Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-17
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Rev. DIR. William A. Barr, rector of
ST. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church,
of Norfolk, is very ill with pneumonia.
The government. is to build wireless
telegraph station at Cape Henry, the
pole of which is expected to be $50 feet
high.
John S. Martin, who lived about
three miles from Fairfax Courthouse,
died very suddenly last Thursday morn
ing. He leaves a widow and several
children.
Miss Mary Kincaid, of the Millboro
section, in Bath county, was drowned at
Hot Springs yesterday while bathing.
She went to the bathing pool anaccom-
panied, and was hot missed for an hour
or so.
Cards are out announcing that the
marriage of Mrs. Mary Harrison Char
rington to Mr.. Edward Ashley Cooper
will take place in st. James Episcopal
Church, Warrenton, on Thursday, Feb
airy -.
Col. John E. Waddy, recently reap
pointed postmaster of Norfolk for another
term, died last night at his residence on
Duke street, after suffering a slight
stroke of paralysis on the sixth day of
this month.
The executive committee of the Stuart
Monument Association at meeting last
night decided to ask for a site in the
Capitol Square in Richmond and to APP
ply to the legislature for an appropria-
ton of $4,000.
Winfield Cameron, who, it is alleged,
sho. and killed Cleveland Craig, at
Browntown, Warren county, Saturday
night, was captured near Brown by
posse and lodged in the county Jail in
Front Royal yesterday.
Mr.. Isaac f. Hooe, an old and es-
teemed resident of King George county,
died yesterday at the home of his son,
DIR. A. B. Hooe, in Washington, aged
81 years. His remains will be sent to
his former home in King George county
tomorrow for interment.
Miss Catherine Clyde Cobb, the II
year-old daughter of Howard A. Cobb,
of Danville, eloped Saturday evening
from Greensboro, where she had been
the guest of Miss Catherine Jeeter, and
was married at Rock Hill to Capt.
Howard Davidson, of the faculty of the
Danville Military Institute.
A dispatch received at the Philadel-
phia, Maritime Exchange from the
Hog Island, Va, life saving station
reports that the schooner Rebecca, from
New York for Norfolk, Va, stranded
at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay early
this morning. The vessel will probably
be total loss The crew are safe.
Large tracts of heavy timber lands on
the river, in King George county, have
recently been purchased by capitalists
from Maryland, who, it is said, will put
number of saw mills to work getting
out timber of various kinds for use by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in
bridge building and other work. There
are thousands of feet of oak and chest
nut timber in the tract to be cut.
Blackstone, on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, thirty-nine miles
from Petersburg, was visited last night
by a most destructive confagration,
which at one time threatened the des-
true ton of large portion of the prin-
cipal part of the town. Nine stores
we're burned, with most of their con-
tents. The fire, it is said, originated in
H. L. Chapin's store, Loss about
$50, 900; insurance about $40, 900.
A bungling effort was made Sunday
night to enter the big safe in the Office
of the Richmond coalyard of c. +.
Lathrop & Co. Hammers, crowbars
and chisels Uttered the floor when the
Office was opened yesterday morning the
burglars having departed in disgust.
The safe was in the middle of the floor,
torn, bent and rent, but still stout and
strong. The knob and hinges had been
chiseled off and holes torn IN the outer
covering. Noise enough must have
been made to wake the neighborhood.