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What boat Pill TO SETTLE I I MATTER After a short-stayMn this Country Mr and Mrs Btraker will sail for London where they will make their future home The groom Is connected with several insurance companies lit England Thorn ffitoectai tC Tha Tlmee-Dlapotch) RADFORD VA March A quiet wedding waa celebrated at the home of Mr and Mrs W- Thorn Wednesday evening when their eldest daughter Nor beqame the bride of Mr Beverly Peter a machinist at the pipe work The ceremony waa performed by the Rev Irwin the ring service being used The attendants were the bride slater Miss Ida Thorn and her cousin Miss Myrtle Teech Mr and Mrs Peter- left for a trip to Washington Richmond and other Kast-Vlrginla cities On their return they reside It When you open a pack age of Uneeda Biscuit like opening the oven door and taking them Out crisp fresh and clean Uneeda Biscuit -l are the only Soda Crackers Others cease to be crackers after a few hours exposure to the air Open a package of Uneeda Biscuit to-day' HtinoHAFtiiexirrcOMrAiN -x -t 'm FLOOD lit HOT BE OH COMMITTEE' Will Not Oppose Judge Griggs Who Wishes to Be Made i 'V Chairman Again' as 6Me6S A HEARST SUPPORTER'S WSs Latter However Said to Hive Declared He WU1 Not AgiinMl Be Candidate for 4 (From Cur Regular Correspondent) WASHINGTON March Z-Rep reeentatlv Flood win not be tha member oL the Democratic Congreeeional Qu palgn Committee from Virginia to euw cc-ed MV Maynard Mr Flood gar out statement to-day to tha effect that In Would not he a candidate for elsctlo 'j to th chairmanship aa against Judm: Griggs of Georgia Ha supplemented thk statement by tha verbal declaration Tha TImes-Dlspatch correspondent tnat he would not stand for election to the committee aa the member from Virginia This means that Mr Maynard will a Stand For ForGoodFafth with the public for a snifter of a century For Purity never jret questioned by pure food oflldsie For Finest Flavor resulting from rue of eoetll-eet end highest quality of materials Cocoa end Chocolate made anywhere at nay price For Lwgetf Sales of any superfine Chocolate Bonbons la the world For Protection to Buyer In guaranteed uniformity of hlgliert excellence TluLtwmty Rtaift Mmk fm Walter ILLownay Ca BOSTON TIE Ull HimilE 1IHEITITI Mil Hu Narrow Escape and Cornea in Badly Crippled Uneasy About the Mantinea (Special to The Times-Dispatch) NORFOLK VA March 1-The bark Baltimore T8 tons Captain Davison commanding was towed in here this afternoon by the tug Edna Crew' 8 ha sailed from Baltimore February Sat for Charleston 8 with cargo of fartUI-aer and cams near to destruction in the storm of Tuesday last gha anchored down the coast to keep from going ashore lost her anchor with one hundred falbugis of chain a piece of her stern and her rudder waa disabled when she pullback to this port to repair her hurts Apprehenelotn Is felt here because the British steamer Mantinea has failed to arrive from New York whence aha la reported to have sailed tar Norfolk February Nth at 1 She waa light waa to load coal here for Barbadoe and waa out in tha recant storm She should have arrived here on Wednesday It la believed possible that she is outside sorue-whare disabled She la of VftI tons net register and carries a crew of about twenty-two men 1 a HELLO GIRL MISSING Made Short Circuit and Switched '-V Off for the Altar" -(Special to The Tlmee-IMspatch WINCHESTER VA March Miss Viola Virginia Foreman who had for a long time been a hello girl at the central office of the United Telephone Company In Winchester failed to appear for duty yesterday and lata In tha afternoon it became known that she had been married to Edward Grant a prosperous young agriculturist at Kematown by Rev Dr Henry White of Opequon Memorial Presbyterian church After an Eastern tour they will reside an the estate near Clearbrook this county FOOT-BALL Captain Wilson Expounds the Gospel of the New Game (Special to The Tinea-Dispatch) BLACKSBURG VA March 1-Former aptain Willson of the Virginia olytechnTe foot-ball team called a meeting of tha prospective candl-- team Thursday to them tha results tha rules governing dates for next night and expoum of the changes in tha came Willson believes the ten-yard-gain rule will open up the plays do away almost entirely with line wont and develop punting Acting on Ms