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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-29
ALBEMARLE HUNT CLUB
OFFERS SEVERAL PRIZES

CHARLOTTESVILLE VA.-Special.
The Albemarle County Hunt will
hold its first horse show on Saturday,
October LIST, at Tiverton. the country
home OF DIR. f. ID. Owsley, near
Greenwood.
The event promises to be one OF the
social events of the early fall. Entries
for the show close Tuesday. Septem-
Der goth. Several prizes are offered,
including two handsome silver cups.
two English hunting saddles, and two
English hunting brides.
Three classes will be devoted to
A Pretty Freak of Nature.
A strange plant combination was
recently towering in an English gar
den, says a writer in the October
Strand. This was foxglove in bloom,
with one Canterbury bell in perfect
growth at the top of the stem. The
flowers OF the foxglove were cream.
while the Canterbury bell was deep
mauve. The botanist of the local
Technical Institute says that lit is a
freak OF Nature, and worth taking spe-
cial note Of" 1t is the more strange
as the flowers belong to different
families.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-29
RICHMOND MAN DIES IN TEXAS.
RIG HMOND. VASnecia

~ ~ II M " ~ ~ a. u z 1 L.
Carter Sydnor Turpin, son Of the
late DR.. T. j Turpin and Mary Gar
land Royal, of Powhatan county, Va.
and who was formerly a prominent
resident OF Manchester, died Mon
day afternoon at o'clock in the Ho-
tel Diem Sanatorium in Eel Paso, Texas.
He leaves three sisters. Mrs W. G.
Hartwell, of Newport News; E. c..
Wilkinson, of Amelia Courthouse, and
Sallie K. Turpin. OF the Southside. and
three brothers, Thomas J. Turpin. 'Jr.
Emmett Turpin and A. Royal Tur-
pin, all OF the SOuthside. He was a.
nephew Of Augustine Royal. of the
Southside.
He left Manchester about two
years ago and went to Ell Paso. Texas.
Tor his health. He had been in the
Hotel Diem Sanatorium for about
seven months. He was formerly in
the insurance business in the South
side.
The funeral will take place at $50
clock this afternoon at Ell Paso.
Texas. The interment will be made
in the FL Paso Cemetery.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-29

haif OF the prescribed term
Today his status Is that OF q tick
et-of-leave man--that Is TO say, he
will have TO conduct himself strictly
IA accordance with the law or he viii
be compelled 10 serve out the rest OF
the sentence.
And apropos Of this Il Is but fair
10 say that Overbey's friends conf
IDENTITY believe that his life henceforth
VIII be one of the utmost circum-
spection.
His record in prison was most ex-
emplary, and as a store room clerk
he was able to prove himself both
useful and accommodating. Superin-
tendent Wood speaks in the highest
terms OF the prisoner and expresses
confidence in his future rectitude.
FOR reasons which can be appre-
ciated Overbey's friends have beer
anxious to shield him as far as pos
sible from further publicity. His re-
lease. therefore. was kept quiet and
much reticence is being maintained
as to his present whereabouts. 1t il
believed. however, that he is visiting
relatives at Randolph, in Charlotte
county.
Overbey was indicted on six counts
Five Of these charged misappropria-
| ton OF funds and one the falsifica-
ton of the banks reports to the Cor
poration Commission.
For this aforementioned offense he
was given two years. and by way ot
| compromise he pleaded guilty to the
other charges and received an add
tional year.
1t has always been the popular be-
lief that Overbey himself did not
profit by the shortage which wrecked
the bank.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-29
NEGRO AGITAT0R
DEFiES OFFICERS
Negro in Albemarle Teaches Race
Equality-Arrest Him
Today.

