Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Second-Lieutenan Turner will doubt
less become captain, and two lieuten-
ants will be elected by the company.
Governor Mann announces that he
will appoint a successor to the late
Senator John w. Daniel Monday.
Politicians still predict that it will be ex-
Governor Swanson.
w. G. Moffett, OF Newmarket, was
fatally injured yesterday when an auto
mobile, III which he and three others
were riding crashed into a telegraph
pole. The others were slightly hurt.
Mr.. John Edmunds, son of Mrs.
Eugenia Edmonds and the late DIR.
Sydnor, died at Warrenton yesterday,
after lingering illness. Mr.. Edmonds
was prominent farmer and well-known
throughout the state.
The resignation of Senator John ].
Owen, representing the Twenty eighth
district in the Senate Of Virginia, was
rendered to Governor VIM. H. Mann
and became effective today. Senator
Ovens action was due to the fact OF
his having recently become assistant
to the Commissioner of Agriculture.
The remains of Mr.. John P Ballard,
late Of Troop C, Thirteenth Cavalry,
who died in the Philippines, a year
ago, were forwarded by express from
San Francisco on July 10, arriving in
Fairfax last Saturday, and were inferred
in the Fairfax cemetery,
Maj. Gibson, of the 2nd Virginia
Battalion, has rendered his resignation,
and it seems TO be conceded that Capt.
q. o. Leach, Of the Front Royal mill
tary company, will succeed him
Lieut.. Waller having been promoted to
brigade commissary with rank as
major, there will be two vacancies to
fill in Company D from Front Royal.
DIR. Mann Page, aged about40 years,
died suddenly late yesterday afternoon
at his home, near Keswick Albemarle
county, lie was the youngest son Of
the late Thomas Walker Page, and
brother of DIR. James Morris
Page, dean Of the University OF Virginia,
and Of Dr. Thomas Walker Page, pro-
iessor Of economics in that institution
Fines imposed by Justice Crutchfeld
in Richmond yesterday upon several
prominent business firms and individu-
ais for delinquency in paying their
taxes for 1910 aggregated 81, 900.
Under a new ordinance fines from
81 to so may be imposed for each
weeks delinquency, while a jail SEN
tence is also in order
Governor Mann has refused to par
don Wesley and Warren Craig, father
and son, who are serving twenty-one
and eighteen years, respectively, in the
penitentiary for robbery, arson and
murder. The father and son were con
yicted in Shenandoah county nine years
ago. They were accused of robbing
| the safe in the mill owned by Bruce
Tomas and setting fire 10 the structure
after numbering him.
A deal has Just been closed by which
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry W. Frost. ir., be-
come the owners of Mountain View, "
near White Post, in Clarke county,
Mountain View" was the former home
Of Bishop Meade, Of Virginia, and his
family occupied the place for many
years. After extensive alterations and
repairs, Mr.. and Mrs. Frost will make
their home in this Virginia estate. 1t
is said the price paid was approximately
S25, 900.
On Thursday Hidden Shi6iett, three
miles east of Harrisonburg found his
S-year-old boy, Hensil, lying in field
with his skull crushed and the blood
dried and matted on his face, The lad
had been lying in the sun for several
hours in an unconscious condition.
When aroused the child was unable to
tell what had injured him. 1t was
probable that a horse in the field kick
ed him. The recovery of the child is
doubtful
Three StauntOn men were seriously
injured, one perhaps fatally, in an
auto crash. which occurred early yes
terday morning on their return trip
from Harrisonburg. Robert Moffet
had his left leg broken and it had to
be amputated. He has little chance to
live. L. l.. Bowman suffered painful
wounds on the scalp and d. L. Porter
had two ribs broken and was otherwise
badly injured. The tire came off a
hind wheel and the auto crashed into a
teIporaDh mole