Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-07-31
VIRGINIA N E W. 5.

Herbert Peasants was shot and kill
ed ut coIored church lawn party after
midnight yesterday morning near
Rcckbridge Baths, and Joe Hinton is
in Jail charged with the crime. Hin
ton claims that someone struck him in
the head with stones and that he fired
in the direction of the parties. Later
Peasants was found dead, SHOT through
the head. Hinton was arrested and
after an inquest hcfore Justice Wilson,
was sent to Lexington, by Deputy
Sheriff Mecks TO await the action of the
grand jury Hinton has served term
in the pententiary Peasants was a
reliable colored man and vas respected
by both white anl colored He lived
near Rockhrldgc Baths.
Several days ago Captain Ashton, OF
the schooner John Bradley, found the
body of 4 dead white man floating in
the Chesapeake bay near The mouth Of
Dymer's creek off the southeastern
coast of Lancaster county. There were
no marks o! foul play on the body,
and nothing could be found by which
it could be identified, 1t is supposed
to be the body of the man from Mary
land who is said to have leaped into the
bay from one of the Old Bay Line
steamers about ten days ago when off
the mouth Of the Great Wicomico
river.
Miss Katherine Chichester, OF New
York city, and Miss Roso Fauver, both
guests at Stribling Springs, are back at
the springs after strenuous 80, mile
tramp in the heat and dust to Bridge
water and back. The girls were at.
tired in walking costumes, carried q
lunch and made the trip alone, spend
ing the night in Bridgewater with
friend and starting early the next
morning on the road.
With Bristol to Washington" as
the slogan, the Bristol board OF trade
took steps Saturday to form highway
association, the aim OF which will be to
construct a stone road from Bristol to
the capital city. The plan was pre-
sented at a meeting OF the Bristol to
Memphis Highway Association, which
heartily Endorsed the project The Sec
rotary OF the board of trade subsc.
quently issued invitations to the COM
mercial organizations in the prin-
cipal Virginia cities to attend meet
ing in Bristol on August II, when the
association will be formed. 1t is stated
that communications on the subject
have been exchanged with government
officials in Washington. and that Fed
eral aid might be expected.
Declaring that she was spirit, Mrs.
Annie E. Doyle, Of Stafford county,
startled Policeman William Y. Watts
about s o'clock Yesterday morning at
Third street and Virginia avenue north
east, Washington. Mrs. Doyle was sent
to the Washington Asylum Hospital for
inquiry as to her menta! condition.
Yesterday afternoon in historic old
Blantord Church. in Petersburg, tho
day being the forty-seventh anniversary
OF the Battle OF the Crater, q beautiful
marble tablet was unveiled and dedi-
Gated to the memory of 119 men OF
Mahone's Brigade, who fell in the IA
NOUS charge of the brigade at the
Crater on July so, 1864 The tablet
contains the names Of those who fell in
that charge, with the rank, company
and regiment Of each. The tablet was
the gift Of the Crater Legion, Of which
Colonel William H. Stewart, of Ports
is chief Addresses we're de-
livered by George S. Bernard and
Richard B. Davis, veteran Of the Crater
battle; by Governor William II. Mann
and by Colonel W. II. Stewart, who
led the Sixty-first Virginia Regiment
in the Crater charge. The exercises
were witnessed by a large assemblage.