Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-09-11
Virginia News.

Four Winches or merchants we're yes
terdsy arrested for violating the Byrd
liquor Law and will make a test of that
law.
lakewood Park near Richmond yester-
day passed into the hands OF I ceiytrs
The property was controlled by he Rich
mond Amusement Corporation.
John Henry Christian, well-kuown
lawyer, died at his home in Lynchburg
yesterday aged 56. He was commissioner
in chsncery of the corporation court
Captain Edgar Whitehead, of Am
herst, has received q telegram anDOunc-
Jog the death of his SOD, DR.. Cs5ell
Whitehead, at Nome. Alaska. His
death was due to pneumonia.
On August goth negro woman living
near Willisus burg gave birth to boy,
and last Sunday, sixteen days after the
first was born, she gave birth to second
Swapping boy.
The new Wallace Library, in Fred
ericksburg, built by bequest of the lat:
Capt. @. w. Wallace, of that city, at
cost of $l5, 900, is about completed. II
is very artisticslly built. aud is hand
some ornament to the city.
Richmond police are investigating the
financing of of gang of alleged swind'
lers by woman who says she is the
widow of a New York millionaire, and
who says the leader is r. O. Flower, a
man wanted In many cities.
@. @. Williams, of New York, the
contractor for the $500, 900 gravity wstel
| system completed for Lynchburg a year
ago, has instituted suit against the city,
claiming $3.50, 900 damages for extras
and other charges in connection with the
contract.
Winston Greer, young negro, vas
taken to the Manchester jail last nigh
to prevent lynchipg by angry citizens
of Chesterfield, where he had attemptsc
criminal assault upon Alice Larsen,
| tweIve-yesr-old girl from Chestnut Hill
a suburb of Richmond, who was visit
| ing friends near Hsllsboro. The scresmi
of the Little cir and her companions
frightened the negro away.
The White City, an amusement resor
at Pine Beach, on Hampton Roads, hiss
been formally tlrned over ID the White
CITY Ogners' Corporation, negro or
gsniz alton, of which Giles B. Jackson
Of Richmond, is president, and will BE-
operated exclusively in the interest o
colored people in the future. The salt
price of the resort, covering lease on i
until 1918, was $50, 900.
james T. Reed, assistant postmaster
10 the Newport News postOtice, was ar
rested yesterday afternoon on a war
rant charging him with embezzlement o
| Sc. 442 of the funds Of the mOney-ordel
department. he was taken before United
States Com missioner A. @. Garrett, VIII
released him upon bail for his sppesr
auce for hearing tomorrow mtroing 8
10 O'Clock.
The new srmorsd cruiser Moptsua
Just back from her speed test, of the
coast of Rockland, Me-, has come 10 th'
Norfolk navy yard for repairs to her port
engine, which is reported 10 have broker
down while in the midst of the tests
during which she only made 81 knots al
hour, when it was expected she woul'
make bttReen % snd "a knots. Follow
ing repairs to the Montana, che will, /
is stated, become flagship Of q new fee
of come IL armored cruisers and battle
ships, among which will be the Nortl
Carolina, Idaho, Mississippi and Iowa
Reports OF the most encouraging ns
ture we're made BY leaders OF the variou
sections of the State at meeting o
the democratic state committee held 3