CHARAOTTESVILLE, VA.-Special
Calvary, the negro agitator from
Georgia, claiming to be an Abbyssin-
ian evangelist, but who for some
months had been stirring up an an
CRY feeling between the races IN East
ern Albemarle, so far has escaped
arrest. Warrants have been issued.
however. and it is expected that one
of them will be served AS he
is exercising his influence in a COM
munity on both sides of the line be-
tween the counties OF Albemarle and
Louisa, warrants have been issued in
each county and put into the hands
of their sheriffs to prevent Calvary
from escaping arrest by crossing the
boundary. The man, up to two or
three days age, continued preaching
his doctrine of the superiority OF the
colored race, socially and otherwise.
but since then the fear of arrest
seemed to restrain him in his armed
defiance OF the law.
With band of followers he kept
the officers at bay armed to the teeth
and provisloaed with ammunition in
a log house, but now. seeing that the
white residents are taking a hand In
suppressing him, he is said to be
planning escape.
Around Sandy Point the feeling has
grown pretty strong against the agi-
tator, and from what could be learn
ed there were several prominent res
idents who stood ready to join with
the citizens OF East Albemarle to rid
the section of that undesirable char
acter.
Expect His Arrest Today.
A phone message from the Kes-
wick neighborhood stated that there
were no new developments, but the
significant remark was made that
there would probably be some infor-
nation TO give out TODAY.
A conference of the white residents
was held Saturday night, and the be
lief prevails that information was
procured which would lead to Cal
vary's arrest within the next twenty
four hours.
1t is believed that Calvary will
make trouble is he can. He has or
ganized new church and breaches
chiefly at Cismont. His doctrine is
less Biblical than social. He claims
that Washington was a negro. but
not very good one. because he real
ly did cut that tree"
Well Versed i'm Bible.
He is said to be proficient in the
uses of Biblical tests, is advanced IL
his views, and captures the ignorant
negroes by his familiarity with the
scriptures and by the audacity with
which he claims that he is Christ. He
is a powerful negro, about thirty-five
years old, and with brown complexion
and kinky hair.
His followers regard him as pos.
sessed of power of life and death over
them. They fear him, and the better
negroes of the community fear both
the agitator and his followers. There
is no affiliation between the regular
colored churches and that organized
by Calvary. The preachers and the
better classes of his race are trying
to prevent the evils he seems bent on
achieving.
Calvary sought to affiliate with the
Colored Baptists' Association of
preachers, but his credentials were
rejected. They consisted of q sheet
OF paper across which he had zig
Jagged line or two, claiming that
he had written the document in He
brew.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-29
EPILEPTIC COLONY
OPENS MARCH IST

c II M N ID, VAS pecial.-
The State Epileptic Colony will be
ready to open March 1st and at that
time 1t VIII be ready to receive any
where from eighty to 100 patients, I"
said DR.. a. S. Priddy, the superinten-
dent, who was here Monday in connec-
ton with the work of the new insti-
tuition.
Work is being rushed with all DOS
sible speed, and the largest building
20 be opened at that time will be
known as the Drewry- Gillian build
ing, named in honor of DIR. William f.
Drewry and ROBBERY Gillian, of Pc
tersburg, the men who have been the
steadfast supporters of the scheme
from the very first. They have been
its champions from the beginning. and
they will be among the most pleased
men in the Stale 20 see the building
open and the several institutions re-
lieved of the unfortunates now in the
same.
This will take care of MANY of
the harmless persons who are now in
the almshouses. the jails and the State
hospitals, and it will do much toward
restoring many of them to health.
Their presence in the hospitals is a
detriment to the welfare of the in
sane and severe handicap to the
proper treatment of the epileptics."
DR.. Priddy speaks encouragingly of
the work that has been done and the
possibilities of the new institution.
For healthfulness, location and de-
STABILITY the State Epileptic COLONY
cannot be surpassed.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-29
STATES PREPARE
TO WAGE BATTLE
VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA
LAWYERS GETTING READY
FOR DEBT CASE.
RICHMOND. VA-SpecfaI.

RICHM OND, VAS ecial.-
Unless the lawyers concerned have
tions, the United States Supreme Court,
in the course of q few weeks, will take
up the Virginia-West Virginia debt
Counsel for the Mountain State, as
well as those of the Old Dominion, held
a meeting Saturday for the purpose OF
going over the case and preparing a
brief. The Virginia lawyers held their
conference in the office of the Attorney
tingent met at the Waldorf-Astoria In
New York city.
been no little embarrassed by the rath-
err sudden death of their former asso-
ciate, John G. Carlisle, at one time Sec
at the New York meeting were: At
torney General w. G. Conley, eX-Gov-
ernor w. NJ o. Dawson. George w Nc
law school Of the University of West
Virginia, and John c. Spooner, former
The report made some months ago to
the SUPREME. Court by Special Master
Charles A. Littleheld gave Virginia
good deal of criticism on the lawyers
representing the defendant State by
Attorney General Conley has made
the following outline of the case for a
New York paper:
Virginia pay one-third of the old State
debt before the Civil War, which
has been agitated ever since the close
of the war, and 1t has been pending
in the Supreme Court since 1906. West
this debt. which was made before IL
became a separate State, and when
what is now West Virginia was mostly
an undeveloped region. Virginia re-
pudiated part of its debt and scaled
~V ..T - ~ vir.in9 oiso t9S,,eS
so-called West Virginia certificates
without the authority or consent of
West Virginia. The case at its pre-
liminary hearing was referred to ex-
Congressman Littleield as master and
he completed his report last spring. 1t
is question whether the Supreme
Court will hear 1T or not before a whole
bench. 1t is certainly more important
than the Standard Oil case, which is
to be reopened. Virginia is suing as
trustee for her own creditors. and we
contend that she has no right to bring
such a suit"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-29
JOHN W. AVERY
DIES IN HOSPITAL

