Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-08-25
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Miss Susle OOnWdN, uauEh"~
p. V. d. Conway, died at her home In
Fredericksburg yesterday.
Officers at the Whitlock branch OF the
American Tobacco Company in Rich
mond deny that any of their employees
went out on a strike on Friday.
A big gang of hands is at work ON the
double tracking of the Richmond, Fred
ericksburg and Potomac railroad through
the park about a mile above Ashland.
At Sweet Springs, w. Va, between
SUNDAY night and Wednesday between
forty and fifty guests and employees were
attacked with metallic poison from drink
ing milk that had been allowed to stand
in tin vessels. All recovered.
The third district democratic commit
tee formulated plans in Richmond on
SATURDAY., for the congressional primary,
September IL. The two candidates
were assessed $3.50 each. Only white
democrats will be allowed to vote, and
each candidate may have a tallykeeper
at the polls.
The fight for the United States dis
trict attorneyship for this district is get
ting hot. Assistant District Attorney
Hugh Miller does not want to oppose
his friend, the present incumbent, Cen
eral Allan, but he is against any other
man. Former Congressman Thorp and
Mr.. ID. Lawrence Groner are also hot in
the race. ~
The annual reunion of the Joe Kendall
Camp Of Confederate Veterans took
place on Saturday at Bethel Academy,
near Warrenton. j. Boyd Sears, State
Senator from Mathews county, was the
chief speaker. Col. r. II. Stribling, OF
Fauquier, spoke briefly. DIR. }. H..
Cochran presided. The crowd in at
tendance numbered several thousand.
The Fredericksburg and Rappahan-
mock Railroad Company has corps OF
engineers at work surveying the line
through Stafford county to Fredericks-
burg. This proposed road will run from
Washington, in Rappahannock county,
by Culpeper, to Fredericksburg, but
whether it will reach there by coming
through Spottsylvania or Stafford county
has not been definitely determined.
The Standard Steel Spike and Iron
Company in Richmond on Saturday en-
tered suit for $50, 900 damages against
+. C.. Didinny, New Yorker, trading
as the Chesterfield Coal Company. Mr..
Dininny runs the coal mines at Winter
pock. and the sui: is for the alleged
failure to carry out a contract to supply
the works of the Standard Steel Spike
and Iron Company with coal according
to contract
James r. Moore, the nineteen-year-
old son of Mr.. james Moore, of the
Glamorgan Iron Works, Lynchburg, was
run over by no:th-bound passenger train
No. SO on the Southern Railway at an
early hour Saturday morning, and both
legs were cut off above the knees. His
death aesulted at g o'clock that night.
Young Moore was almost blind, having
been 30 afflicted all his life, and for sew
cral years past had been a student at the
Virginia school for the Deafand Blind at
Staunton. About three months ago he ran
away and married Mrs. Francis Madison
of Burnleys, fifteen miles from Lynch
burg. His wife was a widow with five
children, the eldest of whom is only a
year younger than her second husband
He was returning from visit to his
parents at Lynchburg when the accident
which cost him his life occurred.
The case of George p. Holman, son of
Judge Holman, of Fluyanna county,
charged with attempting to criminally
assault Miss Cora Lacy, came up Satur-
day in the Richmond Police Court and
was continued until next Thursday.
The fact was made known by the mother
of the young lady that the girls mind
is weak, due to affection, and that she
has not the memory of child of ten
wears. The mother said that unless
there was speedy trial her daughter
would forget the most important facts
in connection with the occurrence. The
friends of the Lacy family are becoming
more and more indignant, and one gen
tleman in the afternoon of the court
Saturday morning exclaimed at the top
of his voice: "Ifthe people in that court
room knew what know of this case,
they would take Holman and hang him. "
During the excitement in the court the
eyes of-the child-woman filled with tears.