Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-09-05
VIRGINIA NEWS.

has announced his. candidacy LOT .ne
State Senate to succeed Senator carter
Glass, who has resigned.
Mr.. james ]. billiard and Miss Hattie
E. Bradshaw, both of Fredericksburg,
were married there at the residence OF
Mr. L. r. Baker, yesterday, Rev. Dr'
T. S. Dunaway officiating.
William Thornley,, convictedin Prince
William county in 1898 for housebreak-
ing and sentenced to Syears in the penn,
Tertiary, has been granted conditional
pardon by Governor Montague.
The troops that have been stationed at
Ashland for several days past left that
town yesterday. Mayor Scott compll-
mentel the soldiers very highly before
they left and thanked them for their
services.
At Richmond last night the Lambs
Club, of Philadelphia, presented Lee
Camp with an oil painting of Ger.
Robert f. Lee, the picture having been
ca, tured from the Coniederates during
the Valley campaign of 1864.
The Front Royal Horse and Colt Show
began yesterday and closed today. The
crowd in attendance at the opening was
not large, owing to threatening weather,
but the entries were full and the quality
of the exhibits was excellent.
Lieut.. John w. Starke, of the Rich
mond militia, has been found guilty
of conduct unbecoming and officer and a
g,ntleman, dishonorably discharged and
sentenced to two months in Jail. He
was recently in hot water on ac-
count of a scurrilious letter he mailed
to President Roosevelt. The Presidents
leniency saved him rom punishment by
the United States Court.
The Old Dominion Sun, of Stanton,
the only republican paper in the Tenth
congressional district, and of which Maj.
5. Nj. Yost is the editorial writer, in its
issue today says: 1--WE have received
assurances from Hon. Jacob Yost that
he will accept the nomination and be-
come a candidate for Congress If the
convention to be held at Buchanan on
September 26 should name him as
the candidate. He will not make a
fight for the nomination, but will &C
cept and make the race if it is rendered
him." The republican county commit
tee for Augusta county (Yost's county,
will meet Saturday for the purpose OF
calling mass-meeting to name dele
gates to the Buchanan convention.
Mr.. Frank P. Parish, 40 years of age,
chief of police of Charlottesville, died al
the City Hospital, Baltimore, yesterday,
after having undergone an operation.
Mr.. Parish left Charlottesville last Fri
day and went to Baltimore to spend his
vacation. lie was accompanied by MIR.
George b. Goodyear, also of Charlottes-
vile. He went ont with party Of
friends in a steam launch on Monday,
and while on this trip became sick and was
seized with a violent nausea. Mr.. Parish
afterwards went to the City Hospital for
treatment. and at first his condition i'm
proved so rapidly that Mr.. Goodyear re-
turned to Charlottesville on Tuesday.
Mr.. Farish's condition took a turn for
the worse on Wednesday, and he sank
rapidly until the time of his death.
A dispatch from Roanoke says that
John Heyman, employed on some rail-
way construction. work near Bluefield,
and Ella Wheeler, white cook for the
camp, disappeared on Tuesday and moth
ing was heard of them until Wednesday
night. when the woman's body was
found in some woods nearby. Her throat
had been cut from ear to ear, and there
were several wounds in the breast and
sides. which had been inflicted with a
knife. Suspicion pointed to Heyman,
and when he returned to camp yes
terday morning he was placed under ar
rest. On the way to Jail Heyman broke
loose from his guard and made his es-
cape. The pair had been on the best OF
terms, and no reason is known for the
deed, unless it was caused by jealousy.
A dispatch from Norfolk says that
Howard Ferguson, aged Is years, of
Lambert's Point, and Miss Goldie Vir-
ginia Derrick, aged II years, of Bram-
bleton, married by Rev. c. f. Wood
son. of st. Peters Episcopal Church,
Norfolk, Wednesday night, were 10
minutes later separated by Mr.. James
Ferguson, the angiy father of the groom,
who carried his son of, leaving the
young bride to return home with gen.
tleman who had accompanied the couple
to the officiating clergyman's residence,
and was at the time of the sudden APP
pearance of the elder Mr.. Furguson ac-
companying the bride and groom to the
fate home of the bride for a wedding re-
ception. The father is powerful man,
and found it necessary to ohcarry his son
off by force. Legal aid has been sought
by the bride to secure her husband from
his father, who, she declares, is OBTAINING
him agasnst his will.
ATTEMPTED UICDE.-Mrs. Virginia
c. Goodwin was thwarted in an attempt
to kill herself at Colonial Beach, We'd
nesday afternoon, and is now in the
House of Dentention in Washington,
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