RI c H NJ OND, VA.@Speci al-
After an illness of years duration.
which steadily sapped his strength
ana defied medical skill. John Wesley
Avery a well-known newspaper man
VINO formerly worked in this city. died
tuesday afternoon at O'Clock AT
the Memorial Hospital.
tls END was not unexpected. as he
nau peen critically i'll for several DAVIS
MT avery was first stricken while in
NASHVILLE and sought relief in severaI
SanatorlumS before before being I'D
Vlsed by specialists to come to Rich
Inond TO the Memorial Hospital. where
~ was hoped that an operation might
save his life.
He arrived here about ten DAYS ago
IN oreadfully weakened shape. and his
condltion convinced the phvsicia ms
tnat II would be unwise to subject
MIN TO surgical treatment. In fact n
was seen almost as soon as he reach
gu sS, tne hospital that the end was rap
idly approaching.
The body was taken at noon TODAY
10 Alexandria, where il will be buried
in the family section.
MI Avery was forty-one years old
ana was the son of the late Colonel
i nIcharu W. Avery, of Alexandria, who
was a member of Pickett's stair and
nephew of Professor Otis T. Mason
OF washington. He is survived bv his
Wlie, who before her marriage was
MISS Mary Howard Walthall. dauph-
ter OF III. NJ. Walthall, of this CITY
Inc only child of the couple. Elnore
Walthall, died in Nashville about n
year ago at the age of three.
Mr.. avery had enjoyed the best of
euucatlonal facilities and his culture
PLAINLY showed I'm his Journalistic
work; He received his academic
framing at Richmond College and
subsequently, took the law course at
washington and Lee University. Ieav-
ing this aforementioned institution he
practlced law for a time in Atlanta
out his tastes were all in the line OF
newspaper work
he had his first experience as n
writer on the New York Journal the
ieraId and other metropolitan dailies.
after which he served as assistant
city editor Of the Richmond News
ana dramatic critic OF the Dispatch
ms literary style was sparkling and
VlVaclous and stamped his work with
the mark Of individuality.
After leaving this city Mr.. Avery,
went To Bristol, Va.-Tenn., where he
had charge of the Herald-Courier
Later he became Sunday editor of the
Nashville American.
me social qualities were highly do
Veloped in Mr.. Avery and he Inherit
ed from his courtly father a grace of
manner and peculiar affabilitv which
won him friends everywhere and
made him the most genial of com
panions.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-29
HARVARD COMMENCES DRILL
ON SOLDIERS FIELD TO-DAY

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.-Special.-
Regular football drill was commenced
by Harvard on Soldiers Field today.
A squad of thirty men out of the
sixty who will try to make the first
team has returned from Oceanville,
where the men have been indulging in
practice under the eye OF DR.. II. S.
Blodgett, whose two sons are among
the candidates.
Coaches Percy ID. Haughton, Craw-
ford Blagden. Leo Leary, Charles
Daley. Francis Burr. George Water
bury and Reggie Brown all expressed
themselves as satisfied on the eve of
the period of official practice.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-29
MEET TERRIBLE
END IN SkWMILl
Two Instantly Killed and Three Sc.
Verely Injured in Accident at
SaWmill.

