The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-08-10
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From All Over
The State.

NNP'H anu went under the water and
remained there S. minutes before he was
iound, and when his companions brought
the body in TO the beach it was too late
to save his life. Meantime William
Stevenson, of Sprin6eld. Mass. nearly
lost his life in the attempt to find the
body. lie was rescued by William Cal
laghan, of Baltimore.
l.. y. Clark, fireman on the Norfolk
and Southern Railway, is at the Sarah
Leigh Hospital, Norfolk. badly injured.
lie was on Il detached engine. when il
lett the track near Brambleton and turn
ed over. lie was caught under the cab
and badly injured about the head and
bruised all over the body. His skull
escaped fracture, but was terribly
Scraped, so as to need an operation.
While John Brooks and his wife, who
reside IN Sussex county, were away from
home their residence was set on fire.
They had left the three children there
alone One of the children, a girl about
, II years of age, attempted to kindle a
fire with kerosene oil. when the oil in
the lamp exploded setting her clothing
ahre and burning her TO death. The
house was burned TO the ground.
DIR. J. Rufus Horner, for 10 years pro-
lessor Of chemistry in Richmond Col
lege, has resignd TO join his brother
n. G 5oS insurance business /" Raleigh
At Mount Laurel Lizzie Jackson, an
| Irish woman, was brutality beaten to
| death by Early Moseley, a negro
| AloSeley confessed the crime and then
| fled the country. He claimed that the
| Irish woman had hoodooed his wife
The Leath Theatre Company, of Rich
mond, has appointed Mr.. Allen Jen-
kinS business manager of all the Lcath
| Theatres except the one in Norfolk Mr.
J jenkins will have his headquarters at
| the Academy of Music at Richmond
He will have general supervision of the
aires in Roanoke, Lynchburg, Peters
! burg and Newport News. and will as
SiSt Manager Charles l. Mckee at Rich
mond
! Work is progressing rapidly on the
big plant of Catogni Bros, in Roanoke.
| The plant occupies eight acres. and most
! OF 1t will be under roof. 1t will be an
immense planning mill, COAL wood and
lumber plant
Alfred Walters, formerly president of
the Lchigh Valley Railroad. and who is
/ at the head of the construction of the
| South and Western Railway, from the
! Southwest Virginia coal fields TO a point
! on the South Atlantic Coast, was in
! Bristol iii conference with George l..
| Carter The two men just returned from
! kingSpOrt, on the proposed route for
this road, where considerable real estate
| has recently been optioned, presumably
! by SeabOard Air Line interests. Con-
| Struction crews arc busy on the noun
tain portions of the route. where there
will be at least two years of active
| construction work.
Margaret Moran, girl of 20 years.
was taken TO the Protestant Hospital,
| Norfolk, dangerously wounded The
! story of the shooting is that she was
! asleep at the clubhouse of Jas Fergu-
son, at Sewelrs Point, Norfolk county,
when he and several companions were
handling a shotgun on the other side
| of thin partition. The gun was dis
| charged and she was badly wounded
She ran TO the door, fell outside and
was unconscious when found. The
shooting is alleged TO have been acct
| dental.
J. II. Kitchen, colored, was tried at
Suffolk for murder of Justice Holiday
and acquitted. Kitchen, who was with
a woman one day last week on an excur-
sion from Portsmouth TO Suffolk, had
some words with Clarence Wright who
threw an imitation snake in the girls
| lap. Following the words Wright Sc
verely cut Kitchen. who drew his re-
volver and killed Wright and wounded
several others. He was fined for car
rying concealed weapons.
Mrs. Amanda Bunkley, an aged widow
who has lived in Newport News for
sevral years, was found dead in her
bed. John Bunkley went to his moth
er'S room to kiss her good-by before 60
ing to work, and found her cold in
death The body was. shipped to Smith
field, where she was buried in Old St
I.uke's Churchyard
AT great personal risk Miss Maud
| Funk, daughter of Jesse Funk, of Wa
terlick, Warren county, rushed into
burning stable and rescued her fathers
valuable stallion, which was threatened
with being roasted alive. The stable
had been struck by lightning and the
fire was at its height, when the young
woman went in, cut the halter and
drove out the horse through fire and
! smoke.
The fiscal year with the Lynchburg
! tobacco trade has ended, and no tobacco
will be sold on market until September
I. The crop just sold was the lightest,
with one exception, in 80 years, the
| exception being The season OF 1890. The
total sales last year were I5,346.4oo
pounds, or 0,I63, 100 pounds less than
was sold from the crop of Ioo3-Ioo4
The average price during the past year
was about ST. so hundred pounds more
| than the planters have received in the
| past four or five seasons.
Robert Dempsey, fagman on the
| Virginia and Southwestern Railroad,
was found dying on the tender of the
engine that pulled the train when a
stop was made at Hamilton Station.
| near Bristol No indications of bodily
injury could be found Heart failure
probably caused his death. Dempsey
was a young married man.
Mrs. Addie Jordan, of Richmond,
widow of DR.. J. c. Jordan, is under
arrest in New Kent county, charged with
| afiemntinp 10 Kill her sister Miss Ellen