Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-30
Virginia News.

AT W00lsey, Prince william county,
William F. Mounijoy has been appoin-
ted, postmaster vice L. K. Lynn, re-
signed.
While boarding the Old Dominion
steamship jamestown at Norfolk yesler-
day morning Charlotte Knoll stewardess
of the vessel, fell overheard and was
drowned.
Adde's Allen, 81 years old, was shot
and dangerously wounded at Ivor, on the
Norfolk and Western railroad, Saturday
night. John Wyatt is charged with the
shooting, Both men are employed on
the Norfolk and Western railroad at
Ivor.
The State Bar Association will assem-
BILE at jamestown today to do honor to
the memory of the first legislative assem-
bly ever held in the world, so far as his
tory has recorded. The association will
be in session three days, this being their
annual meeting.
Judge Harrison yesterday, after read
ing a petition therefor, ordered that a
local option election be held 10 Battle
town, msgisterial district, Clark county,
September II. Berryville, the county
seat, Is in the district, which has popu-
lstion Of about /, POI and has five saloons.
The large barn Of Lee Saunders, near
Culpeper, was burned to the ground yes
terday with its contents, including crops
of hay and grain. There were forty
tons Of this seasons hay in the barp,
aud large stack of straw near it WAS
also burned. The origin OF the fire is
unknown,
Accused of attacking his ten year old
step-daughter, Bertha Williams, Martin
Williams was yesterday lodged in Nanse-
moDd county Jail. Williams is feigning
insanity. He had torn off nearly all OF
his clothing and bitten himselfsO severely
that he was unable to appear in court.
The principal States witness is the girls
mother, who is the defendants wife
Richard O'Brien, of Richmond, who
was caught beneath his engine, which
was derailed on the R., F. & P. R. R.
Saturday night, died yesterday at the
Mary Washington Hospital in Fred
ericksburg, where he was removed soon
after the accident. He was 63 years
old and WAS considered one Of the most
conservative engineers on the line. He
is survived by his widow and two child
rem.
Returns from the democratic primary
election held in Fauquier county yes
terdav give g. l.. Fletcher majority
over I. @. Pitcher for the State senate
nomination. Warrenton precinct gave
Fletcher 260, Pitcher "a. M. M. Green
will succeed himself in the house OF
delegates, defeating A. d. Kelly and
Edward Amber. A. s. Hamilton de-
feats ]. E. Olinger by large majority
for sheriff.
Charles Ohaffiu, one of the 2S men
indicted by special grand jury for riot
ing In connection with the smashing of
eli the Greek restaurants and bootblack-
ing places in Roanoke two weeks ago, WAS
yesterday tried in Police Court. Chaflln
was fined $50 and sentenced 20 IL months
in Jail. He is the seventh man tried
and the sixth to be convicted. His jail
term is tSics as long as any Of the others,
so far imposed.
In commemoration of the establish
ment of tbs FIRST house Of burgesses, or
legislative assembly, 10 America, at
jamestown, July 80, 1919, there was
held at the jamestown exposition today
the 18th anniversary, a celebration in
commemoration of the event, being ore
of a series of many historical celebrations
to be observed at the exposition. The
programme included addresses by Ajlai
Stevenson, of Illinois, ex-Vice President
of the United States: j. Warren Keller
of Ohio, ex-Speaker Of the House OF
Representatives, and others. The meet
log was presided over by H. w. Card
well, speaker of the Virginia hOuse of
delegates.
Thomas Short, 20 years old, son of
Alphonse Short, former resident of
Ettrick, was shot Saturday night at
Crewe, on the Norfolk and Western
railroad, and is in a critical condition in
a Lynchburg hospital. A negro named
Garfield Fitzgerald is charged with the
shooting. Short, whose eyesight was
defective, was passing along one of the
streets in Orewe and accidentally brushed
against the negro, who became offended.
Hot words passed between the negro and
Short, and they finally went into an
alley, it is presumed, to settle the
matter. There the shooting occurred.
Short was shot through the liver. The
negro escaped.