Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-03
Virginia News.

Wlllam a. OOIciO5sofJ U.uo'y VI
Washington, but now Of Norfolk, was
married at Suffolk yesterday evening to
Miss Attic L. Phillips, of Washington.
The bride is o native of Alexandria.
Mr.. Marion Colbert, seventy-eight
years of sge, past grand master and past
sovereign grand representative Of the
Virginia Odd Fellows, died st Hampton
yesterday. Mr.. Colbert was for fifty
years a merchant in Hampton.
Joseph Michaelick, Bohemian, who
resided with his parents in Chesterfield
county, died Of hydrophobia Sunday
after much suffering. Three weeks ago
he visited a friend in Prince George
county, and there it was that he was bit
ten in the face by dog which he attempt
ed to drive from porch.
At 10 O'Clock last night as result
of the ballot, on the 4,h of June last,
thirteen saloons and three other dis
pensers OF liquors went out OF the busl-
ness of selling spirits in Charlottesville.
Several will transfer their operations to
Orange, Gordonsville, and other nearby
towns, with a view of supplying the
Charlottesville trade by telephone orders,
without violating the local-opilon law.
The appeal of Prof. j. d. Harris to
the school trustees electoral board OF
Fauquier county to reverse the action OF
the local board in not reappointing him
principal of the Warrenton High School,
Yesterday wss sustained at ameeting OF
the board. Prof. Harris was the princi-
pal last session, and the local board, at
its recent meeting, appointing ID. L.
Duncan for the ensuing session over
the application of PIof. Harris, who was
strongly Endorsed.
The jamestown Exposition Company
yesterday forwarded to the United
States Treasury check for $50, 900 as
an iustalment upon the payment OF the
million-dollsr loan. Director General
Barr declared that it is his belief that
before the fair is over there will have
been paid back q very considerable por-
ton of the loan, though not all oil 1t.
He said that the attendance is on the in.
crease, and that the average number OF
paid admissions was exceeding 20, 900
per day.
Rev. Eli Tar, pastor of the Harrison
Street Baptist Church, Petersburg, was
arrested yesterday afternoon on the
charge of having threatened j. d..
Mason with pistol and also with having
assaulted him. Tart was released on
800 bail for his appearance before the
mayor next Saturday. Mason is libra
rian of the Sunday school Of the Harri-
son Street Baptist Church, which is now
closed by order Of the court on ac-
count OF trouble, which occurred there
several weeks ago.
Meaeer details reached Roanoke last
night of a murder in Bedford county.
A farmer returned home from Lynch
burg and quarreled with his wife. The
woman seized a shotgun that stood in
the room and blew away portion OF the
mans face. The husband retreated and
was pursued by the sngered wife, who
stoned him and crushed his skull. After
killing the man, the wife returned TO The
house, secured q mule and went back to
the spot where her husbands body lay
dead il pool of bis own blood. She
hitched the mule to the corpse and drag
ged it over the ground TO the house. The
woman and her son have been arrested.
Because she married against her
mothers wishes, Mrs. Leslie NJ. Newton,
Jewess, it is alleged, Is beld a pris-
oner at the home of her mother, Mrs.
Salie Gholslin, In Norfolk. Newton, a
clerk in store in that city. and Miss
Gholstin we're married at Greenville, n.
c., last week. They spent one day at
the groom's home there and then came
to Norfolk. The brides mother took
charge of the bride on her arrival and
has had her ever since. She is permit
ted to go on the streets occasionally, but
never unaccompsnied by some member
of the family. Mrs. Gholstin says that
Newton must embrace the Jewish faith
before sheIwilligive up her daughter. He
is considering the matter. The groom is
twenty five and the bride is twenty-one
years old.