Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-06-27
VIRGINIA NEWS.

home in Richmond yesterday after IA long
illness.
A terrible electrical and rain storm
visited Louisa county yesterday. A
deluge of water fell for over an hour.
Miss Nellie Meredith, daughter of
Rev. Jacqueline Meredith, and Rev.
John Robson were married at Virginia
Beach yesterday.
Charles +. Osborne had hearing at
Norfolk yesterday on a charge Of shoot
ing his wife, and was discharged as the
evidence was insufficient to hold him.
A fire at the barns of the Richmond
Passenger and Power Company early
yesterday morning destroyed % cars.
The loss is placed at something like
s75, 600.
An unusual wind storm, attended with
electrical disturbances and rain, visited
the Farmyille section at an early hour
yesterday. Damage is reported in vari-
Gus places.
Representative Rhea of Virginia,
was assured yesterday by Secretary Will
son that the Department of Agriculture
would establish at Wytheville by the
middle Of September a weather station.
Bloomsbury, Rockbridge county, was
visited by a cyclone Wednesday night.
Houses, barns, and trees were blown
down. Many animals were killed. Hun
dreds of trees in orchards were uprooted.
No lives were lost.
Miss Caroline Seward Green, young
est daughter of the late Governor and
Chancellor Green, was married Sunday
afternoon in Elizabeth, n. j., to Mr..
Arthur Johns, of Richmond, grandson
of the late Bishop Johns.
During a severe storm, which passed
over Fredericksburg, Wednesday night.
the barn of Mr.. l.. NJ. Smith was struck
by lightning and burned to the ground.
A fine horse and lot of farming imple-
ments in the building was also lost.
A license to marry was granted in
Baltimore recently to Karl j. Daniel,
of Falls Church, and Bessie Fairall, Of
Baltimore, and the fact that the cere-
mony has not been PERFORMED is causing
much comment among the friends OF
both parties.
Judge Clarence J. Campbell, of AM
herst who on Tuesday cowhided the
Rev G. H. Crawford, was in his seat i'll
the Constitutional Convention yesterday.
He denies that he is to resign his judge
ship, and declined to make any state
ment in connection with the affray fur
Their than to say he regretted it.
1t is said by the officers Of the Horse
and Colt Show Association of Loudoun
county that the number of entries re-
ceived has surpassed all expectations,
and indications are that it will be one OF
the best exhibitions of the kind ever held
in Northern Virginia. Thursday and
Friday, July and 4, are the dates for
the show, which will be held on the
fair grounds in Leesburg.
An attempt was made to enter the
Peoples Bank at Floyd, Wednesday
night about II o'clock. One of the
clerks, who was sleeping in a room in
the rear of the bank, heard.a noise at the
front window, and, on opening side
door to ascertain the nature of the dis
turbance, heard what was supposed to
be several persons running away from
the front of the bank. Just after this a
shot was fired from the rear OF the bank.
Upon examination of the front windows
it appeared that the blinds had been
pulled open, and it seems that an at
tempt had been made to raise the sash,
but an entrance was not effected.
The mangled remains of two colored
bows. Sam and William Patterson, aged
respectively Is and lSyears, were discoy-
cred by their parents alongside the rail
way tracks near Boon Mill, twenty miles
below Roanoke, on the Roanoke and
Southern road, yesterday morning. The
bows, who were brothers, and lived not
far from the railroad, left their home after
supper Wednesday evening and were
afterward seen playing along the tracks.
1t is thought they became tired and lay
down between the rails to takea nap and
were run over by freight train. Two
white children were struck by passen-
ger train and killed not far from We'd
nesday nights tradedy several weeks ago.
Major Robert f. Mason died yester-
day morning at his home, Clermont,
two miles north of Charlottesville, after
an illness of few hours. During the
night he was somewhat indisposed, but
Mrs. Mason OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Going
to his room to arrange for his breakfast
she found him unconscious, and death
ensued soon after. Major Mason was
about 60 years of age and went to Al
bemarle county from the Northern Neck
about 20 years ago, bought his present
estate, and had been engaged in farm
ing since, except for a short time, when
he was in the West. Mrs. Mason and
five children survive him. Major
Mason was on Gen. Fitzhugh Lees staff