Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-04-03
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From All Over
the State.

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Virginia pensions: Ferdinand F.
Bates, National Military Home, Eliza
beth City county, So. Increase-Owen
| Monaghan, Newport News, $40; Park
| F. Ashworth, Eaton, SIP; Christopher
| Sand Prospect, $24; Caroline }. ur-
aer Houston, So; Mary Dorsey, lhin-
colleague Island, So; Israel a. kurtz
| and Jacob Petre OF the National Mill
AIRY Home at Elizabeth City county,
! eI2 each; Martin Dressed, Elizabeth
City county, $I2; Easter Brown, Nor
Join Friel, National Military Home
| Elizabeth City county, So; Benjamin
Kelley, Suffolk. $40; Chas. Morgan
dead, Burkeville, $12. Increase-Jas
w. Smith, Hickory, SO; Michael Smith,
| Roanoke, $40; Sa1lie j Morgan Burke
| vile, So.
Representatives from eight States
met i'll Norfolk and formed comblna-
| lion OF almost all the wooden-dish man
| 1facturers in the country. The States
| represented were Maryland, Virginia,
| North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey,
New York, Vermont and Ohio. The
meeting was primarily to regulate
| prices, but several plans which are eN-
, pected to result in the betterinent OF
trade were adopted. NJ. r. Belden, OF
New York, was put at the head OF the
Combination. The plants represented
at the meeting have all annual output
it is said OF more than oooooocc
pieces a year.
At Warrenton, Walnut Ridge, a fine
thoroughbred hunter, owned by Richz
ard Walach, fell while being exercised
and broke his neck The horse was rid
den by Henry Smith, colored groom,
who was caught under the horse as it
Tell and is probably fatally injured
Walnut Ridge was the winner Of last
years point-to-point race and was en-
tered again for this years event, which
will take place April 10.
/ Edward Browning created some ex-
! citement in the Pee Dee district Of Ellz-
abcth City county by attempting tc
shoot his daughter, Mrs. Mamie Hozier.
Browning said it was his purpose to
murder his daughter and then commit
suicide. He was prevented from carry
ing out his threat by friends, who went
to the rescue of Mrs. Hozier.
The death OF Mr.. Benjamin F. Ire
nary at his home, in Boyce, made the
third death in his house within a
month. The family consisted of two
brothers and three maiden sisters. Miss
Fannie Trenary died about month
ago, Her sister, Miss Charlotte, was
taken i'll at the funeral and died week
later
D. C. Ashby. proprietor of the Lex
ington Hotel, Newport News, dropped
dead. He was one OF the best-knowr
hotel men in this section Mr.. Ashby
was at one time engaged in business
in Richmond and also in Philadelphia.
8 The University OF Virginia Alumni
Association will hold a banquet at the
Warwick Hotel on Jeferson's birthday
April 10. Governor Montague and
other distinguished speakers have beer
| invited
MILFORD Davis, who shot and killed
Chief OF Police Page Marstellar at Ell
kins and was sentenced to hang April
3, has been granted respite of 90 days
by Governor White.
Alexandria Lodge, No. 1, Benevolent
Protective Order OF Elks, elected Ed
/ ward Quinn delegate and George Brad
| ley alternate to the Grand Lodge OF the
order to be held iii Baltimore July 81
| to 20.
The Baltimore and Ohio is using sew
eral engines of the Western Maryland
Railroad in the effort to relieve the
heavy freight congestion between Mar
tinsburg and Cumberland.
Col. W. L. Laughlin formerly Of the
National Hotel OF McKeesport, Pa
has leased the Exchange Hotel, III
Fredericksburg, and will open it for
business on April IS.
Miss Hattie Seabright, the 1o-year-
old daughter OF Mr.. James Seabright, q
prominent contractor Of Winchester,
was probably fatally burned. The doc
! tor says her death is only a questioned
| a few hours Miss Seabright was in
| the yard at her home watching burn
| ing brush-pile, when, in some unac-
| countable manner, her dress ignlted In
4 moment she was in flames. Her
screams brought her two sisters
Misses Corrine and Helen-and col
ored man to her assistance. But their
efforts to quench the flames were not
successful until all her clothing had
been burned off and her body was one
mass of charred flesh. Miss Seabrlght
| is popular young lady and an earnest
! church worker.
Robert Ellyson, II years OF age, OF
Richmond, struck match on the seat
of his trousers. which had become sat
urated with gasoline accidentally He
was so badly burned that he may die.
The young rlan got gasoline on his
trousers, it is thought, while i'll a gro
Gerry store He had cigarette in his
mouth. Wishing light, he struck .
match on his trousers. The cloth i'm.
mediately blazed tip, and before the
blaze could be put out the young man
was seriously burned He was taker
| to hospital
| Mrs. Martha Bromley, widow OF
John Bromley, who resided near Win
chester, choked to death during VIC
lent fit OF coughing, She retired at night
! in excellent health, but was awakened
by coughing spell. During a par
soxysm she was strangled to death after
FIVE minutes OF suffering. Mrs. Brom-
leys husband was a wealthy farmer;
She was "a years old and is survived
bv seven children.
| Mrs. Mary A.. Lemly, q years OF
age, widow Of James Lemly,, died At
Stephens City. She Is survived by sew
Nf.geac I ,tt>v and Emma