Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1905-06-24
Virginia News

The Woman's Monument Associa
tion of Essex county, now has SlO47. Z
to its credit for the erection of Con
federate Monument at Tappahannock
Former State Senator Thomas J
Christian, who was at one time circuit
Judge of Mathews and MiddleseA
counties, died at the Newport News
Hospital Friday as result of an at
tack of apoplexy.
Judge Bergman Green, who was
prominent in local and State affairs,
died suddenly at his home at Danville
Monday morning, aged SO years. He
was a captain in the Confederate
Army, and also served in the Consti-
tutional Convention of 190t1902, OF
which he was an influential member.
The State Corporation Commission
has made a ruling under which the
Standard Oil Company and the Ameri-
can Can Company are compelled to
pay charter fees of $4,000 and $1,000,
respectively. Ordinarily the fees
would be only 5000, but the charters
of the concerns give them the right to
exercise the privilege of transporta-
ton or transmission companies.
The Confederate Museum at Rich
mond has just been enriched by a
small piece of bacon which was issued
as a ration May 1854, to G. A. Wood
lief, of the Forty-fourth North Caro-
lima Regiment. AS it was nice, lean
piece, the soldier gave it to his broth
er, who was in hospital. The latter
put it in his haversack, where it was
found long after wrapped III oiled silk.
So far, fourteen States have taken
either complete or partial measures
for representation at the jamestown
exposition. OF these New York leads
with an appropriation of $50, 600;
Pennsylvania, 500, 200; New Jersey,
$50, 900, with promise of more; and the
others are Connecticut, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, North Carolina, Mary
land, Missouri, Florida, Georgia, Wis
consin, Michigan and Maine.
1t is stated by gentleman who is
in close touch with the affairs of the
jamestown Exposition Company that
the delay in the appointment of a sue
cessor to the late General Fitzhugh
Lee as president of the exposition is
due to a decided difference of opinion
between members of the board of
governors and President Roosevelt,
who has taken a great deal OF il
to est in the proposed exposition.
Judge T. r. B. Wright at Heaths-
vile decided a case of general inter-
est Tuesday. 1t came up on an appeal
from a Justices Court, where the de-
cision was against the defendant.
owners along water courses
claim they have the right to prevent
anyone grabbing on the shores of their
lands. Robt Blackwell, near Sunny
bank, had posted the shores adjoining
his lands. Lucius Hudnall grabbed
on the said shores and Mr.. Blackwell
had him arrested. The question in
volved important points, the chief one
being how far the Jurisdiction of ripa
rian owners extended. The court de
oided in favor of Mr.. Hudnall.-tree
Lance.
The comptroller of the currency has
completed an abstract of the reports
made to him by the eighty-four nation
al banks of Virginia as to their Condi-
lion at the close of business May %,
comptrollercalled upon them
The abstract shows that the total re-
sources of the banks at this time are
S74, $50, ,647, with liabilities the same.
The total loans and discounts are
s43, $50, 715. On the 9th of June, 1904,
-he total resources of seventy EIGHT
national banks then doing business
we're S67, 300, $50 and the total loans
and discounts S3S, 56,507. The fig
lres show an increase of six national
banks during the year, over s., 900, 900
IF resources and about S5,0O0,0O0 in
oans and discounts.