PORIA, VA.-Special
One man was beheaded, another
had his head crushed into a
shapeless mass OF flesh and bone
and three others were badly man.
gled ut the Sawmill OF the Camp
Manufacturing Company at Ar
rignal, near here, Monday, VIXEN n
negro workman pulled the lever
OF Sawmtu carriage the wrong
way and knocked five wOrkmen
into the maelstrom OF whirling
teeth.
The FIVE workmen were stand
Ing upon the platform which Is
used for carrying timber into the
path OF the great circular saw.
Taken unawares by the action OF
the negro workman, they were
thrown into the very teeth of the
saw.
Screams Were Unavailing.
AS the men fell into the death.
dealing instrument their scream.
warned the other employees and al
haste was made to stop the machin.
cry. However. II was too late. In
the excitement several made a dash
for the throttle. knocking the other
down.
Those who witnessed the catastro-
phe were paralyzed with fear. Bits
of flesh and bone were hurled over
them and the saw platform looked
like a slaughter-house.
Hurl Bodies Backward.
The sharp edges OF the saw teeth
caught the clothing of the victims,
making il utterly impossible for them
to hurl their bodies backward When
the machinery was finally stopped IL
was feared that all five men had met
death. The decapitated body rolled
from the platform, presenting a grew
some spectacle.
The other four men. including the
workman whose head was crushed to
a pulp, were hastily moved and med
ical aid was instantly summoned.
1t was announced that at least one
or the men would die, and perhaps
two OF them.
The village was thrown into in
tense excitement, and scores visited
the sawmiu to look upon the plat
form where the disaster took place
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WOMEN And BABES
USED AS SHIELDS
PRIVATE TONGERS RESORT TO
STRATEGY TO PREVENT STOP
PING PULLING OF STAKES.

U F o l. X, Y A.-Special.-
Inc trouble between the Virginia
oyster navy and private tongers in
the James River. near Newport News.
reached a crisis Monday when the
tohgers put twenty women and babies
up in front of the guns and dared the
oihcers to fire on them, thus battling
the ohlcers and continuing their work
lines between public and private oys-
ter beds.
Commissioners of Fisheries McDon-
aid Lee in discussing the situation
SAID trouble is certain unless the tong
ers assume more lawful attitude,
and it is feared that actual Violence
VIII be the outcome of the war, which
seems to be in progress
The officers think that the private
tongers have shifted the stakes and
appropriated the natural rock
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-29
ROOSEVELT TALKS
ON POLITICS
Too Early, He Says, to Announce
Preference for 1912-After
Nomination Himself, Said.

OYSTER BAY, n. Especial
Theodore Roosevelt started Monday
with the final preparations for the
fight against the Old Guard of the
republican party at the Saratoga
convention. The ex-President has sent
word to progressive leaders from al
over the State to meet him, either
at Sycamore Hill or in New York
and he will have his time largely
caken up with important conferences
until he leaves for Saratoga a week
from today. Colonel Roosevelt has
let it be known that he proposes GO
ing into no caucus over the conven-
ton. He will make his fight in the
open, he says. and he anticipates that
1t Will be the most desperate battle
Of his political career.
81 believe I will win he remark
ed to friend, "but If I don't it shall
not be said that did not fight them
hard"
The colonel refused to discuss this
morning the persistent statements
that he is to oppose the endorsement
of President Taft for 1912 in the
State convention. Those I'm the ex-
Presidents confidence are sure that
he will strongly resist any effort ot
the delegates to come out for Taft
He takes the ground, they say, thai
1t is too early to make any endorse
ment for 1912. Those antagonistic &c
Roosevelt in this fight regard it as 6
foregone conclusion that he wants the
nomination himself, and they point
to his whole course since his return
from Africa as evidence of it.
Colonel Roosevelt occupied his time
in debating letters In RESPONSE
to a great accumulation of poiitica
correspondence. He has other fight:
on his hands besides that in New
York State, and his allies I'm the other
States have been keeping him thor.
oughly posted.
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CAVALIER TO GET
ONLY ONE FARM
According to Lawyers, Red Hook
Estate May Go to Cavalieri-It
Is Worth 81, 800 and Is Mort
gagged for Sc, 000-Romance
Passes Through New Phase.

NEW YORk.-Special.-T
CHAMBER avalieri romance passed
through few more phases Mon
day. From Paris Mime. Lima Cav
aheri sent cablegram TO a wO-
man friend I'm New York stating
that she would soon be on her
way to New York to- claim those
dollars transferred To her by Rob-
ert w. Chanler before he mar
ried her.
To Join Her Husband.
The message also stated that she
would join Chanler here. Meantim,
plans were perfected for an actua
lest Of the legality of the Chan!e
antenuptial contract before Judge De-
ehanty here tomorrow. II will com
up in the hearing of the suit of &,
Fifth Avenue tailor to recover SOS.
from Chanler, alleged to be due 70,
the clothes in which he was married
and other garments.
Judge Delehanty will be called upon
to decide whether the antenuptial con
tract binds up Chambers property in
favor of Cavalieri, or whether cred
itors have precedence over that con-
tract.
How and why Chanler married
CaValieri was told for the first time
Monday. The story was that when
Chanler was divorced by his first wife
Mrs. Julia Chamberlain Chanler, nc
vowed that he would marry the pref
test woman in the world just to show
Mrs. Chanler No. 1 that he was at
tractive to beautiful and charming
women.
He picked out Cavalieri, according
to the story.
ShOWered Money on Her.
Then followed the courtship, in
which Chanler showered money or
the singer and after that the ante
nuptial agreement and the marriage
Chambers lawyers, in their efforts to-
day to find out what authority he haC
TO give away what he did, arrived al
the conclusion that his Red HooE
farm was about the only thing ht
could transfer to Cavalieri. This farm
is worth about $500, they say, and
there is a mortgage of $4,000 on ii.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-29
SHORT STORIES
FROM BATTLEFIELD