enggemlona several of the Institute's heat punters have already taken up active practice by way of training for next seaaon'a team Among them are Guy Henley Varner Dlffenda Wi er and Cunningham SURRY FARMERS Will Hold a Meeting Next Week to Perfect Organization (Special to Tha Tbnee-Dlspatch) CLAREMONT VA March The Farmers' Protective Association will meet a aln at Surry Courthouse Tuesday arch 6th to perfect their organisation which was prevented by the heavy snowstorm February 27tn preventing the attendance of members that day The Interest In the movement le unabated and a lane crowd la expected to attend tha meeting next Tuesday A HANDY SOUVENIR The Defunct Bank of Abingdon -V' Pays a Small Dividend (Bpeclal to The Tlmea-Dlapatch) ABINGDON VA March 1-v-D A Preston surviving trustee of the defunct Bank of Abingdon sent a aouvenlr of the boom to the holders of certificates of deposit to-day In the shape of a check for per cent of their value with accrued Interest Thla la tha first and doubtless will be the last general distribution of the assets of thla concern New Trial for Baker (Epecial to The Tlmes-Disoatch) NORFOLK VA March Judge Allan Hancket of the Corporation Court today granted a new trial to Rowland Baker the negro man condemned by the Jury to the penitentiary for eighteen yean The man waa convicted of burglary but the point waa raised that tho record did not show that the plea of guilty or not guilty had hem the1 prisoner was araigned waa not released but will' have a trial In thla terra of the court RfIFS RIGHTS IDE SOVEREIGN Senator! La Follette So Declares in Strong Speech on Control of Railroafte THE GOVERNMENT SUPREME Stronger Than the Railroads and All Centralized Power and Must Be Recognized (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON March ZTh Senate to-day passed the Mil providing for the settlement of the affairs of the live civilised tribes Under the gutoe of considering the Mil the Senate spent practically the entire day In tha discussion of tha railroad question The subject was raised by Mr La Follette' proposed ametglmcnt to the Indian Mil prohlMtlng railroad companies and their stockholders from acquiring the coal lands In Indian Territory Notwithstanding Mr La Follette has eat In the Senate for less than thro months he led the debate and occupied more time than any other senator He contended that the prohibition contained In hla amendment to necessary to prevent the railroads from controlling the coal business of Indian Territory He declared that the people must be able to assert their sovereign authority over th transportation lines and that they must be so controlled aa to protect th general public It had been that if the railroad companies want the -popl lands they will get them regardless of what Congress may do He could not agree to that doctrine "I he sold "to put on record the protest of one Individual against tha doctrine that tha railroad companies can secure the mastery of any of 1 1' national products of tha country so aa to Interfere with their being fair and even-handed transporters of the products of the country "I want it put on record that this government of the United States to stronger than any of its creatures stronger than the railroads In the aggregate and all tha centralised power of the corporation represented by unlawful corporations and Several other senator while expressing themselves In sympathy with the purpose of the amendment raised constitutional objections to th provision Mr Knox said he waa tn perfect sympathy with the object of he amendment adding that be believed the business of railroads should be confined to transportation Late In the day the LaFetlett amendment together With all th Indian Committee's amendments to th Section were laid on the table by a rote of to 7 The seven negative votee were coat by Messrs Bacon Blackburn Clay Dubois Le Follette Mallory and FOttus Tha Senate adjourned until to-morrow PAYNE BILL KILLED IN SEN COMMITTEE Detested By Vote of Eight to Five snd Will Not Be Reported 5: At ail (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON March Z-By a vote of to the Senate Committee on Philippines to-dsy defeated the Payne Mil which had passed tha House by a vote of 258 to IL Tha action of the committee had been foreshadowed for nearly a week although the exact vote had