Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-02
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Mr. Richard II. Turner, a well known
citizen of Leesburg. is dead.

Mr.. Richard II. Turner, a well known
citizen of Leesburg, is dead.
Bulah, ak pears old. daughter of As
semblyman Charles T. Bland, OF the
Virginia legislature, is i'll with small
pox in Portsmouth as the result of a
negro beggar kissing the child who gave
her bread
Judge Mathews, of the Wise County
Court, has rcsentenced Robert Foy to be
executed for the murder of Dayton H..
Miller. The time fixed for the hanging
is Friday, August %. This act is in ac-
cordance with decree of the Supreme
Court, which affirmed the lower court.
Wireless telephone communication is
fact. instruments invented by Prof. Il.
4. Fessendcn have been installed in
h)mts along the coast, near Cape Halter
as and Roanoke Island, and for distance
Of fourteen miles the ticks Of the wireless
telegraph instruments eau be heard over
the telephone.
st. Adams School at Radford, has
been from the time of its founding the
private property of Prof. George w.
Miles. 1t has now been incorporated,
however, and Mr.. Winslow III. Randolph,
first assistant of the Episcopal High
School at Alexandria, is to be associated
with Prof. Miles in its ownership and
management.
A claimant for the $1l37 found on the
tramp who was killed in the wreck near
Roanoke Thursday has appeared in the
person of J. +. Meadows, proprietor of
the Herald, Keystone, w. Va, who ar
rived in Roanoke Saturday morning.
He states that the money was stolen
from him. Chief Mullens will have the
body disinterred for identification.
The Norfolk and Western officials said
yesterday that from present indications
there was no strike practically in the
coal fields, as all the miners in the fed
were at work. Many old men are going
back daily, and new ones are being taken
to the mines. 1t is believed that after
the Fourth of July all those who have
left the fields will return and go to work.
In the arrest of the negro Isaac Val
den, Saturday afternoon, at Oity Point,
for holding up and robbing Mrs. Will
liam Egerton, of Prince George county,
on the public highway, and for other
indignities offered that woman, the
police have secured an glorious criminal.
Mrs. Egerton fully identified the negro
and Walden confessed his crime It is
expected he will get long term in the
penitentiary.
Specials from FarmvilIe and Green
Bay. Prince Edward county, tell of
violent wind storm, which swept over
that county Monday night Fences
were blown down, trees uprooted, and
houses unroofed. Near Farmville
negro woman was killed and child
badly injured by tree blowing down
upon them. The damage to crops is
heavy. High winds seem to have pre-
vailed also in several adjoining counties.
A serious runaway accident occurred /
IN Leesburg yesterday morning resulting
n injury to Jasper Dawson which it is
cared will prove fatal. Dawson was
irving with Joseph Lowenbach near
Leesburg when bolt in a shaft broke
md the horse began to run, Dawson,
Who was driving, handed the lines to his
and jumped from the vehicle.
he fell on his head and when found by
lis companion was unconscious. He
vas picked up and brought to Leesburg,
nut at a late hour yesterday evening was
till unconscious.