The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-10-25
lOINGS OF THE OLD DOMINION
The Latest Virginia News Told in
Short Order.


The funeral of Mrs. Varina Jeffer-
son Davis took place at 3 o'clock
Friday afternoon from ST. Pauls
Church, Richmond, and the body, ac-
companied by procession of COnfed-
crate organizations and military, was
conveyed to Hollywood Cemetery,
where it was laid to rest beside the
grave of her husband, the president
of the COnfederacy. 1t rained almost
continuously thOughout the day and
greatly interfered with, though it did
not wholly prevent, the carrying out
of the program. The funeral party
from New York consisted Of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. Addison Hayes, Jefferson II.
Davis, Miss Hayes and DR.. and Mrs.
Webb, Of the Davis family. a de-
tail of Confederate veterans acted "a
honorary guard.
First Lieutenant Robert NJ. Eli
colt, a student officer in the Fort
Monroe Artillery School, died at the
fort hospital after an illness of three
weeks. Lieutenant Ellicott was 27
years old and was commissioned a
second lieutenant in the infantry
branch Of the Army from the ranks
three years ago, and had only recent
ancy.
Suits aggregating $4,000 were
brought in Richmond as the result
of an accident at Murphy's Hotel
some weeks ago, when G. Ham Reed,
City Detective Thomas ]. w. Rem
and Special Capitol Policeman George
w. Haynes, generally known as
Long Tom" were precipitated to
the cellar of the hotel and seriously
injured by the giving way of a tenn
porary plank covering over an open
ing where an iron door was to be
put. Col. John Murphy, proprietor
/ of the hotel, and the Richmond Iron
works are made defendants to the
suits. Mr.. Reed sues for $4,000
and the other two for $1,000 each.
While on the way to the home of
his fiancee, Miss Fannie Lee, of Lees
Mill, William S. HuntOn, of New
Baltimore, was caught in the swollen
waters of Cedar Run and drowned.
The accident occurred at Auburn,
where fOrding is generally a simple
matter, but the stream since the last
rain has been converted into a rush
ing torrent. 1t is presumed that the
young man underestimated the force
of the current when he attempted
the passage.
Charles w. Smith, of Warrenton,
n prominent hOrSeman and manager
of the Norfolk Horse Show, has rid
| den his last ride, falling last Friday
night with his mount, the brown
! gelding Simbad, of Warrenton Farm,
| just as the animal had cleared the
| third hurdle in an event for jumpers
! the horse rolled completely over and
| stepped on him in regaining his feet,
and the horseman is now at deaths
| door at st. Vincent's Hospital His
| spine is fractured at the twelfth dor
| sal vertebDae, and the entire body
! below that point paralyZed.
A. c. Parker, walking boss, en-
! ployed by a Tidewater Railway con-
| tractor. and an Italian known as Jack
! were drowned in New River, near
RadfOrd. Parker, with six Italians.
was crossing the swollen stream
when a cable broke and Parker and
| Jack were thrown into the swift cur
rent and swept down the stream.
! The other men in the boat were res
! cued with much difficulty Parker
| and Jack managed to swim a short
! distance toward the bank, but soon
were exhausted and sank.
| Leo Hughes young business man,
and Jessie Vogle. daughter of Dr..
! George b. VOgle, a Roanoke physi-
/ 2lan, elOped to Bristol, but when
! they reached the border city
| policeman, acting on telegram from
! the young lady's parents, met them
| at the depot and arrested the girl.
/ She was locked in a room in tho
! st. Lawrence Hotel, a guard was
/ placed on the outside and her family
! notified. Her mother went to Bristol
/ to bring her daughter back, bur
/ shortly before she arrived the young
! lady escaped through a window and
was taken down a ladder by her
, lover. The couple hurried to Par
! son Burroughs home and were mar
/ ried.
The initial prosecutions under the
| federal statute enacted as the result
! of the exposure of alleged shanghai
! Ing and cruelties on the part of
/ Chesapeake Bay oyster dredge and
! schooner commanders to members of
their crews last winter were intro
/ duced In Norfolk when viii Shaws.
/ of Sanford. Accomac County. and
! Medic Drummond, of Drummond-
town, in the same county, both Of
! the oyster sloop Madcap, were ar
! rested and arraigned before United
! states Commissioner Stephenson,
| charged with having, by fals2 repre-
! sentations, carried aboard their boat
John Wright, a negro yonsisu.Aho
1t is charged they 49, hin O,