Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-19
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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Judge james Keith, president of the
Court of Appeals, subscribed to the new
constitution in Warrenton yesterday.
Mrs. Patsy Quarles Holiday, widow
of the late Hon. A. Randolph Holiday,
died in Richmond yesterday, aged rs
years.
Mr.. E. Winston Mason, of Newport
News. an employee of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway, and Miss NJ. Blanch
TAYLOR were married Thursday night at
Charlottesville.
Mr.. Marshall Mccormick, of Berry
vile, was robbed of valuable gold
watch while in Boston few days ago.
The pickpOcket was arrested, but the
watch was not recovered.
The American Asbestos Company,
recently formed at Terre Haute, Ind,
with capital stock of 81, 200, 900, has
secured options on 1000 acres of land in
Bedford county Va, which includes a
partially developed asbestos and mica
mine.
Judge and Mrs. Edmund Waddill
have issued invitations to the marriage
of their daughter, Miss Juliet Winder,
to Arthur Middleton Cannon, Thursday
evening, July 3lst, at $3.50 o clock, at
the Second Presbyterian church in Rich
mond.
A great sensation has been sprung in
municipal circles in Richmond by the
allegation made by Capt. Charles Gasser,
city paving contractor, that ne had
paid money to John NJ. King, former
member of the board of alderman and OF
the street committee from Jefferson ward,
| in order to secure city contracts.
Both Messrs. Lassiter and Southall
claim victory in the Fourth Congress
ional primary, though all the returns
are not yet in. 1t is quite certain that
the two candidates ran desperately
close race. If the statements of Major
Lassiter may be accepted as accurate, he
has defeated Hon. r. G.. Southall by a
majority that will probably foot up at
least 400. while the latter claims the
nomination by over one hundred.
A white man named Vinton Gregory
was Yesterday arrested and placed in Jail al
Marion, charged with criminally assultlng
Mrs. John Romans near Saltyille several
DAYS aga. Gregory forced his way into
the Romans home and drove the children
from the house. Then. at the point OF
pistol, it is alleged, he forced Mrs
Romans into submission, and, upon leav'
ing. threatened to kill her if one word o.
the transaction were told. Mrs. Romans
was badly frightened and did not tell hel
husband of the outrage for several days
Commonwealth Attorney John g.
Tilton, of Norfolk, yesterday instituted
suit agains the Virginian-Pilot Publish
ing Company in the sum of $40, 600 for
the publication and circulation of al
alleged libel. The suit grows out of GER
tain articles in which Tilton was crit
cised by the newspaper relative to tho
position he took in declining to hold
Osborne, the alleged double wife muir
derer, for trial tLete on the charge o
killing his wife in that city. Osborne
was turned over to the Oklahoma author
tiles to answer for similar crime there
in 1896.
Judge Simonton, of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals, in Richmond,
has suspended mandate in the case o
the Southern Railway Company, pur
chaser appellant, VS.. the Ensign Man
ufacturing Company, appellee, in the
case of the Central Trust Company anC
Others against the Richmond and Dan
vile Railway Company and others, con-
solidated, in order to give the appellee
an opportunity to present petition fOl
rehearing. This case was decided re-
Gently in the Appellate Court in favor o.
the railway company and practically alb
solues them from the payment of about
! $500, 900 due from the Richmond and
Danyille to various firms and corpora
tons.
Great excitement was occasioned in
/ lSdNTcHCcNlllc laSt hibnt w a otiCOl huS
between Constable &. |. Mitchell anc
John l.. Hendrick. Mitchell, who was
acting as election judge, requested Hen
drick. who was in the room after the poll:
were closed and the books were being
written up, not to talk to the judges, as
it interfered with them. Hendrick re-
scented the remark and some words pass
ed between them. They met later in
front ofthe postoflice, and Hendrick made
some offensive remark, and began to fire
at Mitchell, who returned the fire and
about dozen shots were exchanged,
Hendrick was struck twice. in the breast,
and is in a serious condition. Mitchell
was wounded in the hand, one ball struck
lady, and another inflicted painful
wound on the shoulder of stranger,
who was on the street.
RACE RIOT.