Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-31
Virginia News.

Mr.. John J. Gaines, a well-known
resident Of The Plains, died yesterday
morning.
A womsn's bank, to be conducted by
woman and for women, is what the
Merchants National Bank, OF Rich
mond, proposes to inaugura about
September /.
Mrs. Cordelia Sothoron Armstrong
widow of Edward Burr Powell, OF Lees
burg, died at Jessup, Nd, yesterday.
The remains we're taken to Lsesburg yes
terday for interment.
Judge R. T. w. Duke, OF Chsrlottes-
vile, announced yesterday at James
town that be will be a candidate for the
democratic nomination for Governor OF
Virginia in the next primary election.
In the democratic primary in the
Fourth Senatorial district yesterday John
NJ. Hart, of Roanoke, defeated o. L.
Slearns, of Salem, by about 200 msjority.
Mr.. Hart formerly lived in Alexandria.
Miss Maud Matthews, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles b. Matthews, of
Aide, and Wilmer James, son OF the
late Levi james, of Loudoun county,
were married yesterday at the home OF
BRIDES parents, near Aidie.
Late Monday afternoon Carl HAWKINS,
the sixteep-yesr-old son Of NJ. A. Hau-
kins, a merchant of Richards, fell from
a freight train, between Cedar Bluffs
and Ricblands, and his head struck q
rock, killing him instantly.
Lawyers from all over Virginia we're
at the jamestown Exposition yesterday
for the annual convention of the State
Bar Association. The feature of the
opening of the convention Was brilliant
address by Allen Caperton Braxtop, OF
Stsunlon, on "suils Against States"
The Second Pennsylvania Heavy Ar
tillery Association arrived at Peters
burg yesterday morning, and yesterday
the forty third anniversary of the bat
tie of the crater The association held
its annual reunion on the battlefield,
which is about two miles from Peters
burg.
The monument erected by the Norfolk
branch OF the Association for The Preser-
walton of Virginia Antiquities in COM
memoration of the first General Assem-
bly, of Virginia, was unveiled yesterday
at jamestown Island with interesting and
impressive exercises. Addresses were
made by Bishops Tucker, Randolph, and
Attorney General Anderson.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patent Attorney, report the grant, this
week, to citizens of this State, of the
following patents: J. I. Dalton, Of Vr-
giDlia, bag-stripgiDg machine; @. Gall
sgher, Of Richmond, insulstor for electric
wires; VIM. Greene, of Blsckwater, de-
railment guard; P. J. D. Hops, of Wske,
rotary engine, and j. w. Pierce, OF Ar
vonis, hinge.
Capt. Thomas Colgate Morton, inspec-
tor general of the Grand Camp OF Con-
federste Veterans in Virginia, and one
of the best known veterans in the Stste,
died suddenly yesterday 10 Stanton,
aged sixty-eight years. In the civil
war be was captain in Edgar's battalion.
He held prominent positions in many
fraternsl orders, among them the Knights
of Honor, Knights Of Pythias, Masons,
and Royal Arcanum.
Complete returns from TIE democratic
primary In Fauquier cou& y giee g. l..
Fletcher hiy-three mslohty over I. o.
Pitcher for the nomination for State
senator from the counties Of LOudOun
and Fauquier. NJ. NJ. Green received
the nomination for the House of Dele
gates, defeating A. ID. Kelly and Ell
ward Amber, the candidates standing
10 the order named. j. A. g. Keith
was nominated for communicable al
torney without opposition, and the re-
naming county officers also, except for
sheriff, and for this Office A. S. Ham,
ilton defeated j. f. Oliuger by large
majority.