Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-12
Virginia News.

| President Roosevelt and party re-
turned to Washington last night from
a trip to Albemarle county, Va.
Mrs. B. S. Irons, formerly of Gull
pepper county, died at the home OF her
parents in Fredericksburg Saturday, oil
complications, aged 20 years.
Mrs. Lou Powell, of Dinwiddie coun-
ty, wife of A. T. Powell, was fatally
burned at her home Friday night by the
Iexplosion of kerosene lamp.
After several weeks consideration Rev.
Arthur b. KinsoIying, rector of Christ
Church, Brooklyn, has declined call
to St. PauPs Church, Richmond.
The commencement exercises of the
eighty-hrst session OF the University of
Virginia began yesterday with the bac-
caIaureate sermon by Bishop Sessums, OF
Louisiana.
Capt. George Schermerhorn, for many
years captain and agent for the Old Do
minion Steamship Company, died at his
home in Hampton Saturday, aged sixty
nine years.
An incendiary FIRE destroyed the new
residence of j. NJ. Clark at Siler, Frede-
rick county, at an early hour Saturday
morning, together with all the contents.
The loss will reach several thousand
dollars.
r. NJ. Bowman, Of New York, for
merly a resident OF Fredericksburg, died
at the Mary Washington Hospital there
Yesterday of heart disease. He served
in the Thirtieth Virginia Regiment
during the civil war.
DIR. John w. Williams, aged Ga years,
a prominent Albemarle physician and
candidate for the Legislature, died yes
terday at the University of Virginia
Hospital from the effects of an operation,
on Friday last, for appendicitis.
Jos. r. Coombes, aged SO years, died
Friday night at his home in Norfolk.
Mr.. Coombes claimed to have been one
of the original seven men who at Rock
Island prison in 1868 conceived the idea
of organizing the famous Ku Klux Khan.
The men were prisoners at tina. time.
One of the two furnaces operated by
the Bertha Mineral Company, at Aus,
tinvile, Wythe county, was destroyed
by fire last night. The furnace was new
and was only recently completed for the
manufacture of zinc oxide. The loss is
$40, 600, partially insured. The furnace
Will be rebuilt at once.
A. Blair Antrim, president of the
Roanoke boad of aldermen and one o
the most prominent lawyers of the city,
died Saturday from diabetes, aged thirty
seven years. He bad been in i'll health
for year, and had just returned from
Europe, where he went for the benefit
of his health. He was native of Char
lOttesville.
Interest is being taken all over Vir-
ginia in the selection of bishop coad
tutor for the diocese of Southern Virginia,
A meeting of the council has been called
for October, when an assistant bishop
will be chosen. This meeting is to be
held in Lynchburg Among the clergy
men mentioned for the bishopric are
Rev. A. Braxton Bryan, of Petersburg
Rev. DR.. A. S. Lloyd, now of New
York; Rev. DR.. Bergman Green, of the
Episcopal Seminary, and Rev. }. }.
Lloyd, of Lynchburg
The forty-fourth anniversary Of the
battle of Big Bethel, the first land battle
of the civil war, fought between the
forces of Gen. B. F. Butler and Confed'
crates, under Gen. Magruder, was cele-
brated Saturday with the unwilling of a
granite monument at the Bethel Church.
Miss Maggie Tabb, of York county, Va,
and Miss Fannie Kyle, of Fayetteville, N.
c., unveiled the monument in the pres
ence OF about 5000 people from North
Carolina and Virginia. Addresses were
made by Rev. f. P. Jones, Gov. Monta-
que, Col. j. B. Grimes, of North Caro-
lina and others.