Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-05-07
Virginia News.

I The Virginia Grand Lodge, /. .. U.
F., will convene 10 Richmond Tuesday
and Wednesday, May 8 and 9.
The Great Council of the Improved
Red Men of Virginia will convene in
Portsmouth on May 10.
The Norfolk aud Southern depot at
Virginia Beach aud two freight cars
were destroyed by fire yesterday morn
ing.
Mairr Sol Cutchins has announced that
he will at once begin The mailing, OF
checks to the Spanish war veterans for
back pay allowed them by Congress.
Francis Marshall Boykin, we'll
known tobacconist of Richmond, died
Saturday, aged 90 years, leaving Wild
ow, two daughters and one son.
Mrs Olivia Duncan Kerfoot, former
ly of Culpeper, died on Friday at the
home of Mrs. ID. II. Sewers. in Clarke
county, aged ~ years. She WAS the
wife of James +. Kerfoot, OF Clarke
county.
The marriage of Miss Lillian h Ruck-
er, daughter of Mr.. w. A. Rucker, to
DIR. II. Coraes Rucker, occurred in
Richmond Saturday evening. The cere-
mony was performed at the home OF Mrs.
w. z. Wood, sister of the bride.
A still house on the farm of Clark II.
Purcell, sheriff of Frederick county, was
totally destroyed by fire Saturday, to-
gether with the contents, including val
liable distllng apparatus and several
vehicles. The fire was the work of in
cendiaries.
The batileship Rhode Island stranded
Saturday morning off York Spit, in
Chesapeake Bay. The vessel passed in
the capes early that morning from the
Boston navy yard and was en- route to
Yorktown. The ship was pulled of by
government tugs yesterday morning.
Roulette tables, German hazard tables
and other gambling devices which cost
Mt least 81, 500 were burned Saturday
afternoon by the Norfolk city sergeant
on the Jail property. The gambling
paraphernslia WAS that seized several
months ago in the house occupied by
Gro. Elderkn.
The battltshir Virginia, the first of her
class to go into commission, became a
part OF the active strength of the Ameri-
can navy yesterday al Norfolk wher,
IN the presence of her crew and few
spectators, the United States Il " WIS
raised at her stern, aud Opt. Selton
Schroeder, her first commanding officer,
read the orders assigning him TO that
duty. he Virginia was butt at the
Newport News shipyard
Portsmouth wasa closed city yesterday.
Under the order issued by Mayor Reed,
instrucling the police force to arrest all
storekeepers who violated the blue law
against the transaction # business or The
performance of lahIr on Sunday, the
drug stores, which would otherwise have
done thriving business ia soda water,
were open only f1r the filling of perscrip-
tiors. Cigar, newspapers, &c, all
came under the ban of the Mayors
edict.
Walter E Grader, son of ex- rreasur-
er Brauer, of Henrico county, was ar
rested Saturday, charged with heating
his wife with horsewhip. The beating
occurred on the public road. Mrs.
Brauer, who had left her husband, re-
turned to her former home for the pur-
pose OF obtaining certain possessions.
Servants N the house called Mr.. Brsuer
up over the telephone and informed him
of lie presence of his wife on The prem
ises. Returning to the house, he met
Mrs. Brauer in the road, and, jumping
from his buggy, it is ALLEGED be admin
/ iaiered q severe finishing with his Mhip