The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-07-24
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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cellville.
Mr. Charles Ellis aged eighty three
years. president Of tho Richmond and
| Petersburg Railroad Company from 1900
to 1872. died in Richmond Friday
Willie r Sou,her. of Culpeper coun-
~, aud Mary L. Tutwiler. Of ReminR-
ton. were married in Washington last
week
Mr. S. b. Jetor and others have do
mated 90 the H. t. q p. r. Il 90.
piece Of land opposite Mr. Jeters's store
as q site for the erection OF depot at
WoodfOrds, Caroline county.
Mr. j. Reamy Semple, young trav-
cling man of Henry county. died at
Riobland Ga, Friday morning. after
an illness Of several weeks with typhoid
fever MIR. Semple was about "a years
old. ......-ss
Mr.. Reuben X. Wayland and Miss
| Elizlbet Davis were married at the
residence of the BRIDES father, Mr.
Ashton Davis, near Barboursville, last
week The ceremony was performed
By the Rev. Mr.. Houston.
The heat Of the past week has oaused
several prostrations in the Soldiers
Home, near Hampton, and Gov. Wood
flo has issued orders continuing the old
soldiers 10 the campus during the heat
cd part of the day.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
has completed improvements OF New
port News costing 81 500 600. and has
now commenced work on a new ocean
pier, which, IL is said, will be the
largest in the world.
Nine head Of valuable cattle owned
By Mr.. S. Owens, Of Prince William
county. took refuge under q sycamore
tree on Owens farm during the storm
OF Thursday night. Next morning they
were all found dead. Lightning, at.
tracted by the tree. struck the herd and
killed them all The loss is over $3.50.
An Evangelical Prohibition bush.
meeting, lasting six days, will begin at
Purcellville, Loudoun comfy, July
3lst. Hon. John u Woclley, Prohi.
tion candidate for President, and Rev.
Geo K Stuart, who led the preaching
at the Madison Tabernacle several ses-
sions, will be among the speakers
The coroner's jury in the case
Of Hugh Dodson, Of Roanoke. q
small boy supposed to have been
killed by toy cannon, rendered q
verdict that he came to his death las
result Of a wound inflicted by bullet
shot by some unknown person" 1t Is
very mysterious case.
The weeks of drouth have put large
portion of the Dismal Swamp in
highly infammable condition and fires
are eating into the timber, under
growth and peaty ground as several
points along the Norfolk and Western
railroad. supposed to have been started
from locomotives
Prince Howard, a negro preacher,
serving a four years term in the peni.
Tertiary for bigamy committed In
Brunswick county, in 1897, was shot
| in the left breast by Assistant Superin.
tendent L 4. Morgan, aud dangerously,
if not fatally wounded. The shooting
was the result Of the display Of mutt.
nous spirit
"LeWisetta, &" In Northumberland
| county, made famous BY the enormous
business done there for SONS years by
Mr. O. r. Lewis, and later by the long
trials In the Northumberland courts Of
Mr. Lewis, has been purchased az pub
lie outcry by several Northern Neck
capitalists. for about s., 700 Il is un-
derstOod that the canning and packing
houses, etc. there will be put in opera
ton again.
There is an ice famine throughout
the Norfolk section of Virginia and in
many large cities Of the South. Many
orders for fifty and one hundred tons
from individual dealers in Richmond
and Charleston have been received by
Norfolk and Portsmouth ice dealers, but
there is such a short supply that the
price has advanced to cents q pound
retail, or 300 per cent. advance Local
dealers are unable TO fill their orders
John Snow, of Campbell county. has
been arrested on a warrant charging
him with feloniously shooting Miss
Mary Alice Jones, with whom he is
said to have been In love, and jealous
Of Douglas Martin, neighbor On the
day Of the crime Miss Jones, her sister
and young Martin we're standing on the
porch Of the Jones residence when
bullet fired from direction unknown
to she parties stuck Miss Jones in the
thigh iDflictiDg painful wound.
Tom Cooper, a negro with several
aliases, who was captured after a Wild
chase under suspicion of robbing the
residence Of W. b. Pizzini, in Rich.
mond, of AiverwAre and other goods,
amounting to $500, proves to be more
valuable capture than vas at first sup.
posed. He is notorious Tobber and
desperate, and was for years terror in
Goochland county and along the James
River division of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, For two years cash
reward has been on Tom Cooper head
made up among the citizens Of GOoch-
land, who have suffered from his depre.
dations
Samuel B Woods, of Charlottesville.
President of the Virginia Horticultural
Society, Has received information from
VIM. A. Taylor, who has the Paris ex
hibits in charge, that the society has
captured first prize for its fruit at the
Paris Exposition. In addition, the Vir.
ginia apples were included in the Uni.
ted States exhibit, which contains forty
varieties from fourteen different States,
and which also captured the first prize
in the international contest. Speaking
Of the famous Albemarle pippins, Mr.
Taylor writes that they were il excel
lent condition on June %. and were
much admired both by the jury and by
the dealers and consumbers. The out.
look is favorable for an increased de-
mand for American apples.
The proposition for the Agricult ural
Department to establish test farms in
the tobacco and another section of the
State lie attracting attention all over
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