Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-11
Virginia News.


merchant and postmaster at hremin,
Westmereland county, died yesterday oil
typhoid fever.
Virginia Confederate Veterans are
divided over the proposition to have uni
formed choirs of young ladies attend
the Grand Camp at Norfolk next month.
Mrs. Mary 5. Brumback, widow Ot
William H. Brumback aud mother OF
Mayor @. I. Brumbsck, of Stephens
City, Frederick county, is dead at her
home in Middletown, aged seventy
years.
A posse, in command of the sheriff, is
in pursuit OF Ernest Copeland, oil HIS
boro, Loudoun county, who is charged
with beating his wife and his mother
while he was drunk. His wife is in a
critical condition.
The Patriotic Order Sons Of America,
who are holding their State convention
in Richmond, yesterday afternoon adopt
ed resolution looking to the perser-
walton of Stratford, the ancestral home
of the Lees, in WestmorelaDd county.
The country home of Mr.. John Wool
ford, of Lovettsville, LOudoun county,
was the scene of pretty wedding yes
terday afternoon when Miss Olive,
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Wool
ford, became thu bride of Davis Gruver
Cooley, son of B. +. Cooley, one OF
Warren county's most substantial and
prominent citizens.
Messrs. Davis q Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant, this
week, to citizens of this State, OF the
following patents: William r. Ball, Of
Richmond, tie; William f. Cole, oil
Norfolk, furnace air-feeding mechanism
Franz Won Kugelgen and G. o. Seward,
of Holcombs Rock, electrolysis of fused
salts; and John w. Steel and J. G.
Titus, of Norfolk, machine for stemming
peanuts.
In the Norfolk city democratic primary
yesterday the old Norfolk forces swept
the city, electing fifteen out of the TWEEN
ty-four city committeeman, and gave w.
w. Sale msjorty of S99 over Marshall
K. Peterson, good government man, for
the State Senate, Sale is the present
Senator w. w. Old, one of the present
delegates aud Merritt T. Cooke, had no
opposition for the House. Organization
carried the day. and the good government
forces had practically none.
At the factory of the United Cigarette
| Machine Company in Lyncbburg yester-
day some thirty men quit work having
unnecessarily demanded nine hours
work, with pay for ten hours, and num-
Der of restrictions as to the employment
of certain men there. AT the Glamor-
gan Pipe Works, also, six mschinlst'
walked out, their demand that certain
men recently discharged be taken back
having been refused. 1t is stated that
neither plant ia governed by union rules,
and that these walkouts are the be-
ginning of an effort to force the works
to adopt those rules.
The Lynchburg Board of Aldermen
last night concurred in the ordinance
giving the Southern Railway franchise
for its new detour line around the city
and through the West End. 1t was
adopted in August by the Common
Council. There is no doubt that Mayor
Smith will approve the measure. The
ordinance has been pending for months.
1t gives the company the right to main
tain passenger station two miles from
the present union station. The run to
the South will be shortened thirty min
utes by the new route. The board also
concurred in an ordinance creating n
department of forestry to care for the
trees of the city.