Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-01-04
Virginia News.

Mr. j ,hn Faris5, Of Port Royal, died
at bis home lasl week, aged As year..
Mrs. Virginia Burton, sged SO yeTs,
died at her hone in Fredericksburg
Sunday of paralysis. She leaves son,
NJ. VIM. Barton.
Richmond health officers declare ihtt
persons contracting smallpox after re.
fusirg to be vscclnated commit q crime
against The state.
News has been received In Leesbufg
of the death 10 Missouri OF Msj. Asa
James, former resident Of Loudoun
county. He was IS years old.
Gov. Swanson has named Jnjge
Robt. Prentiss, Of Suffolk, to succeed
himself ss q member Of the Corporation
Commission for a term Of six years, be-
gionirg February l.
The Noell-Auderson Manufacturing
OonpsUy, of Dsnville. with an su-
lhoriz ID capital Of 8 100, 900, has fled 3
desd of assignment. The debts are
SCH eduled at $4,000.
Mr. ]. Thompson Briggs, the veil
known cattle dealer of Stafford, died
Suddenly OF heart disease at the home OF
Mr.. Allan Green, near Nokesville,
Prince William county, Sunday evening
aged IS years.
Miss Nan Powell Jtffries, Of War
rentor. and L juis Autoussntio, Of Porto
Rico, we're quietly married 10 Washing.
ton yesterday. The bride Is the dsugt-
ter of tho late James P. Jeffries, q prom
iuent attorney OF Northern Virgiuis.
The groom IL Of o distinguished Porto
Rican family.
Mrs. Mary TidbRll Birtop, wife Of
Dr.. Samuel Burton, professor Of msthe'
mates 10 the University Of the Souib, at
5swanee, Tenn died at her homo there
90 Saturday and will be buried 10 Win
chester. She was the daughter of the
late Edward Tidbsll, Of Frederick
county.
Marriage licenses we're Issued DiWssh.
irgton yesterday to Walter b. OOoulz,
OF Mount Jackson, aud Roberta G. Nor.
ris, Of Fredericksburg; john L.Stubbs,
Of SpottsylvAnia county, and Nora A.
Nuckolls, of Louisa county, sud 10 Louis
Autonssnh. Of Brooklyn, N. Y, aud
Nan P. J,ffries, Of WaueutOD, We.
When Edgar Mouger was tearing
down frame dwelling 10 Mount Orsw.
ford, near Hsrrisonburg, the workmen
fouud the bodies of two white infants
wrapped 10 rags between the weather
boarding, One child had Its skull crush.
ed, indicating that at least one, and
probably both, had me! death BY foul
means.
A letter from Stafford to the Fred
eicksburg Star saws. "Your correspond
cot harmed OF a gentleman residing 10
a1d about a small town near here, who
in ample time sent current money Of the
U9iled states to q noted firm Of ye city
Of Alexandra for "lhat which warns
the heart of mau," but alas the cur
rency went ssiray, and neither the cu'-
rsncy nor the "hsppy be j1yful' hiss
turned up at this writing. Ga Christ.
mss morn when our friend tried to In
up his voice In rj,iciug, he found ola
"spiIits we're not"
WsItsr Wills, colored, who VAS ar
te.ted ia Washington Saturday after
noop, admitted that he had robbed John
Boucher, farmer from Langley, Va,
while on the csnal road last Tuesday,
i4kiOg 1915 and a pint flask OF llqnoI
from him. John J Bach, Of Lewios'
Vile, Fairfax county, who Is 10 The char
coal business, identified Willis as being
he msu who assaulted aud robbed hin
Of $50 on tie afternoon Of Novem Der 2!
while d,lvipg along the Georgetown ant
Laesbu'g pize about one mile from To-
| south end of the Chain bridge,