Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-10-14
Virginia News.

AthNS w hAebA SbaBbys
The balloon New York, which lett st.
L uIs Tuesday morning In an attempts
to win the Lahm Oup landed In Chester
field county yesterday.
The contract for the new 500. 600 pub
lie building TO be erected at fredericEs-
burg by the United States go'ernnent
has been awarded 10 the A. b. slanard
Company, Of New York.
a dairyman, who lives on the Will
Hamburg road 10 Henrico county, "ss
yesterday fined 800 and Lost bis license
to serve milk 10 the city Of Richmond,
In the police court yesterday for iced
Ing distillery sWill 10 his COWS.
The first span OF the new Narrow
Passage bridge, one of the longest and
highest structures OF the kind on the
Southern Railway, between Manassas
and Harrisonburg, was placed in position
Sunday by q large gang Of workmen.
At the state fair in Richmond, which
closed last Saturday, the Audubon So
ciety had beautiful exhibition OF birds
OF many varieties, which Was 10 charge
OF Miss Katherine Stuart, of this city,
Who Is president OF the ALEXANDRIA
branch Of the society.
W. Cray Moresey, of RIchmon d. who
was arrested week ago in a Paris bill
lisId cafe, charged with striking q
Frenchmau named Desoto, with a bill
lizard ball, and irscturipg his skull, was
Recessed on Tuesday on bail, the pre-.
liminary evidence showing that be acted
10 seli-defense.
Msssrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant, this
week, to citizens OF this state, of the
following patents: P. Toy, Roanoke,
flower-pot stand; P. Pollard, Norfolk,
pitcher; W. Scrimgeour, Portsmouth,
oil.burner, and w. Scrimgeour lr.,
Portsmouth, furnace or forge.
Lieut.. Gov. Ellyson received letter
from ]. A. Hayes, the son.in'law oil
President Jefferson Davis, Of the Con-
federscy, which stated that the remains
of his wife, Margaret Davis Hayes,
which we're cremsItd and temporarily
inferred at Colorado Springs last JGne,
will be sent to Richmond for Inter
meut in Hollywood cemetery on Octo'
Der 20.
Charles s. Martin, of Nashville, was
elected president Of the Wholesale Drug
gists' Association, In convention at Hlch-
mond Yesterday. There Was no marked
Improvement in the drug and the oil and
paint trades OF the country 10 the past
year, according to a report by W. o.
Shurtleffe, OF Chicago, resd before the
convention. The committee on place OF
next meeting recommended the city oil
Dallas Texas.
While on bis way from New York to
Norfolk, William L. Castle, n years
old, OF Norfolk, lesped from a windoW
of a Pullman car on the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad,
| near Milford, 40 miles from Richmond,
Yesterday, escs ping with slight bruises,
CASTLE had been recently discharged
from Bellevue Hospital, New York
where be had been undergoing treat
ment and vas attended by his father and
a male nurse.
Suspicious circumstances connected
With the death of Mrs. Fannie Tyler
who drauk carbolIc acid at her hom'
Ia Richmond, on Sunday afternoon
| dying early Monday at the City Home
hospital, after q night of the creates
agony, led Coroner Taylor yesterday t.
direct the arrest of O. L. Tyler, who hs
passed 90 Der husband, on the charge o
sss,ultiug and beating The woman, who's
right name was Mrs. Fannie Smith, oil
the night before her death. Polio
| Justice Crutch6eld yesterday refuses
bail TO Tyler, pending further inquiry
Charles Nagel, secretary Of commerce
and labor, addressed mass meeting q
Roanoke last night under the auspices
of the city republican committee. Their
wss crowd of about 500 people to hea
the speaker, who talked for three.quar
ters of On hour on the principles of th
national republican party. B ,fore Sec
rotary Nsgel closed his address soou
one.third Of the crowd left the ball. 81
made no attempt to discuss state Issues
but confined his argument to the differ
ences between the principles OF the tT'
dominant parties. There was genera
lack OF enthusiasm.
d. A. Gates, q former revenue officer
who was taken to Richmond to ties
tify In the case OF d. E. Casper, VIII
is charged with demanding The govern
mept out of taxes on whisky distilled
at the Fair Oaks dlstlllery, yesterda..
made charge against Internal Revenn'
Collector Lowry, Of Richmond. Mr.
lGates said the reason he did not re
port Ger ain derelictions in the revenu
,ervice to Collector Lowry was becsus
he did not think the collector could b
trusted. Ia order that he may answe
the charges brought by Gates Collecto
Lowry will be placed on the stand.
Among those who we're married yes
terday while attending the HsgerstoWn
| Nd, fair were the following from Vir
ginis: Robert Lee Murphy and Am.
Mollar, of Kellsr; Charles E. Rams
berger, of Winchester, and Mildred E
Manuel, OF OharIestowu; Lonia Belts
Of Fauquier county, and Susie billiard
of Boyce; George Oorder, oil Milldsle
and Ida Adams, of Linden; Fispk L
Psngle, of MiddletoWp, ADD Ethe
Kline, of strasburg; L. Leslie Heusel
of Grimes, aud Laura B Snspp, o
Brucetown; Lafayette Files aud Jessie
Il Il N nhn zlo.