Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-27

ChioiOiOim tufuuku yhoio INV eoSa
room 10 Norfolk, was dismissed by Jus
tice Carmine yesterday afternoon. A.
L. Childress, the step'sther, who, it was
alleged, bad csught Fisher attempting
to destroy the lives OF himself and wife,
refused to appear in court against him.
Wesley Adams, q co'ored boy, about
Is years of age, wss shot and instinlly
killed yesterday afternoon by Norfolk
county Police Officer Hodges. The
shooting occurred 10 High street. Norfolk.
Offer Hodges had a warrant for the
boys srfest, and when told to surrender
the negro ran. The policeman pursued
the boy some distance, and, being unable
TO oveltske him, drew his pistol and
fred.
Caught in the act of rsnsscking tbs
house Of the man who had befrieuded
him Oh numerous occasions, Edward
Mooney, 80 years old, after desperate
fight was shot and fatally wounded LAST
night in the second-story front room
of the home of smoke Inspector Frede-
rick 8. Esstwick, by Policeman Har-
rington. Mooney, who IVES formerly a
fireman and who WAS welI-known
worker for the repub lean organization,
died last night in St. Agne' Hospital,
without regaining Consciousness.
The Virginia Lutheran Synod in ses-
sion in Richmond yesterday elected
| officers as follows. Rev. Geo. l..
Bowers, of Winchestsr, president; Rev.
l.. L. Folk, of Middlebrook, vice pres
ident; RevtA. RID. Haucher, of Stsun-
ton, secretary; NJ. Ooffmap, Woodstock,
treasurer. The rstiripg president Rev.
l.. L. Smith, Of StrssOurg, presented his
repors of the work OF the year. Rev. ].
Scherer preached the opening sermon.
j. Secretary Hancher presented his report
for the year.
Mrs. 8. 5ilyermap, wife Of clothiug
merchant, had a narrow escape from
drowning in sn abandoned we'll IN the
premises of the Silverman house in the
fashionable section of Roanoke, yester-
day. The well had been covered with
boards, and grass had grown over the
plauks. Mrs. Silverman stepped upon
the covering and fell 20 feet to the bot
tom of the well. She stood on tiptoe in
water up to her chin ard cried for help.
A party of men working nearby rushed
to her rescue, and with ropes succeeded
10 getting her out Of her perllous pre-
dicsment.
Bishop Beverly d. Tucker, of the
Episcopal diocese OF Southern Virginia,
arrived in Norfolk on Tuesday from
London, where he had been in sttsn-
dance upon the Lambert Conference.
He was accompanied by bis son, Beverly
d. Tucker, jf., who has just completed
three years course at Oxford Uriver-
sily, England, and who will be ordained
to the ministry in ST. Paul's Church,
Norfolk, next Sunday. He held the
Cecil Rhodes scholarship in the uni
verify. Young Mr.. Tucker, following
bis ordins ion, goes to BOdytop, where he
will assume the rectOrship of the Epis,o-
pal Church, his first work as q minister.
The terrific rain storms of the past
several days have caused heavy damsge
to sll growing crops in the Danville Sec
ton. Tobacco 10 the low grounds was
nearly drowned, while thst growing 10
other parts was bruised aud beaten by
the downpour. Lse corn and melon
crops also suffered. Wssbouts have
badly crippled traffic over the Southern
Railway, especially on the Richmond
snd Norfolk divisions. Trains over the
latter division we're being run via
Greensboro and Selma. A report re-
ceived last night says that large iron
bridge over the Dan river near Milton
had been washed away. The Dan river
is ten feet above its normal height, the
food putting out OF commission all
machinery of the River Side Cotton Mills,
by water power.