not been known The senators voting for tha MU in: Messrs Lodge Beveridge Long Carmack and McCrary- -The negative votes ware: Messrs Hals Burrows Dick Nixon BmndegM Culberson Dubois and Stone After this decisive action had been taken Mr McCrary moved that the MU he reported to the Senate adversely In order to give th Senate a chance to consider It Mr Biandegoe moved to table the biot ion and thla waa carried by a vote of to ID Nixon voting with the minority on this proposition Thla abtfon effectually disposes of the measure unless tha chairman iff tbo committee should appeal to the Senate by resolution Thla course to regarded aa unlikely Mr McCrary moved to report hla MU which proved for free trod with the Philippine Immediately This motion was lost only four senators voting In tha sfflrmattv They were Messrs McCrary Culberson Carmack and Stone TO NAME SCHELLY AS COMMISSIONER Alabama General Urged for Appointment to Have Graves of Confederates Matted (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON March Z-Oraves of Confederate soldiers who dtod In Federal prisons during tlw civil war are to be appropriately marked according to a hill Of Senator Foraker of Ohio which waa passed by Congress Th measure provides for the appointment of a commissioner by the President to perform th duty of marking tha graves the eom-slonar to be a former soldier of th Confederacy Th President waa requested to-day to appoint aa such commissioner Un Chartos Shelly of Birmingham Ala Th request was mad by Senator Pettus Underwood and Hannrmnf tlrii (Taylor of Alabama Representative Livingston of Georgia told tha President ha would ha satisfied with any Confederate soldier who had attained honorable distinction HOUSE SPENDS THE DAY ON PRIVATE CLAIM BILLS flgy Associated Preaa) WASHINGTON March Z-Tha first privet claims session of tha Fifty-ninth Congress occupied the House to-day twenty-fire bills bring passed All three measures carried small amounts for th relief of private Individuals who srs precluded under the laws from obtaining thrir rights The only bin to which protracted and decided objection was made waa one carrying UdtOO to pay tha heirs of Samuel Lee seated during the dosing days of the Forty-seventh Congress as a member from the First South Carolina District The bill waa defeated In committee of the whole and a motion to report It to th House with th recommendation that It lie on th table was defeated by only on vet The MU retain Its place on the calendar The House adjourned until Monday GOV ROBERTS RETURNS ENTHUSIASTIC FOR EXPO (From Our Regular Correspondent) WASHINGTON March Governor Roberta: of Connecticut eras In Washington td-day on hto way home from Norfolk' whither he went for th purpose of looking over th territory with a view to reporting as to the prospects of the Jamestown Exposition at which Connecticut will Iff represented Governor Roberts saw President Tucker of the Exposition Company while here and he waa even enthusiastic concerning all that Division of Exploitation and ft Exhibits is Actively Can- vassing the Country NO SALE OF ATLANTIC HOTEL Any Attempt to Give Deed Will Be" Heid As Contempt of -'Courts (Bpeclalto The TImes-Dlspatch) NORFOLK VA Starch 1 -Warren Manning ta to-day In Baton Rouge where he baa gone for the purpose of Interviewing the Governor of Louisiana and other State official to get their Idea regarding the educational exhibit of the Bute of Lottie la na The dlvlaion of exploitation and exhbiU la actively engaged In can-rawing the country for the purpoae of creating Interest and co-operation among the manufacturer who nuke exhibit The exposition company warns local exhibitor that the space in the exhibit buildings will be limited and application should be made soon because locations are being selected rapidly Messrs Brooks Johnston Barton Myers and Wool returned this morning from Washington much pleased with the result of their visit The only feature of the exposition bill which aroused any opposition was the question of the new eotn-og and in lieu of this the cabinet oncers who appeared before the committee were willing to have a direct approprla- tion made to the company ATLANTIC HOTEL The sal of the Atlantic Building and hotel property to Jackson for H4SOOO has not Keen consummated Following the Injunction secured by the Nor folk Railway and