Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-08-03
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The large canning factory OF John
". TAYLOR. at Hallwood, near Cape
Charles, was destroyed by fire at an
Early hour yesterday morning. A
large stock of goods ready for ship
meut, stored in the building, was also
DESTROYED. The plant was used for
canning tomatoes and the manufacture
OF flour from potatoes.
Tho will OF George Washington is not
exhibited on Sunday. even though the
Vic" p. icnt Of the United States re-
guess il. The story runs that Vice
President Sherman, au ardent motorist,
accompanied by friends, took spin
last Sunday in Virginia. Reaching
Fairfax Courthouse, they decided they
would like to see the original will
drawn by the first president. The
Iarty WIS directed first to the home Of
he deputy clerk OF the county. The
irputy expressed regret, but quite
positively informed the vice president
that the rules foibade the courthouse,
here the document is kept in glass
case, being opened on Sunday. Find
,rg The official obdurate, the party re-
,ai7ed to the home OF his chief, some
distance away. The clerk, however,
was rs strongly rule bound as his
deputy, and the vice president and his
friends left for Washington with their
curiosity unsatistied.
j. F. Wingiield. who was attack ed
by mad dog in Roanoke on Sunday,
has gone to Richmond to take the
Pasteur treatment. Mr.. Wingiield
owned the dog and in an effort to scpa-
rate it from another with which it was
fighting he was bitten. The dog was
killed but only after it had bitten 40
other dogs. The head was sent to
Washington and the government ex-
animation found the animal was a VIC
tim OF rabies A runher OF the dogs
bitten have also been killed.
Joseph II. Craun, 20 years old, 4
successful farmer and business man OF
Rockingham county, and president OF
the Planters Bank Of Bridgewater,
died Tuesday night at his home on the
Glade, about three miles south OF
Bridgewater.
In the pre- ence of many persons
prominent in Virginia society, Miss
Mary Elizabeth Harmon, daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Harmon, Of the
University of Virginia, and DR.. Robert
Lee Payne, OF Norfolk, we're married
at Charlottesville last night in the uni.
versity chapel. Rev. George L. Petrie
performed the ceremony.
DR.. Ernest G. Levy, chief health
officer Of Richmond, has come to
the conclusion after close compare
tive study of the mortuary statistics OF
Richmond and other cities, that the
American negro is slowly and steadily
dying out and will be virtually extinct
in the twcnty-frst century. The
colored race" he points out, with 3S
per cent Of the population of Rich
mond, has sc per cent, the deaths and
the birth rate is equally against the
colored race. !"
W. A. Lineweaver was lodged in
jail at Woodstock yesterday charged
with shooting Joseph M. Reeser, OF
Edinburg. Reeser was hunting SPUR
rels on Massanutten Mountain. near
Lineweaver' home, when wounded.
The latter says he knows nothing OF the
shooting.
The story OF how he was Kidnapped
by two men at the point OF revolver
and taken to Richmond aud Norfolk
told to tho authorities Of Montgomery
county, Md, by g. Willard Barnsley,
son Of one III the wealthiest farmers
Of Montgomery county, Md, was yes
terday admitted by the yonng man TO
be fabrication. He made it up, he
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