Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-03-27
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From All Over
the State.

John Heneman, $40; Robert Hogg
$I2; Laurence Lynch, $I2, all OF Ma
tlonal Soldiers Home in Elizabeth
City county: John R. Bales, Nationa
Soldiers Home, Elizabeth City county
SIG; Bushrod Jackson, Milldale, 81
John H. Burke, SaNmsvillc. So; Will
liam Tefft, Kelso, BIO; George WillSifr
son, Fremont, So; John Jinkins, Aso.
TN, $I2: Minors OF J. Diggs, Newpor'
News, SIC.
A United States deputy marshal re.
ported in Roanoke that a row occurrea
IN Wyoming county that may cos
Martin Christian his life Charles Els
wick and Chap Mosely were passing
IN the vicinity OF moonshine distil
lery, in which it is supposed Christian
was interested, and he followed then
with Winchester rifle The men turn
ed on him. In their efforts to seize III;
gun, Christians right hand was shot
off by tte accidental discharge Of the
weapon, but not before he had drawr
a hunting knife and badly carved Els.
wick in the back sThirty-nine stitclle;
were required to sew up the wounds
Elswick was also accidentally shoi
through the feshy part OF his leg b.
Mosely.
Rev. James Cannon, Jr.. OF Black.
stone, declines to run in Amelia and
| Nottoway TO succeed Congressman
! 5outhall i'll the House OF Delegates.
| William Deming, OF Portsmouth
| lied suddenly on the roof OF house
| which he was painting.
/ Manager Rex, OF the : Richmond
academy, will have charge Of the the
ltrical bookings fer the Soldiers
! Home at Hampton next season. HI
NIL play about IS attractions.
/ Thatcher Jones, a o-year-old colored
:hild, was run over and killed by Z
rain at Suffolk.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
intends to make some changes in its
rack Oh the Shenandoah division III
traIghtening some bad curves. e3pec.
ally the one just south Of Luray
'Dick" Garter shot and fatally
Wounded Clarence Hodges, aged Is
,ears, in Hodges home. in Roanoke.
t seems that Carter, who halls from
Winston, N. c.. went to Roanoke with
companion named Shelton They
we're going to West Virginia, but, it is
llleged, Carter drank heavily and went
1lto the rooms over a saloon occupied
" Fannie Hodges and her son. He
aaiined to be Secret Service agent
II the Government, it is said, and TN
lcrtook to dislodge the tenants. Will
lam Martin grapplcd with him in his
lttempt to shoot young Hodges, but
allied i'll his effort. The bullet entered
he LETT side OF the neck and evidently
edged about the spinal cord. His en-
ire body was paralyzed and his con-
1ltion is extremely serious. Carter at
empted to escape, but was captured
md lodged in Jail.
A trial in Stafford County Court in.
7olving the ownership OF a COW afford
ID much amusement to large crowd
ot spectators Joe Baker had been
enant on the Green Bank farm oil
Major w. s. Embrey for 10 years. and
vas displaced. liz turning over the
arm property Baker claimed certain
:ow as the property OF his wife. Major
tnbrey was confident the COW belong.
I'd to him. The case first came tip III
magistrates court, and was removed
20 the County Court Of Stafford, where
our lawyers took part in the proceed
ngs before Judge Chichester. The
,ase went against Baker and was ap
oealed, and will be carried to the cir
,tit Court Mrs. Baker, who claims
he COW. though only AZ years old, is
The mother OF II children. Ia OF whom,
ire living and are married
In the Circuit Court at Winchester
;. II. Braithwaite was given $I2oc
damages against Charles L. McIlwee
!or alienation of his wife's affections
MIR. Baithwate asked for $1,000 dam.
ages, claiming that McIlwee had moi
only alienated his wife's affections but
had also caused her 10 desert him and
his FIVE children. Ali the parties con.
,erhed arc prominent residents OF the
>ounty. Some sensational evidence
was introduced during the trial.
George Christian, colored, was elcc.
rocutcd at Newport News by coming
III contact with a live wire. He caught
aoid OF the wire leading to a I6-cahdle.
power light at point where the insu-
!atton was worn off 1t is thought the
'eed wire must have been crossed with
street wire, as death was nstantane-
ous and. there was current enough to
ours off three fingers.
he bari, OF ]. "A. Storm, near Lew,
msville, Fairfax county, was burned
and III horses and four cows were.
burned or lost in the fire. 1t is estl.
mated that the loss will be over $4,000
Business men of Crcwe have formed
y y tiddS VI Will ttANSN
President, Thomas b. Oliver; first vice
president, c. L. Wilson; secretary, b n
Watcrhouse; treasurer, Capt. f. +. Log
Sett
The Virginia Anthracite Coal Com
pany is building a railroad to open ~
he large area#ofs coal lands in Mont
gomery county, The line Wilt later BIZ
extended so assto run from Christian
burg to Blacksburg.
| George Tinslcy, one of FIVE negroes
.harged with robbing German sailors q
he steamship Albano, was given eigh,
years in the pcnitentiary at Newpor'
News. The evidence showed that Tins
/ lev was in the crowd that beat the sail
| ors. The fact that several German coins
lost By one of the sailors were found III
his pockets convicted him.
The jamestown Exposition advocates
in the House have the whip-hand, and
succeeded in defeating the bill to appro
pirate an additional $Ioo,oco for the I'M
provement and enlargement Of the Capi
,o They also succeeded in having
April set as a date for again taking III
The Jamestown appropriation.