Light Company ai other creditors of the Atlantic Building Company to hold sals until their Claims were settled Judge Martin 1 of the Court of Law and Chancery has said that If the Atlantic Building Company attempts to give a deed to Mr Jackson he will hold the officers of the company in contempt This hold up the -sale until the Atlantic Building Company settles with the creditors In the suit of the Bank of Richmond against the building company Fending the settlement of the new claims in the case the receivers of the Atlantic Building remain In charge of the property OVERTON MAT RETTRN United Slates Consul A Leakenback at Zurich Swltserland has acknowledged the receipt from the Norfolk Health Department of tbo nativity papers of John Overton a colored man of Norfolk new living in Zurich Overton desired to return to his home hi this city but was barred by the Immigration authorities because be could not prove that ho was a native of Norfolk or Virginia The papers forwarded to Zurich prove this and Over-ton may return ELOPED TO JELIZABETH CITY' 1 Mias Ada Gertrude Hanbury and Mr Luther Sawyer of Berkley eloped-to Elisabeth City whets 'they were Joined in marriage Wednesday They spent Thursday with friends nt Great Bridge Va and returned to their home In Eleventh Street last night The bride la a daughter of Mr and Mrs A Hanbury I NEW CAGES FOR JAIL Steel Plate Compartments in the Lexington Prison (Special to The Tlmea-Diapateh) LEXINGTON VA March E-Super-vlaora Klnnear and Whitmore and Mr McDowell constituting a committee from the board of supervisors of Rockbridge county have cloeed a contract with the Paul JaU Building Company of IL Louis Mo to put In tbo county jail at Lexington two alnglo eteel plate cages The cages are to be even feet high by fourteen feet long and seven feet wide Each cage will accommodate four prisoners The price for the work will be nearly MOOR The Daughters of Rebekah Independent Order of Odd-Fellow of Lexington gave an attractive spectacular entertainment Monday and Wednesday nights at HalL The presentation of the beautiful military exercise Man- elicited considerable applause Fifteen young ladles took part In the drill Miss Anna Krause president of tho Virginia Rebekah Assembly was drill master and Misses Roberta Pennington and Resale Beal were the leaden A large crowd eras present The exercises concluded with a number of military tableaux Tho pastor Rev Thompson Southall and session of the Lexington Presbyterian Church have Invited the Rev Thomas Hawes of Louisville Ky to deliver a series of sermon In tho church here early In ApriL Dr Hawes la scribed as an earnest Bible preacher and has been successful in evangelistic work Mr John Richard Bee ton returned to Lexington Wednesday with hie bride who was Mias Lula Cottle Ewing daughter of Mr John Me Ewing of They were married In Roanoke Monday evening by the Rev Mr Morris the Baptist Church LAXO Takes the Race Calomel Lazob aii ffthfari yggtfrtla gubotitut for ealomel Its effects art jut good or tetter witbout soy of the dangers of salivation "or bonaeorweioB which follow the use of calomel Jt maJfcee year Krer makt you a new person -J1 I THE (Continued from First Page) the bed eioMies making an Injection In her almost Ufelesa form She -old him he could not kill her while she was present Asked why she thought he was trying to kill she said ahe waa the first on to roach the woman about 10 Bfi waa apparently dead and Mathews waa "sitting by her aids with a lighted cigarette In one hand and a hypodermle ayringe in the ether and seemed not to bo doing anything to help and objected to her colling In other physicians which she disregarded The llttie eon- who came for her said hla father had given hla mother medlelne and ahe was dying was one thing mad her suspicious and another waa Mrs Muthsws had Buffered a like spell a year before and cautioned her If it ever oe-currod again to bo sure and send for other doctors Insanity Plea The defense examined many wltneaaee In the afternoon laying foundation for Insanity aa well as showing by the chemist that the powder In the syringe bad no trace of strychnine Greensboro witnesses testified that Dr Mathews for months had been mentally unbalanced old patients testifying they had discharged him because of hie strange conduct and conversation one saying he had considered