Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-08-16
Virginia News.

DR.. j. NJ. Burke, of Petersburg, has
been appointed chief surgeon OF the sea-
board Air Line Railway.
Capt. James O'Bannon, superinien-
dent of public printing for the state
died in Richmond last night.
1t is reported that the presidency oil
the jamestown Exposition will be oner-
ed to Hon. Harry St. George Tucker.
Rural free delivery has been establish
ed, to commence October 10, ut Fairfax,
Fairfax county, by an additional route
No. 3.
Mrs. Alcinda HUT died at her home
at WOODBURY., near Leesburg, Monday
morning, aged sixty years. She was a
Miss Wynkoop.
The Richmond city democratic COM
mittee will, at its meeting Thursday
night, appoint one weIl-known bushes;
man or lawyer to be an officer in each
precinct in the city at the State primary
to be held next Tuesday.
At meeting of the democratic com
miltee of King George, Saturday MIR. X
c. l.. Moncure was declared the demo-
cratic nominee for the Legislature, sub
ject to the concurrence of Stafford coun'
ty democratic committee.
The Virginia State Board of Health,
responding to an appeal from Norfolk,
l. loc,1oI - okl.ah Of q
plete marine and land quarantine against
all passenger and freight traffic from
Louisiana not certified to be healthy.
The State democratic committee, at its
meeting in Richmond last night, unani'
mously ordered the city democratic com
mittee, of Norfolk, to settle their differ.
ences by arranging for a reorganization
by election of members in the same man
nea as members of the legislature.
Thew. C. T. U. and L. T. L., al
Washington, Va, held a grand gold and
silver contest on the 18th. Miss Gladys
J. Miller was awarded the grand gold
medal, and little Miss Achsah Miller
Dudley won the silver medal. They
were gracefully presented by Rev. Mr..
TiIlinghast, of the Episcopal Church.
Messrs. Davis q Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant, this
week, to citizens of this State, of the
following patents: Charles II. Chittum,
of Lexington, for a sewing machine
shuttle; Thomas J. King, of Richmond,
for combined ledger and letter file
John O. Morris, Of Richmond. for a
combined door, knob and bell; Saul w.
Shoop, of Front Royal, for lime-kiln.
A double wedding will be sOlemnizeo
at "White Hall" the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. A. Hess, in Clarke county, a
half-past FIVE O'Clock tomorrow evening
when their daughters, Miss Lula May
Hess, will become the bride of Mr. Mar
tin Charles Elyette, prominent young
Clarke county farmer, and Miss Mauc
Elmer Hess the bride Of Mr.. james
Robert Dakeman, a young merchant o
Berryville.
A threatened strike of carpenters was
ayerted 10 Richmond yesterday by di
vision among the unions Monday night
One of the largest unions of carpenters
in the city, in the face of the nationa
authority to strike, decided their men
could continue at work and receive pre-
rata of the present nine-hour day ic
eight hours of work. The demand was fol
eight hours and the same pay. In con
sequence, few of the 500 union carpen
tiers went out and building operations
went ahead without trouble, new mer
taking the places of the strikers as fas
as they quit.
James Gallagher, one of the four bank
robbers arrested in Baltimore on the
charge OF breaking into the Manassas
Bank, was bailed by Commissioner Bra.
dy in Richmond Yesterday. He and bis
three conferres were confined in the
Richmond Jail pending a trial at the
fall term of the United States Circuit
Court, which convenes the first Monday
in October. Gallagher is in very bad
health, and his release was at the sug-
gestion If the Jail physician, who saic
the confinement was doing the prisoner
serious harm. The man is suffering
from tuberculosis.
Frederick Borchers, of Philadel phia
who had been prospecting on Cripple
Creek, near Wytheville, for severa
months, was shot and killed while re-
turning from Wytheville about noon
Yesterday by Charles w. Goss, the Nor
folk and Western Railroad agent at Grip
pie Creek station Borchers and Cos:
had some misunderstanding about some
money. Borchers went to Wythevillt
at late hour Monday night, and after
attending to some business at WytheyillC
yesterday, left for Cripple Creek. He
was met by Goss on the mountain where
he was killed. Goss surrendered to the
officers and is in Jail there.
Samuel Strider House, well known
both in Washington and Winchester,
died yesterday morning at his home in
the former city of debility due to advanc-
ing years and failing health. Mr.. House
was born in Harpers Ferry in 1910.
During the civil war he was a member
of Gen. Turner Ashby's command. Mr..
House served under AshbY until the
close of the struggle. At the end of the
war he settled in Winchester engaging
in business, which he followed with
great success down to 1886. la that
year he came to Washington, continuing
to lead an active life up to within few
years of his death. Mr.. House leaves A
wife and three children.
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