Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-23
VIRGINIA NEWS.

james A. Otey, deputy city treasurer
of Roanoke, died Monday.
Mrs. Isaac ]. Hershey committed
suicide near East Newmarket yesterday.
Mrs. Martha Hole, widow of the late
Washington HOLE, of Loudoun county,
died Monday.
Miss Nellie johnson and Mr.. Joseph
w. Beard, of Front Royal, eloped 70
Hagerstown and we're married yester-
day.
A warrant has been issued in Henrico
for the arrest of young white man
charged with committing criminal assault
upon negro woman aged 50 years.
Complete though unofficial returns
| from Lunenburg county seem to re-
move all doubt as to the nomination OF
Hon. r. G.. Southall, of Amelia, for
Congress from the Fourth district.
Frederick Moore, who is wanted in
Ne.vport News for alleged larceny, is
held in Baltimore for the Virginia au-
thorities, having been arrested by the
local Authorities, by request of the chief
of police of Newport News.
The special grand jury charged with
probing the reports of corruption in the
municipal government of Richmond is
widening its scope every hour, and is
evidently going much deeper than the
Gasser-King bribery scandal.
While at work putting roof on the
new barn of Mr.. c. G. Mercer, on his
farm near Highpoint, a short distance
from Leesburg, Mr.. William Saunders
Lon Monday fell to the ground, distance
of 80 feet, and was seriously hurt.
Under the will of the late Bishop
Francis NJ. White his daughter, Mrs.
Alexander I. Jones, who lives at Win
chester inherits his entire estate.
Mrs. Jones has two brothers, but it Is
understood that they were not to par
ticipate in the division of the estate,
which is valued at about $50, 900.
1t is said that Miss Pitcher, who was
injured at Midland station, Fauquier
county. when Miss Kite, of Madison
county, who was seated in a buggy with
Miss Pitcher, was killed by fast train
continues to grow worse. Her mind is
said to be blank and her injuries are
more serious than at first supposed. 1t
has developed that three of her ribs were
broken and it is thought she was other
wise internally injured.
: Seventy-fve pounds of dynamite ex-
ploded yesterday near Richmond on the
chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. En-
gineer Dorsey Jones and fireman Tom
PAYNE were hurt. A stationary engine
was bent and twisted, while the rails upon
which it rested we're tern up and
the crossities splintered. Both men
were blown some distance, and were
, thought to be dead, but they soon re-
gained consciousness, and walked home
without assistance
One Of the most interesting facts re-
r vealed by the census Of 1900 isthat Of
the great predominance in the number Of
females over the number Of males in the
| cities of Virginia. OF eighteen cities in
the State only three of them have more
males than females; all the others show
a decided predominance of women. The
three cities having more males thar
females are Buena Vista, Newport
News and Portsmouth. Alexandria ha'
: 500 wore women than men.
At Franklin, Southampton county,
. Monday, a race riot was narrowly ayerted
Trouble occurred on negro excursion
train en- route to Delaware Park. Wher
J the train reached Franklin an attemptwa'
made to arrest the ringleader, whose
name was johnson. Special Officer
Jones placed the negro under arrest.
= Johnson offered resistance and finally
1 succeeded in getting away from The
officer. No attention was paid to com.
mand 10 halt and Johnson was shoi
down. All was then excitement. The
negroes demanded the life of Jones.
Mayor Story ordered the Seventy-frst
Regiment to be in readiness for any
emergency.
t Susan Barber, colored, accused o.
causing the death Of Mrs. Margaret
: Athey, in Winchester last Saturday by
criminal operation, went on the stand
yesterday at her preliminary hearing ano
confessed her guilt, seeking only to palli
E tate the crime by accusing the young
! woman's husband of instigating it. She
> was committed to Jail to await the ac.
ton of the grand jury, which will con
yene next week. The only witness ex.
: amined yesterday was DIR. p. w. Boyd,
, who attended Mrs. Athey just before she
! died and to whom she confessed the
story of the alleged operation, and the
dead girls husband, Oscar Athey. As
the wife had declared, Athey testified
I that he had accompanied his wife I'M
willingly to the Barber woman's home
= and waited while the operation was per-
formed in an adjoining room. The in
= strumehts with which the operation is
alleged to have been performed were
found at the house of the negress.
FROM RICHMOND.