Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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Leesburg is preparing TO entertain
Mosby's men, who will have their annual
reunion there on July 30. A committee
of ladies has the matter in hand, and
good time is planned for the veterans.
Over 200 or more National Guards
men of the District of Columbia were
last night encamped at Georges farm
about mile to the northeast OF bees
burg. The soldiers arrived yesterday.
Mr.. C. E. Hough, well known citi-
zen of Loudoun, and overseer OF the
poor for Jefferson district, died suddenly
at his home, near Hillsboro, Wednesday
night. Apoplexy was the immediate
cause of death.
The new United States monitor Ar
kansas, built by the Newport News
Shipbuilding. and Drydock Company,
had her builders trial yesterday out to
the Virginia capes. The vessel returned
after most satisfactory trip.
The torpedo boat Biddle, of the iio-
tilla which sailed from the navy yard
Tuesday for Newport X. l., ran aground
near the Rip Raps and remained In a
HELPLESS condition until hoated Wednes-
day by the government tug Mohawk
Richmond will shortly have great
amphitheatre capable of accommodating
the largest crowd ever likely to assemble
in this city for many years to come. 1t
3 TO be built ON the same lines as the
Madison Square Garden in New York,
and will take the place of the one re-
Gently burned.
Judge T. w. Harrison, of the Twelfth
judicial circuit, when he took the oath
of Office Wednesday, refused to be sworn
according to the printed form. de IN
serted in the oath words stating that the
executive and legislative departments
had ratified the proclamation of the new
constitution.
The most interesting session in many
wears of the Sunday-school convention oil
the NJ. f. Church South closed its
thirty-fifth annual meeting at Luray
Yesterday. The meeting has been IN
session three days and many of the most
eminent Methodists in the South had
been present.
One man was instantly killed and two
Others fatally injured, and two other men
slightly injured by the falling of scat
folding on which they were standing
Yesterday while working on a Norfolk
K Western Railroad bridge near Wythe-
Vile. The men fell a distance OF 100
feet to the creek below.
Although the Virginia Summer
School of Methods will adjourn on Fri
day. teachers from Maryland and West
Virginia registered yesterday, bringing
the total up to- ,052. The summer
course of the university department VIII
continue until August l, and one-third
of the teachers will remain to complete
the course.
The republican congressional c0nven-
ton of the Fifth district met at Rocky
Mount yesterday and nominated Hon. Ii.
A. Davis, of Franklin county, by
reclamation, to oppose Hon. Claude A.
Swanson, democrat, the present Repre-
sentative from that district. Several
speeches were made in denunciation OF
the work of the late constitutional con-
vention.
Cockroaches are the cause of dam
age suit being entered in the Chancery
Court in Norfolk. The Jefferson Pie
Company and the Connecticut Pie
Company are rivals for the custom OF the
numerous lunch rooms in that city. The
Jefferson Pie Company claims that its
rival brides walters to place cockroches
and other vermin on their pies, and for
this they claim 81, 600 damages.
Miss Ionic Farmer, an attractive
young girl, was arrested in Winchester
yesterday on a warrant sworn out by her
father. Core Farmer, of Berryville,
charging her with attempting to elope
and marry Elmer Logan, a young man
of the same place Mr.. Farmer has
sworn out warrant for young Logan :
arrest on the charge of abduction, but
he has not been found.
While stealing ride on freight train
on the Norfolk and Western Railway,
at Farmville, yesterday, a negro whose
name could not be learned, was prob
ably fatally injured. He fell between the
cars and both arms were mangled
and one leg almost severed from
his body. 1t is reported that despite his
terrible injury, the negro did not lose
consciousness and actually made his way
distance of nearly 200 yards to Rice's
station near which place he was hurt,
John Bolen, a colored youth 10 years
old, was scared to death in Tazewell
county yesterday by a drunken white
man. Frank Houck, who resides in
Abs Valley, west Of Pocahontas, got
loaded with mean whisky. While re-
turning home he overlook Bolen, and,
approaching him, drew his revolver and
ordered the boy to 'get move on him.
The boy became badly frightened and
ran few yards, when he fell to the
ground and expired. Houck was ar
rested.
At Gate City, C. Mills, charged with
criminally assaulting Miss Jones, beau
tiful, intelligent girl, IA years of age, the
daughter of minister, has been sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary. The
crime was one of the blacklist that ever
stained the court records. Aiming him.
self with 44-calibre pistol, he waylaid
the girl in lonely place, and forced her
to remain there several hours. All who
heard the evidence say that his sentence
is extremely light. He sabout % years
old, andis a native of Wise county. His
record is very bad