Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-22
Senator Hanna's Poker Shock.
DOG AS A DETECTIVE.
Discovered Contraband Game Being
Shipped in Egg Crate.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
NORFOLK Va January u 1aNl

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
NORFOLK, Va, January 81 1904.
Game Warden Weatherly at Greensboro,
N. C., continues to make heavy hauls of
cartridges being shipped out of North Car
DINA in violation of the game laws of
that state. His latest capture is the big
gest yet made, and consists of 44S fine birds
in egg crates that had been shipped to a
commission merchant in Washington D. c.
The outlay, which represented about $50
expended by the shipper, would have netted
him all of 500 had his shipment reached
this city. There were four of the egg
crates and each had the regulation layer
OF eggs on the top and bottom.
Game Warden Weatherly's dog, with his
Keen and unfailing sense of smell, singled
out the egg crates containing BIRDS and
when they We're opened, sure enough just
the crates that the dog whined over con-
tanned the forbidden cartridges. All birds
seized by the game warden are sold at auc-
ton. the proceeds going to the state.
Representative Carter Glass of the sixth
Virginia district is rapidly becoming an i'm
portant factor in Virginia politics and is
now the undisputed leader of wha. is
known as anti-ma chine democracy in Vr-
glria, which is fighting United States SEN
ator Thomas s. Martin for reelection to
the Senate by the next Virginia legislature.
" mas up 10 ln1S tlme looked as though
Gov. Montague, elected on an anti-machine
platform TO the position he now occupies,
would be the leading candidate against
Martin, but there are now signs that the
senatorial toga worn by Martin may at the
end of his present term fall to the sixth
Virginia representative. Glass is now TAX
inS an active interest in state politics gen.
orally and it is a well-known fact that he
and United States Senator Daniel had more
to do with framing the present constitution
OF Virginia than any other two men of the
hundred who composed the late constitu-
! tional convention. There some who
predict that when the senatorial fight
comes on Gov. Montague will be out of it
and the real battle will be between Glass
and Martin.
Skaters at Wilcox dam, in Dinwddie
county. Va. discovered the body of Eggle-
ston Cheatham, aged colored man, a
wood chopper. frozen stiff in the ice of the
dam. The body was at once cut out of the
| ice and brought ashore and there is now an
investigation on foot.
a hole in the head of the deceased leads
! to the belief that the man was murdered
| and his body then thrown into the water
Information has just reached here of the
death in Honolulu, Hawaii of DR.. w. Stu
art Hancock. a prominent resident and ply
| stefan of Wytheville, Va. The deceased
had been travelling for some months in
| South America and the islands of the
| Pacific in an effort to recover from an at
| tack of pneumonia. The remains will be
! brought to Virginia for burial.
| The United States refrigerating ship Gla-
| cier. which has just undergone repairs at
| the Norfolk navy yard which consumed
| nearly a year. will leave for New York in
| command of Lieut.. Commander j. III. Oliver
| to be assigned to the North Atlantic squad
| ron as a supply ship The Glacier is the
| Only vessel of her type in the American
| navy.
The colored people of Richmond were pre-
| pairing TO attend in large numbers the I'M
yelling of statue to Rev. John Jasper, the
| noted negro preacher of Sun Do Move
] fame. when ii was ascertained to their
! great dismay that the statue which is to be
| placed in the church of which Jasper was
/ so long pastor had not arrived. A teie-
gram was later received from the sculptor
| in Atlanta asking for few days of grace.
| The ceremonies which are to continue for
! niEe consecutive days, will probably begin
| on Sunday next.
| Jonah Gray, convicted in Hampton OF
| criminal assault upon nine year-old Ida
| Williams. was sentenced by Judge Mon
| tague, in accordance with the verdict of
the jury, TO twenty-five years in the state
| penitentiary at Richmond.
The machinists of Portsmouth Va, have
| appointed a special committee to appear
| before the city council and urge the munic-
/ ipal ownership of the city water works and
all other public utilities. The council win
/ hold public meeting for the purpose %
| considering the proposition.
City Auditor G. z. Gill of Petersburg.
| Va. in searching through some old records
! In that city. found a letter from President