The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-05-23
IOINGS OF THE GID DOMINION
The Latest Virginia News Told in
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James Nelms. IT, young wn1te
man who has ben on trial for sew
eral days at cate City, Scott County,
Tor the M der of his brOther-in-law,
Or. Isaac c. Anderson, was senten-
ced to le year in the penitentiary,
the rcict being reached after much
evifencc had been introduced TO
show that the two men were quarrel
ing IN Anderson's home, when Nelms
cut the physician on the arm, sever
ing an artery, which caused death
Anderson was the leading physician
of Gate City and also owned a drug
store.
The committee appointed at a re-
cent public meeting in Petersburg
to take charge Of the arrangements
for the reproduction of the Battle
or the Crater, July 80, decided chat,
in view of the fact that the Common
Council has refused to make the
$4,000 appropriation requested tor
that purpose, it would be iRadvisable
to undertake the big show, one of
the main purposes of which was to
arouse the interest and secure the
aid of the federal and state govern
ments in the proposed establishment
OF a national battlefield park on the
Civil War battlefields around Peters
burg.
Charging his aged father-in-law,
Bost Ferril, of Schoolfield a suburb
of Danville, with persuading his wife
to desert him, together with his
twelve children, about eighteen
months ago, Manuel Coggins arrived
In Danville from Stanley County, n.
g, to institute legal proceedings.
C6ggins was married to Elizabeth
Ferril, daughter of Bost Ferril. in
January, 1878, and declares that af-
ter living in peace for more than
twenty-Seven years, his domestic life
was broken up by the means of his
tather-in-law, who persuaded his
wife and children to denly leave
hlm. Coggins further declares that
Ferril, who is an aged man, worked
the little ones in the cotton mills for
his own support. Mrs. Coggins. he1
father, and the children are now iiv-
ing at SchoOlfeld, and It is the in
tentlon of the husband to attempt
to regain the affection of his wife,
and, if not successful, to file divorce
proceedings.
A notable legal fight between the
Miehle Printing Press COMPANY. OF
Chicago, Ill, and the Shenandoah
Valley National and Farmers and
Merchants National Banks, Of Win
chester, has been finally decided by
the United States Circuit Court of
Appeals at Richmond. The dismis-
sal of the Miehle COmpany's petition
by the United States Court is a vic
tory for the two blanks, whose loans
TO the Eddy Press Corporation, out
or whose assignment the suit grows.
aggregate SIS, 900. The plant of the
Eddy Press, located at Winchester.
was sold by trustees, and the Win
chester banks claimed the entire
proceeds of the sale to liquidate
loans made to the Eddy Press. The
Mlehle Company, Dill & Collins, of
Philadelphia, and other creditors
threw the Eddy Press into bank
ruptcy, and the Miehle COMPANY
claimed prior lien on the proceeds
OF the sale of the plant \ referee
in bankruptcy first decided the case
in favor of the banks. and the
Miehle Company took an appeal to
the United States District Court at
Lynchburg. There they again lost.
and an appeal was taken to the
United States Circuit Court of Ap-
pealS. 1t is not likely that the case
will be taken to the Supreme Court
of the United States The Miehle
Company's claim amounted to ST.
500, and they have already expend-
ed in litigation more than $4,000
besides having lost their claim.
Clement d. Fishburne died at MS
home in Charlottesville. Mr.. Fish
burne was 75 years oid, born in
WaynesbOro, Va. and was educated
at Washington College, now Wash
ington Lee University, and at the
University of Virginia. He practised
law in Charlottesville for many
years. but for the last 20 years he
had been cashier of the Bank of AL
bermarle, of which he was one OF
the founders. Before the war he
was a teacher in Davidson College |
North Carolina, and in 1857. when
Gen. "Stonewall' Jackson and Miss
Anna Morrison were married. he was
the best man. He served with credit
throughout the war as a member OF
the Rockbridge Artillery. Mr.. Fish
burne's first wife was Miss Sarah
Waddell. by whom there was no is
sue, and his second Miss Elizabeth
Wood, daughter OF the late John
Wood, OF charlottesville She sur.
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