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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
REALLY NOTHING
TO FUSS ABOUT
CLOSING OF NEWPORT NEWS GUS
TOM HOUSE DOES NOT MEAN
NORTH'S RECOGNITION OF LEE.

WASHINGTON, ID. G. - Special. -
Officials of the Treasury Department
are amused at the action OF the Senate
in calling for information concerning
the published report that the depart
ment had. by ordering the custom
house at Newport News, Va. closed
today. the anniversary OF General
Robert e. Lees birthday. officially
recognized the South's hero of the
civil war.
AS a report will have TO be made to
the Senate, neither Secretary Mac
Veagh nor his assistants Will publicly
discuss the matter at this time.
There was, however. no warrant for
the statement published 10 the effect
that for the first time the Government
had recognized General Lee. accord
ing to the officials. The fact Is that the
custom-house at Newport News was
closed a year ago. and also in 1908,
owing to the Lee birthday celebration.
The rule followed in the department
is to permit custom houses to close,
if by doing so they do not interfere
with the transaction of public business
on days when there is to be a local
or State holiday. This permission is
only granted on the request of the Of
ficer in charge of the custom-house.
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WANT MORE REVENUES
FROM INSURANCE COS.

r l G H NJ ND, VA Special -
The insurance companies doing bus
mess in Virginia are going to be hit
in the present scrimmage for moro
revenues for the State. That rs what
the members of the Senate Finance
Committee are saying. and there In
pretty good reason to believe that they
know what they are talking about
AT this time the ufe insurance COM
panies are paying a tax of one per
cent on gross receipts for the privi-
lege OF doing bsuiness in Virginia, and
the fire insurance companies are pay
the same privileges.
But the State needs and must have
ing tax of cent and a quarter for
money with which to meet the calls
that are being made. and in order to do
this there will be a gentle raising of
the rates.
member OF the Senate today said
that the bill amending the law as ap-
companies would show that they are to
De called on TO say the same amount
each-life and fire insurance companies
being made to stand on the same foot
ing.
Just to show that there Is no dis
crimination the Finance Committee
will soon have a bill to make the com
panies pay 1-2 cents for the privilege
OF doing business in Virginia
And we expect to have the insurance
people right down here TO oppose the
Dill, said the Senator. but we have
got TO have the revenue. and we are
playing no favorites. others are to
why we should overlook the Insurance
folks"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
NEWSPAPER EDITOR A
VERY LUCKY HERO

PITTSBURG. PA. - Special. - A
newspaper man. with comfortable
income. no debts and also a bank
account. was found by the Carnegie
Hero Fund CoIpmission while investi-
eating an act or heroism reported to
IT The story became public Wednes-
day. when the commission announced
that seventeen more heroes had been
added to the list.
George +. Burba, OF Dayton, o., Is
the lucky newspaper man who rescued
Catherie Murty, twelve years old. from
drowning at Snydersville, o., on Au-
gust 21th last. Mr.. Burba Is editor
Of the Dayton Daily News, and as he
had no mortgages the commission
could pay Off, the only way the COM
mission could recognize his act was to
award bronze medal. Had the COM
mission been seeking a lucky news
paper man. Mr.. Burba would doubt
less have drawn a gold medal.
There were five silver and twelve
bronze medals awarded and about
$4,000 in money.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
ROB MERCHANT,
Then KILLyHIM
WEALTHY MERCHANTS BODY RED-
DIED WITH BULLRTS-ss,eo0
MISSING

CAPE CHARLES, VA.-SpeeT.-on
OF the most atrocious murders In tAe
annals of the Eastern Shore OF Vir-
giniaswas committed Monday night or
early Tuesday morning, when un-
known robbers broke into the store OF
John w. Hart. a merchant of Poulson.
a small settlement three miles from
Hallwood, and after beating the man
into insensibility with a blunt instru-
ment, procured his shotgun, riddled hts
body with shot. and dragged his pros
trate form to a wood pile in the yard.
the victims head being literally torn
from his body.
The body was found Tuesday morn
ing by neighbors. who entered the store.
and, finding everything in Confusion
chant
Hart was a bachelor and lived alone.
He was known to have largo sums OF
money on his person and about the
house.
There was every evidence of q struR-
gle in the bedroom, the walls were be-
spattered with blood and articles of
furniture were Strewn about Eyery-
thing was in disorder, indicating that
the victim had tried to fight Off his
assallants before being overpoWered
and shot down. Three thousand dol
lars In cash kept in the house h~ Hart
is missing. There is no clew TO the
perpetrators of the crime. The au-
thorities are making a vigorous search
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
PUPIL FORCED, PRIEST
SAYS, TO HEAR BIBLE

