Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

postmaster at Lottsburg, Northumber-
land county.
Robert w. Axline has been appointed
rural carrier and John w. Axline sub
stitute on Route at Lovettsyille, TO NIL
vacancy.
Mr.. Fred Baker, the eldest son of Mr..
r. C. Baker, died at Memorial Hospi-
tai in Winchester yesterday evening from
the effects of an operation for appen-
dicitis.
In consequence of there being only
one democratic candidate for each Of the
Page county offices, the democratic
county committee in Page county has
determined not to call apiimary to name
candidates.
Samuel I. Poindexter, formerly
prominent merchant, died at his home
in Lynchburg yesterday, aged "a years.
He had been i'll for two years. DE
served in the Confederate army in the
Second Virginia Cavalry.
The regular term of the sixteenth an
nual session of the Virginia Summer
School of Methods, which opened at the
University of Virginia on June ",
closed last night. Several hundred,
teachers, will remain two weeks longer
to take the university course.
Eliza, aged l6, and Robert B., aged
IS. children Of Mr.. and Mrs. K. G.
Blackwell, were drowned yesterday
afternoon at 8 o'clock near Benns
Church, Smithfeld. The children, with
few Others, were in bath ing and got
out in deep water and were drowned be-
fore assistance could come.
In the coming elections to be held in
Fauquier in the fall, there will be three
candidates for sheriff: Messrs. John
Olineer. A. S. Hamilton, the present
incumbent, and F. E. Blackwell. MIR.
James P. Jeffries, present common
wealth's attorney, will be opposed by
Mr.. John A. G. Keith for the office.
Willie Baker, 80 years old, committed
suicide yesterday at his home, near
Vaudeville. Mr.. Baker, with MIR.
Baine, had been hunting in the after
noon and had just returned to his home
when he told Mr.. Baine that he was
going to kill himself He quickened
his pace, and when short distance away
drew a revolver and shot himself in tine
head. a.
Edward Faulconer, Of Wilderness
neighborhood in Spottsylyania county,
shot himself Thursday night with a
shotgun. He died almost instantly.
On Thursday Faulconer received a
letter. and he was observed to pull 1t
out of his pocket several times and read
it. His manner was distracted during
the evening and excited attention. The
letter has disappeared, and the cause OF
the act is unknown.
A lively fight is on for the clerkship
in Spottsylvania made vacant by the
disappearance of Clerk ]. p. II. Girls
mond. Sheriff +. A. Harris, Com
monwealth's Attorney Lee j. Graves
and Mr.. J. II. Biscoe, member OF
the legislature, are receiving sup,
port from their friends. The Office will
probably be legally declared vacant at
the next term of court, and the appoint
ment made by Judge II. E. Waller.
A large open trolley car OF the Hamp-
ton Roads Railway jumped from the
Twenty-sixth street bridge approach in
Newport News yesterday evening, and
four men were injured. The airbrakes
refused to work, and the car plunged
from the tracks as it struck the curve at
the foot of the bridge, careening to one
side and raising the wheels on the other
off the ground. A number of men were
thrown to the ground, and they re-
ceived shaking up.
James L. Shelton, ex-member of the
assembly from Louisa county and now q
resident of Richmond, was attacked by
negroes and beaten into insensibility
while walking in the grounds of the
Hermitage Golf Club, in the western
suburbs of that city, with young lady,
a nurse in one of the city hospitals, last
night. Miss Mullen, the young lady,
was rescued by Conductor Reed, who
emptied his pistol at the fleeing negroes.
She was badly bruised and rendered
hystericaI by rough handling. The
military and county officers searched for
the assailants but failed to find them.
Mrs. Henry Littrell was killed and
her husband badly injured in a run
away accident in southeast Roanoke
yesterday. Mr.. Littrell made sharp
turn at a street corner, upsetting the
wagon. The team took fright and ran
away, dragging Mrs. Littrell distance
of 100 yards under the wagon bed.
Her skull was fractured and body badly
bruised. She died a few minutes later.
Mr.. Littrell was badly cut and bruised.
Two small children who were in the
wagon were thrown out, but escaped
with slight injuries.
BEAVERS IN MESHES OF LAW.
A bench warrant was issued by Judge
Thomas, in the United States Circuit
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