Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-16
VIRGINIA NEWS.

rison Waiien shot and killed james
Payne.
Capt. B. f. Fuller, one of the most
prominent citizens of Tazewell county,
died Monday.
John R. Greenway, formerly of Rich
mond and cashier of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway, is missing.
Mrs. Annie Mofet, wife of Mr.. John
w. Mofett, of Oatlands, Loudoun eoun-
ty, died Sunday night, after short Ill
ness.
A firm in Denver, Col, has written to
Richmond to have so girls sent there
where employment will be found Tor
them.
The grand jury of Louisa county has
found true bill against Wesley Hicks
for the murder of his son-in-law, Melvin
Bourne.
Mr.. James E. Scheduled, the well
known evangelist, who has been i'll at
his home in Danville with typhoid fever
is considerably improved.
Alta meeting of the Petersburg Ma
tional Battlefield Park Association Mon
day night Simon Seward resigned the
presidency and Judge J. NJ. Mullen was
elected.
Mrs. Martha T.. Lavinder, widow OF
p p. Lavinder, died suddenly in Lynch
burg Monday morning while sitting at
the breakfast table. She was G3 years
of age and was formerly a resident OF
Richmond.
Henry Woodley was indicted yester-
day at Newport News for attempted
criminal assault on ten-year-old Clara
Brown, white. The negro will be tried
tomorrow, and his conviction is certain.
He will probably get long penitentlary
term.
The Margaret Lynn Lewis Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution,
of Roanoke. have erected over the grave
of Gen. Andrew Lewis. in East Hill
Cemetery in Salem, handsome monu-
ment to the memory of the hero of Point
Pleasant
Polk Miller, the well known lecturer
and rector of negro dialect, has signed a
contract for five years work on the lee
ture platform under the management OF
Mr.. w. F. Tomas, now the manager o.
Westhampton Park. Under the cons
tract Mr.. Miller will lecture at the st.
LouisEsxposition during the whole time
it is going on, picturing in song and
sorry life in the old South.
Miss Nellie Rider, daughter of NJ. T..
Rider, we'll known merchant of Rich
mond, committed suicide yesterday by
swallowing large dose of morphine.
Miss Rider had been very respondent
for two months on account of a misun-
derstanding with her betrothed, but
there had been no intimation that she
contemplated self-destruction. While
alone in her room, before the rest of the
family had arisen, she took the drug,
and her condition was not discovered
until too late for human aid.
The remarkable spectacle of prayer
meeting being held while an election
was in progress was witnessed yesterday
in Appamattox county, where a local
option contest was in progress. The
women prayed while the men voted, and
the temperance people seem to have car
ried the day. In the South Side dis
trict, comprising one-third of the coun-
ty. the dry majority, with one precinct
to hear from, is 22S. One man came
100 miles To vote and another Travelled
forty miles by buggy and sixty by train.
News comes from Newcastle that
Brandy Marshall, the negro who com
mitted criminal assault on two little
girls last Sunday, attempted suicide yes
terday morning by cutting his throat
with a shoe knife, and is in the county
Jail, lingering between life and death.
An attempt was made to lynch the ne
gro Monday night. A crowd surrounded
the Jail and demanded that he be sur
rendered to them, but cooler heads pre-
vailed, and the undertaking was thwart-
ed. 1t is not known how Marshall got
the knife. He bled freely and will
likely die.
Newport News was visited yesterday
afternoon bv one of the heaviest rain and
hail storms in its history, accompanied
by vivid electrical display. The new
Cayarian Brothers School under con-
struction, was struck by lightning and
one wall torn out, the damage amount
ing to about 81, 500. The same stroke
stunned Frank Burke, wife and little
boy, and knocked them from their
chairs. Across the street, at the same
time, the shock swept the lamp and
dishes from the table of William Norris
while the family was at supper Bill
boards, signs, and awnings were blown
down in all parts of the city.
Details of the frightful death Of Sheri-
dan Porterfeld, a wealthy sawmill
operator in Giles county, have been re-
ceived. Mr. POrterfeld was at his
sawmill when rock became imbedded
in the wheels of the lumber carriage.
Porterfeld, after locating the trouble,
attempted to remove the obstruction,
when in some way his weight started the
carriage at full speed, which brought
him in a moment in contact with the
circular saw. Before bystanders could
render assistance Porterfeld's body lay
on either side of the carriage, severed in
twain. His head and shoulders fell on
one side of the carriage and the other
portion of his body on the Other. One
of his arms was cut in half He leaves
a wife and five children.
CHICAGO CORN MARKET.
Chicago H., July l6-Tuesday's tremen-
50 to 651c. on private settlements is shorts