Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-06-02
Virginia News.


the death of DR.. Eli F. Brown, FORMERLY
of Loudoun county, which recently &C
CURED in Los Angeles, Osl., of paraly-
sis. He WAS Sc years old.
Paul Rodtrick DON, of Raleigh, n.
c., and Lee srt on, Of Kinslon. n: T.,
students OF Washington and Lee uni
yersity, wtrs drowned in Moth river,
two miles from Lexington, SATURDAY
afternoon, while boating.
Bishop Gibson left Richmond yester-
day for New York whence TIME ROW he
will sail for London to attend the Pan
Anglican Congress. Tne reptr, th't The
bishop would be married while In Eng
land was positively denied in Richmond.
The courthouse in Wslrsnton hiss
been thoroughly renovated within and
without. Next Saturday portrait OF
Gov. William Smith, "ExIri Billy"
as be was 40 Familiarity knosn, will be
hung beside those of Chief Ju't'ce Mar
shall and Gen. VIM II. Payne.
Fire early Sunday mtrning Destroyed
FIVE Get sges at Willoughby Beach and
made several Richmond families home
less for a time. Among these wss Mrs.
Hunter Mcclure, of Richmond; her
daughter, Mrs. w. G.. Davies, OF Nor
folk, and her son, Hunter Mcclure,
of Richmond.
In a statement given out in Richmond
last night John Armstrong Chanler de-
clared that he hss appealed TO the courts
Of North Carolina to charge his name TO
Ohaloner because OF the manner in which
he has been trest d by his family snd
because he wishes t. erect an ''impassa-
bic barrier" between himself and all his
relstiyeE.
Jailbirds ere to go to work on the
highwsyp. Thiswas made apparent es-
terday when Judge Witt, OF the ctrptri'
ton court of Richmond, directed the
police iuttice 10 aend him weekly a liai
Of the men sentenced to all and for the
tnms for which they go down. Judge
Witt announces that he will make up
lists for the public rOsds. The police
are delighted at the prospect, fer they
say il will be the means Of driving hun
dreds Of petty criminals from Richmond.
The first b. t:h OF names will 90 up In
clurt mkt Monday, and t ie assigning q
them u the roads will follow.
Passing tho liz on the ho,r Of the
council chamber in Richmond last plight
Councilman Gerber denounced in IN.
measured terms as q direct and urquali
fed falsehood statements made TO the
council by Thonss Maxwell as to an
Interview in regard TO the complaint of
Maxwell against Police Justice Cr-tch-
field. Sergeant-st. arms Ruskell got
between the 40 men to prever any
disturbance, MIR. CARRIERS friends uig-
ing him u tike his seat, while Presi-
dent Peters announced lhft the five
minutes accorded Maxwell to state his
complaint had expired. No action was
taken by TIE conncilin regard 10 the
complaint of Maxwell OF the controversy
and sharp language.
What is coDsid red as an impC ant
clue toward solving the mystery sur
rounding the chapter of rlbbeIies CON-
mitted inMsnassss within six months was
discovered Friday afternoon, when HtrrJ
johnson, a negro, living in Washington,
together with Henry Jones and Herbert
Smith, of the same city. we're commit
ted to jail by Mayor Sinclair. T ie tlrso
negroes were charged unity with itsal-
ing from a shoemaker's shop. johnson
WAS also charged with cs rrSing concealed
weapons. Mayor Sinclair imposed 9
sentence of four months each in the
county Jail upon the first charge ard g
fine Of $50 upon Johnson. Smith, 1t IL
said, has intimated that he is about
turn States evidence and clefr up Il {
mystery connected with recent rob
berries at Manassas.