The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-02-15

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farm in = = -
Robert Hid W + ! = - - =
The prope5 E. s = i
as the Hand
number OF yeaV - |t 49, 1 80
been purchased =
II. Thomson, by - e
that city, who wiz
Ralph AlexandeS +
died at the home Il ia
K. d. Brinkley, 49,. i
the effects of a pist5v 81
breast. The ball euteiv -
heart, and ewas extract - !E|
clans from the youths ban i S.
ceived the wound is a m
Up to two months ago IN IL
worked as a messenger bc 80 8 II
William Turner, an IS-yeS Ii
is IN the Hampton Jail CHI
numbering his own father, NeS II
ner, who lived near Buckroe # S +
The boy says his father went hon +
drunken frenzy and threatened S
ho
brandishing revovler the boy attei -
20 take the weapon from him. He
unable to do so, but got arotifer rev
yer. The boy claims that his father 81
ing him with the pistol, fired at hin
whereupon ne shot the drunken man.
After decliaing one proposition recently
because the price was too high, the Win X
chester and Washington City Railway
Company practically closed a deal for
the purchase of the entire electric de-
partment and building containing it of
the Winchester Gas and Electric Light
Company, of which Charles H. Dickey,
of Baltimore, is president. The price
was not divulged This means that the
selling corporation will retire from the
electric lighting business and the pur-
chasing company will have a clear field
when it begins-on June Its contract
Ia furnish electricity for Winchester
and numerous other cities and towns
from its great waterpower plant at the
Shenandoah River, in Jefferson County,
West Virginia.
Information has reached Jamestown
Exposition headquarters that the Legis-
ature of Kentucky viii appropriate $4o-
900 for the Exposition, instead Of S25,-
900. The Appropriation Committee of
the Kentucky Legislature has recon-
mended this sum after a debate in which
the majority favored an appropriation ct
only $4,000 because OF other heavy ap-
preparations. A minority OF the COM
mittee held out for $5o,Ooc, and $4,000 4
was the compromise figure
Negroes at Danville held up and rob- r.
bed two white men from the country
J. A. Bowles, of Pittsylvania County.
and G. T. Roach. of Henry County,
Three negroes with revolvers approached
the white men. 1t happened that the
farmers had not sold their tobacco and
neither of them had much money about
his person. However, the negroes got
what they had. Two police offAers aD-
peared on the scene soon afterward aid
went in pursuit of the negroes, but did
not succeed in making any arrests.
The holograph will of Albert L. John
son, money broker of New Orleans, who
died in Lynchburg while visiting
brother, was probated Judge John D.
Horsley qualifying as administrator and
giving bond for $3oo,ooo. indicating that
approximately $4,000 passes under the
will The widow and daughter OF the de-
ceased, who were appointed executors.
by the instrument, waived their rights to
qualify. The entire estate, excepting
$1,000 for funeral expenses, goes to Miss
Cora c. Johnson, the daughter the wild
ow getting nothing under the will
Mrs. H. J. Wolfe and Mrs. w. G.
Goff, of Bristol, have received advices !
that they are heirs to an estate in S.
Louis and Nebraska valued at $006
They are said to have been to
vided for in the will Of Aliens 4 e
OF St. Louis, and will send re - - ! :
tive to St. Louis to investigate the nlatcS s (
II. L. Page was by order of Fed
eral Judge Waddill at Norfolk removed
as one of the three receivers Of the BayAt
Shore Railroad in litigation there. s.
causes appearing to the court" is the {
only reason given for the removal b.
w. Leigh and J. A. c. Groner are to CON
tine as receivers, with full powers. Re-
ceivcr Page and associates in the old s
Bay Shore Company holding investing -
bonds to the extent of $4,000, recen
sold out all of their holdings in PhiladeI
phia to one of several interests report
to be deSirous of buying the receiSSr
property. This is reported to ha9 ( 1
The cause OF Pages removal
Judge Blackstone, sitting in chamt s
az the Hotel Warwick, Newport Ne
rendered his decision in the
Mrs Alice |&snnebaum, ha p
woman was ~ >sIad II
vered TO DR.. = : 8