The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-03-15
THE OLD DOMINION.
Latest News Cleaned From All Over the
State.

Ihelma, the hve-year-old daughter Of
Nicholas Ferrell, of Lambert's Point,
who was badly bitten by a dog, is the
object of great anxiety. Her face was
so lacerated that six stitches were re-
quired to close the wounds and one OF
her teeth was forced out. The dog was
killed and its head sent TO the Pasteur
Institute to ascertain if the animal was
mad.
While the dredge of the Atlantic
Dredging Company was dredging the Ap-
pamattox River at Petersburg it brought
up live turtle, the largest ever seen in
that section. 1t measured z8 inches wide
and 40 inches long and took two men to
take If of the cutter head of the dredge.
Alfred Ga5tons, well-known negro OF
Westmoreland County, while digging a
well, near Hague, was killed by the cav
ing in of the sides of the well. He was
suffocated
1t was announced at Lynchburg that J.
:. Paxton, a lime manufacturer. Of
woodstock, had given 5000 for the pur-
pose OF erecting a new cottage at the
Presbyterian Orphanage, which is located
near Lynchburg.
The members of the Lynchburg bar tel
egraphed Judge Beverly Crump an ex-
preston of their confidence in his per-
esonal and official integrity, and express
ing themselves as believing he is still
thoroughly competent in all respects to
remain as member of the State Corpor-
alton Commission, despite the censure
placed upon him by the investigating
committee of the Legislature. The pa
per was circulated by J. Tinsley Coleman,
who was associated with the defense of
J. Samuel McCue, who was hanged at
charlottesville. 1t was signed my many
attorneys
Henry Campbell, a travelling salesman.
whose home was at Middlesboro. XIV.
was found dead in his room at the John-
son Hotel, at Pennington Gap. BY his
side was an empty laudanum bottle.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
OF the South Atlantic Life Insurance
Company, of Richmond, was held in the
Mutual Building. The reports showed a
hne financial condition. Edmund Strud-
wick was reelected president. Several
offers 10 buy the company have been
rejected and the South Atlantic lie will
continue on an independent basis as a
home company.
Judge r. Carter Scott, of the Circuit
Court OF Henrico, has not yet made an
appointment 10 fll the vacancy created bv
the death OF County Treasurer Todd.
Among those being mentioned by their
friends for the treaSurership are Deputy
treasurer, H. c. Hechler, T. Walker
yeter, deputy of the former treasurer.
Mr.. Brauer, and T. J. Todd, the late
treaSurer'S son. The treasurer's Office is
closed pending the appointment.
With the back of his head scanned bv
deep gashes and his face bruised and
beaten into pulp, the body of a negro
about 90 years old was found on the
chesapeake and Ohio viaduct in Fulton,
lying face down between the rails. Cor
oner Taylor held an inquest. The man is
supposed to be H. Martin Diggs. of Lo-
Gust Creek, Louisa County. 1t is thought
he fell from a train.
Ulysses Hotel, employed by the South
ern Railway as a coal-passer at Stras-
burg Junction suddenly became a raving
maniac in coal bin. He is thought to
be hopelessly insane He keeps at work
constantly Shoveling coal and shouting
that he is getting rich" The efforts of
rallroaderS TO quiet him have been in
vain. His home is in Woodstock.
ItssAKas announced from the general
Offices q the jamestown Exposition
company that tower exceeding in alti-
tude the celebrated Eifel Tower at Paris
VIII IN all probability, be erected on the
Exposition grounds. A cablegram has
0een sent toLondon for plans and speci-
hcauons. Fle tower would carry up-
ward OF 10000 incandesccnt lights and
could be seenfor miles at sea at night.
The brother of c. H. Higgins, who
died IN the Jail at Norfolk, purposes to
sue the city for the neglect of his broth
er's welfare. Higgins was arrested and
sentenced to jail for 80 days for steal
ing ham. He was addicted to the NOR
phine habit, and the contention of his
brother is that he. was under the infu-
ence OF morphiAe and that he had no
intention of stealing. The autopsy show
ed that he died as the result of organic
disease of the liver.
Mrs. Mary Augustus Allen, formerly
Miss lronmonger, OF Portsmouth. filed
SUIT at Norfolk, asking for divorce
from her hnshand, Dr. NJ r. Allen,
homeopathicsp physician Mrs Allen ap-
plieS Tor limited divorce, alleging cruel
ty, failure to provide and many other
things. She demands alimony, her attor-
neys fees and $1,000 in money loaned
before and since the marriage. The
marriage occurred in Brooklyn, N. Y,
May IL, 1905. There are no children.
After being out for about two ..ours,
the jury in the case of John Gerkin, at
Newport News, charged with killing
Walter FELTON,, brought. in the verdict of
not guilty. The case was taken up in
the Corporation Court and the jury rem
dered its verdict about 7-4o o'clock P.