NEW YORK.-Special.- or
not Mamie Meaney was compelled to
go TO her seat in the Union School at
Freeport, L. l., when the time for
Bible reading was at hand is q ques-
ton on which the Rev. Father Charles
A. Logue and the village Board of
Education disagree. Father Logue
sent protest to the Commissioner
Of Education at Albany in which he
complained that:
"One Mamie Meaney. a pupil in one
Of the said schools, was ordered by
one Of the teachers to go to chapel
before the hour of 9:15 A. M, and
upon her refusal was being physically
forced TO go, when she ran out OF the
school and went home.'
This is only one of Father Logue's
complaints. He charges that while
attendance at the session OF fifteen
minutes for Bible reading before
school is formally opened is not com
pulsory, and pupils were so informed
by their teachers, that.
Nevertheless, the following chill
dren: Mamie Meaney. May Egan. Ger
aid O'Hara, Marie Walsh. Mary Farm
lett. George Fox. Joseph Kellt and
Joseph Meaney, all pupils in said
school, saw their names posted by
their teacher. Miss Monns, in a con-
spicuous place in the class room on
what said teacher called the roll of
attend such religious exercises between
the hours of 9 and 9:15 on December
9th. 9TH, Sth, 9th and 10th.
The Board OF Education denies each
OF the several charges made by Father
Loguet, and claims the right to hold
the fifteen minutes session for Bible
reading. The board denies that force
was used to compel Mamie Meaney
to attend the Bible reading session on
December 18th
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
BILL TO ALLOW
CONSOuDAT ton
House Committee Reports Unani-
mously in Favor of Manchester
Annexation Measure.
LYNCHBURG, VA.

VA. Special.
The House Committee on Counties
Cities and Towns. OF which Upton ID.
Jennings, of Lynchburg, is chairman,
late yesterday afternoon decided to
report unanimously in favor Of the
bill so amending the Anderson annex
alton act as Go make il applicable to
the cities of Richmond and Manches-
ter and give them time to consolidate
before the taking of the 1910 census.
Every member of the committee
gladly voted for the measure. and
thus the first great victory for the
scheme has been won. Ii is believed
that all the rest will be comparative
ly plain sailing. and IL now looks as
If the bill may come up on it's pas
sage i'm the House by next Friday or
Saturday.
II took more than three hours fo-
those interested to thresh the matter
out. and then there was an executive
session. at which the committee did
ITS own thinking.
At times considerable bitterness
was displayed by the contending fac
tons. though the friends favoring the
bill at all times were in the majority.
The opposition was lead by Lawyer
David l.. Pulliam and his son. Willis
G. Pulliam, while Delegate Toney OF
Manchester. the principal patron of
the measure. looked after it's inter-
ests i'm the committee. Many legal
phases of the matter were discussed,
and there was no lack OF cross stirring
among the speakers.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
HEARST FLIES
WITH PAULHAN
Paulhan, Curtiss and Hamilton
to Go After Second Endurance
Money-Roy Knabenshue to
Attempt Trip in Aeroplane
That He Built.

