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

town will be dedicated this week, marx
ing the final completion Of the Expo
sition.
The primary election in Berryvllle
Saturday ia taken as forecast that the
town will go "dry" at the coming license
election.
Some of the Virginia miliLiamen are
indignant over the attack by Judge
Blackstone on Governor Swanson for
sending troops to Accomac to quell rlois.
William Travers Lewis defeated Chas.
NJ. Brown in the democratic primary
held at Berryville, Clarke county, Sat
urday for Commonwealth attorney oil
the county.
John Uzzle, the negro charged with
precipitating the race riot at Onsncock,
whose trial began there Friday, was
found guilty Saturday night and senten-
ced to three years in the penitentiary'
A beautiful wedding was solemized at
Ardham, the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joel
Newton Laws, near Front Royal, Thurs
day, when their daughter, Miss George
Kerfoot, was married to Rev. Lacy nj.
Ritter, of Blackstone.
One OF the questions that will agitste
the Episcopal General Convention which
will began a three weeks session in
Richmond, October 2 is that of allowing
the negro members of the faith to have
bishops of their own race.
Because he refused to return to tray
eler a railway ticket over his line pur-
chased from q scalper, w. K. Muse,
ticket agent of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway, in Portsmouth, was lined $40
and costs by Mayor Reed on Saturday.
Gov. and Mrs. Swanson will give a
series of recs ptions this week in the Vir-
GINA building at the exposition. The
governor of Rhode Island will be the
guest of honor on Tuesday evening and
the governor of Maryland on Thursday.
Ri. Rev. Augustine Van de Vyver,
bishop of the Catholic diocese of Viz
GINA, is expected in Richmond on Sep
TENDER 20. Bishop Van de Vyver has
been spending several months with rela-
tives at Lis old home, HaaDsdouck, Bel
GUM.
Announcement has been made that
the Smyth Brothers-M cOreery-McOlen-
nan Live Stock Company, of Norfolk,
will abandon their plant in that city
and remove to Richmond. They pro-
pose to erect in the latter city the largest
stockyards in the country.
Holding that the members of the or
der have homes of their own in which to
spend the Sabbath,a resolution was pass
ed by the Grand Aerie in Norfolk on Sat
urday requiring unqualified closing OF
all Eagle homes on Sunday. Seattle,
Wash. was selected az the next conven-
ton place. The only opponent was
jamestown, n. Y.
Beverley Randolph Harrison, of Wy
oming, but a former Virginian, has pur-
chased of Mr.. d. II. Kuox his fine farm
containing 9l5 acres, located about four
miles from Fredericksburg. st. George
R Fiizhugh and G.. B. Wallace have
sold the estate belonging to the late John
Shelton, containing 1900 acres, located
near Colonial Beach. The purchasers
are from Pennsylvania.
After two-day trial A. j. Roop, Of
Pulaski county, vas convicted ia Hoo
noke Saturday night of seducing bis
niece, Miss Kate Whit, also Of Pulaski
county. He was sentenced to three
years imprisonment in the state penl'
Tertiary. Last March ROop induced bis
niece to accompany him to jamestown
They came as far as Roanoke, where
they registered as man and wife at
hotel.
Charles N. Thompson, a member Of
the mercantile firm of Laycock and
Thompson, of Hamilton, Loudoun coun'
| ty, has Instituted in the Circuit Court o.
that county q suit for divorce from
his wife, Jessie f. Thompson, on tht
ground of desertion. The complainant
| for many years has been the principal o.
the Jefferson high School, OF Washing
ton. He married Miss Jessie Elliott
daughter of Dr. William Elliott, OF thai
city.
A trunk supposed to be the property
of Samuel d. Kern, who died suddenly
at Bowling Green, Caroline county
Thursday morning last, was found Sa!
urday afternoon at the residence OF Mr.
T. a. Hinton, blacksmith, who reside
at 415 north Payne street. The chic
of police opened the trunk and fonnt
several papers and letters addressed tt
the dead man, but none OF them gave
any information concerning his relatives
The body of Kern has been buried by
the authorities at Bowling Green.
1t is generally understood that Con
gresham Campbell slemp, of the Ninth
Virginia district, will not be a candidate
for the republican nomination again,
aud at the expiration of his present
term will retire to private life. II Is
understood, also, that either Congress
man Slemp's SOD, G. Bascom Slemp, al
present chairman of the republican exc
cutive committee in the Old Dominion,
or L. p. Summers, collector of internal
revenue for this district, will be nominal
ed to make the race on the republican
ticket.