Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-07-19
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National Bank Building Corporation il
Richmond was awarded yesterday tt
the George A. Fuller Company, o
New York, for 100000 This com
pauy is now engaged in building th'
new home Of the Life Insurance Com
pany of Virginia in Richmond. Work
on the bank building will begin a
once, and the structure is to be com
pleted by July ] next year.
Postmaster Quinby Of Suffolk yester
day received notice from the Postotfict
Department that the contract for build
ing the local postoffice had beer
awarded to ]. H. Brauson, Of Hamp
ton, for $50, $50. Suffolk received al
appropriation Of s67 1000, Of which
So, 900 had been spent for site. The
building will be completed by Angus
l Of next year.
The body OF white man, supposed
to have been Benjamin Posey, abou
81 years old, was found csrly yesterday
beside the Southern tracks between
! Lawyers and Evington, near Lynch.
burg. The man WIS run over Monday
night by train. 1t is thought he fell
from a northbound train. His legs were
terribly crushed. He was recently dis
charged from the insane hospital at
Staunton, and letters in bis pockets in
dictate he came from Danville.
Seeing q strange object in Lnyille
creek, Miss Minnie Brunk, Of Wenger's
Mill, near Harrisonburg, ran down to
the waters edge and, pulling off her
shoes and stockings, waded out into
the mud and water. Boldly grasping
hold Of the tail Of the creature, the dar-
ing young woman suddenly found her.
self in stubborn combat with turtle,
the largest ever seen in that section.
Holding on to the tail like grim death,
the young woman found the contest an
unequal one and forthwith screamed for
help, afraid to let go. J. II Brunk,
hearing the screams, grabbed an axe
and rushed out into the creek TO the
rescue. Three blows on the head put
the turtle out of commission. The
t"rtle weighed Is and a half pounds.
]. B. Hozier, aged about IS years Of
Hampton, was arrested Yesterday af-
tGrnoun at the Norfolk and Western
Railway station, Petersburg, on the
charge Of attempting to commit GRIM
inal assault on Mrs. S. W. Gibson, a
highly respected lody residing in Ches-
'ield county, q short distance from
,rsburg According to Mrs. Glib
statement, she vas returning
he, and. after crossing Bishops
ge, which spans the Appoma!tox
b from Petersburg, she was attacked
Iozier, who threw her to the ground
placed his hands over her mouth.
Gibson fought her assailant as
she could until her screams for
frightened him off. At the po-
station Mrs. Gibson fully identified
er as her assailant. Hozier de-
that he isinnocent OF the charge.
c body of Ola Thaxton, the beaut-
'orth Carolina girl who died at the
home, Ricnmonu, IN March, es-
a the knives OF the students in the
al college, and was found yester-
the picking" vat al the Med
It's ollege OF Virginia Bit by bit,
ta ny 0! the girls unfortunate lie
gut yesterday rs her brother pur-
lis Investigation TO locate the
Some months ago in Raleigh
IS lured from home by Robert
a carpenter, employed BY her
aAd went to Richmond with
him. She found herself in the under
world, without friends, After sleeping
Al nights in the streets, she Succumbed
TO pneumonia. On the evening OF her
brothers. arrival in Richmond. Rober,
Riley dropped dead from keart trouble.