Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-11-26
Virginia News.

wss expected. 1t is learned, however.
that 1t will begin next week.
The two dispenssries established by
the Health Department for the free
treatment of consumptives was formally
opened at Richmond yesterday. l1 each
place a colps of consulting physicisut -
seven in numbsr-and detail OF nurses
are stationed.
The will IF Baroness Mary E. Won
Il llikoier, who died in Milsn Ocsoter
81, and who was barred in Norfolk last
week, which was admitted to probate
there yesterday, leaves between $780,
0O0 and $3.50, 600 for the establishment
10 Norfolk Of "a hometor such old aud
iDfrm ladies residents in the State of
Virginia as may be selected by trustees,
who are to at once apply for g charter
under the name of the Mary Ludlow
Home.
The State Board Of Canvsssers met iu
the Office Of the secretary of tine common
wealth in Richmond yesterday. The
board went through the usual form Of
opening and tSbulstiDg the votes cast ia
the election for members Of the General
Assembly and for member of Congress
in The E ghth district. The proceedings
we're merely formal, aud there was no
contest Of any kind. The corrected list
vi show that the republicans gained
t&o members Of the House and held
,htir own 10 the Senate, giving them a
total OF 20 on joiut bailo! and the demo-
crais 100.
Most visitors to the jamestown TX
position will recall the striking exhibit
made there By the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute. They will not, therefore, be
surprised TO learn that this institution
has been awarded by the exposition nu-
thori;ies, first, a diploma Of a gold medal
for Equipment and Instruction in Tech
uical E1ueaton;" second, diploma of
gold medal for "Method of Pro 'ucing,
Transporting and Distributing Pure
Milk" aud, third, diploma of a gold
medal for "Method and Illustration Of
Instruction in Dsiryiug and Economic
Eutcmology."
William F. Ferguson, Of McKeespori,
Pa, committed suicide in Richmond,
yesterday afternoon, upon receiving a
SUMMONS TO appear in McKeesport 10 the
matter OF On application for divorce
brought By his wife. Ferguson had
been 10 Richmond for three days having
gone there from Washington, where he
had recently been dismissed from The
navy yard. His appointment and dis.
misssl we're found in bis po' kai, together
with the summons by the Pennsylvania
court. 1t is believed that the loss of HE
position in Washington ard his death 10
Richmond we're due to espondencY, be-
cause Of his domestic troubles.
A young woman who says her name is
Lottie Batten, AMI who declares she
comes of a prominent family 10 Norfolk,
made two attempts to end her life in the
Mt. Sinai Hospital, Philadelphia, ye'ter-
day morning By drinking ether, accord
ing to the physicians there. Her first
attempt wss frustrated by nurse, they
say, and the latter one by one OF the
resideat physicians. Afer the ether had
been pumped from fhe goung woman she
told the doctor that she was sorry that
she had attempted suicide. The woman
vas reticent es to her family connections
but admitted that she left her homo TO
90 to Philadelphia to take nurses
course ct West Philadelphia hospital
Edwin Heck, eighteen year, Of age.
a conductor for the Virginia Passenger
aud Power Company, was arrested 10
Richmond last night, charged with at
tempted criminal assault upon HE
cousi7, Mrs Bessie Miogee, of Phoebus.
The alleged crime occurred at the home
oil w. II. Godfrey, on south Hsrrisoo
street, where Miss Mingee was visiting,
The girl is in serious condition az
result Of her experience. Heck called
at the house to visit the girl. While
she was in the psrlor with him, she says,
he drew a pistol and threatened her with
death if she did not submit to him.
O her inmates OF the house happened to
enter the parlOr soon after, and Heck
was held until the arrival OF the police,
who arrested him.
In rendering decision yesterday, in
two suits against The Atlantic Coast Line
Railway Company in favor of the de-
fen6ant company, Judge Ingram, sitting
in the Law ard Equity Court in Rich
mond, held that section 129l-L OF the
code of Virginia, 1904, was unconsti-
tutionsl. The court based the opinion
upon the case of the Central of Georgia
Railway Company against Murphy, re-
corded in 1876 United States reports
Permission was given the plaintiffs, W.
II. Miles Shoe Company and ths L. A.
Patterson Tobacco Company, to file bills
of. exception. The section defines the
responsibility of common carriers in
transporting freight, holding them re
sponsible for dsmage to any property
while ia transit.
Suspected'of Numbering His Wife.
San Francisco, Nov. 26.-M. A.
wilkins, of Oakland, is in jail today
suspected of The murder Of his wife,
whose body was found Inferred in e
grave Of quick lime under the flor of a
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