The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-08-30
DOINGS OF THE OLD DOMINION
The Latest Virginia News Told in
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Lynch was entered, but the intruders
were evidently frightened away be-
ore they secured anything. The home
of the Misses Maggie and Lettie Smith
was also broken into. They were
leeping upstairs when they heard a
noise below. Upon investigation they
found the house broken omen. and
there was strong ordOr of chloro-
torn. a freight train had lust run
INTO the siding in front of the house.
ana the train crew promptly respond
ed to the calls for help. The con-
ductor fired at the fleeing burglars,
but they escaped.
After suffering several wears from
consumption, Daniel T. Wood. Jr.,
uied at the residence of his father,
near Winchester. in the thirty-second
year OF his age. He is survived by
VIE one daughter, his father. and
four sisters.
William II. Hicks, welI-knOwn
business man of Fredericksburg, died
at his home in that city after a
lingering illness of a complication Of
diseases, aged thirty-five years. He
Is survived by his wife, mother, two
brothers, and one sister.
Miss Senia Condry, aged about
slXty-fve years, a professional nurse,
was struck by an electric car in Rich:
mond, and was instantly killed. She
was crossing the street when the
car Knocked her down, cutting her
body in half.
MISS Martha Shanholtz. the eigh-
teen-year-old daughter of Jesse Shan
holtz, living at Gainesboro. was
struck by lightning while driving
COWS from pasture. She was serious
~ shocked and Il shoe was burned
from her foot. She will recover.
TWO OF the COWS were killed.
The United States government pur-
chased two acres of ground adjoining
the Federal Cemetery, near Rich
mond, which will be added to the
inclosure. The cemetery is filled
with graves to the doors of the
heepeT's residence. and bodies con-
tlnue to be sent there for burial.
The price was $500.
Clayton Inge, aged seventeen years
was killed by falling from the Big
otter bridge. on the Norfolk and
Western Railway, in Bedford County.
on which he was at work. He is
son OF w. J. Inge. of Lynchburg. :
Engineer Coleman, of the Virginia
Highway Commission, was in Nor
folk for the purpose of surveying a
route for the jamestown Exposition
boulevard, which is to be a magnifi-.
cent highway connecting the city of.
Norfolk with the Exposition grounds.
SIX miles away. The engineer i'm
mediately commenced his work.
Rev. Norman Luck has resigned
as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist
Church in Essex County.
Teh public schools of Fredericks-
burg will open for the next session
on Monday, September 8.
John Holland, colored, is at the
Alexandria Hospital with a bullet
hole in him, the result. it is claimed,
of an alteration between himself
and Deputy Sheriff O'Connor. of Fair
fax County. The colored man is in
serious condition.
Anton Cachora. well-dressed
foreigner about forty-five years old,
hanged himself by his leather belt
from the limb of a tree on the pub
lie highway four miles from Radford
No cause is known for his act. Pa
pers found on his person showed
that he had been employed by the
Baldwin Locomotive Works, of
Philadelphia, and the Macarthur
Brothers Company, his check num-
ber being 1862 with the former and
lo7 with the latter. and that he sent
money home to Moria Cachora, at
Resicza. He was taken before the
mayor of Radford in the morning
on the charge of being a suspicious
character. but was dismissed. He
could speak but little English, but
said that he was a machiniSt and
was looking for work
Elijah Pierce. white man, forty
five yeras old, was shot and killed
by an unknown negro. The shoot
ing took place near the Berryville
Horse Show grounds. and is reported
TO have occurred while they were
drinking and gambling. The negro
escaped after the shooting and has
not been caught. Pierce was labor
er and lived in the Blue Ridge
Mountains eight miles from Berry
Vile.
John Ellington, a street car motor
man from Richmond. was killed in
a trolley collision in the suburbs of
Norfolk. Ellington was switching
his car into the Norfolk and Ports
mouth Traction Company barns><When
heavier car, running eard the
city, crashed into his<SF, wreckinS
it. Ellington, ila&g in the wrOng
direction, waseEght under the car.
and received injuries from which he
subsequently died at st. Vincent's
Hospital.
Durins a severe thunderstorm in
Shenandoah County, about fifteen
miles west of Luray, while the body
Of Mrs. Mary j. Mayer was on it's
way to the graveyard, a few miles
south Of New Market, large tree
was blown across the hearse, de-
molishing that vehicle. The coffin
had to be removed from the hearse
and loaded into road wagon. and
The journey was continued To the
hSrial ground. The storm is re
ported to have been the most severe
in many years, aAA-yl7e public high