Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-06

iGreenDerry j. r. House OF broao NULL
Frederick county's oldest married
| couple, celebrated the seventy-first an
| niversary of their marriage. Mr.. House
was ninety years old last fall. his wife
being eighty-nine years old. They were
married in 1915.
PETERSBURG. Va-For the fiscal
year 1914-15 the du Pont company paid
approximately $4,000 taxes to Prince
George county and $4,000 to the state
of Virginia. The countys taxes for
1856 will be not less than $4,000
to the county and $4,000 to the state:
The company has already advanced
funds to the county authorities for
cashing warrants for pay of police and
twenty five thousand dollar school
houses and for other purposes. The
county has thus already received from
the company an amount almost equal to
that which will be due in taxes for the
year to come.
CHARLESTON. w. Va.-John Harris,
one of several men suspected of having
held up and robbed a Baltimore and
Ohio train last October near Central
station. this state, has been arrested
in San Antonio. Tex. In the robbery
of the train several packages of I'M
signed bank notes were taken, and two
of these packages. the Post Office De-
partment officials say, were found on
Harris when he was arrested.
ANNAPOLIS, Md.-Delegate McCusker
OF Baltimore has offered in the house
of delegates a bill providing for the
segregation of white and colored peo-
pie in street cars and railway trains.
The bill provides that certain section
of seats in street cars and railway
Si
sengers and other seats for whites.
and that such seats are not to be used
except as designated. Stringent pro-
VISIONS are made against discrimina-
OF Us to $25 are provided for violations
of the act by street car or railway en-
ployes as well as by passengers refus-
ing to comply with an order of a con-
ductor as to the seats to be occupied.
RICHMOND. va.-Reports to the fish
cries department of the state for 1915
show that Virginia's crab industry is
prohtable. The product last year was
worth S9S1.S07, and consisted of 49,
l65.14S pounds of hard crabs and L.
4s4.23S pounds of soft crabs. A total
of 2.91S persons engaged in the industry,
while apparatus used was worth $751;
$50. Virginia vessel fisheries produced
3,e6o,536 pounds and shore fisheries the
remainder. The number of crabs TAX
en- was estimated at 60.74S,15S, and
wages paid amounted to s67,O12.
CHARLES TOWN, w. Vain a fire
that destroyed the big barn on J. B.
Coyle's farm near here seven horses
and colts and twenty sheep were burn
ed. besides large quantities of hay
and feed, farm implements and a corn
house with its contents near the barn.
The loss was $4,000, with 5000 insur-
ance.
LYNCHBURG, Va.-Fire, believed to
have been started by tramps. destroyed
twentyfour boxcars on a sidetrack of
loss was about $4,000. A few weeks
ago another fire, believed to have been
of similar origin, destroyed twenty
eight freight cars on the Southerns
two cars burned in a month. The road
has issued stringent orders to keep
tramps off the cars and right of way.
EASTPORT, Md.-Capt Samuel P.
Wood. one of the oldest masters of
freighters on Chesapeake bay. died here
last week. He was born at Mount Har
mony, Calvert county, seventy-eigh
years ago, and freighted on the bay
for more than twenty-five years.
HARRISONBURG. Wa deed con-
veying $4,000 acres of land in Rocking
ham. Augusta and Pendleton counties
from Mrs. Mary H. Murray of Cumber-
land. Nd, to the United States govern
ment. has been filed here in the clerks
office of the circuit court. The price
paid was more than s139.O00. The docu-
ment covered seventy-five typewriter
pages. and the war tax thereon was
$40. Mrs. Murray reserved certain
mineral rights.
WINCHESTER. Va. - Miss Virginia
Partlow. nineteen years old. of Smed-
ley. Rappahannock county. died in
Winchester Memorial Hospital from
sl,a ~
taken to her home. where the funeral
occurred yesterday.
STEPHENSON, Va-Benjamin Frank
a leading member of the Society of
Friends. or Quakers, in Frederick
county, is died at his home here.
WINCHESTER. Announcement
has been made of the marriage here
Thursday of Mrs. Katharine Sheetz
Oden and Charles Marshall Baldwin.
The bride is the daughter of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin b. Sheetz and a
few years ago was divorced from
Archibald Oden, jr., of Washington and
Martinsburg, w. Va, who is private
secretary to Senator Swanson of Vir-
ginia. Mr.. Baldwin is the son of the
late DIR. Cornelius Baldwin of this
place, and was divorced from his first
wife some years ago. Mr.. and Mrs.
Baldwin will make their home in
Grand Rapids. Mich.
CUMBERLAND, Md. The Baltimore
and Ohio railroad handled 1880 car
loads of peaches from western Mary
land and West Virginia last year, ac-
eording to reports of the roads traffic
department, just issued. Peach ship
ments from the same territory in 1914
totaled 1,168 carloads New York city
took 402 carloads of these peaches,
while 159 carloads went to Pittsburgh,
SIS carloads to Cincinnati. so carloads
As carloads to Philadelphia, 72 car
loads to Boston, SO carloads to Wash
ington, 16 carloads to Detroit IT car
loads to Louisville, IS carloads to In
16 carloads to Youngstown,
IL carloads to Binghamton, n. Y; 81
carloads to Richmond, Va, and 10 car
loads each to Jacksonville and Tampa,
Fla.
ANNAPOLIS. Md. "A radical change
in the game laws of the state is pro-
posed in a bill introduced by Senator
Mudd. 1t changes the closed season
for squirrels from between De-
cember "a and November 10 to Deem
Der "a and September !, thus extend
ing the cunning season.
WOODSTOCK, AFTER spending
sixty years of her life in the Shenan-
doah county almshouse, Miss Sarah
Pence died Friday. She was nearly
eighty years old. She was a member
of the Methodist Church and all her
life was a constant churchgoer.
CUMBERLAND. Md.-Farmers from
three states, meeting here. adopted
resolutions condemning the land loan
bill pending in Congress.