Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-05-18
Virginia News.

L. E. Payne, prominent merchant
OF Falls Church, died yesterday after q
short illness.
IL Is reported that Mr.. E. 7. Lamb,
OF Norfolk, will be appointed receiver Of
the Norfolk aud Southern Railway.
A usrriage license was Issued in
Washington yesterday to John F. Van
Horo, OF The Plains. aud Bertha Lee
Alexander, of WsxpOol.
President Taft has developed keen
interest 10 the negro and Indian school,
Hampton Institute, at Hampton, and il
is likely that be will visit the institution
next Sunday.
Reuben Coleman, cclnred, Of Caroline,
killed his wife Saturday morning; rode
two miles and called Robert Washington
to his door and killed him, then returned
home and blew his brains out.
George Y. Florsnce died at his home
in Manassas on Saturday after a pro.
trscted illness. Mr.. Florsnce was post
master of Manassas within the early part
Of CleVelsnd's first administration.
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Oorbett, mother
in-lsw of the late Gen. George <.
Pickett, died at Suffolk, yesterday after
noon, at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
William Waller Ely, sged eigbty-tbree.
Capt. George Ainslie, an attorney, Is
the latest name mentioned as a possible
aspirsut for the Office of postmaster of
Richmond when Royal E. Csbell has
given up the post for the u. S. revenue
colleciOrship.
The police raided the betting rooms Of
the Virginia Racing aud Horse ShoT
Association tracks at the State Fair
Grounds, near Richmond, yesterday
afternoon, and arrested several men for
running betting books.
Despoudent because ofreceDt sickness,
Mrs. Harriet Olem Wiley, wife OF J.
David Wiley, Well-known merchant
of B;rryville, attempted suicide Sunday
at the home Of her father-in-law, John
w. Wiley, at Middlttown, Frederick
county, by slsshing her throat from ear to
ear with a sharp kitchen knife.
Registering high water mark OF me-
gro prosperity, four Richmond banks,
operated by and for colored people, have
reported to the Slate Corporation Com
mission a volume Of business OF total
value of $723.311. Their savings &C
counts total s294,179, with open
checking accounts amounting to 1924
4S9.
The Virginia Bankers Association
will open its sixteenth annual couven-
ton at the Chamberlin Hotel, Old
Point, on Thursday, the programme
calling fof a series OF addresses aud pa
pers LASTING through three days. at the
meeting the report of the delegates to
the American BlDkers' Association, by
Carroll Pierce, of Alexsndris, chairman
Of the delegation, will be submitted.
In speech at Hsrrisoubprg yester-
day, Mr.. Harry ST. George Tucker, can
didate for governor, replied to the charges
of Judge Mann, in which the latter St
tackled his democracy and accused him
Of carrying a free silver banner In one
hand and gold standard in the other
in order to secure the nomination for
Congress in 1896, when Mr.. Tucker
was a candidate for reelection Mr.
Tucker denied the charges, read speech
he delivered at Amherst convention to
refute Judge Msnu's allegations, and
boldly asserted that he would follow the
same course again should similar
conditions arise. BE made it plain that
be consistently believed in the gold
standard then, and did not attempt to
sacrifice his views to get political Office.