Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-29
Virginia News.

SIS Congressional Day at the Jsmts'oWn
Exposition.
Charles Allen, white man who was
on trial in the Corporation Court 81
Roanoke yesterday charged with mali'
cious Gu ting, walked out of the courtroom
when court took recess and escaped
Giles b. jackson and the mango
ment in charge OF the negro exhibit a.
the jamestown Exposition will make az
effort to have that exhibit permanently
located in Richmond.
Announcement has been made by the
war department of the retirement o
Msjor Lewis Fl. Sirother, Twenty -eigbtf
infantry. He graduated from the Vir
GINA Military Institute in 1877 snc wal
we'll known Throughout. the State.
Major James Hamilton CaPers, a
years old, prominent Mason, Knigh
Templsr, Confederate veteran, success
ful business man and chairman of thu
Richmond city school board, died sud
denly yos.er lay 10 his home in that city
Seeking TO prevent the collapse of thu
Bone Island Oyster Company, OF which
he is president, w. d. Cardwell yes
terday applied to Judge Ingram, OF tht
law and equity court 10 Richmond for
receiyersbip for the company's affairs
III aud confined to bed at her home
in Newport News, Mrs Mamie Baker,
twenty-four years of age, is being guard
cd By the police, and as soon as she /;
able 10 walk will be removed to the city
isl and held for trial on the charge o.
numbering be infaut Child The crime
i alleged to have been committed yes
terday mofnicg abou; O'Clock, within
few minutes after the chill was born.
Csptsin Nst H. Burrow, one Of the
best known reeidenis OF Prince George
county, died Saturday night at his resi-
dence, at Burrowville. Captain BurroW
was distinguished Confederate soldier
and took leading part in the famous
raid made By General Wade Hampton
cavalry in the rear of General Grants
army, resulting in the capture OF more
than 1000 head Of cattle from the fed
ersl commissaries.
The theft Of a small russet satcheI
containing stock certificates and bondi
to the value Of $l4, 900 from a Pullman
coach of train on tie Pennsylvania
Rulfoad, between Baltimore and Will
miDglon, was reported TO The Washing
ton police last night. The papers wer'
the property Of William J. Payne, o
Richmond, president of the Newpor
NeRs Gas Company and of the Newpor
News and Old Point Rsilroad.
The Thanksgiving holidays will b
The occasion of another big meeting o
the teachers OF the State when the,
gather for their annual convention il
Roanoke November ooh and 30.b. Tn
various educational associations and con
fereuces will all assemble to discuss ques
tons relating to the trials and tribulation
Of teacbers and to interchange ideas il
regard to their work. Instead Of less in
tereat being taken in these meetings, IL
attendance has steadily grown and th
value of them recognized more and more
Gov. Swanson has issued orders for al
election in the Ninth Virginia Con
gressional district on December II. d
F. Bailey, of BriptOl, who is an indie
pendent republican candidate for tn
sect 10 Congress recently made vacan
by The death of O4mpbell Slemp, mad
his opening speech at Abingdon, yesier
day, to a very large audtnce. After de
clariDg that, if elected, be would affiliat
with the republicans, he proceeded t
arraign the Slemp-Summers regime il
the severest terms. He gave man
reasons for refusing to submit his claim
to republican convention.
Judge L. L. Lewis, United State
district attorney, filed in The Uuitec
States curt 10 Norfolk yesterday in
formation and exhibits in the case o
the recent seizure by the government o
The $3.50, 900 cigarettes in transit from
the American Tobacco Company to th'
B iiish- American Tobacco Company o
Great Britain. Immediately siier th'
filing of the papers, Clerk Bowden in
,roduced process in the usual way to al
PERSONS interested to appear in court OF
November IA and show cause why a for
fixture Of the cigarettes to the govern
meat should not be decreed.
A dispatch from Bristol, Tenn, say
that President George L. Carter, of The
South and Western road has issued al
order suspeuding practically all con'truc
ton work on that road. The South suC
Wtsern is being built by Thomas F
Ryan, of New York; Normsn B. Rsam
Of Chicago, aud others at cost Of $50,
900, 900, end is IS per cent completed
The purpose of the road is 10 open uE
coal lands in southwest Virginia, owned
By subsidiary corporations, Including
the CIi0ch Field Corporation, with 8
capilsl stock of $50, 900, 900, Of which
Mr. Crier slio is president The re-
dIction of the forces will throw an army
o. men out of employment, as there were
in the neighborhood Of 10, 600 persons
employed.
R0BBERIES AT PINE BEACH.
It developed yesterday that the vete-
rams who were AZ NorfoIk for The meet