Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-16
Virginia News.

The engagement of Miss jamie Gray,
of Travellers Rest. in Stafford county,
TO Mr.. John NJ. Hagan. of Danville, IS
announced. The wedding will take
place in October.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant, this
week, to citizens of this state, OF the fol-
Lowing patents: James o. Mitchell, OF
Stuar;s Draft, for hand operated gate;
Robert Flanagan, of Charlottesville, for
machine for sewing leather.
Robert Greenhow, colored, aged 10
years, who was bitten by mad dog last
February, died at his parents home, in
Stafford county, Wednesday night, NJ
hydrophObia. Several other children
we're bitten at the same time. They
will be sent to Baltimore for examina-
ton with view to sending them to a
Pasteur institute.
The question as TO the liability OF
father to provide for an infant son after
the wife had taken the child away was
decided by Judge Thomas w. Harrison
in Winchester yesterday in an opinion
handed down in the case of Oberlin VS..
Oberliu. The court held that Oberlin is
obliged to support the child, although
the infant is with its mother.
Gov. Montague yesterday, at Whaley-
vile, delivered a campaign address to
less than eighty persons, counting wo-
men and children. The audience was
particularly disappointing to his local
managers, as Whaleyville was supposed
to be one of his strongholds, and the
meeting had been we'll advertised. The
Governor yesterday addressed a large
audience at Suffolk.
The "Loyalists" faction of the Junior
Order of American Mechanics has been
defeated by the "1nsurgent" faction.
An opinion was handed down by the
Court of Appeals yesterday at Wythe-
vile, affirming the decision of the Chan
Gerry Court of Richmond recoe nizing the
."Insurgent' branch of the order, char
tered by the general assembly, as the
Que entitled to all the rights and bene-
fits Of the order in this State.
At 4 O'Clock Wednesday afternoon at
Leeds Episcopal Church, near Markham,
occurred the marriage of Miss Adelaide
TAYLOR Marshall, of Fauquier county,
and Henry Darlington Coles, of Chat
ham. Rev. P. ID. Thompson, rector OF
the church, performed the ceremony.
The brides gown was Of handsome lace
over white silk. She entered the church
on the arm of her father, Mr. james NJ.
Marshall, and was met at the altar by
the groom, accompanied by his brother,
Thomas J. Coles, of Eastville.
An attack in force was made on Fort
Monroe last night by Admiral Dickins'
fleet. Practically the entire fighting
strength of his feet was employed. His
battle formation was the same as that at
Forts Washington and Hunt, the tor
pedO.bOat destroyers in the lead, the
monitors next, then the Texas, cruisers,
and gunboats. The general action be-
gan shortly after Il o'clock, and at once
assumed a close range contest, which
contained all that could be de'ired OF
the spectacular and picturesque.
The Court of Appeals yesterday re-
versed the decision of Judge Mullen, of
the State Circuit Cour, at Petersburg,
which appointed receiver for the
Gould electric railway and lighting
property on the application of George
Fisher. Fisher has been fighting
Frank Gould for the control of these
properties for some time. The decision
today leaves the properties in the hands
of the receivers appointed by the United
States Court on the counter petition OF
the Gouds.