The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-05-10
TIE OLD DOmINON.
Latest News Cleaned From All Over tbe
State.

I
Southern railway, was killed bv being
run over by a passenger train near Dan
Vilie. Mr. Shankle was engaged in
transferring several freight cars in the
yards and stepped directly in front OF
an outgoing train bound for Richmond.
! ne was about IS years old and came
mere recently from Concord, n. c.
The Ladies Memorial Association Of
fredericksburg has selected THURSDAY.
May Il, Tor memorial day. when the
graves of ali the Confederate dead in
the cemetery here will be decorated and
program appropriate to the occasion
will be carried out.
Mr.. Percy Rowe, formerly of Caroline
county, now OF San Fransicco has mott
fed his many relatives that he and his
family are all alive and escaped unhurt
during the earthquake and fire AZ San
Francisco.
The campaign for the securing of the
$4,000 for the Virginia Christian Col
lege to secure the $4,000 offered bv An
drew Carnegie started off with a rush
when a gift OF 5000 was announced.
Inc name of the donor has not been
made public.
Jacob d. kiger, prominent retired
business man OF Winchester. who went
;otallly blind several months ago, suf-
tered a severe stroke OF paralysis recent
ly, but Friday he was reported improved
and his cycSight has been completely
restored. Doctors regard his case as
marvellous.
Hugo Clay the II-year-old son OF
Herndon Clay, of Richmond, was acci-
dentally shot and severely wounded
while handling a gun With a compan-
ION, he was hunting rats near an old
store on the Government Road. The
gun which he was carrying struck block
OF wood and was accidentally discharged
The load lodged in the lads shoulder
tearing away a large portion of the
hesh. The companion of young Clay
who was near at the time OF the acci.
dent was slightly wounded
The Poe Memorial Association was incor.
porated at Richmond by the State Corpor
alton Commission. The purposes Of the
corporation, as set forth in the articles OF
Incorporation, are TO erect a stutue ir
ny Rory of Edgar Allan Poe, and there
is no capital stock or financial considera
ton mentioned. The directors OF the
association are Rev Edward n. Caliscb.
Col Joseph L. Willard. Col w. Gordon
McCabe, James T. Cannon and Charles
NJ. Graves, all OF this city The officers
OF the association are not given in the
charter.
The White Oak Coal Company. which
has Offices in Richmond, has recently pur-
chased from McGufie < Co., of Fayette
County, West Virginia, the Harvey, Pru-
dence and Dunn Loop coal mines, all of
which are in Fayette County. The pur-
chase price was in the neighborhood OF
SI,Ooo,ooo The company controls 28
mines in the New River district, an its
output is now swelled by the new &C
qusition of 10000 tons a day, which is
far greater than that of any other COM
pany operating i'll that section Of the
State. w. +. Smith, manager of the
Richmond branch of the White Oak Coal
Company, when seen said that while
there is slight disturbance among the
miners in the New River District. the
district is among the few in the United
States which are not organized, and
consequently IS in nOwise affected by the
soft-coal miners strike
Announcement was made that the COM
Ing of President Roosevelt TO Ports
mouth May 80 to make the Memorial
Day address before the Army and Navy
Union will be made the occasion of a
grand reunion Of the Army and Navy
Union, which is expected TO bring up
ward of 10000 members of that organiza-
ito to Norfolk and Portsmouth for par
ticipation in the parade and other cerc-
monies incident to the Presidents pres
ence. The committee of arrangements
at Portsmouth has arranged to have all
the school children greet the President
from stand in the Portsmouth Court
house Square, near the Confederate
Monument, on which stand the President
Will be asked to join the children and
address them while EN- route from the
Norfolk Navy Yard across the city Of
Portsmouth to the Naval Hospital
grounds.
The Peoples Bank of Blackstone, has
just been organized, with John S. Fps,
president, and W. NJ White cashier.
The paidup capital of the bank is $3s,oOo.
The cornerstone of the new national
bank building being erected on the cor
ner of Sycamore and Tabb Streets. Pc
tersburg, was laid by the Masonic lodges.
The orator of the occasion was DR.. J.
w. EgglestOn, of Richmond, Grand Sen
ior Warden of Virginia. The new bank
building is to cost $4,000 and will be
completed some time next fall
James Fades, about so years old, who
was i'll the last stages of consumption
and who could not have lived longer
than a few weeks, committed suicide in
Amherst, opposite Lynchburg He stab
bed himself the heartwitha pocket knife
after having Jabbed the knife in his throat
He was found BY neighborS. Fades had
been confined to his bed for nearly two
months. He was a builder. He had
hfNa 81
divorced from his last wife, who is still
living.
Treasurer Geo. H. Kinzel, Of the
Morgan Memorial Association, announc-
eI that he had received plans and speci-
hcatiOns for 4 monument over thl. ocrare