Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-28

OifcS OF tnat section OF virginia from po-
coming estranged from the church.
An electric line is to be built at once out
from Newport News. Va. which Will con-
meet historic jamestown Island on the
James river and the Yorktown battlefields
on the York river. The road will be in full
operation before the opening of the James
town exposition
The people of Virginia. instead of pre-
venting silver service to the new battle
ship named for the Old Dominion, will
present that vessel with a handsome ships
bell to cost s., 500
Capt Dillingham;. commanding the Nor
folk naval training station, has applied to
Mayor Riddick of that city with the hope
of bringing influence to bear for the pur-
pose of having the Norfolk board of police
commissioners rescind its order, now in
force. preventing members OF the local po-
lice force from arresting United States ma
val desertcrs. The matter will be taken up
by the police board at Its next meeting on
Tuesday night.
Thomas W Miller a B. and o. brakeman,
who had been in the service one month, fell
under his train at Weston. w. Va, Friday.
and was ground to pieces. His relatives
cannot be located.
Prof. Marshall C. Alleben has resigned as
principal of the Allegany County Academy
to become dean of Davis and Elkins College
at Elllins, w. Va. He will be succeeded
who comes from Salisbury School, Sails
bury, Conn.
Urban D. Poe widower and prosperous
farmer of Wadestown Monongalia county,
w. Va, and Miss Lola Leannie Edman of
kerens, W. Va, were married at Cumber-
land
The annual commencement of the Pied
mont High School occurred Friday night
Prof. l.. ]. CorbIy of the Marshall College
State Normal School, Huntington was the
speaker. Miss Stewart e Arnold was the
graduate.
The four-year-old daughter of Henry
Raemsch of Elkins was probably fatally
burned. her clothing having caught from
fire which children had kfndled in alley.
Floyd Poe was badly burned about the face
and hands while trying to save the child.
A jury al Keyser, w. Va, found William
Woodrow of Ridgeley. opposite Cumberland,
guilty of murder in the second degree for
the killing of his infant child while his
wife held it in her arms to shield herself
from the bullets Woodrow was aiming at
her. He was intoxicated at the time. The
jury took four ballots.
Charles Edward Vickery is dead at his
home in KingWood w. Va, aged siXty-tWo
years He was native of Maine, and
years ago he was a Baltimore and Ohio
telegraph operator at Relay station, later
becoming operator and agent at Terra Alta.
Later he engaged in merchandising at Terra
Alta. His wife is a daughter of Gen. Buck
ner Fairfax. Mr.. Vickery had been in
Washington. and recently he returned to
Khgwood in the hope of improving his
health.
The work of the Norfolk Naval Y. NJ. c.
A, which naugurated there some four
years ago through the generosity of Miss
Helen Gould, has grown to such an ex-
faFot hat n sarN
increase the working force of the asSocia-
ton by the appointment of religious, edu
cational and social secretary. and Edgar
McNaughton of Brooklyn, n. Y, has been
selected for the position.
It is now announced that at the labor
celebration scheduled for Sewelps Point this
year not only Norfolk, Portsmouth and
Berkey will be represented. but that Rich
mond and Danville, Va, Will join in the
local event. bringing large labor delega-
tfons TO the seashore on Labor day from
those places
1t now looks as though there will be two
candidates for the next general assembly
from Princess Anne county. DR.. Snead, the
Incumbent representative from that county,
announced recently that he would withdraw
from the race, leaving the field open to w.
II. Hartley, but now the friends of DIR.
Snead declare that he is in the race again.
Tobe X. Roberts. janitor of the new fed
eral post office and court house here, an
nounces that under the will of Mrs Sarah
Dunston. who died recently in San Fran
cisco, Cal, he will receive a fortune of $780,
o0O. Roberts is making $50 per
month.
At double wedding at the home of the
parents of the brides in Shenandoah coun-
ty, Va. Miss Dora GLENN became the bride
of Simon Nichols of Washington d. c.. and
Miss Salie GLENN became the bride of
Frank Moreland of Shenandoah. Mr. and
Mrs Nichols have left for their future home
in the national capital.
recaptulation of the G,95s Norfolk
males who paid their capitation taxes up
to May and are thus qualified to partici-
pate In the next general election shows that
out or the whole number only la are col
ored voters, whereas there We're formerly
over 2Ooo negro voters in this city.
Reports from Newport News are to the
effect that the fight for the collectorship
at that port is not yet over, despite the
fact that the President has determined to
appoint to this position Capt j. F. B.
Stuart. who retires from the United States
marshalShip of eastern Virginia so that
former Marshal Morgan Treat can be rein
stated to this position. The Newport News
people wanted and expected a c. Peachy
to have the collectorship after the death Of
the late Col. Elliott, who held the posi-
ton for eight years.
Marshal Morgan Treat will Immediately
after he qualities carry back to Richmond
the office of the marshal, which was re-
moved from that city to Norfolk following
the appointment of Capt. J. T.. b. Stuart
to the marshalship three months ago Mar
shall Treat will also reinstate former
Deputy Marshal Samuel Bendit, who was
displaced shortly after Marshal Stuart
came into office.
The board of supervisors of Accomac
county, Va. have decided to levy an ex-
ira tax of cents upon the 500 for school
purposes This will lengthen the present
school term in Accomac a month and a
half and will mean far better teachers in
the public schools of the county. The
schools of Accomac already numbered
among the best of the state.
The body Of Milton E. Rose. postmaster
at Ruby. in Stafford county. Va, has been
recovered from Aqua creek, where Rose
was drowned some days ago.
Two tickets have been announced for
the approaching municipal election in Lex
ington, Va. One is headed by the incum-
bent, Mayor Samuel b. Walker jr and the
other by Capt. w. f. Pierson. a former
mayor of Lexington. The election will oc-
cur June H. The fight Is spirited one.
paar Admiral Harriprto,