Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-08
Virginia News.

The annual reunion of the Mosoy
bait4liou will he held in Richmond on
Wednesday. The veterans are prepar-
ing for gala day.
Gov. Swanson has granted a pardon
TO Charles r. Fishburne, the 10 snoke
banker, who murdered DR.. Frederick
Lefew about three years ago.
Miss Mary Anne Garner, eighty-two
years old, of Stafford county, died FRI
day at her home in that county, after a
brief illness. She is survived by one sls-
ter and several nephews and nieces.
On account of the large number Of
cases of diphtheria reported by the locs
physicians 10 the board of health, all Of
the public schools in Battletown district,
Clarke county, have closed for an In
definite time Fully 100 cases were re-
ported yesterday.
The suit of the State of Virginia against
the State of West Virginia, involving
$40, 900, 900, claimed to be due Vir'
ginia by West Virginia, and originating
in a sum of money expended for internal
improvements when the two states sepa'
rated, will come up in the United Su'
preme Court this week.
While play trying to wrest re.
volver from @. @. Childress in Richmond
Saturday Michael Kelley, seaboard en-
gineer, was shot and instantly killed.
Kelley did not speak alter being shot.
Childress is under arrest. The shooting
was accidental aud the men were close
| friends.
The Pocahontas Galleries Company has
now recovered the bodies OF all the en-
ployes lost in the West mine disaster OF
October 3, the total being thirty five.
Twenty men, who were at first believed
to have been lost, have since reported 10
person. The property loss is found to
be much less than was at first antici
pated.
The fall meeting of the board of visi-
tors of the University of Virginia was
held Saturday, aud, DR.. Hough, pro-
fessor OF biology aud director OF the
School of Science in Simmons College,
Boston, was elected to fill the chair VI
physiology, made vacant by the division
Of the chairs of physiology and therspeu-
tics, formally held by DIR. Paul d. Bar
ringer.
The new banking building for The
Plains, branch of the Virginia Safe De-
post and Trust Corporation Of Alexan
dria has been completed by the contract
ors, A. Davis, it,, & Son, of Alexandria
county, and the bank will be ready for
business next Monday, when several oil
the directors from this city will extend a
welcome to the patrons. Robert Muir
ray, of The Plains, will be the cash.
Ter, and will have capable assistants
Senator Daniel fell Friday night while
goiog to the Interstate Fair at Lynch
burg, receiving a serious sprsin of bis
right wrist. Owing to the fact that he
cannot use his crutch, except with his
right hand, he will be compelled to re-
main quiet for ten days. II is probable
that the accident will cause the Senator
to cancel several contemplated campaign
speeches in the State during the month.
The twenty-u ninth annual session oil
the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
of the Baltimore Conference Methodist
Episcopal Church South convened yes
terday morning 10 the Braddock Street
Church, Winchester. The president OF
the society. Mrs Wilson, wife of Bishop
A. w. Wilson, of Baltimore, called the
meeting to order and made a brief open
ing address. Rev. Charles ID. Bula, OF
Alexandria, preached the opening SER
mon.
A. Chadwick Burton, sentenced to
serve term in Richmond Jail last De-
cember for receiving money under false
pretenses in connection with an enter
tainment given for the benefit of the Dor
cas- Society of the M. f. Church, was re-
leased today. Burton was arrest
ed in company with a woman who he
claimed was his wife and two young sing
ers, whom be carried with him for the
purposes of his entertainment. The women
were all released. 1t developed during
the trial of Burton that the woman saiu
to be Mrs. Burton was not his wife, the
real Mrs. Burton, a Philadelphia wom'
an, coming to Richmond to testify that
he had deserted her.