Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-12-24
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr. J. w. Smith, aged seventy-nine
wears, a weIl-to-do farmer residing three
m les southeast Of Red Hill Albemarle
county, choked yesterday and died before
a physician could come to his relief
Some food lodged in his windpipe.
A dispatch from New York says it is
reported there that Frank Jay Gould
has purchased all of Incorporates Of the
Virginia Passenger and Power Company's
interests in Richmond, including the
street railway lines and electric plants
there and in Petersburg.
Miss Caroline B. Lyons, of Charlottes-
vile. and DR.. Arthur Buckner Harris,
formerly of San Antonio, Tex, but now
head surgeon of the Cannelton coal
mines, West Virginia, were married at
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church,
Charlottesville, last night.
Two men were killed and another
fatally injured in an explosion of the
boiler of the towboat Lizzie Massey, on
the southern branch of the Elizabeth
river at Norfolk, at o'clock yesterday
evening The dead are George NJ.
William, captain and William Byman,
fireman. The fatally injured was Samuel
Dunn, engineer.
A fire last night destroyed eight
mammoth kilns, an enormous storehouse,
and thousands of feet of lumber in the
wards of the John L. Roper Lumber
Company, at Gilmerton, near Norfolk.
Over 500, 900 worth of property was de
stroyed by the flames, although an accu-
rate estimate OF the damage could not be
made last night ~ the officials ofthe COM
pany in Norfolk.
Mr.. w. French Henry, a well-known
young man, dropped dead at his home
in Winchester late on Monday night,
while conversing with his brother. Mr..
Henry had been slightly i'll for some
time, and Monday had promonition OF
his death. He remarked that he would
not live to celebrate Christmas, and gave
specific directions in regard to his funeral
arrangements.
Governor Montague yesterday granted
a requisition from the Governor of Mis-
souri, for one Albert G. Wells, who is
charged with being a fugitive from JUS
tice and with kidnapping a child in that
State and fleeing to Virginia for escape.
Sheriff George d. Gibson, of Howard
county. Mo-, was at the Capitol yester.
day and got the necessary papers and
proceeded at once to Martinsville, where
Wells is in Jail.
Marriage license were issued in Wash
ing Yesterday to Harry Elmer Van Deu-
sen and Margaret Gertrude McMullen,
both of Fairfax county; Joseph L.
Shell. of Atlanta, Ga, and Roberta
Thomas, of Culpeper; Roy 5. Bunch, Of
AlbemarIe county, and Annie Kelley, Of
Washington; w. Ashby johnson and
f. Alice Revercomb, both of Culpeper
Henry +. Quick and Florence A. Lee,
both of Fairfax county.
A beautiful wedding occurred yester
day afternoon at clock in st. james
Protestant Episcopal Church, Leesburg
Rev. L. S. Kinks, the rector, officiating
The contracting parties were Miss Mary
Elizey Shepherd, of Leesburg, daughte
of the late Lyman Shepherd, of Toronto
Canada, and Mary Elizey Shepherd, nee
Elizey, of this county, and John AdIe
McCrary, of South Carolina, at presen
residing in Washington, holding gov
eminent position.
Mr.. d. w. Baughman, who resided
in Hagerstovn,. Nd, was killed il
Lynchburg yesterday on the Southern
Railway, only, a few yards from thu
Union Station. Mr.. Baughman jump
ed on fast train as it was pulling GU
of the depot. The door Of the vestibul'
car was closed. He chung to hi
dangerous position on the outside of thu
vestibule, but was knocked off as thu
train was passing through the freigh
yard. He fell across another track anc
a minute afterward was struck by yarC
engine and cut to pieces.
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