The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-02-08
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ward in the City Council and toolSS
active part in all municipal affairs.
was the senior member of the real a.
tate firm of A. M. Higgins & Co.. andV
previous to the establishment of the
firm was for many years chief clerk in
the Office of the United States pay
master. He served with the Fourth
Virginia Regiment in he Spanish
American War, leaving with the first
troops from Norfolk and re urning with
TIE last.
Jno. r. Tanner, aged about 90 years, was
instantly killed by train on the South
ern railway short distance below
Lynchburg. Tanner was walking on
the tracks and evidently did not hear
the approach of the train
Miss Eva Mckee lies at th& home of
her mother, Mrs. Julia McKeeAof Hay
field, suffering from a badly fractured
left arm and serious nervous sho9& as the
result of being thrown and drs by
a runaway horse she was ridid
A negro fagman was killed
afternoon express on the Chesapf
Ohio railroad a short distance
Lynchburg He had been
flag the express and fell asleep
sitting on the track -
What appears to have been ii
ate effort to wreck one of the ia s|
of the Southern Railway. a mile
Franklin Junction, resulted in s.
bound freight being wrecked. Fl
were smashed into splinters and ~
eine was turned upside down a 81
track No one was seriously
But for the fact that the Was i :
and Jacksonville Express lost 20
at Greensboro that train wou
gone into the trap The lock i
switch at Wards siding was bro
the switch thrown wide open.
red signal, which was exposed
turning of the switch, was tw
show the white or clear-track 81
The boiler of sawmill in
vania County belonging to Alphe5
giesworth burst and man nams
shall was killed. Two others werS
iously injured.
The body of Walter P. Dolsen
found jammed into a trunk ready
Shipment He was corporal of mariA
who had Just been paid and dischar
from the receiving ship Franklin at n
folk, after service of FIVE yearsl 80
was 20 years old. Dolsen was preparing
to visit his home in Bremerton. Wash
ington State, and is supposed to have had
$500 IN money on his person. He was
invited by Charles f. Taylor to share his
room at the boarding house of M. F.
barrett, 500 East Main Street. and has
oeen there for several days. Taylor
bought the trunk in which the body was :
packed and the last seen of him was
when he came to the house again with
a cord to tie around the trunk When
the members of the family called the
police the bedclothing was found bloody.
blood-stalned hatchet was found, and
when the body was found it was seen
That the skull of the marine was frac-
tured. There was no money on Dolsen's
body. A general alarm was sent out for
the arrest of Taylor. He is "a wears old.
weighs $50 pounds, has a downy mus
tache, mole on his chin and wears a
double-breasted gray coat.
The most sensational advances erR
recorded in the price of lumber in the
South Atlantic States was ordered at a
meeting of the North Carolina Pine AS
'ociation held at Norfolk. The price on
all grades of lumber was advanced So a.
thousand feet for some of the better
grades and S. on some other grades,
Principally the lower. This means a ner>>
advance IN prices of from ) to almost
IS per cent, according to grade. Fol
lowing closely as it does on the several
advances IN price ordered by the North :
Carolina Pine Association last year, lunl-
Der is now far higher than it ever before
has been in the Southern market.
Senator Harvey L. Garrett, Republican,
member from Covington, died after a
brief illness at Memorial Hospital, in
Richmond. Senator Garrett was a native
Of Southern Ohio, from which section
ae removed about 1890 to Covington, 4
Va, where for the past 10 years he has
2ractlced law. He married Miss Skeen.
laughter of Robert NJ. Skeen, of Gov
ngton, and granddaughter of Gen.
William Skeen. His wife was with hi
at the time of his death, havisi i =
o Richmond with her mothex I'D
entered the Memorial HospS bree
lays before for treatme2< - Gar
fett was first cous4 led States
Senator ForakeE.u q, and was re- 4
lated to other yiit citizens OF his
aative State,
Jackson 'eemaker, aged 20 years,
and surhe best-known citizens of
Rock - County, had a narrow es-
c9Ptkom death at his sawmill in Hop
SlnS Gap. Mr.. Shoemaker attempted to
torce rough board in the saw, when
- SSN~ 0No1p was QIdXHCQ onto
the saw. His arm was mangled and he
is in grave danger of blood poisoning.
His son shut off the power at once. and
this fact probably saved his life. Mr..
Shoemaker walked half a mile to his
home, and came very near bleeding to.
death. -
The Lancaster Automatic Railway
Crossing Company was organized at Pc
tersburg with an authorized capital of
$4,000. The officers are: G. w Ian
caster, of Richmond, president, and M.
A. Fem, of Petersburg, secretary and
treasurer. The above-named officers,
with Charles Trotter Lassiter, of Peters
burg, are the directors The purpose OF
the company is to install safety railroad
crossings in the United States and for
eign countries.
The crusade aoainSt in,ours foNd ~ -