Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-17
VIRGINIA NEWS.
II. T. Jones, prominent Williams
burg druggist, is dead.


II. T. Jones, prominent Williams
burg druggist, is dead.
Steps have been taken for the organi-
cation of a national bank at Fairfax.
The Third district republican commit
tee will meet in Richmond next Satur-
day to nominate a candidate for Congress.
Peyton H. Kennedy, of Orange coun-
tv. Virginia, secured license in Wash
ington yesterday to marry Leah Hail.
colored.
At a meeting of the Seventh Congress
ionaI district committee, held in Char
lottesville Yesterday, the Hon. James
Hay, of Madison, was declared the
nominee of the democratic party for
Congress from that district.
The new primary plan which has been
adopted by the democratic committee Tor
the State will be tried for the first time
today in the Fourth district, when the
contest between Messrs. Lassiter and
Southall, for the nomination for Con-
gress, will be decided.
A crowd of negroes Tuesday night
made move toward taking Charlie
Williams, colored, from Hurricane
Branch, near Suffolk. Their intention
was to lynch Williams. He was arrest
ed for criminal assault upon colored
girl. Williams was saved from the
mob.
At Newport News, yesterday, Henry
Woodley, the negro driver charged with
attempted criminal assault on lO-year-
old Bette Clara Brown, was found
guilty and sentenced to 10 years in fhe
penitentiary. Very little defense was
made, his lawyer being glad enough to
save his neck.
1t is stated that since Miss Lolita
Auctine Sawyer, Of Chincoteague, Va,
who passed as "Herman G. Wood, Il" III
weighed Mrs. Ernestine L. Rauck into
marriage the unfortunate victim OF
the affair has been the recipient of nu-
merous letters from all over the country
by cranks offering proposals in marriage.
Pat Hall, jr., young farmer, was
killed by a Chesapeake and Ohio train
near EIlersons yesterday evening. He
was returning home from Richmond,
where he had sold his produce, and was
in his cart asleep. His horse crossed
the track just as the train approached
and the horse and cart were ground 70
pieces. The young man was thrown
thirty feet and instantly killed.
J. III. Blick, lineman on the Chesa-
peake Transit Company line, between
Norfolk and Cape Henry, was killed
early Yesterday morning by being run
over by a construction train. Blick had
been at work all night down the road
and was returning to Norfolk. He was
riding on. the top of tower car when h'
was struck by sagging trolley wire anC
thrown between the rapidlymoying cars
He was instantly killed.
A signal honor was paid Misses Alb;
and Laleure Beauregard, granddaughter
of Gen. Beauregard, the noted Con
federate leader, last night, when Turne
Ashby Camp, Confederate Veterans
marched to the residence of Mrs. Gen
John G. Walker, in Winchester, wher'
the young ladies are guests, and paiC
their respects to them. Afterward Mrs
Walker rendered the veterans a brillian
reception. The Misses Beauregard ar
daughters of Judge Beauregard, of New
Orleans.
Practically the entire operating fore
of the Richmond streetca system strucl
yesterday at noon for an increase il
wages. The strike affected the entire
lines of the Virginia Passenger an'
Power Company in Richmond and Man
chester, including all branch lines t.
West Hampton, Lakeside, Forest Hill
Fairmont and Seven Pines. The cars o
the Richmond and Petersburg electric
line, which are under a separate manage
ment, were the only cars running in thu
neighborhood of Richmond. The strik'
was settled during the night and thu
men returned to work today.