Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-10-15
VIRGINIA NEWS.

died recently, aged ffty-two years.
Herbert n. Rector has been appoint
ed postmaster at Opal, Fauquier county.
Near Delaplane on Tuesday William
U. Daniel shot and killed himself lie
had been in poor health for long time
The Presbyterian Synod Of Virginia
will meet next Thursday in Abingdon;
All of the Richmond ministers Will
be in attendance.
Mr.. Z. L. Hutchins, son of Mr.. Still
son Hutchins, of Washington, has pur-
chased the Leesburg Inn for s., OOO.
The original cost was s49, COO.
Congressman Claude A. Swanson,
says that he will be a candidate again
for governor. He declares that either
primary or a convention would suit
him.
Lieutenant John G. Page, battalion
adiutant of the Seventeen regiment,
Virginia volunteers, has forwarded his
resignation, through regular channels,
to the governor. The resignation is to
take effect at once.
Joseph w. Laube, prominent IN the
Elks and Catholic societies, for long
wears one of the leading undertakes OF
Richmond and for several terms mem
of the Board of Police Commissioners,
died yesterday, aged 81 years.
The Colonial Danes of Virginia have
gotten out beautiful calendar, entitled
Colonial Virginia, 1607-l62l." The
idea OF the calendar is to prove that Vir-
ginia had an existing government before
the landing of the Pilgrims at Ply
mouth.
An interesting engagement which has
been announced isthat of Miss Katherine
Brooke Conrad, of Winchester, to Mr..
Edward Hamln, of Boston. Miss Con-
rad is the third daughter of Major
Holmes Conrad, assistant attorney gen.
eral under the Cleveland administration.
Large and brilliant audiences witnessed
two performances at the Richmond Horse
Show yesterday. The matinee was par
ticularly attractive because Of the hunter
and Jumper exhibit and the dashing and
daring riding over the hurdles. Good
fortune attended, and out of a number
of accidents no rider or animal was Sc
riously hurt,
Marriages licenses were issued ia Wash
ingtou yesterday to Charles E. Thomas,
of Charlottesville, and Philippa A. Her
riot Benjamin L. Beckwith and Eva NJ.
Croson, both of Fairfax county; Samuel
Z. Snyder, of Norfolk, and Nora E Bax-
ter, of Westmorelandcounty S. +. Reid
and Ada f. Turner, both of Fairfax
county DavidT. Maloney and Matte E..
Herndon, both of Brandy.
Clarence Hehin and Alexander Roy,
of Stafford county, blew out the gas in a
Main street clearinghouse in Richmond
when they returned from the horse show
on Tuesday night. When their door was
broken in at 7 O'Clock yesterday both
we're nearly dead. A window partially
up in the room saved them from death
They regained consciousness after two
hours work by physicians, and Will re-
cover.
John Hagan, a laborer, employed at
the Jewish cemetery, was fatally shot by
Martin Bolton, an employe of the Rich
mond crematory, at an early hour yes
terday, and died at the City Hospital a
few hours later. The men had been
drinking together. Two negroes who
saw the shooting said it was accidental ;
that Bolton was hourishing pistol in a
good-humored, but drunken way, when
it went of.
William S. Parker, an aged veteran,
of Petersburg, is no longer an inmate OF
Lee Camp Soldiers Home in Richmond.
The executive board sustained Comman-
der A. G. Peay in his enforcement OF
discipline, and deemed Parker's assault
on the commandment an ofiense which
warranted his dismissal from the home.
The formal order was read in the mess
hall at breakfast yesterday morning.
The case of w. A. Reese, of Petersburg,
charged with an attempt to assault the
commander, was heard yesterday after
noon. The decision was not made known.