Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-12
VIRGINIA NEWS.


John H. Nagel, Richmond Pos'man,
died Thursday from the effects Oh the
heat.
Advices from Roanoke are to the e.
feet that the strike of miners Is about at
an end.
Hon. Thomas ". Miller, judge of the
county courts of Powhatan and CumDer-
land counties, died yesterday at his
residence in Powhatan Courthouse.
The Evening Telegram, of Newport
News. yesterday suspended publication,
after a life of five years. The city VIII
not support two afternoon newspapers.
Charged with numbering his sixteen
year-old playmate, Thornton Pressey,
Theodore Tarleton, colored, aged eleven,
was Yesterday in Newport News found
guilty of involuntary mansiaughter and
sentenced to year in Jail. Though
Pressey lived twenty-four hours, he re-
fused to diyulge the name of his assall-
ant.
A squad of armed men headed by
Constable "Cyclone" Samuel has )ur-
ed Varina district in Henrico county In
search of Willie Patterson, young
white man charged with committing or
attempting to commit a criminal assault
upon the 16-year-old daughter of Dave
Crittenden, a respectable farmer but the
search proved fruitless.
Oak Hill, station on the Danville
and Western Railway 10 miles from
Danville, was the centre of terrific
hail. wind and rain storm late Thursday
afternoon, the particulars Of which have
Just been received in Danville. Corn
and tobacco crops were ruined by the
hail and wind, while the rain washed
the land considerably. A passenger train
was caught in the storm and the coaches
were drencEed inside.
George Scranage, jr., colOred youth
about eighteen years old, was arrested
in Fredericksburg yesterday on suspicion
of being the assailant Of Miss Mamie
Schepmoes, daughter Of DR.. j. d. Schep-
NOES, who was seized while i'll ham
mock on the back porch of her father 5
residence Wednesday night by an I'M
known man. After slashing her with a
knife, the negro made his escape before
help arrived. Miss SchepmOes, it is
said, formerly lived in Alexandria.
! John Andrew Gray, who murdered
! Coroner II. Z. Bats in Norfolk Thurs
day night, died yesterday morning from
the effects of wounds inflicted by his
captors. Gray made no statement be-
fore he died 1t is the opinion OF physi-
clans that the man was a raying maniac.
He consulted lawyers Thursday, and
told them that the physicians of Nor
folk were plotting to get his wealth. Ii
is supposed that with the cunning of the
maniac he planned TO get Dr. Bats to
his house and then murder him.
During the storm in the vicinity o.
Richmond Thursday evening David
Fuller, well-known farmer and citizen
of Henrico, was struck by lightning and
knocked to the ground senseless. All
the hair on his head was burned off. He
was talking with another man near
the National Cemetery when he was
struck. He has been in an unconscious
condition, but the physician who is at
tending him says he will recover.
Fuller's head is said to have been shaved
AS close as if barber had done it.
John III. Vaden and Miss Jennie Aus
tin, whose mysterious disappearance from
sChristiansburg, Va, on Sunday Gre
ated intense excitement and indignation
in that town, were in Bluefield Wednes-
day, Walden stated that he was on his
return from Ironton, o., where he had
married Miss Austin. Mrs. Walden, is
said to be only Is years old, but is fully
+ as large as many girls of Is. She looked
care-worn and depressed; her appearance
was such as to indicate that she was on
the verge of collapse. Walden is about
40 years old, a widower, and the father
of four children.
There was rumOr current in Richmond
last night that the presence there this
week of Senator Martin and other lead
ers of that wing of the party had refer
ence to the selection of circuit judges in
certain districts where there will be
fights, and that plans were mapped out
for concerted action in the caucus. The
First, Third and Eighth circuits are
said to have received special attention,
and Judge w. V. Portl0ck, of Norfolk
county; Judge j. F. West, of Sussex,
and Judge J. NJ. White, of Albemarle,
are reported TO have been agreed upon.
Mr.. Turnbull, of Brunswick, and Judge
Riyes, of Prince George, beth members
Of the convention, are candidates in the
Third district Mr.. John w. Happier,
of Portsmouth, opposes Judge PortlOck,
and Judge Whites is opposedb by Mr.. Paul
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