/ LOS ANGELES, CAL Special. -
The most successful aviation meet
since men learned to fly came to a
close Thursday at Aviation Camp.
One of Paulhan's passengers, VIM.
Randolph Hearst. the millionaire
newspaper publisher. gave the follow
ing description of his flight:
Was Greatly Exhilarated.
II felt that great sense of eXhilara-
ton which all aviators describe, and
in addition deep serenity, a calm
enjoyment of what seemed to be per-
feet conditions of a new and better
state.
we. NJ. Paulhan and I, were OF
the new era; we were soaring glori-
ously through space; we were flying.
AS a matter of fact, NJ. Paulhan was
doing the flying and 1 was merely
l felt altogether as grand and supe-
rior as he could possibly have felt.
Rising steadily, we were now seve-
raj hundred feet above the earth and
our former associates thereon. Men
were toiling in the fields, tOiling below
| in the wOrk-a-day world, while we
were soaring in the sky. / felt il was
| a shame that anybody should have to
work when they could fly.
We swept on higher and higher and
| farther and farther, and then we
turned. Now, turning is ticlklish bus
mess. The aerOplane dips and sweIs
little and tips up on one side. !
confess to leaning over strongly to
! that side with the idea of helping the
machine TO maintain it's equilibrium
| also lost some of my superior and
| exalted feelings and began to con-
clude that the surface of the earth
might have advantages that l might
have nom entarily forgotten.
In Face OF Wind.
I'VE got around the corner all right
however. and flew in the face of the
wind toward the west. Then we turned
again. l lost all poetic sentiments
| when we turned.
1T seems unreasonable that a flying
machine should not go on and on with
! out turning. We scudded fast before
the wind now and were soon back over
| the grandstand.
Il looked down and tried to ma Ike
| out the box in which my family were
| \ sea of waving arms and upturned
faces. We waved down at the crowd
Shall we go on?' said NJ. Paul
| han.
"'Go as far as you like said I. My
sporting blood was up.
I'VE made another wide tour OF the
country, had another glorious view OF
the snow-capped mountains in the eas'
and OF the silver sea in the west, and
then turned toward the enclosure
again.
ct was cold; cold wind was blowing
in my eyes; the cold tears were run
ming down my nose.
81 said to myself, II Paulhan asks
me again what We shall do. I shall
say, Go home.'"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
Mann MAY PASS
ON LITTLE CASE
Friends of Sextuple Murderer Will
Make an Appeal for Further
STAY

r | c H M ID, VA. - Special. -
Howard Little, the seXtuple MUIR
derer of Buchanan county, who on
January 18th was granted a thirty
days reprieve by Governor Swanson
Will go to the electric chair on the
morning of Friday. February 18th
unless another stay is granted him.
AT the Governors Office on Thurs
day it was said that no attempt had
as yet been made to secure anothe.
reprieve. II was learned, however
that friends and relatives of the con-
demned man would probably appear
in Richmond about the first of the
month to make final appeal
Governor Swanson goes out OF
office the last day Of this month. 1t
is possible that Governor Mann will
pass on the request for another stay
Of execution.
Howard Little was convicted for
the murders Of John John Meadows.
his wife and three children and Mrs.
Betty Justis, mother OF Mrs. Meadows.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
APPROPRIATIONS FOR
VIRGINIA HARBORS

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Special.-
The War Department has recommend
ed to Congress appropriations Of ST.
712,500 for improvements of Norfolk
harber and $465.000 for the Newport
News channel.
The Norfolk project contemplates
$500, 600 for a channel thirty-five feet
deep and 400 feet wide at mean low
tide in Hampton Roads to the Nor
folk hayward; 100000 for removal
OF shoal at entrance of channel at
Thimble Light to thirty-five-foot depth
and 800 feet wide, and $4,000 for re-
moving shoals in front of Lambert's
Point to provide additional anchorage
area with thirty feet depth.
The proposed Newport News chan
mel IL to be 400 feet wide and thirty
five feet deep through the Newport
News middle ground bar.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
JUDGE SANDERS, ASSAULTED
BY JUDGE WILLIAMS, is Ill
RICHMOND, VA.

RlCHMOND, VA. - Special
Reports received here from
West Virginia today are that
Judge Sanders, who was attacked
by Judge Samuel w. Williams, OF
Virginia, when Judge Sanders ap-
piled a fighting epithet, is still
suffering froIs2 the injuries re-
ceivcd in that encounter.
As n matter OF fact it is said
that Judge Sanders is threatened
with paralysis. and that his cOndi-
ton does not improve. He is
being urged to bring n suit against
Judge Williams for personal in
juries, and IL is said that John III.
Scott, one OF the best known at
tOrneys i'm West Virginia, has been
retained TO represent Judge Sand
erS.
\ special from SlucfieId today
says that the suit. III one is
brought and the friends of Judge
Sanders are urging MIN TO proceed
i'm that direction, the matter will
be aired i'm the Federal courts.
It is reported the suit is to be
for $25, 900.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
ENGLAND FACES
A REAL ISSUE
Kingdom Entering on Task Of Rebuild
ing Constitutional Framework.

