Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-09-11
VIRGINIA NEWS.


The launching of the cruiser Maryland
will take place tomorrow at Newport
News.
The marriage of Mr.. John NJ. Lake to
Miss Rosa Johnson took place at the
Methodist parsonage in Front Royal
yesterday afternoon, Rev. G. d. White
officiating.
The funeral of the late Judge E. c.
Minor took place in Richmond this after
noon. City officials and the Bar Asso-
citation met yesterday and adopted resolu-
tons Of respect to his memory.
While Mr.. Edward Seymour, a prOmi-
nent farmer of "Hayfeld," Loudoun
county, was assisting aneighbor to thrash
wheat cay or two ago, straw ran into
his left eye, nearly destroying the sight.
Col. Franklin X. Sewers, brother DR..
]. R. Sewers, of Warrenton, died at his
home in Denver, COL, Of typhoid fever
recently. He was born in Berryville in
1910 and lived in Cuba for several years.
Miss Hattie Underwood, beautiful
girl of 16, killed herself in her father S
house, near Adams Grove, Southampton
county, yesterday, while suffering from
the weakness of an an attack of typhoid
fever.
Mr.. James Bell, who lives near Thor
oughfare, Prince William county, re-
ceiyed word yesterday that his youngest
son, Phillip Bell, had been accidently
killed in Pittsburg, Pa, where he was
at work in an iron foundry.
- Tuesday last Aubrey Lake, 26 years
ola, of Philmont, Loudoun county, was
thrown from his horse while attempting
to lump a fence near Leithton. He was
very severely injured and died yesterday
at the home of his father, I. W.
Lake.
Senator Thomas S. Martin who arrived
in Richmond last night en- route TO New
port News to attend the launching of the
Maryland, gave out statement denying
that he or his friends are antagonizing
the primary plan and declaring his will
ingness to submit his claims under it.
George McNeaI, a. bridge carpenter,
80 years old, met a fearful death in
Craigon Tunnel, on the Norfolk and
Western Railway, in Wise county yes
torday. McNeal are working on the
roof of the tunnel which caved in several
weeks ago, when a stone weighing two
tons fell on him, MASKING his head and
body into a shapeless mass.
Mr.. J. Newman Earman, living about
two miles east of Harrisonburg, twice
attempted suicide Wednesday. Early
in the morning he took large quantity
of medicine containing strychnine. This
only made him sick, and while the doc
tors we're in the house he went into an
adjoining room and cut his throat with
a razor. The wound proved to be only
a superficial one Mr.. Earman was a
victim of melanchoia.
Governor Montague has been petition
ed for pardon for Joseph P. Cannon,
of Norfolk, who fled to Canada after his
conviction. Cannon, Guy Hall and
Willie Smith were convicted six years
ago of conspiracy to debaueh Lillian
Balm Cannon, the young wife of the man
now seeking pardon. Smith became
States witness and was not prosecuted.
Cannon and Hall were convicted and,
pending an appeal from the sentence to
prison. they fed the State.
A telephone message from Crocketts,
Montgomery county, says one of the
worst storms in recent years passed over
that section and the eastern part OF
Floyd county Wednesday evening,
during damage to the amount Of $40,
000 The mountain streams are badly
swollen, bridges and fences having been
swept away. A large number OF fine cattle
have been drowned and the crops in the
lowlands torn up by the roots. 1t Is
said the heaviest losses will probably be
the United States Arsenic Company,
whose property has suffered great
damage.
Virginia Bowling, the 15-year-old
daughter of w. 7. Bowling, of Lynch
burg, eIoped on Wednesday with Mr..
Lewis A. Hoffman, Of Charlottesville, an
alumnus Of the Miller School. Miss
Bowling has not yet reached the dignity
of long dresses, and to accomplish her
purpose borrowed one from Miss Hof-
man, sister of the groom-elact. Mr..
Hoffman went to Lynchburg Tuesday,
when he met his sweetheart and, after
she had told her mother that she was
going to spend the night with her chum,
they then left for Washington, where
they were married,
DECLARED INSANE. Harold Richard
Vynne newspaper man. novelist. minor