When I broke into baseball as an
umpire / was sent to officiate at a
game between Saundersville and Mill
vile in a mill league up in Massachu-
sets. Millville was consistent loser.
and was lowering around the cellar
position all season. The club was all
TO the bad financially, too, and the
players hadn't been paid for at least
two months.
The players all would have jumped,
but they were such poor players that
they realized they didn't have a chance
with any other club in the country,
and, then again, they couldn't get
enough coin to pay their fare across
the town line. They were fortunate
In one way however, and that was
that the owner of the club ran a big
Restaurant in the town. He was kind
enough to supply his players with
meal tickets-One of the kind where
you get $3.50 worth of eats for SO.
Well, the game this day was hard
fought all the way, and the surprising
part of it was that Millville was really
playing good baseball. There were
a lot of close decisions for me to
make and finally the Millville play
ers showed enough ginger to dispute
me on two occasions.
"Get out of the game, and you're
fined SIS, besides I yelled at the big
first baseman, who was batting me for
fair.
Don make me laugh, ne yelled
back at me. There amt SIS in the
whole league"
Now, l had heard how the Millville
players were being paid in meal tick
cts. and / knew that they carried the
precious pasteboards in their uniform
back pockets. / had come prepared
FOL, emergency by borrowing a punch
from a street car conductor.
/ eased up close to the first base
man, reached into his pocket. pulled
out the meal ticket and punched out
35 cents.
"And if / have any more trouble
with you" ] warned the player, IT
will take out a planked steak next
time
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Expects His Arrest.

SPARTANBURG, S. C.-Special.-
Mrs. Max Heinrich, who recently at
tempted suicide in New York by
jumping into the East River, shot
herself here Monday afternoon. Her
husband, who was formerly employ
ed on the New York Herald, is at
present city editor OF the Spartan
burg Herald.
The condition of Mrs. Max Heinrich
is extremely critical. The ball, from
.3S-caliber pistol, entered the body
between the sixth and seventh ribs.
penetrated the right lung and the
liver. It's course. has not been de-
termiaed. At private hospital.
where she was taken soon after the
shooting occurred, a number of X-ray
photogra phs have been taken in an
effort to locate the ball, but at this
hour the surgeons say the photo
graphs did not aid them much.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-29
SILK HOSE AND LINGERIE
NOT PIATONIC GIFTS

ATLANTA. Special seriously
doubt of there is such a thing as pla-
tonic friendship between a married
man and married woman, and I am
more than certain that it does not
exist when a married man makes the
married woman gifts, such as silk
hose, lingerie, etc." declared Judge
Bloodworth this afternoon during the
trial OF a divorce suit brought by
James e. Dodgen against his young
wife.
Early Parks, business man, was
named as Mrs. Dodgens friend. At
torneys for Mrs. Dodgen and Parks
admitted friendship between the
couple. Evidence was introduced
showing that Parks had given Mrs.
Dodgen silk stockings and costly lin
,erie. The husband won his suit.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-09-29
SNAKE IN MAIL POUCH,
so POSTNHSTRESS FLIED

BUTLER, PA.-Special.-It be-
came known Sunday that for three
weeks the Federal Government has
been on the trail of a snake. Post
office Inspector George w. Craig
head, of Pittsburg, has been assigned
TO the case upon complaint of Miss
Winifred Turk, postmistress at Hill
lards, that she found the reptile
three feet long-in a sack which was
thrown off the train here.
Both Miss Turk and her woman as
slstant fled from the postoffice at the
discovery, but later the postmistress
returned and pluckily killed the in
truder. Railway postal clerks are be-
ing examined. but declare their inno-
cences and say the reptile must have
crawled into the bag while il was on
the station platform.