Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-07-14
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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night. He was So years old.
Mrs. Maria ]. c. Mason, agreat-grand-
daughter of Thomas Jefferson, died in
King George county yesterday, aged n
years.
John Long was run over by Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac train in
Hanover county yesterday and killed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lambert, wife Of Mr..
William Lambert, of Woodstock, died
ON Thursday morning, of dropsy, from
which she suffered for number OF
wears. She was 60 years of age, and is
survived by her husband and one daugh-
ter, the wife of Mr.. Perry Smoot.
David F. Kronacher, assistant pay
master, U. 5. n, stationed on the re-
ceiving ship Franklin, was drowned of
Ocean View Saturday night while en-
route to the launch Madge in small
boat, accompanied by Lizzie Howard and
Irma Kohn, two Tenderloin women.
As the result of an alteration at Al
beren, Saturday, V. NJ. Crews, young
farmer, lies in the University of Virginia
Hospital with a serious gunshot wound
in his right breast just below the nipple.
w. :. Zimmerman, who, it is alleged,
did the shooting, was taken to Char
lottesville Saturday and confined in jail
to await trial.
The funeral of Mr.. Thomas Curtis,
who died at his home in James City, on
Friday, took place at Lebanon Christian
Church Saturday at noon. Mr.. Curtis
was twice married, had % children by
his first wife, six pairs of twins being in
the number, and ten children by the
second wife. Thirty-two children is the
record of this good man, twelve Of whom
still survive him.
A Chesapeake and Ohio train of IL
cars ran over John Englehart, the 10
year-old son of Mr. George Englehart,
in Richmond Saturday, and mutilated
his little form. The lad had been play
ing on the cars, swinging on to their
sides. and must have lost his hold and
fallen between them. The train was
moving very slowly, but mutilated his
body almost beyond recognition.
Judge Lundsford Lewis, of Richmond,
who is accredited with being counsel for
those who intend to contest the validity
of the new constitution, declines to
make any statement as to his connection
with the move. In discussing it, how
ever. he said there are two plans by
which the constitution could be attacked,
AMI that he thought either one would be
sufficient to have the question of validity
determined.
John Henry Warden, the alleged kid
napper of Jennie Austin, of Montgomery
county, was arrested Saturday at Gillian,
w. Va. The girl, who is only thirteen
or fourteen years DID, was with him,
and they said they had been married IN
Ohio. They were taken to Bluefields
and Warden was locked up. A tele-
phone message from Christiansburg
states that threats of lynching are being
freely made by the citizens of the town.
II is understood that test will be
made in the courts as to whether or not
the constitution does prohibit city en-
ployes and officials who are connected
with the railroads from receiving passes.
Mr.. j. b. Wood, member of the Rich
mond board of aldermen. who holds a
responsible position with the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad, will, it is stated,
make the test. The plan is for Mr..
Wood to take trip on pass and allow
the subject to be brought to the atten-
ton of the State authorities that the
matter may be carried into the courts,
where the attorneys for the railroads
would represent Mr.. Wood The con-
tention is made that the passes are
issued to these men as employees of the
railroad, and not as city officials.
Mr.. Antonio Grafiigna, keeper of his
toric st. Johns burying ground in
Richmond, will hereafter be one of the
unique and interesting figures to be
found in the city. The st. Johns
burying ground committee of the cOun-
Gil. at its meeting adopted a resolution
to the effect that, in view of the historic
associations which surrounded old st.
Johns of revolutionary and colonial
memories, the keeper should wear con-
tinental uniform rather than the less
picturesque attire in vogue in these
days. The veteran keeper will lay aside
the forbidden garb of blue coat and
brass buttons, which he has long
adorned and don in lieu thereof the more
picturesque and impressing combination
of knee breeches, stockings and silver
buckled SINNERS of colonial DAYS.