Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-27
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Capt c. A. Ballou city engineer OF
DanviIle, died at ROckbridge Alum
Springs, on Saturday.
Mrs. Elizabeth J. Marshall, widow Oh
the late J. w. Marshall, died at her
home in Orange county, on Friday
aged 81 years.
Mary Porter, 5-year-old daughter oil
]. E. Porter, of Stanton, died yester-
day from burns sustained on Saturday
while she and her S-year-old brother
we're playing with box Of matches.
The Virginia Dental Association, in
session at Hot Springs, last week select
ed Charlottesville as the next place OF
meeting and elected officers with lryln
B. Smith, of Richmond, as president.
James X. King, chief Of police at
Stonega, Wise county, was killed near
the Kentucky line Friday night by an
alleged moonshiner named Thomas
Daniels, whom he attempted to arrest.
The negroes suspected of assault at
Chase City were held by the grand jury
for trial, and were sent to Petersburg lot
safekeeping, the forming OF party 10
lynch them causing the authorizes 10
take extra precautions.
DUPONT, De Nemour & Co., powder
manufacturers, have purchased 4oo
acres of land near Pocahontas, IN
Tazewell county, and will use 1t as
site for a powder factory. The Price
paid for the site was $40, 900.
Wyndham Boiling, stockbroker, OF
Richmond, has disappeared in conse-.
ouence of the slump in the value OF
stocks. Bankruptcy proceedings have
been brought against him. HIS aiiairS
are found to be more or less involved.
Miss Elsie Everett, aged fifteen years,
one of the most popular young ladies IN
the social set at Keswick, died Saturday
evening. after a brief illness, at her
home. near Castle Hill. She was the
daughter ofMr. Aylett Everett, proml-
nent resident of Albemarle.
The new commercial cable lin direct
connection with the Postal Telegraph.
Cable Company to Manila, China and
japan was opened for business Saturday
last There is now direct cable COM
munication between the United States
and it's dependencies in the Pacific
T Ocean.
DIR. Brodie @. Male, of Culpeper, a
recent graduate of the medical depart
ment of the University OF Virginia, has
been elected demonstration of anatomy
at that institution, to succeed DIR. james
B. Bullitt. who has been chosen pro-
lessor of anatomy and pathology at the
? University of Mississippi, Oxford.
Miss Margaret Mari died on Saturday
evening at her residence in Warrenton
Miss Mari was a sister of John Quincy
Mari. the first southern soldier who fel
during the war; and of Miss Fannie ii
Mari, the poetess. Prof. Robert A.
Mari, of the Virginia Military Institute
and Thomas Mari, of Roanoke, arr
nephews.
Mrs. James Smith, of the Mile
, School, threw herself in front of stree
car yesterday afternoon Fear GYPSY Hi
Park. Stanton. The track is level a
that point and the car was going SLOW
: when she fell about five feet in front o
the car. The motorman stopped the ca
before she was seriously hurt and Mrs
Smith was brought to town.
In secluded spot on Mayo's lslan'
on Saturday afternoon, Miss Gertrud
Brooks, a young girl from Richmond
unfortunate in love affair, drank al
, ounce of laudanum and then stretched
herself out to die She was discovered
in time, fortunately, and after undergo
ing vigorous course of treatment re
covered at the City Hospital.
The funeral of Mrs. Smith, who die
on Saturday at the home of her son
Preston Alexander Lycurgus Smith, il
West Virginia, took place yesterda.
from st. James Episcopal Church, War
renton. She was the mother of Henr.
Smith, who owns the Fauquier Whit
Sulphur Springs; Jacquelin Smith, o
Bealeton; William Worth Smith, fBroa'
Run station, and p. A. l.. Smith,
prominent West Virginia attorney.