Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-23
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Chesapeake Steamship Company
will build 500, 900 wharf at Norfolk.
The cruiser Galveston will be launch.
ed from the Trigg shipyard at Richmond
today.
The barge of Mr.. H. P. Dodge, near
Manassas, was burned on Tuesday
night.
Maj. B. F. Mcveigh, well known
resident of Charlottesville, died yester-
day, aged seyenty-6ye years.
Rev. DIR. J. S. Dill, of Fredericksburg,
has accepted the call to the First Baptist
Church, of Bowling Green, KY.
Festus Cowherd died on Tuesday at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. II. l..
Quarles, in Bowling Green, aged seven
ty-six years.
J Rice Smith, former well known
citizen of Berryville, and MIS-. Anna r.
Heard were married at Summeryille,
Ga, on the goth.
Mrs. Eugenia 7. Hough, widow oil
Jesse Hough, of Leesburg, died on lues-
day at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Klein Wright, at Round Hill.
A dispatch from Christiansburg says
Hugh Willis shot and killed his mrs.
cousin, Thomas Willis, in a quarrel
near that place yesterday evening
Mann Randolph Page Pendleton, Of
Wytheville, and Miss Leonora Claggett,
of Fairfax county, were married at st.
Johns Protestant Episcopal Church,
WytheviIle, yesterday.
NJ. E. Brandenburg, who was killed
in Washington this week by live cleo
trio wire. was to have been married on
next Monday to Miss Mary A. Gray
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John H.
Gray, of Stafford county.
The Petersburg Grays is the name o
a new military company organized ther'
last night with seyenty-fOur members
| A. r. Moody was elected captain II. '
Parham, first lieutenant, and Benjamin
Harrison, second lieutenant.
The opinion prevails at Charlottesville
and at the University that Colone
George V. Miles, of Radford. will b
chosen president of the University o
Virginia at the meeting of the Board o
Visitors to be held next Tuesday, Jul
2Sth.
Almost a panic was created in tn
Hotel Gladstone, in Norfolk yester
day, shortly before dinner, by free iigh
between r. L. Powell, l.. G. Barrow an
]. G.. Morris, three Blackstone excuI
sionists, and the employees Of the hotel
Powell had his head badly cut and sew
eral of the hotel walters were badl
bruised.
All the girls employed at the Virgini
Wooden Mills in Winchester went on
strike Tuesday for higher wages. Late
they were paid off and discharged. Yes
terday morning all the expert weaver:
and the other employees also throug
sympathy, joined the strikers. In
mill company acceded to the girls Dc
mands for a thirty per cent increase i
wages, and everybody went back t
work.
Miss Hart Briggs, the second daugh
ter of the late Capt and Mrs. W. ID
Briggs, died very suddenly yesterda
morning at her home, near Emporia
The circumstances of her death wer
sad in the extreme. She was feelin
badly and, intending to take som
brandy to relieve her suffering, throug
mistake took carbolic acid. Death, al
tended with the most intense suffering
came in about twenty minutes.
About o'clock yesterday morning a
elderly man named Mills, who live
near Mount Pleasant Church, came hui
riedly into police headquarters a
Roanoke and made complaint again'
his son-in law, E. L. Cooper, the charg
being that he had run away with Mills
daughter the night before, while the gil
was in attendance at Mount Pleasar
Church. Mills said Cooper was alread
married to one of his daughters, an
had a small family.
Mrs. Eugenia T. Hough, widow
Jesse T. Hough, of Leesburg, died o
Tuesday at the home of her daughter
Mrs. Klein Wright, ofRound Hill, age
SO years. Mrs. Hough was the daughtt
of the late Samuel Dawson, of Loudour
She is survived by her daughter (Mri
! Klein Wright, of Round HilD, one so
Mason Hough, of Baltimore), ard thre
brothers nicholas Dawson, of Alexar
dria; Roger T. Dawson, of Baltimore
: and Arthur Dawson, of Cumberlane