The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1905-09-14
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From All Over
The State.

South, Bristol, which was recently COM
pleted at cost of $4,000, was dedi-
Gated Sunday. The sermon, BY DIR. Col
Inns Denny, of Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, was listened to BY more than
1850 persons. In this church the Hol-
Ston Conference will hold its annual
meeting next month. A love feast held
IN the church in the afternoon was con-
Quoted by DR.. David SullinS, of Clcve-
land, Tenn.
In Mecklenburg county the tobacco
crop VIII be more than ? 5per cent. be-
low the average. The low prices have
not discouraged the farmers. but the
weather has been entirely
100 much rain. For this reason the crop
IS light. The falling off will not be in
acreage, but in weight. AT this time the
farmers are all busy curing the weed. 1t
I all now hue cured.
There was disastrous fire in the to-
oaco factory section of Danville, entail
ing loss closely approximating 100000,
which was only partially insured. The
| origin of the fire is a mystery. One of
the factories destroyed was occupied by
! John B. Anderson & Co., and the other
one Jointly by the same firm and Mr..
Chalmers Patterson, a leaf dealer. Both
buildings, which were brick structures,
were destroyed together with their con-
tents. The Union warehouse, George f.
| Coleman & Co, proprietors, was badly
! damaged. ]. B. Anderson & Co. are the
heaviest losers by the fire. They had to-
bacco valued at $4,000 stored in the
house and carried 10000 insurance.
Lee BarkSdale, colorcd, an escaped
prisoner from the chain gang, was shot
! Danville by Alfred Henderson, colored,
who had also escaped from the chain
! gang. BarkSdale'S wound. which is in the
shoulder, is not considered dangerous.
A dynamite explosion at the Clayton
mineS, operated by the Pulaski Company,
near Pulaski, killed William Goings, col
ored, blacksmith, and dangerously
wounded his I4-year-old son. A third
OF box OF the explosive had been left
in the blacksmith shop where the men
were working. How it was exploded is
not known. The shop was blown into
kindling wood and all the clothes were
blown off of the dead man. He had been
at work only a short time when the ex-
plosion took place.
But for the timely arrival of several
men Miss Annie Dixon, who conducts
fashionable hairdressing parlor for la
dies on the fifth floor of the Law Build
ing, on Main Street, Lynchburg, would
have been burned TO death. Miss Dixon
was using an alcohol lamp, which ex-
ploded, throwing the burning fluid over
her clothing. Instantly she was in a
light blaze. She ran TO a nearby bath
room, screaming as she went. and en-
deavored TO throw water upon the flames.
She returned to her parlor. and there she
was thrown TO the floor and rolled i'm a
rug, which completely extingushed the
FIRE. Miss Dixon was severely injured
and all her clothing from her waist up
was burned off her
The police authorities of Stephen City
are investigating the discovery of a heal
thy looking white baby, about weeks
old, that was mysteriously placed on the
front porch of the residence of John
MaSsie, in the suburbs of that town. while
the family were absent Suspicion is said
20 point to a woman whose name the
police refuse TO divulge.
AT Mountain City. near Bristol, Jeff
church has been sentenced 10 10 years
II the penitentiary for the murder of
lanes Campbell. The citizens are said
% be indignant over the verdict The
murder was a brutal one Church having
ramped his victims face while the latter
vas pleading for mercy after he had been
shot , times.
Buried for nearly an hour under sew
sral tons of lumber was the frightful ex-
oerience of John RaineS, teamster from
Hampshire County, West Virginia. in
Winchester. He is at Memorial Hos
pital in a precarious condition. A wheel
Of the wagon which Haines was driving
fell off and the lumber wagon upset,
pinning Haines under the heavy lad
Two large surgeons, one weighing
500 pounds and the other about 200
pounds. were captured in the Rappahan-
mock river at the foot of the fails above
Fredericksburg. Both surgeons had got
Ten into shallow water.
Roanoke was offered $4,000 for the
GiSh farm of 10 acres, purchased about
two years ago for $4,000 for park pur-
poses. The offer was made bv the Tide
water Railway Company, which recently
| purchased the fair grounds of 30 acres,
lying half mile east of the GiSh farm.
The offer must be accepted within Ten
days or II will be Withdrawn. Roanoke
business men say it indicates that Ro-
| anoke IS TO have the shops OF the new
| road.
Superintendent of Construction J. +.
Wrenn, of the Tidewater Railroad, an
! nounced that VIM. J. Oliver. represent
ing Sands & Oliver, of Roanoke, had
closed million-dollar deal with the
Southern Railway. The contract calls
for the double-tracking of the Southern
from Morristown to Knoxville and the
building of branch line from Chatta-
nooga to Stephenson, all i'll Tennessee.
Sands & Oliver were recently relieved OF
part of their contract ito build the
roadbed for the first 100 miles of the
Underwater. Superintendent Wrenn saws
the contractors get 100000 for build
l., 4
and MorriSiown, which is now being
constructed under Lookout Mountain.
The resignation of Rev DR.. Robert J.
AlcBridge as rector of Robert L. Lee
Memorial Episcopal Church, of Lexing-
ION, has been accepted by the vestry. DR..
McBridge goes TO ST. Georges Church.
fredericksburg. For over p years DR..