Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-10
Virginia News.

Capt. E. H. Dejarnette, Of Lewiston,
Spottsylvauia county, suffered stroke
OF paralysis Friday evening.
Rev. John Chapman who has accepted
call to the Episcopal Church at Upper
vile, will enter upon his duties as rector
July Is.
Rev. j. E. Bailey, formerly pastor of
the Baptist Church at Herndon, has re-
sumed his charge after an absence of
year in Louisville.
The seventh annual meeting of the
Virginia State Bar Association will be
had at the Hotel Chamberlin, Old Point,
August Sth, 9th and 10th.
Mrs. N. T. Glover, one of the lessees
of the Warm Springs, and widely known
among frequenters of Virginia summer
resorts, died there on Saturday.
Amongthose who passed the examina-
ton before the State Board of Dental
Examiners were NJ. B. Lewis, of Gull
pepper, aud V. p. Berry, of King George
county.
Raymond A. Davis, S-year-old son of
Joseph II. Davis, of Fredericksburg, was
drowned late Saturday afternoon in a
small pond near Perryville, Cecil county,
Maryland.
The Interstate Tobacco Growers Pro.
teotive Association met in Danville yes
terday and decided upon the organiza-
ton of the cooperative manufacturing
company and steam prizery, with CAPT.
tai stock of 800, 900, the stock to be
subscribed by the farmers and business
men, and the business to be run indie
pendently and in opposition to trust
made goods.
The third annual convention of the
Virginia State Teachers Association ad-
iourned a. the University of Virginia
Saturday. The following officers were
chosen for the ensuing year: K. G.
Stearnes, of Salem, president; j. H. Bin
ford, of Richmond, secretary; n. P.
Painter, of Roanoke, treasurer. M. ID.
Hall, Of Fairfaxf was elected vice presi-
dent for the Eighth district.
The Gleason, Charlottesvile's largest
hotel, had narrow escape from destruc-
rion by fire early yesterday morning.
Flames we're discovered in the basement
under the kitchen. Two alarms were
sent in, and after a halEhour's stubborn
fight fight the fire was extinguished. The
hotel was well filed with guests. and con-
siderable excitement prevailed. Scores
of women and men in night apparel ran
down the stairways TO the lobby.
In a fight in Buchanan county between
United States revenue officers and moon
sinners Thursday three of the law
breakers were killed and three wounded.
The raiding posse was led by Deputy &.
NJ. Tucker. They surrounded an illicit
distilery, which had been discovered in
a lonely part Of the mountains. Just as
they were closing in upon the distillers
the latter, surprised, engaged in run
ming fight. The moOnshners would not
surrender. The three wounded men
were taken to Jail.
Fire in Roanoke early yesterday
wrecked the Angel building, in the
heart of the business section of Roanoke,
destroying the contents of the three
floors and doing damage to the amount
of $40, 900 and $25, 900. The fire is
thought to have been caused by electric
wires. The flames shot up an elevator
shaft, quickly enveloping the entire
building adjoining. The Terry build
ing is seven stories high, and it was only
by heroic work of the iremen that this
structure was saved. The Terry build
ing is supplied with sheetirOn window
shutters, but these were all wide open,
leaving the woodwork in the windows
exposed to the flames. Many OF these
window facings took fire.