Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-06-21
Virginia News.

The finals at VlrginiaMilltary Institute
waSopenedyesierday with a sermon before
the corps OF cadets by Rev. W. ID. d.
Joyce.
The banking business Of Gsines "
Bro, of Warrenton, has been taken over
by tie Fauquier National Bank, OF that
city.
William Sisson died st his home 10
Culpepper Saturday, in the eighty'ninth
yesrs of his age He WAS Tor many
years a prosperous farmer.
A poll of 90 out of 100 counties and
Is OF 10 cities shows great doubt IS to
the gubernaiorial situation, with strong
tendencies toward Tucker.
Reports from Northampton county
are to the ehsc! that the potato
crop, which is the staple industry, has
been destroyed by the recent heavy
rains which flooded the lowlands.
The first consignment Of new wheat
for the season was received aud disposed
of in Baltimore yesterday. The con-
Segment comprised some AZ bags, and
was raised on the farm OF F. p. McGin-
mis-, Merry Point, Lancaster county. 1t
sold for 81. 80 bushel.
Littleton Waller Tszewell Wickham,
aged IS, father of Judge L. Ashby
Wickhsm, died Friday at his home in
upper Henrico county. He was son of
John Wickham and was educated at the
Episcopal High School, Alexandria, and
at the University Of Virginia.
DIR. Alexander b. Moore of the Plains,
Fauqnier county, a recent graduate OF
the medical school of the University of
Virginia. and Miss Carolyn Bell Watson,
of Falls Church who graduated last year
from the University Training school for
Nurses, were quietly married Sunday
afternoon ia Charlottesville.
The Virginia-W West Virginia debt mat
ter will come up in Richmond tomorrow
before former Representative Charles E.
Littlefeld, of New York. However, it
Is not expected that the special master
will hear the arguments at this sitting.
1t ia more probable that additional evil
dence will be put in on both sides, after
which there will probably be further
adjournment. Littlefield and the out.oi
town lawyers who will be engaged on
the case will arrive in Richmond today.
The session probably will last at least
two days.
At an early hour yesterday morning
Hanover county was visited by dis
a.trous fire, in which George Thacker,
81 years old, unmarried. lost his lite
The home of Andrew Batter, near Ell.
ersons Station was destroyed. No one
can!count for the origin of the blaze VIM.
@. Melton, a man 60 years of age, saved
the lives of the other occupants Of the
house by giving the alarm when the first
crash of falling timbers swOke him.
Strange to say, Thacker was the first
inmate awakened. He is believed to
haqd tainted from fright.
In the Circuit Court of Clarke county
on Saturday evening last Judge I. w.
Harrison decided the case of Meade vs..
Meade, which has been pending for
nearly two years, sustaining the will Of
the late Capt. David Meade, of "Ben-
venue" in every particular. Messrs.
Marshalli Mccormick, Obss. BrOun and
Ohas. Whiting represented the plaintiffs
and Col. Francis l.. Smith, of Alexsn-
dria, and Mr.. A. Moore, it,, the defend
ants. Capt. Meade in his will left his
entire estate to his wife who died short
ly thereafter without making will and
the property fell 10 her brothers and
sisters.