Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-31
Virginia News.

The cruiser Yankee sailed from New
port, r. l., yesterday for Hampton
Roads with 400 naval apprentices
aboard.
Sensational developments are expected
In the investigation into the murder Of
the Vaughan baby in the City Home oil
Richmond.
A handsome memorial to Confederate
soldiers erected by the Ladies' Memorial
Association of Petersburg was dedicated
at BIandiord cemetery, yesterday.
Mr.. Thos. s. Dunbar died at hi'
home In Upperville, after lingering
illness, on the Goth inst, at an advanced
age, being considerably over eighty.
John w. Donnelly, eighteen yesrs oil
age, and a member of Appointment Rich
mond family, was arrested yesterday
charged with robbiug the mails.
Senator Thomas s. Martin while al
the Charlottesville Horse Show yeiter.
dsy was attacked by a stallion who
struck at him with his hoof. Toe sena-
tor escaped serious injury, however.
John Taylor, a colored deckhand,
was fatally stabbed aboard the schooner
E. Warren Reid, at Norfolk, BY Frank
Davenport, also colored, yesterday after
noon. The men quarreled over work.
Davenport was locked up.
The Virginia coast was last night in
the grasp of q tropical storm sweeping
up the coast. At 10 p. m. the velocity
of the wind at Cape Henry was forty
miles an hour, steadily increasing, and
q high sea running.
Lewis Wake Whittle died at SaranaC
Lake. N. Y, on Thursday. Mr.. Whit.
tie was the son of F. NJ. Whitlle, jr.,
and the late Caroline Wake Whittle,
of Richmond, and is servived by his
father and three sisters.
The stable and barn of Mr.. Jas.
Nolsnd, near Warrenton, caught fire
Sunday night and was burned, with all
of lis contents, which consisted Of bis
farming implements, wagons, buggy,
harness etc.
Heavy rains In King George Tuesday
washed out Fosters mill, near Edge
Hill, $500 damage; Smiths, near Weed
onsville, 81, 900 damage, and Garnetps,
near Ninde's Store, $3.50 damage. II
is thought that Mr.. Smith will not re-
build.
Friday afternoon of Last week Mr..
Thos. Morris met with instant death
while working in a we'll on the premises
of Mr.. Lewis Smith, near Fairfax sta.
ton. He was at the bottom of the wei
when a derrick Slipped allowing heavy
piece of terra Gotta to fall upon him.
killing him instantly.
At the Ninth district republican con-
yention at Notion yesterday @. B. SlemT
was unanimously nominated to succeed
himself in Congress. The platform
adopted urges a national law preventing
interstate shipments OF Intoxicating
beverages into dry territory and demands
repeal of poll tax aud registration quail
fications In Virginia.
Denis Sullivan, carriage manufac
turer, of Polt mouth, died in st. Vim
cents Hospital st NOrfOrk yesterday
evening as a result of fractured skull
sustained BY being struck by a Norfolk
and Ocean View express car. The &C
cident occurred near an obscure way
station, and nobody at Mr.. Sullivan
home or factory knows what he was
doing there.
H. L. Myers, a Tszewell plumber
40 years Of age, was found dying in the
home of relative at Horepen Cove,
Tszewell county, Wednesday night.
He was app ren'ly in perfect health
when he retired, but a doctor who
called said be was dying Of poisoning.
1t is believed that Myers committed
suicide.
The total personal property tax fol-
the county of Nelson, ia about 1927, 900,
and of this amount Mr.. John f. Ryan
pays about $19, 900. His taxes for the
year 1908 are nearly three times as much
as for 1907, when he paid in sbou,
IS, 900. Mr.. Ryan now pay taxes on
the 81, 1000, 900 as capital invested
Under this head for 1907 he paid on
1850, 900. He pays this year on the
same income tax as for last year
$3.50, 900.