Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-16
VIRGINIA NEWS.

OF Norlolk, yesterday aIIo|Neu h''
wife as she lay sleeping with ham,
mer, and a little later blew out his
own brains in a nearby shipyard with
a revolver, Mrs. Styron is in a criti-
cal condition. with a fractured skull
Styron's body was not found until
several hours after the assault on his
wife.
A posse Of residents of the south
side of Albemarle county, augmented
by several from Charlottesville, who
took with them bloodhound spent
most of Saturday afternoon and the
greater part of yesterday in scour-
ing the mountains around Scottsville
in an effort to capture Ben Burrell,
young negro who Saturday morning
killed his aged grandmother.
The thirty-eighth annual session OF
the Grand council Of the Royal Ar
canum of Virginia will convene in
Murphy's hotel auditorium Richmond,
tomorrow at noon, and will be in ses-
sion two days. The grand council is
composed of officers and delegates OF
| fifty-seven councils of Virginia, num-
bering 11G and representing nearly
five thousand members.
-Four colored children, ranging in
| age from two years to twelve years,
were burned to death yesterday morn
ing shortly after o'clock, when the
home of their parents, about two
miles above Glen Allen, on the River
road, near Richmond, was destroyed
by fire. They were the children of
Moses Johnson, who, with his family,
occupied small frame dwelling. A
| fifth child, about seven years Of age,
who was also in the house, escaped
by jumping from a window, but it
was severely burned.
Cards have been sent out by mem
hers of ti1e Virginia Bankers Asso-
citation announcing the decision of the
executive committee to hold the
twenty-fourth annual convention of
the association at the Chamberlin
Hotel, Old Point Comfort, June 81,
22 and 23
/ Accidental discharge of a gun and
q falling tree caused the death Of the
13-year-old daughter and injury to a
small son of George Myrick, almost
simultaneously, near Reams, Dinwid-
die county. Accompanied by his little
boy, Myrick went to the woods near
his home to saw wood. He sawed
down a tree, which in falling kicked
up the stump, breaking the cnild's
log. He picked up the child and car
ried him TO the house. Just as ne ar.
! rived he heard screams from the
home Of neiehbor. Leaving the
suffering boy, he ran over to learn
what the ncighbor's troubles were
and found that his own daughter had
been accidentally shot and killed by
Henry Robertson.
After a hunt lasting late into the
night, Elmer Hopkins, aged IS, who
Saturday night, it is alleged, shot and
killed George and Cleveland Cole as
they were returning from circus
performance, was arrested early yes
terday near the North Carolina line
and is in Jail at Houston. 1t was in
timated that he might be taken else
where for. safekeeping. Hopkins
was in a wagon with y Miss Bray. and
her brother. George Cole, it is said,
left his buggy and climbed UP into
| the wagon and began an argument
with Hopkins. On being called a
liar, Hopkins, it is alleged, drew a
pistol and shot Cole through the heart.
Cleveland Cole, seeing his brother
shot down, attacked Hopkins, but
was dropped on the body of his
brother by Il bullet in the neck.
Thomas J. Wade, of Richmond, was
arrested yesterday in Baltimore on
the charge of violating the Mann
white Slave" law. Lorena Serocci,
q years old, and Ruth Williams, %
years old, also of Richmond, are held
as witnesses against Wade. The three
were arrested at a furnished room
house on West Fayette street.
DR.. William Henry Taylor, eighty
two years old. Coroner of Richmond,
scientist philosopher and astrono-
mer, and a widely known professional
man, died suddenly Saturday from a
attack of grippe after an illness of
less than two weeks.
A plot against the Virginia Mill
tary Institute, of Lexington, known
as "the West Point of the South" was