Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-16
Virginia News.

Rev. B. B. White, 81 years old, pas
tor of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, at Mount jackson, died Saturday
night at his home there OF typhoid
fever.
News has been received of the death
On Thursday in Hamilton, of Mrs.
Sarah Z. ChambliD, widow OF Peyton
w. Chsmblin, Of Loudoun county, aged
eighty years.
Fire on Saturday destroyed the can
Mug factory of V. b. Hardwick, at
Acorn, Westmoreland county, entsiliDg
a loss on building, machinery and can
ned goods to the amount of IS, 900.
The big lumber manufacturing plant
and extensive yards of the Frank X.
Hitch Lumber Company, located at Pin
ners Point, opposite Norfolk, was
damaged by fire to the extent oil $oV,-
600 yesterday evening.
At late hour Friday night during
the session of the regular quarterly con-
ference at the Oak Street Methodist
Church, colored, 10 Petersburg, the pas
tor, Rev. j. A. Robins, vas assaulted
with a club in free fight in which
several others we're more or less hurt.
Mrs. @. G. Mitchell, daughter of Mr..
William ShotweIl, of Culpeper, died
Saturday while at the hospital in Rich
mond. She had been married only
three months when The disease for which
she was operated on developed its alarm
ing symptoms. She was one Of the popu-
lar young ladies Of Culpeper.
Mrs. Ida Woodbridge, of Richmond,
was Saturday sentenced to 10 days IN
Jail for defrauding the Virginia Passen-
ger and Power Company to the extent OF
$40. Mrs. Wooldridgswent to the offices
of the company, displayed a bruised eye
and other marks, saying she had receiy-
ed them in a street car accident. This
proved to be untrue.
The William Benton farm, at Leithton,
near Middleburg, belonging to the estate
of the late Joshua Hatcher, has been
sold to Daniel B. Sands, Of New York
CITY. The farm contains 485 acres and
the consideration was $27, 900. 1t will
be converted intoa stock farm. Jasper
G.. Dawson has sold his farm of 25O
acres, near Sterling, LOudoun county, to
james Thsrp. The consideration was
s., 900.
Frank p. Burke. in charge Of station
B branch postoffiee, Richmond, was ar
rested Saturday on charge OF rifiing the
mails. A decoy letter was placed in the
mails by an inspector and when Burke
was arrested the letter is said to have
been found in his possession. He was
bailed in the sum of one thousand dol
lars for his appearance before the United
States court. He has been In the post.
Office for fifteen years and was prominent
in local politics.
The feature of this years session at
Richmond Of the Virginia organization
of Patriotic Sons of America was the
unanimous adoption Of resolutions look
ing 10 the purchase and preservation
of Stratford, the home of the Lees, in
Westmoreland county, Virginia. Five
sons of the house, beginning with "Light
Horse Harry" and ending with Robert
f. Lee, are named in the preamble.
The organization proposes to make
Stratfofd a national shrine second only
to Mount Vernon, which is only a few
miles farther up the Potomac, nearer
Washington.
Wholesale arrests of conductors Of the
Norfolk and Portsmouth Traction Com
pany on charges of larceny of sums
ranging from dollar to thirty dollars a
day have been made. One of the four
men convicted at county hearings Satur-
day night confessed to knocking down
$50, the total receipts of crowded ex-
position car for days run. Pinkertons
have discovered that in some cases COL
fusion exists between The conductors and
the uniformed inspectors Of railway COM
panies, whereby both have protited. The
main body of the conductors have ex-
pressed their determination to stand by
the company in its efforts to stamp out
stealing. Jail sentences were imposed
on all the men arrested.