collector. has announced his candi-
dacy for state treasurer.
RICHMOND. Wa conditional con-
tract. depending upon the sale OF
bonds to the extent of 100000 I'M
medately, for the construction OF the
Richmond, Rappahannock and North
ern railway, was awarded by the board
of directors at a meeting here. The
contract is conditioned upon the sale OF
the stock at once. The contractors
have agreed to start work on the roa.G
paid over to them, and bonds for the
remainder will be accepted. 1t is estf-
mated that the cost of construction
and euuipping the road will aggregate
$3.50 900.
RICHMOND. va.-The Virginia Road
Builders Association is to hold Its
fourth annual meeting here January
IS and 10. and Mayor Ainslie. who is
deeply Interested in the good roads
movement. appointed the following del
egates: Col. Thomas B. McAdams, e.
E. Boiling, D. F. LaPrade. J. NJ D.
Morris, DIR. L. d. Batkins. DR.. r. A.
Nichols, G. p Clay, f. B. Thomson.
J. B. wood. II. NJ. Phillips and r. b.
Airport.
HARRISONBURG, Va.-Douglas and
Elliott Dold, sons of DIR. William E. Dold.
a native of this place, now New York
physician, have been taken prisoners
by the Bulgarians in the march
through Serbia. The boys were gradu-
ated in medicine in New York city and
last spring Joined SERBIAN sI pI,nh rel,et ped ed
gett After long, hard summer or
toll the boys joined the Serbian army
this fall. Several times they had mar
row escapes from death around Nlsh
and were finally made prisoners.
RERRYyILLE, va-w. H. Carter
home near here. For thirty years he
was deputy treasurer of Clarke county.
and it was said of him that he knew
or was known by every man. woman
and child in the county he was tne
last surviving member of a large Fau-
ouier county family. his brother. Capt
Robert Carter. having died several
years ago.
CHARLES TOWN. w. Va. Camp
bell Janney. who served in the civil war
in Stonewall Jackson's brigade, Is dead
here. at the age of seventy years
HAGERSTOWN, Md.-Petitions from
students of the high school have be-
come so numerous and the requests
contained in them varied that the
school board has adopted rule pro-
yiding that hereafter no petitions from
ST udents will be received unless the
papers are signed by a certain number
of the parents of pupils. The boards
action was precipitated by the presen-
tation of a students petition asking
that the Christmas holiday be extended
to double it's contemplated length, the
original announcement being for va
cation from December % to January
g. The request was refused.
HAGERSTOWN, Md.-The state board
of health has announced that the
water supply of this place Is not re-
sponsible for the numerous cases of
typhoid fever Careful analyses of
Haeerstowns public water supply, the
board says, shows the water is not con-
taminated
FREDERICKSBURG, Va.-Business
men and others of this place and Reed
vile. Va. have organized the Reed
willie to Fredericksburg Highway As
sociation, the purpose of which is to
bring about the construction of state
highway between Fredericksburg and
Reedyille ard Chesapeake bay. Officers
,ro. caoroa Reed Reedyille DreSi-