Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-25
Virginia News.

| MIS-. Fannie NirgiDia Borden, vile o
Eosimastsr John d. Borden, died Wed
nesdsy nightst Toms Brooks. Her death
was due to tuberculosis. She was Mis-
Spiker before her marriage.
Argument in the various cases against
the Virginia Passenger and Power Com.
pany was began yesterday before Judge
Waddill in the United States Circuit
Court at Richmond.
On the charge of opening letters il
transit addressed to others than himself,
j. N. Baucur1, a negro member of thu
crew OF the Washington and Greensboro
railway postoffice, was arrested at the
Union ct ton in Washington Wednes.
day night. Baucum lives OF Manassas.
Mrs. Annie RutherfcrI, widow of John
Rutherford, whose fstber, Col. John
Rutherford, Wss one of the antsbellum
governors Of Virgins, died last night al
her old homestead, at Rock Castle. She
was formerly Miss Annie Roy, and had
been a widow since 1860.
E. O. Miller, formerly manager OF the
L. O. Smith Typewriter Company,
charged with the ENLIGHTENMENT of funds
belonging to the company, was dischsrg-
ed in the police court in Richmond yes
tsrday 1T the request Of officials of the
company HhO preferred the charges
A stand Of bleachers on the Roanoke
fair grounds collapsed yesterday sf.er-
noon while they we're filled With specta-
tors VIZ t,hiug the races, aud more than
a thousand men, women and children
were carried down 10 the crash About
rs persons were injured, some of them
seriously.
Mr.. George Washington formerly OF
King George county, manager Of''Snow-
den Farm" nesr Fredericksburg, who
went to California last yer to take
charge of ranch, was severly stabbed q
day or two ago BY tsamster on the
ranch, whom he had repremanded for
carelessuess in allowing a team to run
away.
Hearing noise in his back yard al 3
O'Clock yesterday morning, A. N. Webb.
a salesman, OF Lynchburg, discovered
negro standing iu the door of his chick
en- house. He began firing and the ne
gro disappeared. An investigation dis
closed the fact that a bullet passed
through the top OF the negro's plug hat
and another shot knocked of one of the
mans shoe heels.
Admitting that it was impossible to
convict, owing to popular sympathy,
Colonel Stewart, commemorative a
torney OF the Hastings Court of Nor
folk, asked Judge Balm yesterday to dis
miss the remaining eight appeal cases
growing out of the recent invasion of the
Norfolk county jail by a mob, which |
was after the alleged ssssilants of Mrs. |
Albert Powell, the object OF the crowd |
being to deal out summary justice. Two |
Of the csses tried ended in acquitals.
The cases were stricken from the docket. |
The stste convention of Virginia post-
masters, which met at Roanoke Wednes-
lay, adjourned yesterday to meet at
Norfolk on the second Wednesday of
1909. The following officers
we're elected: ). B. Carney, ofNorfolk,
resident; w. @. Pendleton, Of Tazs-
veil; Charles P. Smith, Of Martinsvills;
John B. Grayson, Of Wsrrenton; Frank
10 Stem, of Glen Allen, and Charles
". Kenzsll. Of Bsrrisonburg, vice-presi-
lent John w. Grifin Of Fredericks-
)urg, secretary and treasurer.
j. Rudolph LaWhoro. Of Lexington,
vas yesterday convicted OF criminal as