Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-10
Virginia News.

The State Retail Merchant AsSOclk'
ton of Virginia met at Staunton yester-
day. New officers were elected, with
NJ. Umstadter as president
John Bates, the negro convict who
knocked down and dissrmed Guard
Adams at the State convict camp, nesr
TIE Plains, In Fauquier county on Taes-
day, and escaped, was captured at Man
sssas yesterday.
Mr. HasIett McKim Glszebrook, OF
Elizabeth, N. j., and Miss Emily
Hoomes Robinson, daughter of the late
Benjamin Hoomes Robinson, of Essex
county, Va, we're married yesterday
afternoon at Locust Grove, the home of
Judge John NJ. White, In Charlottesville.
Marriage licenses we're issued in Wash
ipgton yesterday to Thsddeus Fl. Green,
of Ruby, and Elsie L. DOdd, Of Jackets
Mill; Samuel T. Wakeman and Mabel
Row, both of Brockroad, and to O. w.
Edwards, Of Marshall, and Evelyn B.
Kerns, OF Rectortown.
Mr.. Conrad johnson has been sp-
pointed principal of large school near
Onsncock, Accomsc county, and will
leave here tomorrow to assume bis new
duties. Mr.. johnson graduated with
distinction from the Virginia Milit ~
Institute at the last session.
Lee Strother, colOred, will be the last
man to 90 to TIE gallows by cour. order
in Virginia. He vas hanged todsy In
Madison county for attempted criminal
assault upon a white girl, Governor
Swanson refusing to grant him further
respit4. Electrocution after this will be
the mode of capital punishment il Vr.
giuis.
Thomas L. Hisgen, of Msssachust t e,
candidate for president on the HesrSt
Independence League ticket, spoke at
Odd Fellows Hall, Norfolk, last night.
Mayor James G. Riddick introduced
him. Clement L Pollock, Of Massa-
chusetts, and John Temple Graves, run
ming mate Of Mr.. Hisgeu, for the vice
presidency, also spoke.
Fire originating in the residence Of
Chss. Hsight, at Third avenue and
Alder street, Chestnut Hill, Richmond,
at $3.50 o'clock yesterday swept rapidly
southwark, and within two hours three
houses had been destroyed and six fam
lilies rendered homeless The blaze Is
believed to have resulted from an oil
stove LETT in the house sitter Haight and
his family had gone on q picnic.
The site camp, Patriotic Order Sons
of America, which met In Portsmouth 10
annual convention on Tuesday, finished
its business yesterday and adj 1urned to
| meet next year at Colonial Beach. New
officers elected are: President, A. @.
Nelson, of Richmond; vice president, ].
O. Oramer, of Roanoke; master of forms,
T. B. Ivey, of Petersburg; sCcretaIy, F.
w. Alexander, of Oak Grove; treasurer,
j. q. BruDner, Of Falls Church.
Being aroused by the noise Of some
one escaping from his home yesterday
morning about O'Clock, L. w. Web
bsr, of Lynchburg, rushed to the base
ment to And that the intruder had sci
fire to bed not occupied that night.
The 6ould-be frebug made good bis
escape down the bill in the rear Of The
home. The FIRE department arrived 10
time to prevepr great damage. Weber
his wife, and infant made their escape
in night attire.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mckee, widow Of Dean
Mckee, a Frederick county farmer,
died st her home near Winchester yes
tsriay from injuries sustained 10 ran
away accident last Monday. Mrs. Nc.
Kee was dragged down a rocky hill and
the Aesh and one ear were torn from
her head, leaving the skull exposed.
She had since fingered 10 an uncon'
scious condition. She was 81 years old
and was q native of Pennsylvania.
According to a well-kDown attorney
of Hampton, the republican nstiona
committee has decided to make an at
tempt tn have the veterans Of the Ma.
tional Soldiers Home registered fol
participation 10 the approaching Ms
tional and congressional election of citl'
zens of Elizabeth City county. This at
torney states that he has been retained
to represent the old soldiers, and that hi
believes he is going t. via his fight t.
have them declared eligible for regisira
ton in the county.