The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-07-13
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From All Over
The Stats.

hSAha. CtdtC D0I Association VIII DC
held ~ the Hotel Chamberlain, Old
Point, Va, August 8, and 10.
Kew. James y. Duncan, formerly of
Kandolph-Macon College. has returned
regularly to the ministry, now beng pas
tor OF church at Birmingham. Ala.
The degree of doctor of divinity has
been conferred by Hampton Sidney Col
lege on Prof r. III. Bennett. of Randolph
Macon College. He IS now travelling in
Europe with his family.
Mrs. ]. Lindsay Patton. formerly Miss
Fannie Leake. of Ashland. and daughter
OF Judge Leake, who has been a resi-
dent OF Japan for the past Is years. is
now on her way TO America, after an alb
Sence of over FIVE years She will bring
with her a family of five children and
VIII visit her auntS in Ashland and her
fatherin Richmond, arriving about Aug
uSt I, via Honolulu
State Assessor Edgar +. Thompson
has completed the fvc-ycar assessment
Of real estate in Alexandria city The
valuation Is $3,So2.o6o This is an in
crease of $234o3 over the State assess
men: of 1900 and $II5.ooo over the city
assessment of last year.
Prof. Willis l.. Moore. Chief of the
United States Weather Bureau. while on
an official visit to the new observatory
at Mount Weather, in Clarke county. in
an interview stated that more inStru-
nentS. to cost about $25oooo, would be
installed at that pont upon completion
ot the building The observatory is on
4 peak of the Blue Ridge Mountains and
viii be in charge of Professor lIumph-
reyS, an eminent Virginia scientist. The
Government has established at Mount
Weather a weather experiment station
IN some respects different from any other
IN the world. 1t is pursuing inveStiga-
ton there along a line which, it IS be
lieved, will i'll time enable the bureau
to make predictions of the weather long
IN advance with almost as much accu-
racy as It now makes the daily forecast.
large amount of costly apparatus is
beng installed there. Scientists are look
ing forward to the result with great in
tereSt
When the family of w. H. Dowdy re-
turned TO their home in Northeast Roa-
loke, after an absence of Il day and
night, they discovered Dowdy uncon-
'clcuS and i'll a dying condition. Dowdy
lad been assaulted during the night by
unknown parties, who beat him on the
lead with a blaCkjack and left him for
lead, after robbing the house of SIS
II money and several articles of clothing
There Is little hope of his recovery.
The police are working on the case. but
as yet have no clue TO the identity OF
OowdyS asSailants.
The proposition to rid Bristol of the
own COW was defeated in a citizens
election by majority of I2S Cows
re- CO all IL
streets.
The Petersburg City Council appropri-
lted $4,000 for new sewers. sidewalks
sewers and a like amount for sidewalks.
and the remainder, $4,000, is for new
water mains.
A Norfolk and Western train ran down
and killed Night Waterman ]. b. We'd
lie in a tunnel near Eliston. The body
was badly manglcd He was 81 years
old and leaves family.
Hampton Oakes. white. and James
Pannell. colored. ferrymcn at Towler's
ferry, on the Staunton river were drown
ed while rowing a party across the river.
In the boat were ]. A. Ferguson and
his bride of a few hours; Rev. Mr..
Brooks, the clergyman who had married
men. A hawser connecting the boat
with an overhead cable broke. causing the
boat 10 turn with the current and fill.
Pannell and Cakes jumped overheard
and were immediately drowned. John-
ston climbed 10 the overhead cable and
succeeded iii towing the boat ashore.
The other three persons narrowly es-
capped death.
Erasmus Smith, colored. of Boydtown,
had quarrel with his wife and got
very angry. He requested the town ser
geant to lock him up, saying that he was
afraid to trust himself in his angry
mood, fearing he might do serious injury
to his wife The officer brought the
matter before the Mayor, who directed
that Smiths request be complied with
As soon as Smith got over his temper
he WIGS released from custody.
A. A. Laudell. farmer, and William
Winifred, a colored trackwaker. were
struck by Chesapeake and Ohio train
and killed half mile east of Windsor
Shades. The men were upon the veloci-
pede car belonging to the section master
and met the train. Engineer Chalkley
saw the handcar, and says the men made
not the slightest movement to Jump in an
effort to save their lives.
The Japanese Government has revoked
its contract with the American Tobacco
Company and has appointed James G.
Penn, of Danville, buyer on the Vir-
ginia markets. Several million pounds of
tobacco OF the new crop are to be fur
mShed. Japan enters the field with Mr.
Penn as an independent buyer The to-
bacco will be shipped direct and manu-
featured in Japan.
Joseph w. LABEL, of Richmond, shot
his wife, Annie, five times, inhicting seri-
Gus wounds. He then put bullet into
his own body below the heart, which will
prove fatal The man left let
tiers TO his two sisters, saying that he was
compelled 10 take the action he did be-
cause his wife had left him and was liv-
ing an improper life. He signed one of
these letters y. w. LABEL, the self-mur-
derer"
Bernard Stevens, son of Mr.. Wood
Stevens, Of Bathurst plantation, Essex