Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-04-13
VIRGINIA NEWS

Royal Arcanum of Virginia, which
will meet at Murphy's Hotel, Rich
mond, on April 20 and n Delegates
from every council in Virginia are
expected to attend. Election of the
grand officers of the organization
for the State of Virginia and of del.
egates to the national supreme
council are the features Of the meet
ing.
Bette Little, Is year old girl,
is in serious condition in q Bristo!
hospital as the result of having shot
herself through the right lung. She
was employed at hosiery mill.
Stephen Ashworth Gravely, Jr.,
aged 5, was instantly killed near
Rocky Mount, when an automobile
in which he was riding with his par
ents in the suburbs of the town
turned over on an embankment. The
child's parents were only slightly
injured
Being dissatisfied with health
conditions among the convicts in the
State prison, Governor Davis yes
terday announced that he had sus-
pended J. H. Wilkinson, member of
the board of directors of the peni-
Tertiary, and requested the secretary
of the commonwealth to issue
commission to Col. Leroy Hodges, OF
Petersburg, who has been chosen to
fill the position.
Every school in Virginia will have
an opportunity to give his or her
nickel or dime to the proposed gift
to France of a Marine memorial in
the shape of statue of Liberty,
similar to the one presented Amer
lea and erected in New York harbor
in 1879 during the week of April
26 to May /. "America's Gift to
France Week" The memorial,
which is to be placed on the banks
| of the historic Marine River, will
| commemorate the gallant stand of
the French in September, 1914.
when General Joffre checked the
| onrush of the Germans. The statue
will cost S250,000. of which Vir-
ginia's share is $1,000.
Rev. Paul Kanamor. known as
"The Billy Sunday Of Japan" who
is in Richmond speaking to the STU
dents Of the Union Theological Sem
mary. preached = a large audience
at Grace Covenant Presbyterian
! Church Sunday morning. The IA
nous Japanese evangelist has been
preaching one sermon q i over ia
pan for three years, he stated, IN
which time he has haG 10000 con-
versions. He calls it God, Sin and
, Salvation 1t takes three hours for
him to preach his famous sermon in
Japanese. and he has had 30,000,OOO
printed copies of it circulated al!
over his native country.
The largest Inheritance tax ever
paid the Federal Government in the
Fredericksburg section was turned in
Saturday to Collector R.. C. l..
Moncure by the executors of the es-
tate of the late Henry Warden. Sen
ator c. O'Conor Goodrich, attorney
for the estate, in answer to a ques-
ton as to the total tax paid, stated
that it was approximately $4,000.
The Virginia inheritance tax, one
half of which will go to Fredericks-
burg for school purposes, has not
yet been determined.
a skeleton found in the woods be-
tween Tasley and Accomac by a ne
gro woman hunting for wood has
been identified as that of Horace
Mock. OF Accomac, missing from his
NOME IlIle NethS. w Icu WI. NUN
left his home he carried $500 to pur-
chase corn in Philadelphia. This
was missing when the body was To-
Gated. although the pin with which it
was fastened to the vest pocket was
found.
Mrs. Katie Archer, who together
with her husband, took bichloride Of
mercury tablets in an effort to end
their lives. died Saturday at Peters
burg Hospital. The youthful hus-
band is still in d precarious condi-
ton.
Fire of unknown origin, starting
in Murphy's livery stable, Cape
Charles, destroyed five dwellings and
four barns in Princess Anne, Mary
land, yesterday afternoon. Sails
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