Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-10
VIRGINIA NEWS

oH which is to erect at acost of $751;
900 community school as memoir
ial to Merriwether Lewis, leader OF
the famous Lewis and. Clarke EXpe-
dition to the Pacific Coast in, 1904
1905, which first opened up the great
West, will celebrate the birth Of
Merriwether Lewis August 18th. 1t
is proposed to erect the school at Ivy,
Va.
Arthur Beverly, an Amherst county
Indian, has been landed in Jail at
Lynchburg as a Stacker. The Indian
is one of eight who were hunted by
deputy marshals in the mountains OF
Amherst couaty and Beverly alone
has been captured. The others are
said to be heavily armed and Will re-
sist arrest. They belong to a small
tribe of Indians who have lived about
ten miles from Lynchburg since the
advent of the white man.
Norfolk is facing the most serious
ice situation in the history OF the
city,. Hotels, restaurants, hundreds
If soda fountains and thousands of
homes have been without an ample
supply of ice during the past two
DAYS and suffering is intense, espec-
tally in the congested sections OF the
CITY. A committee investigating the
situation yesterday recommended the
abrogation of all contracts for ice
made prior to the hot wave now grip
ping the section, the guarding of the
ice-making plants by home guards
and the distribution of ice cards by
the police. In order that street car
service may be maintained during all
hours of the day, which has been I'M
possible for three days past, electric
current has been cut off from every
large industry engaged in other than
absolutely essential war work. THIS
drastic action followed several days
of almost complete transportation
paralysis in Norfolk, Portsmouth and
suburban sections.
Charles w. Morris, conscientious OBJ
iector, extreme pacifist and Russell
lite, must serve 90-day Jail sentence
for making statements which oppose
the government in its conduct of the
war. Morris pleaded guilty before
The Federal court in Roanoke Thurs
day. In reply to a question asked
bv the court he said that he woald
tanely submit if the Turks sent an
army to America, seized our women
and took them to the harems of Turk
ish officers. It was learned in the
course of the trial that Morris had
been distributing Russellite literature
about the city. When questioned in
regard to this, the prisoner said that
his purpose in life was to spread
the doctrine of non-resistance.
During The terrific rainstorm We'd
nesday at the large bank barn on the
farm OF II. A. Cline, one mile west of
Culpeper, was struck and burned to
the ground with contents. Loss from
"a 600 to $1,000. Small insurance.
One mile farther west, on the farm OF
John Griffin, three wheat-stacks were
also burned. Loss, $50 bushels OF
wheat. On the same night, near
Brandy, the immense barn of Aleck
Swan was burned. Loss from $4,000
to $1,000. Small insurance.
Mrs. Douglas Knox, Of Fredericks-
burg, has received a letter from the
Red Cross in France telling her OF the
death of her son, Private Douglas II.
Knox, of the u S. marine corps, IN
hospital, after being wounded IN
battle in France. Young Knox IS the
first Fredericksburg boy to lose his
life in battle, so far as is known.
News has been received in Harrl-
sonburg of the death Of Cristie Wal
ker, in hospital at Camp Sam Hous-
ton, Texas. He was injured in an aero
plane accident. He is the son of Mrs.
Kate Walker and former resident OF
Harrisonburg.
The Stanley L. Seaman, schooner,
owned by Crowell and Thurlow, Bos-
ton, and out of Newport News for
foreign port, was sunk by a bomb
placed by Submarine at 1880 a. M,
August 5, when 10 miles east OF
Cape Hatteras. Capt. w. c. Meal
oney and crew of eight men arrived
here this afternoon, after being three )
days in a launch in the Gulf Stream,
having been picked up by British
vessel. Capt. McAloney describes
the submarine as the U-132, $50 feet
long, mounting four guns-two 6-lnch
fore and aft coming tower, two small