Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-08-24
VIRGINIA NEWS.

the rendezvous in Hampton Roads OF
the battleships, cruisers, and other
naval vessels that are to participate IN
the elaborate war game off the Virginia
Capes early in September. The ships
will at once begin taking on ammuni-
ton, coal, and general stores. The
vessels at Norfolk at present are the
New Hampshire, Vermont, South Car
DINA, Idaho, Washington, Delaware,
Panther, Celtic, and the dispatch boat
Yankton. The Massachusetts,, Indi-
aua, Ohio, and Vulcan, OF the naval
training squadron, have proceeded to
Annapolis, Md.
Judge A. M. Aiken, who for % years
presided over the Corporation Court OF
Danviile, and who has been suffering
recently from breakdown, was yes
terday adjudged mentally incompetent
by commission which examined him.
He was sent to the Western State San
itarium. For some time Judge Aiken
has been the victim of hallucinationd,
which recently have become more fire.
quept and more pronounced, though
with no demonstrations of personal
violence. He went to Roanoke about
40 years ago, beginning as a clerk in a
store, and studying law in his spare
time. He is prominent both as a law
yer and jurist.
Finwell Corbin was exonerated yes
terday of the charge of numbering
Clark Dodson 10 Madison county on
Saturday night. Corbin, at the same
time, shot and wounded man by the
name of Nichols a coroner's jury
decided that the, killing was done in
self-defeuse.
DR.. Samuel A. Austin, who was in
dicted in Roanoke, March 25, 1910, on
charges of murder and criminal NAL
practice. committed to the Southwest
State Hospital, at Marion. and recently
declared to be OF sound mind, was
taken to Roanoke yesterday and re-
leased on $4,000 bail for his appear
ance in the Corporation Court during
the September term. 1t is stated on
! reliable authority the prosecution will
be withdrawn provided DR.. Austin
leaves Roanoke.
The Central Valley Christian Con-
ference adjourned at Leaksville, Page
county, to meet next year at Llnvllle,
four miles north of Harrisonburg. A
feature of the conference was the re-
port of the committee of moral reform,
in which statewide prohibition was
champioued and the use of tobacco,
especially cigarettes, was discouraged.
Rev. ]. L. Foster. Of Elon College,
North Carolina, denounced hobble and
harem skirts, big hats and what he de-
scribed as the almost invisible hose.
Mr.. Foster declared. prohibition was a
success in North Carolina.
The Harrisonburg Daily Times Office
was damaged by fire and water Tues
: day morning. Fumes from the gaso-
line tank caught fire from linotype
machine. The operator and Manager
Rucbush were enveloped in flames and
had narrow escapes. The fire COM
pany had left on an early train for
Newport News, and outsiders fought
the flames.
Answering the statement of State
Chairman Ellyson to the effect that he
desired to leave his veracity to the peo-
pie, former Governor a. j. Montague
today said: Mr.. Ellyson's reply is
unresponsive and futile. He wishes to
leave the question of his veracity to
the people. He has this right. He
must also leave to the people the ques-
ton of bis friendship for General Lee.
The people remember, and the people
are just"
Texas is to present life-sized por-
trait OF Gen. Sam Houston, hero OF the
battle Of San Jacinto, and twice presi-
dent of the republic of Texas, to Vir-
GINA. The Senate, by unanimous
vote yesterday, adopted resolution to
make the presentation. Gen. Houston
was born in Virginia. The painting
now hangs in the Senate chamber at
Austin. 1t will be transferred with
fitting ceremonies to the Virginia State
capitol.
Governor Mann yesterday named
Col. w. w Old, Norfolk; Frederick
W. Scott and Rev. George W. Nc
Daniel, Richmond; Judge F. w. Sims,
Louisa, and Major Roror A. James,
Danyille, delegates 10 the one hun
dredth anniversary OF the peace settle
ment among the English-speaking
races to be held in New York.
Jonas Pippen, charged with the muir
der OF Will Williams, July IS, at ST.
Paul, and for whose arrest $500 reward
was offered, was caught in Russell
county Monday night by Wyatt and
a. H. Baldwin, of the Baldwin Agency.
He was turned over to the Wise county
authorities. Plppen's home is in
Texas.
A telegram received in Roanoke yes
terday says that j. @. Darst, of Roa-
noke, leaped from window in hos
pital i'll Milwaukee and was killed in
stantly. Darst was lawyer. He was
a native Of Pulaski and had lived in
the west for the past Il years. At
one time he practiced law in Bluefeld