Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-08-05
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Loudoun county, died yesterday morn
ing from kidney trouble, aged % years.
L. J. Payne, a well-known citizen OF
Spottsylvania county, died Monday az
his home near Lewiston, after an illness
CT only four days, aged thirty-one years.
During terrific rainstorm late yes
terday afternoon at Winchester whlch
flooded streets and cellars and caused the
town to become raging torrent, Helen
Green, six years Of age, was swept from
a foot bridge and drowned.
At the Harrisonburg council meeting
last night the tax rate for the town was
reduced from 81 on the 800 Of assessed
value to 65 cents. This makes a reduc-
ton in three years of 60 cents on the
500. In 1900 the rate was $1.25.
The erection of wireless telegraph
station to connect the navy yard at Nor
folk with the Washington, Annapolis
and Key West naval stations and with
coast points was started yesterday Inc
mast will be one OF the tallest in the
world.
Capt. James D. Kirby died at his
home, near WarrentoD, Monday night
Death resulted from heart trouble. Cap
tain Kirby was one of Warrenton's Old
est residents, and during the civil war
commanded the Warrenton Rifles, Com
pany K. Seventeenth Virginia Regiment
Capt. Robert Wynn Snead died at his
home in Lynchburg yesterday at the age
of 81 wears. He was q native OF AL
bemarle county, but had long been a
resident OF Lynchburg. Hewas formerly
deputy sheriff of Amherst county, and IN
the the Confederate army was captain OF
Company F, Fifth Virginia Regiment
Yesterday began the twenty-sixthl
annual meeting of the Prohibition and
Evangelical Association Of Loudoun
county. 1t is held in billions woods,
near the town of Purcellville. A very
large crowd was in attendance. The
opening day was devoted to dedication
Of the new auditorium, which has
seating capacity of over 5000.
Thomas Russell, 81 years old, Of
killings, near Danyille, is mad as the
result of the bite of dog received in the
arm more than four years ago. lie Il
very violent and has been strapped tc
his bed. A pillar pitched at the young
man as an experiment during one OF his
tantrums was caught in his teeth anc
shaken much as mastiff has been seer
TO shake terrier. 1t is not believed
that he can possibly live.
Wytheville was greatly shocked yes
terday morning on learning that james
G. Wilkinson had taken his life in hi
home in that place. The cause Of hi
act is not known, though it is believed
that it was due to bad health and con
slant brooding over the approaching
marriage of his sister, Miss Zellal
Wilkinson, to Eugene Umberger
Wilkinson was about As years old. H'
leaves a wife and three children.
The first steps toward the suppression
of the smallpox at the Gravel Bank, nea
, Falls Church were taken yesterday whel
DR.. L. E. Colt, the health officer, ac
companied by DR.. Llewelln Eliot, tn
smallpox expert of the health depart
, ment at Washington, made house-to
house inspection throughout the infect
ed locality. They found thirty cases il
the various stages of the disease. Ii
many instances only traces of smallpo'
were noted, those having had the diseas'
being entirely recovered.
George Seals, negro, aged twenty
living at Rose Hill, near Jonesyille, yes
terday shetland killed his sister-in
law, Mary Fulkerson, aged nineteen
Becoming involved in a quarrel abou
piece of tobacco which his SIS
ter.in-law had taken from hir
and refused to return, Seals tried b
force to take it from her. In the strug
gle. he warned her that if she did NO
Immediately give up the tobacco he wonl
kill her. Almost instantaneously his pts
toll was discharged, the bullet enterin
her heart, killing her instantly. Seal
was arrested.
CIVIC FEDERATION AND W0RKIN