The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-04-04
DOINGS OF THE OLD DOMINION
The Latest Virginia News Told in
Short o IeT.

The resignation of Chief or Ex-
ploitation A. L. Sutton was accepted
by the board of governors of the Ex-
position after a lengthy executive
session, on the ground that 1t was
against the policy of the Exposition
for any of its officials to own stock
In any of the concessions on the
grounds. Mr.. Sutton, in his defense
before the board, denied the allega-
tions of Gordon that he had offered
for 800 a week to use the exploita-
ton department to exploit Gordon's
succession. The board of governors
discount any idea of graft, anS
that in accepting Mr.. SuttonS esig-
nation it acted merely in the enforce
ment of its rule against employees
owning stock in concessions, it being
In evidence that Sutton was sub
scribed to five shares in one of Cor
don's concessions. S. E. Snyder. now
chief OF the validating ticket depart
ment Of the jamestown Exposition,
has been selected to succeed Mr..
Sutton as chief Of exploitation.
The Woman's Club, of Lynch
burg, has issued call to the clubs
throughout Virginia for a convention
to be held in Lynchburg about May
10 for the purposing of organizing
State federation of women's clubs.
Mrs. Charles H. Lewis. of Rich
mond, while hanging out clothes
In her back yard, accidently sneezed
while her mouth was full of pins
with the result that she swallowed
a number of them. She has been re-
moved to a hospital, where she is
suffering the most intense pain. The
physicians in charge Of the case have
not decided whether an operation
will be necessary. They agree, how
ever, that the woman is in a critical
condition. The X-ray will be used
Tor the purpose of locating the pins.
An unknown white man was
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed the stable of G. w. King,
a farmer, near Danville. 1t is sup
posed the man was a tramp and set
dre to the stable While smoking in
the loft, where a quantity Of dry
feed was stored.
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John R. Miley, at Wardensville, was
destroyed by fire with all its con-
tents, entailing a loss of $4,000,
partly insured.
Seated by "Ack" Hale in a ceme-
terry at Bristol, Lille Davis, 30 years
old, sent a bullet into her breast.
The girl was still conscious when
found and was able to tell the Off
GERS that she shot herself with sui
cidal intent after having told Hale
of her intention. Hale was arrested.
The presumption is that he and the
girl had gone to the cemetery early
in the evening. and quarreled. The
attending physician says the girl
cannot recover.
Rev. DR.. James II. Boyd, OF Roa-
nOke, one of the oldest and best
known ministers in the Baltimore
Conference of the Methodist EpiscO-
pal Church, South, died, aged 81
years, after an illness of one year
from stomach trouble. DR.. Boyd
was a native of Loudoun County,
but came to Roanoke Is years ago
and built Green Memorial, the fash
ionable Methodist Church edifice Of
Roanoke. The Conference last year
sent him to st. James Church. He
is survived by a widow, two sons and
one brother-Rev. S. E. Boyd, min
lister in the United Brethren Church.
He was prominent in Masonic and
Pythian circles. DR.. Boyd was for
several years editor of the Baltimore
Methodist, the church paper publish
ed at Baltimore. He had filled pull
pits in many of the leading churches
in the Conference.
Charles Pace, hagman on the
James River branch of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio, was run over and
probably fatally injured at Deacon,
several miles east of Llychburg.
Search for Harry r. Kent, the
young civil engineer who mysteri-
ously disappeared from the engineer
ing camps in the Black Mountains
January 26, has been abandoned,
and the theory that the young man
met fate similar to that which be-
fell Edward l.. Wentz, the young
Philadelphia millionaire, some years
ago, is commonly accepted. Kent
is the third person since Wentz to
mysteriously disappear in the Black
Mountains near that spot. and Kent
was last seen close to where Wentz's
body was found six months after he
disappeared. Young Kent had just
received his months wages, and left
the camp of the corps, which was
locating line for the South and
! Western Railway through Wise
County, late on the evening of Janu-
ary 26. remarkiDg that he was going
up the mountain about a mile tc
pay his wash woman. and WOULD bt