Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30


OF the family that owned the Kennedy
farm in Washington county, Md, where
John Brown and his followers camped
the year before the Harpers Ferry up
rising. MIR. Palmer. as Confederate
soldier. was wounded at the battle of
kernstown and thirty-siN years later
ne lost the use of leg. having been
shot in the ankle.
Public school teachers in this section
of the state are lining up in active OPP
position to a bill introduced by Senator
Bowers of Cupeper, which seeks to re-
peal the act creating the teachers PEN
sion fund The state contributes $4,000
4 year to the fund and the teachers %:
The state are required 10 pay one per
cent of their sa laries. Some of the teach
ers are opposed TO the compulsory re-
tirement feature of the act. but the gem
eral provisions of the law are Endorsed.
The croSstie department of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad has arranged to
receive almost unlimited quantities of
ties along the line between Harpers Ferry
and StrasburS Junction. provided the ties
conform to specifica lions which have
been furnished to contractors Large
forces of men are working in the noun
tain districts. and il is expected the
company will be email led to get all the
ties il needs for the road in this section.
Noiwithsta nding their patent process of
preserving crosStieS by giving them a
baptism of creosOte solution. the good
white oak tie is still preferred as a ma :
terial for steadying the rails.
Eugene Householder of Lovettsville.
Va. is recovering from injuries suffered
recently when he was attacked by a
vicious bull while watching some men
cut ice on the farm of Gideon House
holder near Brunswick. He was charged
by the bull without warning, was tossed
high into the air and as he fell to the
ground the bull tranipled him. y negro
shot at the bull with shotgun, but the
shot had no effect, and it was not until
hal hiatt 1,n h,tit Wit MI
that Householder was rescued. His nose
was broken and he was badly cut and
bruised about his body.
The body OF William II. Wright, who
died in the National Soldiers Home at
Hampton, Va. Was inferred this week
in the national cemetery here. He was
a widely known Winchester turfman and
is survived by a widow. Mrs. Emeline
Noakes Wright, and one daughter. He
was native Of Gettysburg. Pa. and
served in the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry
during the civil war.
The Harrisonburg Board of Trade
has named committee to go to Wash
inSton and request Representative
James Hay of this district to use his
| influence to induce Congress to pa IS
an emergency act appropriating $4,000
for new post office and federal court
building in that town. The present
building is said to be entirely too
small Government architects have
recommended an addition to the build
ing now in use.
The warm weather of the past week
was by no means welcomed by fruit
growers. and many of the people who
have fortunes at stake in orchards
have for several days been making use
of their magnifying glasses to ascer-
tain whether there are evidences OF
buds. The buds on some of the early
fruit trees are already swollen. and
it is feared they will develop unless
there is a decided change in the
wea Their. Apple trees. it is stadted. have
shown no sign as yet of budding, but
the growers of that fruit are hoping
that the cold weather. which is certain
to return. will not be long delayed.
Grain buyers who We're in town today
declared that there is a much larger
quantity of wheat stored in barns than
was thought recently. and that it has
been difficult to buy it. now that the
price has been steadily advancing for
the past few weeks. A number OF
farmers who have large holdings
stated they did not intend to sell until
the price reached 81. 80 a buShel. Sew
eral dealers said today they expected
almost any time. Flour is advancing
accordingly.
Rev Roy Burke. pastor of a colored
church, was ARRESTED d day or two
ago for preaching in his own church,
and he is to be given a trial on "A
charge of trespassing. Two colored
residents of the town, both said to
be non members of the church. recently
had legal notice served on the pas
tor warning him not to hold divine
services, but he gave the notice no
heed and held services as usual. A
warrant was then sworn out and he
was ARRESTED by Constable Morgan
Runkles of Brunswick
Mrs. Elsie Kline Fishpaw. forty one
years old. wife of Walter Fishpaw OF
Middletown, Va, died this week. after a
brief illness of asthma. She leaves her
husband and six children.
A white man named Carpenter who
had been working in Jefferson county,
w. Va, was arrested Wednesday in
Charles Town for having smallpox He
was seen on the streets by a physician
who at once made the complaint. Car
penter said he had no home. and that
the people for whom he had been
working had turned him out. The au-
thorties have placed him in pesthouse.
Peter Winchester Rouss of New York,
son of the late Charles Broadway
Rouss has contributed $500 toward the
erection of a Confederate monument in
Winchester. Young Mr.. Rouss' father
made great many public and private
benefactions in Winchester, amounting
in all to upward of 100000.
Robert II. Fahrney. forty-nine years
old, a well known Baltimore and Ohio
railroad engineman. died a few days
ago at his home at Brunswick, after a
lingering illness, and was buried at
Harpers Ferry. He was a native of
Timberville, Va, and is survived by a
widow, who is q daughter of Herman
RAIDER, also an enSineman, and two
brothers.
Q. G. HUMPHREYS lies in precarious
condition as a result of being kicked
in the head by a mule near Blue Spring
run. His skull was fractured, and the
brain was laid bare for four inches
over one eye.
J. G. Dula of the United States for
estry service, who is in charge of an
arear near Stokesville. Va. shot and
killed large American eagle day
Or two ago, the bird measuring seven
feet across its wings. Several other
American eagles have been killed in
that locality this winter, being the
first seen in that region in recent years.
Preparations are well under way for
the annual convention of the Virginia
Dairymen's Association, to be held in
Harrisonburg February 10 and IL. The
industry has developed rapidly during
the past few years, particularly in the
Shenandoah valley. Addresses are to
be made by experts from Washing
ton, Virginia and Pennsylvania
GETS VERDICT FOR $4,000.