What will be the upshot Of 1t all?
The prime minister on December 2,
introduced into tie house of commons
resolution reaffirming in the strong
est and ciearest terms the financial
supremacy of the lower chamber.
the campaign. The liberals can hard
ly expect to return from the polls with
an undiminished majority. If they
come back even with a majority indie
pendent of the Irish Nationalist vote,
iL will be a very considerable achieve
ment. j know England too well to
prophesy with any definiteness the re-
suit of a general election, but l shall
be very greatly surprised if, in spite
of the many formidable interests they
have antagoniZed, the liberals do not
return to power wifi clear man
date to bride the financial pretensions
of the house of lords. One liberal
minister after another has declared
that his party will not again take
Office without a clear guarantee that
what occurred on November 80 shall
never be permitted to occur again.
There is only one guarantee that will
meet the situation; and that is a
promise by the king that he will be
prepared to create a sufficient num-
Der OF pears to carry through the
house of lords a bill definitely depriv-
ing the upper chamber of the right
to reject the financial proposals of
the commons. Sooner than be swamp
ed by 500 new men the house of lords
would agree to anything. But the
expedient is desperate one, so
desperate as to be in Itself sufficient
proof that Great Britain is passing
through a peaceable but profound
revolution and is entering on the
prodigious and fateful task of rebuild
ing almost from top to bottom her
Constitutional American Re-
view.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
A Pleasing Incident.

IT is pleasure to note the action
of the Pittsburg Buffalo Company in
sending Christmas greetings to the
families stricken by the Mariana dis
aster of thirteen months ago. To each
there went a sympathetic letter and
a check for 500, the aggregate
amounting to about $4,000. The in
cident speaks for itself In a sense,
IT refutes the theory that corporations
have no souls, and the oft-repeated
SANDER that companies Of this kind
have no interest in their workmen be-
yond their productive capacity. AS is
well known. the Pittsburg-BuffaIo
people have not stopped with the eff
fort 10 operate model mines, but they
have built model mining towns and
have sought to secure the creature
comforts of their employees. 1t was
because OF the unusual policy of the
management in developing improved
conditions of every nature in and
about its mines that the Mariana ac-
cident with it's enormous loss OF life
came with such a shock. The direful
consequences of that event cannot be
undone. and may be little softened
| but this Christmas remembrance for
the families involved is none the less
noble in its spirit and conception
PlttSburg GaZette-TimeS
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erai Assembly or Virginia that the
playing OF the game known as foot
ball. or Rugby. according 10 the rules
now In force in the State OF Virginia. or
according TO any other rules or in any
other manner. whereby the life or limb
OF those engaged In the game is en-
daRgered. be. and the same IS hereby,
prohibited. declared 20 be a misde-
meanor. and ali persons engaged I'm
such game. whether as players or man
aSct OF managers. shall be equally
gull v. and shall upon conviction be
punished by a fine OF not less than sic.
and upon conviction OF a second Of
Tense shall Ne punished by confinement
In Jail not less than thirty days"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
WOULD PROHIBIT GAME
OF FOOTBALL IN STATE
RICHMOND. va. Special. -

RIG OND, VA. = Special. -
The playing of football in Virginia
Is made a misdemeanor under a bill
offered in the Senate by Senator
Parks.
The playing OF the game Is prohib-
tied. and all players promoters and
managers are liable to punishment by
0ne IA the FIRST case and confinement in
jail for the second ofrense.
Captain Parks, known as one OF the
most determined and persistent cham
ptons or any measure which enlists his
eXmpathies. will press for the pasfage
% tho measure.
And Senator Early, of Green. who in
His Gay was ths center" OF the best
4eR<1 the Uniyergity of Virginia ever
HItton 70 the bill
'&oS1eHsng le the fun text OF the bill
z.42<&1l@& ~ Captain Parks:
fes<>rik -eS q enacted ~ the cca-
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
STATEHOOD MATTER
UP TO THE SENATE

WASHINGTON. d. especial
I'VE have carried out our part Of the
platform and il is now up to the Senate
to make the legislation effective" said
Representative Hamilton. of Michigan,
chairman of the House Committee on
Territories commenting on the pas
sage of the Administrations bill TO
admit Arizona and New Mexico to
Statehood.
IF the Senate" he added, will take
up the House bill and give 1T early con-
sideration it ought to reach the Presi-
dent for his approval before the ad-
1Ournment of the session"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
HUNDREDS ARE
VAGClNATED
Smallpox Patient Has Mysteri-
ously Beat It-Caesar Seems
Safe.
RICHMOND, VA. - Specia