Mm craxy twelve months ago Witnesses from Durham where Mathews was raised who saw him thsro Thanksgiving Day grid they would never have recognised him he was such a complete wrack mentally and physically Other witnesses related Instances of relatives on both father and mother's aide who had died of insanity one drowning her self and hla grandmother killing a child by smothering it In her arms Professor Davis the university chemist who made the test for Coroner Turner of the contents of syringe testified that he -made a thorough and complete teat fOfr 'strychnine and there was no trace of It and had any strychnine solution aver been In the tub It would surely have permeated the powder which waa morphine GITTMANXIVED HERE Until Month Ago Conductor Was Richmonder Glttman the Pullman conductor who la wanted aa a witness In the Mathews's murder case In Greensboro formerly lived In Richmond havlni tea home at No Twenty-fifth Streel A TImes-Dlspatch reporter visited the House last night but waa told hr the people occupying the residence that Mr Glttman had left about a month ago They did not know of hla whereabouts but Informed the reporter that Glttman sister lived next door Miss Glttman In answer to the Inquiries stated that she did not know whether her brother wo In Philadelphia or Washington Nether did she know his present No further Information aboutthe mqn could he galn- to rrth imertean from Greenbsoro states lhaU Glttman is Jn a hospital la Philadelphia and that officers havs gone there to summon him to appear It to not knoem what hla Information in regard to the case Is Mil Wilt Kill mill DM- Arose in Front of Gun snd Received Entire' Load in His Hesd (Bpeclal to The Tlmes-Dtontch) WARSAW VA March Z-Grady Harding aged about eighteen years and son of Mrs Jennie Harding of Wicomico District Westmoreland county met a horrible death last night at a duck Mind at Gascony farm In that district The young man was In company wilh a' party of several gentlemen and when the word fire was given at a flock of ducks he arose suddenly in front of the gun of Mr Late Harding and -received the entire load in hla head Ha died several hours later Mr Rockefeller's Views On Temptstion Young Mr Bible close to one of the most Interesting Institutions In the country are always glad wtfln Its leader teems to us to eapound sound morel doctrine always 'worry when any detail of hla views seems to lack validity The papers reported that on February 4th he about temptation using Joseph as an example of successful resistance to it He counseled hla bearers to avoid temptation On paper quotes him aa saying: my part I believe nae the ordinary everyday temptations wt beset us are So they are enough and a-plenty But did ha quota with sympathy as another paper reporta tha confession of a fallen youth who said hla downward career began "when he drank hla first glass of Wo should -im glosses of beer among the ordinary everyday temptations that beset us and which ara rather to be dealt with with discretion thap feareomely shunned A lad whose first glass of beer sends him Sliding towards Gehenna Isn't sound stuff The tall of such a on doss not illustrate the dangers of temptation hut the dangers of ignorance and of a shielded Inexperience teach a hoy that beer to a deadly and wicked beverage which all good people should avoid Teach him that beer to beer and It behooves him to look sharp how he fonto overmuch with It Without temptation there can hardly be manhood or character but the ordinary temptation! are enough To avoid as far aa possible: the dangerous 'ones to deal warily with tha common ones and to kick the mean ones out of the Is not that or aomathlng Ilka It the right wayT Shield children from ail possible evtl but as for what comfort to- It possible to take with man who have to live encased In cotton-wool Harper's Weekly Meeting of Prominent Citizens Wrestles With the Question in All Its Phases TO RAISE FIFTEEN THOUSAND Every Dollar to Represent a Vote in the Question of Sale and Removal (Special to The Timea-Dlepatch) PETERSBURG VA March 1-The question' of selling the Young Christian Association building was again thrashed out to-night In three hours of oratory by lawyer ministers and business men at the appointed publlo meeting at tha association hall rewriting In the adoption of resolutions offered by