Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-19
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Miss Susie Temple Brown and Mr..
Walter Frazier Sullivan, both OF Fred
ericksburg, were married in Rockville,
Nd, Wednesday by Rev. Thomas j.
Packard.
Miss Willie $. Daley and Mr.. Roy
Lee Presgraves both of Harrington,
Fairfax county, were married in Rock
vile, Md. Wednesday by Rev. Oscar
w. Henderson.
Miss Ida Herndon Rogers died on
Wednesday at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Robert Mccormick, near Mid
dleburg. She was daughter OF the
late Thomas Rogers of Loudoun.
r. d. Yancey, a member of the
General Hospital Board. and as such
assigned to the Eastern Hospital, at
Williamsburg, has rendered his resigna-
ton. In letter to Governor Mann he
asks to be relieved without delay.
Deputy Sheriff Waller arrested on
Tuesday last, and lodged in the Spott-
sylvania county Jail Rely Robinson, a
negro, charged with malicious assault
with intent to kill upon Addison J..
Jet, white man, general manager
and sawyer at l.. Il. Colbert's sawmill
The amount Of insurance on the
Washington Wooden Mills, in Fred
ericksburg, which fire destroyed We'd
nesday night, was $50, 900 The loss
was $4,000 1t Is believed that the
mills will be rebuilt.
Mrs. Mason G. Rodgers and her
nine-months-oId child, who were so
badly burned at Fredericksburg on
Wednesday, have both died, the wife
that night and the child yesterday
morning. The double funeral was
held yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Geo. F. Harrison has sold his
farm near Chantilly, Fairfax county,
containing about $50 acres, to Mr.. J.
f. Spooner, OF Illinois, who we under
stand will take possession about Janu
airy l, 1911. The purchase price was
1875, 900.
When Mrs. Nathan Brown, a widow,
living three miles from Wytheyille,
went to give her cows salt yesterday
she was attacked by one of the animals,
knocked down and gored in The side.
One arm and several ribs were broken,
the ribs penetrating the lungs and
causing death from hemorrhages
several hours later.
Junius Taylor, a young white man
arrested in Henrico for alleged assault
on Miss Bertha Pocklington, of Rich
mond, was given a hearing in the mag
istrates court in Henrico yesterday and
was fined twenty dollars and costs for
dlsorderly conduct on the highways Of
the county. The prosecution failed
signally to make out case of assault
Former Governor A. ]. Montague
will Ieaye August "A for Europe with
his daughter, Miss Gay Montague,
and will not return until October |.
Mr.. Montague has been chosen again
to represent this country as a delegate
TO the International Conference of
Maritime Law to be held at Brussels,
Belgium, where the conference will
complete work not finished when the
body met there last summer.
Mrs. l.. C. Rollins, wife of a we'll
known merchant OF Lecsburg, and a
colored servant were both seriously
burned yesterday afternoon, the former
about the face and hands, the latter so
seriously that she is not expected to re-
cover. The accident occurred at Mrs.
Rollins home and resulted from the
explosion Of can OF gasoline, which
by mistake the colored girl used in
kindling a fire in the range. In pour
ing the fluid on smoldering fire the
can exploded. The cries of the girl
brought Mrs. Rollins to her aid, and
in an effort to extinguish the flames
sba vas burned