Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-05-17
VIRGINIA NEWS

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war was heard Wednesday wher
Charles .Harrell, negro Changed
with being labor agent, was fined
$3.50. Having no money, he went to
! Jail. Two hundred negroes were
found assembled at the railway sta
| ton after midnight. The police
were called out and their efforts to
! discover the prime mover of this
deportation had such effect on the
negroes that when the north5ound
train pulled in, no more than 30
boarded the train, the others going
to their homes. The laborers are
being taken, it. is admitted, to New
York brick yard. A Danville concern
which is suffering the most from
these so called raids has threatened
| retaliation by sending representa-
/ tivcs to the ibrickyard in question in
an effort to bring some of the hands
to Darv;lle.
| Winchester police have thrown out
dragnct for "woman in black, "
who has terrified number of per-
sons, and who Wednesday night at
tsckeG two men, Howard Scruggs
and Edward n. Anderson, garage
employees, while they were returning
from work at late hour. The
men were coming through an alley
when a tall figure, dressed in deep
mourning, suddenly emerged from
behind building and sprang at the
men. Scruggs. thinking the figure
man masauerading as woman,
hurled brick, which was lodged.
Scruggs and Anderson took to their
heels anI made their escape from
the presence, A number of people
vorch for the story OF the tall woman
in fighting mood.
Shrouding herself carefully and
placing dampcncd cloth over her
heart, Miss Audrey Warrington.
aged %, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Buck Warrington, committed suicide
at her shcmc near Straightstone.
Pittsylvania county, by shooting her
self. It,,is stated that opposition by
hcr family to her marriage to a
young man in Baltimore caused the
act. She left message add cssed
to him ana long letter to her
imcIher giving her reasons.
II Norfolk will be the place of meet
ing for the next annual convention
'of the Grand Chapter, Order CT
Eastern Star. which has just brought
it; 1920 session to a close in Peters
Surg. The race was between that
city and Roanoke, but the former won
by a gccd majority. Mrs. Cortic
". Miller. of Flint Hill, was elected
worthy grand matron Of the chapter.
Mrs, Mary Abrams, Of Norfolk was
made grand treasurer, while Mrs.
Emma Lee Gray, Of Norfolk, was
selected as associate grand conduct
rcSs. Mrs. Emma G.. Clement, OF
,Ncxfclk. was made grand marshal.
The convention was one CT the most
successful ones in the history Of the
Grand chapter.
Two skeletons, said by physicians
to beythose of man and woman,
have been found in cave situated
on the estate of Frank G.. Carpenter,
the noted traveller and correspondent,
near Blucmont, and officials of Lou
doun County are endeavoring to OBJ
tain clues. Besides the bones were
found a pistol, eight glass eyes,
pieces Of brown cloth dress and a
blue cloth suit and set of false
teeth. The cave in which the skele.-
tons were found is at the side Of. a
| high bluff of rock, and is accessible
only by hard and difficult climbing.
Rcsentirg the slur cast upon Vlr-
ginia by the exclusion CT the names
of General Robert E. Lee and other
Leaders Of the Confcderacy from the
Arlington Amphithcatrc Memorial
William "A. Stuart, State commander
cf the American Legion, declined to
name any representative of the leg
! ior from this State to attend the dc
dication exercises.
Word has been received in Lynch
burg of the injury in an automobile
accident at Bryn Mawr, Pa, of Mrs.
l.. NJ. Willis. former principal OF
the Chatham Episcopal Institute, and
the death Of her daughter, formerly
Miss Catherine Willis, who accom-
panied her in the automobile. Mrs.
Willis rccently objected so strenu
ously to an action Of the president o.
! the school as to tender her rcsigna