State Senator Charles Lassiter providing that the meeting appoint a committee to raise by popular1 subscription fifteen thousand -dollars for the general purpose of the association tha committee to report at tbo end of thirty days to an adjourned meeting where each contributor will have for each dollar given one vote on tho question of selling the uffdlng A committee of five will he appointed by Davis chairman of meeting The reasons for their proposed sale of tbo building were presented to-night by Judge Mullen State Secretary Coulter Senator Lassiter and Bev Dr XJpecombe The opposition's reasons were voiced by Bartlett Roper and Rev Dr A Christian In the Fight to Stay are la the light to stay and In the Corporation Court of Petersburg have won all of the six cults Instituted In that court and on of the two carried to the Court of said a prominent member of the Fleher side to-day In discussing the Supreme decision In suit or Redwood and others against Rogers and others affirming Judge decision that the Southern Railway and Devela ment Company bond owned by Gcor Fisher of New York: Philip Rogei Surry county Vi and Charles Hi and Augustus Wright of this city re leaally Issued In the Redwood suit the Supreme decision must be final aa I cannot see how the other aide can get it late United States said the FI representative "but the question of our bringing further suits le a hors of another ha added significantly In response to a query regarding the probability of more litigation by the Flaher interest against the Virginia Fasaenger and Power Company representing the Gould Interest in this long-continued Flsher-Goald Great Interest ha always been taken here in thla long legal fight aa some of Petersburg' beat known citlsena are Involved The disputed bonds of the South-side Railway and Development Company were tamed by a hoard of directors cc All the directors of the Petersburg Savings and Insurance elected at tha annual Ing yetserday afternoon a follows: Alexander Hamilton Fortense Whittle Cho Watson Dunlop David Dunlop William Cuthbert Walter NJonea Gordon McCabe Jr Zimmer and John BrancbJOeorge Seay and Fred Scott A FUGITIVE Mahan -Captured While Living With Neroes in Disguiae Special to The TImes-Dlspatch) CHATHAM VA March Mahan for some time In the mercantile huskies at Mlneola thla county and now wanted by tha county authorities for felonious shooting at hla place of business has been arrested In Winston-Salem for which place Sheriff Bhellhorse left Thursday to bring the fugitive back to Pittsylvania for trial goon after the shooting Mahan waa given a prellminanr hearing and balled In the sum of S3Q0 hla uncle Reynolds going his ball to appear at the next term of the Circuit Court Just a few days before hla trial Mahan lefbthe county and has since been eluding arrest He had been jailed In Winston-Salem on the charge of living with negroes and was going under the assumed name of Gipson Hie Identity waa revealed by a letter to hie brother at Mlneola which was opened by the Winston-Salem JaU officials MISS CIVILIZATION A One-Act Comedy By Amateurs at West Point Special tc Tho Times-Dispatch) WEST POINT VA March 'Mis Civilisation" a comedy in one act waa given under the ausploee of the Virginia Dare Lodge of Rebekah hero to-night In addition to thla there was an Maids' Tea constating of the following maidens: Misses Alice Wilkinson Maud Pierce Katherine Waugh Lily Johnson Mae Owens Lillian Roberta Lida WSro Flossie Drugdeo Mr John Austin and others -gave rare recitations Mr Burke Slaughter manager of the Btleff Plano Company of Richmond ma-sleted the home talent along musical lines The new piano just bought by tha lodge for Its fins new hall was used for tha first time BLUfe RIBBON ON ARM Mitt Chase Comes From Connecticut to Wed Unseen Lover (Special to Ths TImes-Dlspatch) VA March Follow-e of photographs and a of nine months with a navy blue ribbon on her right arm aa a means of Identification Miss Ella Case arrived here to-day from Union Conn and waa mat at the railroad station by Belden Grant Omdorff of thla 'county to whom sh Is to be married to-morrow by Rev Hammond at Stephana City thla county The young woman inserted an advertisement In a matrimonial paper about a year ago expressing her desire to wed and Mr Omdorff waa the chosen one i i 1 Smallpox Excitement (Special to