The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-28
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y very remarkable case mas de-
FeIoped in the Western State Hos
pitaI, stanton. Master Leslie Chew
hinS, of Spottsylvania County. IA
years old. about two years ago fell
INTO deep sleep and could not be
aroused He was brought to the hos
pItai. He would once i'm a great
while revive enough to take a little
Iood, but st other times he had tn
be fed artifcially. Three weeks ago
he awoke and his mind seemed TO
De normal. When on the few oc
caslons he aroused sufficiently to take
tocd. he knew no one at the hospital.
but when he woke he could recall
the names of every tenant in his
ward When he was taken home
FRIDAY, he had forgotten how TO
walk, and his mother, Mrs. A. c.
ChewninG, had to assist him TO the
traih' lie Is learning how to walk
again.
With eight armed men to assist
in the work, the Campbell Comfy
Board of Health vaccinated every
man in the smallpox-infested camp
below Lync,,burg who needed vacci-
nation. There was a show of resis-
lance on the part OF the Italians. but
tney submitted when they saw il was
inevitable.
The costs In the Bay Shore Rail
way Federal Court litigation cover
ing period Of three years and -four
months, involving the rehs hsbflitation
and final sale of the railway proper
" for ST65, 900. have been fixed by
Judge Waddill at s67.575. as fol-
lows: T. II. Wilcox, counsel in
charge of litigation. $4,000; ]. Ed
ward Cole, counsel. 100000: Floyd
Hughes, counsel, $500; ID. Tucker
Brooke, legal services, $500; b. w.
Leigh and J. c. Groner. receivers.
SS,019 each; II. /. Page, $6,25O; I.
II. Wilcox, Floyd Hughes, NJ. c.
Elliott and Tazewell Taylor, special
commissioners of sale, $4,000 as a
whole; auctioneers of sales. $4,000.
ana courts costs and fees, $4,000
l.. Billups Kirby. of Portsmouth.
has Just been advised that he and
hve brothers are heirs TO 100000
wliled them by an uncle. Nathaniel
Kirby, whose death has recently oc-
CURED in Indiana. Nathaniel Kirby
was one of three brothers who came
TO America from Scotland 81 years
ago. He accumulated much land
and large bank account. l.. Bill
ups Kirby came to Portsmouth IA
months ago, since which time he has
Deen clerk in the Office of the
portsmouth Coal and Ice Company.
In the general offices of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio IL was learned that
as result of the conference between
the committee representing the
freight conductors and the trainmen
of the road an advance of 7I6 per
cent. has been granted the men on
all through runs.
Henry House, 2S years old. for
merly of Norfolk, a timer, fell off
a house in Lynchburg while at work,
receiving injuries from which he
died two hours later. House leaves
widow and three children.
David Bradoerry, brakeman for
the Southern Railroad, while board
ing a moving engine near PAGES,
was run over and probably fatally
injured.
Bill" johnson. one of theee ne
groes who escaped from Jail in Lynch
burg last September, was returned,
having been recaptured at Winns-
boro, 5. c. He is charged with high
way robbery and completely in the
murder of w. P. Woody. Norfolk
and Western Railroad fagman.
Miss Marie Woody, Is years old,
daughter of a. l.. Woody, cashier
of the Citizens Bank of Crewe, was
married at her home in that place
to L. 4. WoodsOn, of the Woodson
Drug Compo1y. Tho young lady
was discovered in a plot to eIope
from the State Normal School at
Farmville, and was permitted to Quit
school for the ceremony The mar
riage was celebrated by DR.. J. T..
kinchlowe. of the Baptist Church.
Three white prisoners escaped
from the Petersburg Jail about
O'Clock the other morning. They
were A. j. Gregory, who was serving
a term of six months for stealing a
watch, and l.. j.. Rivenback and c.
B. Pitt, who were in for six months
each for obtaining money under
false pretenSeS. Rivenback and
Pitt are said to be wanted i'm sew
erai cities. The prisoners filed out
an iron bar in the window of their
cell, and with the sides of a bed
stead. Stats and mattress linked to-
gether with wire they constructed
bridge TO the outer Jail wall. On
this bridge the three prisoners crawl
ed on their hands ani knees. drop
ped down outside and departed. The
police of all nearby cities nave been
requested TO keep q LOOKOUT for the
fuyttIves
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