MOND, VA. - Special. -
Between 500 and 600 people were
vaccinated Wednesday, because Oliver
Moses, a negro who lived on North
Ninth Street, had smallpox. Oliver,
himself, was supposed to be taken to
the pesthouse. He, however, destroy
ed the superstition. Shortly after Oil
yer was informed that he had the
smallpox he was notified that he would
have to go to the pesthouse.
Oliver has a brother named Caesar,
and, so far as the case can be under
tsood by any living creature, Caesar
did not wish oliver to cross the Rubi-
con-that is, Caesar did not want his
little brother to go to the hospital.
Therefore, oliver skidooed, and went
to Wilson, N. c.. taking the disease
to the place from which he got it..
In Wilson Oliver has a brother named
Arthur, and il is reasonably presumed
that oliver went to see Arthur. Any
how, no one Is trying to bring him
back.
DR.. Brownley Foster said this morn
ing that, although Oliver Moses, the
missing sinner. left town without dis
tributing notices to that effect. and
lock branch OF the American Tobacco
Company, he did not believe 1t possible
for germs OF the disease to be trans
mitted through the medium of the to-
Everyone who may have come in
contact with this silver Moses. so far
as they can be found, has been inocu-
lated with vaccine virus. The supply
wasn't exhausted yesterday, but more
was received by the Health Department
today from Marietta, Pa.
In the meantime Wilson, N. c., Is
anxious about Oliver Noses.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
MOTHERS BLOOD
DIDN'T SAVE HIM
Youth Shot in New York Park
Succumbs After Brave Fight
for Life.

NEW YORK. - Special. - Arthur
SHIRLEY, six years old, who, with Rob-
a mad man in a park a week ago Wed
nesday, died early Thursday in Wash
ington Heights Hospital of heart fail
ure, after making brave fight for life
during which his mother gave up her
blood In hope OF saving him.
After the TRANSMISSION, in which Mrs.
SHIRLEY gave up q pint OF her blood,
the boy rallied and the surgeons gave
out hope for his recovery.
Nineteen men have been arrested
since the tragedy, but all except two
have been released.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
IMMORAL TREES.

Sam Blythe says that Clifford Pin
chot knows more trees by their first
name than any (sic) man in the U.
S. Does Cir know all these?
Beerbohm, Lambert, While, Saddle,
Washington's Cherry, Cross, Axle.
Coon, Sour Apple, Charter Oak, Hang
mans, Shoe, Woodman Spare That,
Family. OF knowledge.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
French Towns Gut on.

Enthusiastically score of French
towns are cut off from the world by
floods.
Attempts to reach them are being
made. but little success is reported
Inc vast lake, which has formed about
rheims, is increasing, and at many
other points the situation is critical.
The flood at Mosele deepened today.
and there was no sign of relief at Bel
fort, which is completely under water.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
BEN OWEN TO REMAIN
SECRETARY TO GOVERNOR
RICHMOND. VA Special.

r c II MOND. VA. - Special. -
Governor elect Mann has an
nounced the appointment of Benia-
min p. Owen, Jr.. as his private sec
retary-an appointment very pleasing
to the newspaper men. Mr.. owen has
been in office a long time, and has
on many an occasion automatically
prevented the information of the
Governor by callers who would have
wasted valuable time. For urbanity.
suavity and efficiency Mr.. Owen has
few equals and no superiors.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27

What shall we do? The business
Is all run down"
I'm that case I guess we'd better
wind 1t up"
known as American He has fertil-
ity OF thought and energy Of body.
May 1t not be that the climate kas
much to do with the developing Of
the indomitable spirit thst IN now
reaching out for the masterv Ct ne
earth Pc
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-01-27
STORM CARRIE
HOUSES AWAY
All Belgium Storm Swept-Manv
French Towns Cut Off-The
Situation Critical.

BRUSSELS.-Special.-All Belgium
today is storm-bound. Rivers are
hooded and bridges and houses have
been carried away. Factories at many
points have been compelled to shut
down. The Sambre Valley, which is
particularly affected by the storm, is
in serious plight