Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-23
VIRGINIA NEWS.


The legislature was not in session
yesterday.
George E. Bowden. republican nation
al committeeman from Virginia, has
been summoned to Washington to
conference regarding federal appoint
ments in the State.
After being quarantined against Shen-
andoah county for two months on ac-
count of smallpox prevailing there, the
board of health of Frederick county
yesterday raised the quarantine.
Miss Myrtle Rinker, resident OF
Mount Clifton, Shenandoah county,
yesterday attempted suicide by taking
rat poison. She is about Is years old,
and until recently was resident of Top
Knot.
The New Year will open with 600
students at the University of Virginia.
OF course, these come chiefly from the
South. Virginia leads with $50 students.
Thirty-two states and three foreign coun-
tries are represented. Japan, Brazil and
Porto Rico.
The Bell Telephone Company last
night announced that it has purchased
the Richmond Telephone Company S
system. Richmond has had two full
systems in operation for years, and this
marks triumph for the Bell Company
under most adverse circumstances.
Jerry Kimbrough, the young negro
who attempted to commit an assault on
Mrs. Burnley Taylor, near boswell, IN
Hanover county, in the early part OF
November, was hanged tor his crime at
Hanover Courthouse yesterday. The
negro confessed his crime, and the exc
cution was without excitement. The
body was turned over to the Medical
College of Virginia.
The application for an injunction to
prevent the payment of $50, 600 voted
bv the citizens of Culpeper county for
stock in the Fredericksburg and Kappa
hammock Railway Company having been
refused by the Court OF Appeals, it Is
now said that the outlook for building
the road is most fattering, and it is ex-
pected that the work of construction
will begin early in the spring.
In the magistrates court in Winches-
ter Yesterday J. Oscar Athey, a young
widower, was fined 800 and costs and
sentenced to thirty days in Jail for com
plicity in the death of his wife, which
occurred several months ago from Grim
inal operation. Athey was indicted fol
felony. but when his trial was begun last
week in the Corporation Court Judge
Atkinson remanded the case to the mag
istrate's court for trial on a misdemeanol
charge. Athey's attorneys appealed
from the verdict.
Marriage licenses were issued II
Washington yesterday to Reginald Il.
Gregg, of Fauquier county, and Grace
T. Downey, of Landmark; John f.
Cation and Roberta S. Gordon, both o.
Fairfax county; Isaac d. Arnold, o.
Washington, and Abbie Dishman, o.
King George county; James B. Rock
wood and Mary Graham, both OF
Prince William county; Andrew v
Shelton, of Richmond, and Annie f.
Dicken, of Henrico county, and to Geo
Thorne, of Newport News, and Eva q.
Skillman, of Washington.
At Norfolk yesterday Judge Hancke
revoked the charter of the Independent
Order of Red Men and Daughters o.
Pocahontas granted the organization OF
the 18th. This was the first effort made
by negroes to obtain a charter OF lncor
poration for an organization with name
similar to the "1mproved Order of Rec
Men" Mr.. Coleman stated that it wa
the pride of the Improved Order OF Rec
Men that there was no colored organiza
ton of this order and for this reason hi
made the motion to have the charter re-
voked. which motion the court granted
A large audience attended the James
town Exposition mass-meeting in Nor
folk, last night, at the Academy of Music
Prominent persons from all over the
State were present. Governor Monta
que. Lieutenant-Go Governor Willard Johr
F. Ryan, Speaker of the House o
Delegates; Judge T. S. Garnet, I. j.
Wool and Director-General ID. Low
enberg, of the jamestown Exposition
Company, were among the speakers
There was a great deal of enthusiasm
manifested. There was dinner L
Governor Montague. Lieutenant-Gove
nor Willard and Others at the Monticello