Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-05-14
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Virginia Bankers Association will
be held in Richmond next Thursday.
Mrs. Sue Bussels, wife of Capt. l. M.
Bussels, of Northumberland county,
died suddenly at her home on Saturday
Of apoplexy.
John Smith, OF Culpeper, and Miss
OF Frederiokstown, o., who
were sweethearts thirty.pine years ago,
were married yesterday.
Bishop A. NJ. Randolph. of the dio.
cese ofSouthern Virginia, on Saturday
ordained to the priesthood Rev. Thos.
:. Russell, rector of Emanuel Episcopal
at Bristol.
The store of Levi Brothers, general
aud two adjoining resi-
dences in Newport News were entirely
destroyed by fire at o'clock yesterday
loss, 100000.
DR.. M. Y. Hart, prominent dentist
OF Fredericksburg, died yesterday after
noon az the Garfield Memorial Hospital,
Washington, where be had been pa
tient for the past week.
An explosion occurred on Saturday
in the mines at Toms Creek, Wise
county, rs a result of which six men
were killed. Ten days ago two men
we're suffocated in the mine.
Mrs. Alice Bishop committed suicide
by cutting her throat with q
razor at her home near Sussex county
court house. The unfortunate woman
was an invalid, unable to walk.
The remains Of DR.. Sherrard r. Tabb
reached Richmond on Saturday from
Ga. The funeral services
were conducted at the grave in Holly
wood by Rev, Douglas F. Forrest.
In Richmond on Saturday William J.
Rhodes, who, on January %, shot
down Frank Barnett for having de-
stroyed his home, was acquitted OF
murder. The jury was out but seven
minutes.
The Richmond Street Carnival Fair
opened today and will continue during
the entire week. Broad street has
been transformed. Booths and bowers,
flags and bunting make 1t present q
lovely scene.
Mr.. r. E. Monteith, Stafford county
farmer, died suddenly, Saturday, with
out uttering word, while seated at
the dinner table at his home near
Monteithsvile. His widow and two
children survive him.
Charles A. Goodioe, white, a clerk in
ststion A OF the Richmond post-office,
was arrested yesterday by Inspectors
Irwin and Butler, charged with rifliDg
the mails. A decoy and several other
purloined let ers were found on his per-
son.
The American Pharmaceutical Asso'
citation and the tri-reunionfof the Vr.
GINA State Dental Association. the Dis
trict OF Columbia Dental Society, and
the Maryland State Dental Association
concluded their sessions in Richmond on
Saturday.
The Great Council of Bed Men of
Virginia will kindle it's council fire in
the hunting grounds of Danville on
next Wednesday, sixteenth sun, flower
sun, G. s. D.. 400, and will be presided
over by Mr.. G. A. Tabb, great sachem,
of Portsmouth.
The building erected In 1890 on the
lands OF the Front Royal and RivertoD
Improvement Company, intended to be
used as a piano factory, has been sold
TO Captain Irving A. Buck, now OF
Philadelphis, and plant, for the manu-
facture of tapestries, will soon be in
stalled in it.
Judge Edmund Waddill, jr., of the
United States District Court, has decid-
ed, In the case of the Commercial Build
ing and Loan Association, that the as
ISOLATION is not a corporation such as
could be forced into bankruptcy under
the act of 1898. The proceedings will
be dismissed. The case is the drst of
its kind, and establishes precedent.
Philip M. Kaufman, OF Msssanutton,
Page county, while in the Massanutton
looking after his bark hands,
knelt down at a spring to drink, and
while stretched on the ground feft
writing under his breast.
Ga rising he found TO his horror he had
been lying on a venomous moccasin
snake four feet long. Strange to say,
The angry reptile did mot succeed in
biting him.
Richard Andrew Lee Thompson,
,olored, about 25 years Of age, who was
arrested in Washington and turned
over to the Virginia authorities dur
ng February last, will be arraigned in
he Loudoun County Court, at Lees
burg, today on charge of murder.
Thompson is said to have killed II.
Milton Seaton, town sergeant at Mid
lleburg, several months ago. while the
after was In the performance OF his
luty.
At the request of the Henry county
authorities Gov. Tyler last night or
Tered two more military companies TO
to protect HairstoD, the
,egro charged with attempting crimi-
lal assault upon a young white woman.
The prisoner is now in the Roanoke
all, to which place he was secretly re-
moved Saturday night to bslk the
,lans Of the people of Henry county to
ynch him. He will be taken back to
today, when q special
rand jury will indict him, and the
rial will begin tomorrow.
The shooting of J. II. Epes, colored,
" Policeman Giddings in Newport
Je s yesterday morning, led to small
lied race riot, iG which the officer
anne very near falling into the hands
f an enrsged mob Of blacks, who
would doubtless have lynched him had
hey been successful 10 getting hold OF
i'm. Giddings took refuge 10 the
ire, where the wounded negro had
cen taken, and there remained until
ther officers reached the scene. Epes
ad resisted arrest and attempted to
isarm the officer. when he was shot.