Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-07-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Messrs. Davis e. Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant, this
week, of the following patents to resi-
dents of this State: H. G. Morrison, Of
Sandy River, for pillow w. c. Law
ton, of Rural Retreat, two patents Tor
collar and hame fasteners.
Walter Webb, who shot and killed his
father, C. NJ. Webb, in Floyd county,
some time ago, was yesterday acquitted
in the county court. Counsel for the
prisoner offered to compromise the case
before going to trial, agreeing to accept
a term Of five years in the penitentiary'
A well-known mineralogist Of New
York, who has been prospecting in Floyd
county, has discovered large lead OF
graphite of the finest quality midway
between Christiansburg and Floyd Court
house. The discoverer has sufficient
capital behind him and will begin the
development of the mines at once.
The Negro Development and EXPOSE
ton Company of the United States OF
America is the name of concern or
ganized in Richmond yesterday by
representative colored men for the pur-
pose of having a negro exhibit at the
jamestown Tercentenary Exposition.
The company proposes to raise from
$500, 900 to 81, 900, 900 and a charter
will be applied for.
Mr.. @. S. Housden was seriously il
not fatally burned Monday night as the
result OF an explosion of a gasoline en-
CINE on the work of double-tracking the
Southern Railway near Spottswood
Tower, near Orange Courthouse. He
laid down near the engine and fell
asleep. The engine exploded, burning
every stitch of clothing from his body.
1t is said he cannot live.
Guy johnson, barkeeper for Barton s
Theater in Norfolk, was yesterday fined
$50 on the charge of selling liquor TO
three Western Union messengers. The
three messengers, who were charged
with drunkenness, were released with a
severe rebuke from the court An
officer testified that the boys had been in
the bar for hours standing at the counter
drinking. None of the messengers was
fifteen years old.
A special from Honaker, Russell
county, tells of a most extraordinary oc-
currence in that community. A party
of men were blasting in cut of a new
railway, when a hole was sprung.
James Crow, a negro, without waiting a
sufficient time for the hole to cool, ran a
long wooden hammer into it, with the
result that an explosion was brought
about. The seasoned wooden hammer,
a stick about one and quarter inches in
diameter, was hurled back upon Crow.
1t went through his neck, the penetrat-
ing end projecting about eighteen inches
from the opposite side. He will re-
cover.
On August 80 will be held the demo
cratic primaries in Loudoun. Candi.
dates for the House of Delegates and
the county offices will be nominated.
There are at present in the field for
nomination for clerk Of the court three
candidates, b. c. White, Paul w.
Garrett and the incumbent, Dade Hemp
stone; for sheriff, Eugene Mon
roe, George w. Virts and Thomas Ed
wards; for treasurer, John l.. Gill,
William L. Powell, II. II. Russell, W.
A. Mcfarland and George w. Popkins
for commonwealth attorney, Cecil
Common and the incumbent, E. E. Gar
rett. So far there has been no candi-
date for House of Delegates to succeed
Mr.. John F. Ryan, the incumbent.
Detective W. G. Baldwin, of Roanoke,
has arrested John Bailey and John
Kennedy, near Shenandoah, charged
with wrecking Norfolk and Western
passenger train near Greenville, on the
night of December 2S last, when Engi-
neer Wesley Bailey was killed. The
men had a hearing, pleaded guilty and
were sent to Staunton Jail without bond.
They are charged with murder. In a
sworn confession they say they planned,
with Mrs Ellen Painter, to wreck the
train and kill any passenger who might
escape death in the wreck. Only the
engineer was killed, and the plan of
wholesale murderder was abandoned.
Mrs. Painter comes sfrom North Caro-
lima, and will be arrested later.
Charles II Bqttner, aged e. years, q retired =
Simpsons little village in Floyd county,
Monday, and took quarters at a boarding
house. Later he called at the home Of Mrs.
Sarah J. Light, whom he had never before
seen. Yesterday Mr.. Buttner and Mrs
Light were married The acquaintance
started through marriage bureau.