Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-16
Virginia News.

In an election at Pulaski yesterday on
the question of sbolishiog the whisky
dispensary the result WAS 1O4 msj )rl'y
against the dispenssry.
"Bud" Granville, one of The leading
men of AL G. Fields ministries, was
taken i'll yts'erdsy afternoon and taken
10 a hospital, st Lyrchburg, suffering
from typhoid fever. Granville is a resi-
dent of Pitisburg.
Augustus Walker, La t surviving vete-
ran of the Mexican war in the Vall9v
of Virginia, died yesterday, aged 50
years. He is survived by two daugh-
tiers and two sons, one of whom is with
Admiral Sperry on the tour around the
globe.
A pretty little fsxen-haired girl
equipped With lot of foe ralmeDt, has
been abandoned in Norfolk, by well
tO-do appearing stranger, whom the
police believe to be her father. The
child is now in charge OF Miss Seely,
tn mstron at the central police station.
As the result OF collision late Mon
day night of a launch filled with Suffolk
society people with Ferguson's wharf,
on Nansemond river, eight miles below
Suffolk, two young wOmen-Miss Kaths-
rne Brothers and Miss Mary Judith
Smith were injured.
Ia the corporstiOn court at Danville,
vest rday, a new trial was refused Ira
d. Jordan, who was convicted last week
of having abducted 15-yesr-old Catherine
Ingram, daughter of ]. w. Ingram, and
who was given three years in the peni-
Tertiary. Jordan is married and has two
children.
Maurice T. Caslleman, Of Osstlemsns
Ferry, a leading farmer OF Clarke coun-
ty, was attacked by Joseph Jackson, q
negro employe, late Monday evening,
aud stabbed in the shoulder. Castle.
man aud the negro had dispute, and
Jackson drew knife and plunged the
blade into Castlemsn's shoulder, ipfict-
ing deep wound, The negro escaped
and is still at large.
The cornerstone of the new public
school building, to cost nearly $40, 900,
was laid yesterday afternoon 10 Freder-
icksburg. Mayer Wallace presided over
the exercises and delivered brief
address. B. P. Willie, City Superin-
tandent of Schools, also spoke. The
stone was laid ty the Fredericksburg
Lodge Of Masons, Past GfFndmsster s.
J. Quiun presiding.
A young white man named CLARK and
claiming TO be from North Carolina WAS
shot and instantly killed yesterday at
Leather@ood, Henry county, by Con-
stable Cabell Richardson. Constable
Richardson started to arrest Clark on the
charge of robbiDg several stores nesr
Sage. 1t is alleged that CLARK resisted
arrest and made q motion IS if to draw
q gun. When the body was examined
no pistol was found.
developed 10 a mass of flames, Mrs.
Charles w. McEfresh, the wife of a
clerk at the Norfolk navy yard, rushed
into the street in front of her Pors-
mouth home yesterday crying for help.
L L. Powell, who was passing, went
to the assistance of the woman and sue
ceeded in smothering the. flames, bot
not until she had dropped in the street
from her burns. She is expected to re-
cover. A gasoline stove, on which she
was preparing breakfast, exploded.
B. F. Howell, q young German,
charged with deiraudiog FIR t. Sitt:rding
and @. P. Mccarthy, was sent to jan
for four months in Richmond yesterday.
Several other charges against Howell
we're not tried. Howell took an appeal,
and every case against him Was sent TO
the grand jury. Howell started labor
burssu ia Richmond 10 The early pr
Of August, and guaranteed to place
German servant girls in good homes,
obtaining money from them 10 advance.
He did not keep bis word,