Tha Times-Dispatch) VA March 2-Joa Flts-rsrald (oolorod) living on mil from le very sick with a ease of smaHpox The residence has been quar-anteened as well as some other dwellings nearby the place and all the occupants vaccinated The man waa examined yes-Horton and Dr pronounced smail- and dtlsens of pox The residence has been qu mod as well as some other dwelll qr the dace end all the occupants noted The man waa examined terday by Dr HOrtoi Carter and the pm Tha health this place held a meeting this morning to tsr3 awsfa further cases it would not be Pskner' Special to Tha Times-: AUWXON VA March pretty and stylish wedding took ptace at home of the bride at -Greenville Augusta county Thursday when Miss Clara Bell Palmer daughter of Mr and H-- day Palmer waa married to Prank Arthur Btraker of London England The matron of honor waa Mrs Edmund Randolph and tho heat man Mr Wilbur Palmer brother of the bride The ceremony was performed by Rev-8 A Parker -of the Methodist Episcopal Church- After the -ceremony luncheon pas' served Thm bride Is a vary popular young lady aha received many presents and cablegrams The bride and groom' met for the first years -ago -In Paris he saw and the belief in the expose! Hon which hto trip had Inspired Virginis Postmssters (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON March Th Senate to-day confirmed the following nominations of postmasters: Thomas Abingdon Thome Burroughs Alexandria Robert Gillespie Graham Clifford Nlcho-hu Leesburg Fulwller Staunton William Mustard Pocahontas Vv Her Symptoms 'i Mrs Jawback Tha Doctor thinks you have gout and nervous prostration Mr Why1 the doctor seen me Mrs No but he saw Cleveland Leader OBITUARY WiUism Ferguson William Ferguson of Swansboro dtod yesterday morning ot He was twenty-seven years of age He lurolred by hto win and taro small Pxul Hffims Paul Hanna of Friar' Mr rig Hall the Unices terday the Virginia varsity College of Medicine dtod ye evening at 7 at Hospital of typhoid fever Th college will be dosed to-day and services win be held at that place conducted by hla classmate The Interment will at hto Home In West Virginia Dsvid Allen 1 (Special to Tho TImes-Dlspatch) --LEXINGTON VA March Mr David Allen aged 12 yean' died Tuesday afternoon nt hto home at Fairfield Rockbridge county Hto death coma aa a groat surprise to hto many friends as he had not been 111 and during tha day attended to many duties of hto home Willie talking to hto wif suddenly foil from hla chair to the floor dead Mrv Allen waa born In "Augusta county and at the close of the Civil War a resident of Rockbrida He served the Confederacy a a member of Company Beoond Virginia Infantry ahd took part In ipany batUes several times narrowly escaping wounds and death Mr Allen to survived by hto wife who waa a Mica Wallace of Fairfield and on son Mr Frank Allen of Kanes City Mo Ed Mellon (Special to Tha Tlmes-Dtopatdx) VT second year siadent at CHARLOTTE March E-Ed Mellon head of the firm of Mellon A Company died suddenly at noon hare to-day fouowtng a mild attack of the grip aged fifty-seven A eame to Charlotte from Gaston county and began life da a clerk In a small store The business from which death removes him to the largest and moat prominent clotbfof establishment' In the Carolina He amareed a comfortable fortune and leaves aa an heritage a stainless Christian record A widow and several grown children survive him Mr Evie Ely: Special to The TImes-Dlspatch) WINDSOR VA March E-Mrs Erie Eley a much beloved lady died nf pneumonia to-day at 12:20 o'clock In Norfolk at th homo of her daughter Mr John Lang where she waa visiting Her death was sudden she having been sick only two day She leaves two Mr M- Elay agent of tho Norfolk and Wes tarn Railroad at thla place Mr Henry Eley of Roonoke-and two Mrs John Lang of Norfolk and Mr William Lindley of Columbus Ohio: Miss Settle Meade Special to Th TImes-Dlspatch) DANVILLE VA March Z-Mtos Battle Meade daughter of th 1st Meade of Amelia county dtod hors today after a brief Uhies She to survived by the following brother and sister all residents of this city: Misses Sarah and Lottie and John and Tom Mead Abram Wayland (Special to Tha Time-Dispatch) CROZET VA March E-Mr Abram Wayland one of the most prominent and substantial citlsena of CroseL died Thursday at half-put 2 Mr Wayland wu horn