The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-12-13
DO|NGS OF THE OLD DOMINION
The Latest Virginia News Told in
Short Order.

DR.. Campbell Anderson, who was
reported to have died suddenly at
his home at Gate City, was really
killed in his drug store. When found
he lay in pool of his own blood in
dying condition. An artery had
been severed I'm the right arm and
from the wound he bled to death.
Dr. Andersoos brother-in-law, James
Nelms, young man, is under ar
rest, being accused of the killing. Ii
is stated that the two men had not
been on good terms for some time.
. They were in the store alone on the
might of the killing, SO that Nelms
was the only peson who could tell
how it happened. His version is, ii
is stated, that DR.. Anderson severed
the artery in his arm with suicidal
intent. The injury, however. was
to his right arm and he was left
handed q The coroner is investigat-
ing the case.
1t is rumored that Major Luther
j. Cheatwood, Capt. V. A. Bowles
and Capt. r. Page Burwell, of the
Richmond Light Infantry Blues bat
talon, the select military organiza-
ton of the State, have resigned. The
officers in question, the Governor and
the adjudant general, refuse TO dis
cusS the matter. The trouble in the
battalion began some time ago, when
the 4Blues were in Baltimore and
arose out of a difficulty between an
officer and a private The commits
stoned officers offered some time aSo
Ito resign, but for certain reasons
their designations were not accepted
at that time. 1t is generally under
stood that the officers in question
will now be relieved of duty.
That the jamestown Exposition
Company will be granted a loan of
$1,OO0,000 in the-~onfident opinion
expressed by Harry st. George Tuck
err, president of the Exposition, and
Lieut.-Gcv. j. Taylor Ellyson, of the
Exposition board of governors. who
returned from Washington. They
found sentiment among Senators and
Representatives favorable to it..
Judge r. Carter Scott at Richmond
appointed e. a. Catlin receiver for
the Prudential Fire Insurance Com
pany5of West Virginia. and the. At
anta-Birmingham Life Insurance
Company. The application for re-
celvership was made by Virginia pol
icy holders. The receivership was
forced by losses suffered by the Pru-
dential of West Virginia in the great
San Francisco disaster. The Pruden-
:ial was reinsured in the Atlanta
| birmingham, and dragged that COM
pany down with it. Phe assets and
liabilities of both s companies are
comparatively small. The home Of
ice of the Prudential is at Tazewell,
va. The company was incorporated
! n West Virginia.. Insurance Com
missioner Button recommended to
hn bot
that the licenses of the Germen Ma
Gonal Insurance Company of Chi
cago and the German Insurance Com
oany, Of Freeport, ILL.,, be revoked
| Each company has deposited with the
state Treasurer the $4,000 required
by law for the protection of policy
holders, but Commissioner Button
made the recommendation on the
ground that they sustained allegedly
whitening losses In the San Fran
isco disaster. Their agents in Rich
! mond have been notified to show,
| cause why the recommendation
should not be adopted.
Fire of unknown origin threaten
| cd for several hours the destruction
! Of Fort Wool, commonly known as
the Rip Raps, and located in the
Lower Chesapeake Bay, just off Fort
MOnTOe. 1 mere Is no communication
from the fort to the shore except by
boat, and the troops in the fort were
sometime in giving the alarm to Fort
/ Monroe.
Colonel Harrison, commandant of
| Fort Monroe, and Major Strong, with
a bucket brigade of 100 men, quick
| ly boarded the Army tug Reno and
went to the assistance of the gar
4 riSOn in the bay The fire originated
| in one of the Oldest buildings Of
/ Fort Wool. and that building was
destroyed before the Reno reached
! the scene. Famed by high wind,
she flames rapidly ate through build
ings toward the powder magazine;
J but. after a heroic fight, Colonel
! Harrison and his men extinguished
| the blaze before it reached the maga-
! zine The lives OF the officers AMI
! soldiers were endangered until the
flames were under control. When
| the fire-fightefs returned tc Fort
Monroe they were greeted with
| cheers by the soldiers of the fort and
several hundred guests of IT, Cham
berlin Hotel. who had watched tho
battle from the shore
John T.. Jones, a w lite man, com
I monty known as Father" Jones,
was acquitted In the Corporation
Court in Norfolk on the charge OF