Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-06
Virginia News.


Memorial Hospital at Richmond last
night, aged AZ years.
Mrs. Sally Smith, aged about seventy
one years, died of paralysis at the home
of her sister, Mn. w. K. Claughton,
near Lottsburg, Monday.
An incendiary FIRE consumed large
barn on the Slime farm, Jew miles
north oil Winchester, yesterday, entail
ing loss Of about 1000.
Mrs. Mary Mullen billiard, wife OF
Mr.. Lee billiard, died at her home on
boswell Field, near Fredericksburg, OF
typhoid fever, Monday evening, aged
35 years.
A wholesale Jail delivery at the Henri
co county prison has been averted by
the confession of one of the prisoners In
the plot. The convicts had been at work
on wall of the prison ever since Satur.
day, and several bricks had been re-
moved
A. F. Zorn, of Norfolk county, Mon
day swan the James river from Pig
Point to the Casino grounds at Newport
News, on a wager that he could not
accomplish the feat in ten hours. The
distance is said to be between six and
seven miles.
Charles Fades, a young man wanted
in Bristol on the charge of having crimi-
nally assaulted Matilda Hilton, IL.
year-old girl, after having threatened to
cut her throat if she sounded an alarm,
has been captured in Indiana and will
be brought to Bristol.
Mrs. F. NJ. Trimble, of StauntOn,
who was so badly beaten by her son,
John Trimble, died Monday night.
John Trimble beat his mother because
the bread for breakfast had too much
soda in it. Trimble escaped. The
father has been arrested.
Figures furnished by the comptroller
of the currency show that from March
l4th, 1900, to August 81, 1908, there
have been ffty-one new banks establish
ed in Virginia. The aggregate capital
of these banks is 50, 1916, 900. This
is nineteen more banks than was estab-
lshed in all the New England states
put together in the same period.
The second annual exhibition of the
Culpeper Colored Horse Show and Rae
ing Association took place yesterday at
the old fair grounds and was much Gu
joyed by the large crowd OF people in
attendance. The exhibits in the way of
live stock and racing steeds, as well as
the premium lists, showed much i'm
provement over last years show.
A wedding of interest in Virginia,
New York, and the District of Colum-
bia was that OF Miss B. Rosalie Slaugh-
ter, NJ. D., of Washington, youngest
daughter of the late Mr.. John +.
Slaughter, of Lynchburg. to Mr.. Baxter
Morton, a prominent lawyer of New
York city. The ceremony was per-
formed by the Rev. James Owens in St.
Paurs Church, Lynchburg, last night.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
pvtent attorneys, report the grant this
week to citizens of this State of the fol-
lowing patents: Joseph S. Click, OF
Bridgewater, for bed spring; John F.
Macdonald and G. F. Johnson, of Nor
folk, for game apparatus. Also the fol-
lowing trademarks: John E. Fowler,
of Richmond, for havoring extracts;
Lazarus Louis, Of Lynchburg, for whisky.
The cornerstone of the new Masonic
Temple, in Harrisonburg, was laid yes
iernay under the auspices OF the Grand
Lodge of Virginia. Rockingham Union
Lodge is now nearly 1l6 years old, and
is 10 a prosperous condition. The tenn
pie they are erecting will be handsome
and commodious one. Several of the
Grand Lodge officers, including Deputy
Grand Master Kemper, of Alexandria,
were present.
Mai. Holmes Conrad has returned to
his home in Winchester from his
European trip. While Major Conrad is
said to have gone to Europe on account
of his health, it is generally reported
that he also conferred with the London
house of the great English and Ameri-
can banking firm of Brown Bros. by
whom be was recently employed to rep
resent them in the litigation that is
forthcoming between Brown Bros. and
Virginia against the Commonwealth of
West Virginia to compel a settlement
by the latter of its portion of the old
Virginia debt, Brown Bros. having be-
fore the civil war become extensively in
terested in Virginia bonds.
The grand jury which was convened
at Lynchburg yesterday, returned Is in
dictmeuts, three of which are for al
legged criminal assault. The majority of
the indictments are for malicious as
saults. This was one of the largest days
work a Lynchburg jury has done for
years. The case of Raleigh B. Dawson,
of Pittsylvsnia county, who is charged
with making several attempts to crimi-
nally assault Bessie Shelton, deaf.and-
dumb girl, Is years old in Lynchburg
last June, is set for hearing today. c.
F. Allen, who was indicted for alleged
assault on Susie Dunkley, a 10-year-old-
girl, two weeks ago, had counsel as
signed him today.