her more than seventy-three years ago' Ho had boon confined to hto rooms all winter Ha will-ho greatly misted by th comnjpnlty Mrs Eliza Hicki (Special to The TImes-Dlspatch) FREDERICKSBURG VA March E- Mrs Elisa Hicks widow of tha lata Wada Hicks died here lost night et th home of her daughter Mr Ferry aged elxty-four year She to survived by two daughter Louis Bonney (Special to Th Time-Dispatch) NORFOLK VA Louis Bounty son of Mr nnd Mr William A their reeldenc No ney died ouddenly at their residence No (1 Grigsby Place tost evening in the twenty-second year of hto age He waa a clerk In the dry goods taro of Blmco 4k been employed went to work lining of a eora i Hto general good: Tackett where ne had since last summer He yesterday moreing eomplai throat but returned home health waa good and hto death ensued from organic heart trouble DEATHS Dted Friday afternoon In Chesterfield county GRACE HEY aged two years and four month daughter of and Lorens Brown Hey -'Funeral SUNDAY 2-JO at Branch's Baptist church HUTZLER Died at her residence No 403 North Lombardy street on Friday March UOZ at Ii20 A Mr FLORA HITZLER widow of Isaac Hutsler Funereil SUNDAY I at Mortuary Chapel Hebrew Cemetery No flower Died at hto reeldenc 1515 Went Cary street 10 A March 2 190ft PH IMP 8LEDD aged four months fifteen day-Funeral at 4 M' SATURDAY from BL Mary's church Interment In 8L Cemetery Griggs a Hearet Man Thera la no reasonable doubt of the Wi election of ID Griggs to tha chairman-f Ship" It la contended by hto friend la hto election td the position doe not are cerearWy mean that Mr Hears! have control of tho Congressional Corn mltte Mr Griggs was a strenuous advre if eat of tha nomination of Mr Hoarst to j51 th presidency by tha Democrat In H6Z' 'jsa and did all In hto power to Indue Georgia driagatre to support him Hto friendship for Hr Hoarst datea from llffi at least when the Georgian was at tho head iff tha Congressional Committee Mr Hearet waa about th only crait who eamo to the financial aid the party that year and tha Democrats gained several district As result it to stated Mr Griggs has over since been very well disposed towards tha New Yorker The positive statement waa made' to to-day by a man who waa a leading '4 supporter ot Mr Hearet for tho tlon two years ago: that Hr Hoarst had told him with great emphasis thst nevsr Intended to try for th preelden Ual nomination again It this statement be correct the election of Judge Grigg to tbo chairmanship of th Congressional ri Committee lose some ot Its significance: Colonel Charles A Edward It to stood will be mad aecretary ot tha conK mltte agaliL position ho has hold lot stigl four year Ha waa a supporter of Hearet two years ago StdtemenL Tha following to tha statement Issued by Mr Flood today: 1 am not a candidate for th manshlp of tho Congreeelonsl Ckm palgn Oommltte Bom time ago expreseed a willingness to accept tho trust It It war tendered me by 4 ho committee: but never Intended to q- is 4 hi it vv learn from my friend Judge Griggs that he desires the chairman ship and being unwilling to enter -VfSjy contest with him I shall r-T my frlonda not to present my In opposition to him I beUavo Judge Grist will make moat excellent chairman He baa ability and has had experience tn tha work When 'ho was chairman in 1206 ha undonbt-vt offly secured good Poatmaater at Sandy Bottom! (From Regular CorrespondenL) WASHINGTON March E-Lester 3 Crittenden has been appointed poatmaste at Bandy Bottom Middlesex county VB vice Kelly removed President Cannot Attend fS (By Associated Pres) WASHINGTON March It was an ncunced at the White House to-day that th President will not bo able to go to -Atlanta tbo last of this month to attSM -th Wheeler memorial service i Roses Cut Flowers and Designs Largest Stock Hammond Florist 109 E' Broad St Work of Detectives (Special- to The TImes-Dlspatch) WINCHESTER" VA' March Tho news leaked out to-day that poatofflc da-tectlvea quietly but persistently working on a case at Lenon this county concerning the mysterious disappearance of a pouch said to have contained val-that was -thrown off at that station by a mall clerk on tho Cumberland Valley Railroad thla week Railroad detectives are also investigating the robbing and burning of the station building at Lanora which occurred last Sunday morning: 3 i 0 is the Mrs Mr and.