Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.
William B. Jollife, Of Wildwood,
died on Sunday, aged &C years.

William ID. JOlilne, Ol "ii"V"N,
died on Sunday, aged &C years.
Labor is so scarce in middle Virginia
that farmers are helping one another to
save their crops.
Oliver Fields, colored, is in jail at
Williamsburg on a charge OF attempting
to assault Mrs. c. E Masters.
Mrs. Eliza Taylor, widow of W. II.
Taylor, died at Winchester Saturday
night, aged seyeuty-four years.
A race riot is threatened near Blue
Ridge Springs 'becauseanumber OF white
men whipped a negro woman for insult
ing DIR. Early's wife.
The Central Labor Union has decided
to organize the negro workmen at the
Newport News shipyard. 1t is under
stood some negroes will fight the move
ment
A marriage that elected much surprise
and interest and among the members OF
the Virginia colony in Baltimore took
place Yesterday. The parties were Hugh
Caperton and Mrs Matte Booth Kyle.
Miss Rebecca Latham died at the
Winchester Memorial Hospital yesterday
from consumption. She was daughter
of the late Thomas NJ. Latham, OF Win
chester, and was seventy-four years Of
age.
A cablegram states that the Chesa-
peake and Ohio steamship Shenandoah
arrived at Liverpool safely from New
port News 1t was reported last week
that the Shenandoah had been lost at
sea.
The contract for the construction OF a
drydock at thenayy yard at Norfolk yes
terday was awarded by the Navy De-
partment to John C. Rogers, OF New
York, whose bid of $4,000 was the
lowest.
The monitor Arkansas arrived at the
Norfolk navy yard yesterday. She kick
ed her turret loose by trying to fire her
l2-inch guns simultaneously. The tur-
ret will have to be removed and the guns
taken out, as in the case Of the monitor
Nevada, now at the yard.
Anderson Finch and Dock Bacon, the
negroes charged with attempted criminal
assault on Mrs. c. f. Geoghegan at or
near Chase City, who were take to the
Jail of Petersburg Saturday evening for
safekeeping, were yesterday taken to
Boydton under strong guard for trial.
George Washington Griggs, the negro
who attempted to criminally assault
Marion Mason, the four-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. J. B. Mason, of Port Nor
folk, was tried yesterday before Judge
Portlock, and found guilty. He was
sentenced to IS years in the peniten-
tiary.
A telegram from Wise Court House
SAYS policeman Wesley Hicks shot and
killed David Dikcs, Of Glanorgan, Satur-
day night and fatally wounded another
man named Fowler, who has since died.
The trouble grew out of an arrest made
by Hicks but the friends Of the dead
men allege there was no proyocation for
the shooting. Both Fowler and bikes
we're unarmed, although Hicks claimed
he was fired upon by them first. Hicks
was arrested and placed in Jail.
Ralph Savage, a well-known liquor
dealer, made an assignment in Winche'-
ter yesterday. The liabilities are placed
at about $50, 600, with assets Of about
500, 600. The failure was due to the IL
nancial collapse Of the Cuba IIica Cigar
Company, of which Mr.. Savage is presi-
dent and one of the principal share
holders. The principal creditors are The
local banks. Ten thousand dollars in
notes is due the Shenandoah Valley Ma
tional Bank, 1900 to the Union Bank
and the rest to other creditors Joseph
Savage, proprietor of the Kernstown
Distillery, is endorser on most of the
notes. Mr.. NJ. M.'Lynch was appointed
trustee.