Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-03-23
Virginia News.

Mrs. Oepbis Allen, widow oil u. W.
Allen, died Saturday night at her home
in B'rryvilIe. She wss 81 years DID,
There was large crowd in Warren
ton yesterday to hear Mr.. Harry ST.
George Tucker, who discussed his guber'
material candidacy. He made an ex-
cellent impression upon mis- hearers.
Arthelfus Christian, colored, who was
eleclrocutsd in the penileDtiary In Rieh'
mond yesterday for assault aud murder
of Miss Aunis May Dobbs, fourteen
years old, in BJieiourt county, Feb
ruary 8, fully confessed.
Judge Keith, Of the Oouri Of Appeals,
has announced that deciolon will be
handed doWu on Wednesday prior to ad'
jonrument of the present term OF the
court on the question of the personal
payment Of poll taxes.
1t is again reported that the Patriotic
Order, Sons OF America, have secured
an option on Stafford, 10 Westmoreland
county, the ancestral home Of the Vir.
ginia Lees, which order PROPOSES TO pur-
chase aud present to the State Of Vir-
GINA. The price Is given at 100000.
The United States Agriculture De-
psrtmenl sent DR.. NJ. B. Waite, of the
Bureau Of Plant Industry, to Winchester
yesterday to hold conferences with the
leading fruit men In regard to locating
a government apple orchard 10 the i'm
mediate vicinity OF Winchester. 1t Is
expected that plans will be completed In
q day or two and site selected for the
industry.
The body OF sn unidentified white
man, aged about so, was found yester-
day morning 10 concrete basin in front
of q blacksmith chop In Richmond.
The man was without coat or veet. His
pockets were turned inside out, which
gave rise to the superstition that he bad
been robbed. The police believe that
there may have been foul play, although
no evidences Of murder were found on
the body.
Richard Lee Armstrong, formerly Of
Portsmouth, and Edward Matthews
we're burned TO death at Obuckstuck
Creek, near Crittendeu, in Nansemond
county, Sunday night, while on a pleas
ore trip. They were 10 gasoline
launch With R. L. Skinner, when the
gasoline tank exploded. Armstrong
and Matthews we're enveloped 10 flames
and we're soon dead. Skinner escaped.
I, Is said the men had been drinking
aud took the gasoline launch without
the owners permission.
Fanny Pope, colored, who figured
prominently In the sensational Case 10
Richmond 10 which Mary Murphy, 8
young Irish servant girl, vas done to
desth, and who Was indicted together
with Archie Vaughan, the supposed
lover of the unfortunate girl, charged
with her murder, was discharged from
custody'yestetdsy in the Hastings Court,
the case being nDlle prosecuted by Com
mouwtalth's Attorney Folkes. The
evidence against the accused was deem
ed insufficient to Justify allowing the
case to come up for trial.
John g. Binford, of Baltimore, who
went to Richmond lstt Jear and under
took 10 sell liquor By sample aud with
out getting license, will have to pay 8
foe Of 800 and costs for selling halt
pint. Tue case was made to test the
Byrd law. He. notified the police
that he would sell the liquor. He Was
fded in the police conrt aud appealed to
the corporation court, which affirmed
the court below. The Court Of Appeals
yesterday refused 10 grant a writ OF
error. Binford represented the High
Spire Disabling Company.
Thomas Wilkinson, a negro, 10 az
alteration yesterday morning at EN-
poria with James Broadnsx, also color
ed, plavfully drew knife, driving the
blade, 3 inches long, into the brain Of
his adversary. 1t took the united effort
of three men to pull the knife ont OF the
negro's skull. B'osdnax never lost
consciousness, and lost only half an
hour from bis work, the time necessary
for the blood to be washed away and the
wound sewed up. He Is still at work,
and apparently not suffering any serious
iucon yenience from his hurt. Pbyslci-
ans who attended the negro are author
ity for the statement that the knife
actually penetrated the brain. Wilkin-
son was not arrested. Brosdnsx exouerat-
ing him from all blame.