Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-02
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Seven well-developed cases of infan-
tile paralysis have been found in Rich
mond. and physicians are greatly dis
turbed.
One of the oldest banks in Maine, the
Richmond National closed its doors yes
terday because of falling of in bust
ness.
About 60 cities, it is thought, will be
added to the list Of towns with popu-
lation of %, 900 and over by tho new
census
Miss Jessie May Russell, OF Peters
burg, and Hamilton w. Butterworth,
Of Butterworth, were married at the
Raleigh Hotel in Washington last night
by Rev. James M. Little,
Philip Bottigheimer, a well-known
citizen of Richmond, aged IS, was struck
by trolley car on thu Richmond
Petersburg line yesterday and almost
instantly killed
Rev. Oscar Littlelon died Sunday at
hts residence in Farmville. He was
born at Leesburg, and was so years old.
He was one of the most prominent
members of the Virginia Methodist
Conference and had held many impor-
tant charges.
Representative Charles Q. Tirrell OF
the Fonrth Massachusetts, district, died
suddenly Saturday at his home at Ma
tick. Death was due to hemorrhage
OF the brain. He was sixty-five years
old.
Governor Mann favors the proposed
attendance Of the Virginia Confederate
veterans at the reunion of the Blue and
the Gray at Atlantic City, September
Is, and with his staff will head dele
CATION in case enough veterans can be
gotten together to go.
A high-heeled slipper came near
causing the death of Mrs. John
Devine, well known ia Richmond society
circles, when it caused her to trip and
fall down the front steps OF her home
while carrying a glass of water. The
glass smashed under her right arm,
seyering an artery. The blood flowed
for over two hours, and physicians had
much difficulty in stopping it.
1t is believed in Washington that the
decision OF President Taft and Attor-
ney General Wickersham that there is
no law under which the state of Vir-
ginia can be made to remove the statue
Of Robert L. Lee from Statuary Hall
in the Capitol will be followed by the
placing Of a statue of Jefferson Davis
there by Mississippi.
While she was sitting at her sewing
machine by the window of her home in
Richmond yesterday Miss Emily Hulk
ter was frightened almost into mysteries
when she glanced up and saw the head
of a six-foot black snake, which had
crawled in through space between the
wire screen and the window sash. Her
youthful brother Walter came hurriedly
with an axe and cut off the reptiles
head.
William G. Moffett, who was fatally
injured in an automobile accident early
last Friday morning on the Valley
pike, near Harrisonburg, died Sunday
evening following an operation on Sat
urday, when his left leg was amputated.
The accident was due to the machine
skidding when going at rapid rate
and striking a telephone pole, which it
shattered. The machine was wrecked,
two other occupants being seriously
injured and the chauffeur escaping
unhurt.
The Herndon Fairfax county, Board
of Trade has just been organized, with
the following officers: H. E. Hanes, pres
ident; c. ID. Cboate, vice president; Fl.
A. Sager, secretary, andlDr. B. B. Det-
wiler, treasurer. II. B. Hutchinson is
chairman of the committee on new
enterprises. Herndon has a popula-
ton of about 1000, is located only
twenty-eiget miles from Washington,
in the midst of fertile and Wildwood
ed country, and has large dairy in
terest. In the volume OF business
transacted it is the most important town
i'm Eairfay county