Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-07-19
Virginia News.

DIR. Charles w. Kent, Of the University
of Virginia, has been offered the presi-
dency of the University of Tennessee.
John w. Kennedy, trainwrecker and
bandit who was sentenced to be hanged
and who escaped from Jail at Staunton,
has been recaptured in Monroe county,
w. Va.
Mr.. Marshall Mccormick, of Berry
vile, has been reelected president of
the Bank of Clarke County. He has
been connected with that institution
since 1881.
Charles NJ. Stanley and wife, ofPhila-
delphia, arrived in Richmond on Sun
day and while walking along the streets
the man lost his pockerboOk containing
81, 675 in cash.
The Norfolk and Western Railway
Company yesterday placed orders for the
construction of 200 100, 000-pound coal
cars and 600 $4,000 pound cars, to be
built in the Roanoke shops.
Mrs. A. NJ. F. Day, grandmother of
Senator Thomas 5. Martins wife, Mrs.
Lucy Day Martin, died Saturday in
Smithfeld. aged seventy-nine years.
She was i'll only fifteen minutes.
The large sawmill on the Globe Farm,
in Powhatan county, with quantity of
lumber, was destroyed by fire, on Sum
day entailing loss of so, 600, with no
insurance. The property was owned by
Charles Culton.
Capt. Thomas r. Dunn died very sud
denly yesterday afternoon at his resi-
dence in Petersburg while sitting on his
front porch reading newspaper. At
the time of his death he was city engi-
neer OF Petersburg.
The following rural carriers have been
appointed in Virginia: At Berryvile-
William r. Hoffman carrier, Charlie
G. Willingham substitute; John A. T.
Grigsby carrier, Ellis F. Jackson substi-
tute Adolphus Feltner carrier William
Starkey substitute.
Detective w. G. Baldwin of Richmond
has received a telegram from Monroe
county in which it is stated that John w.
Kennedy, the train-wrecker and bandit
who escaped Jail at Staunton, has been
captured. Baldwin has sent one of his
men to West Virginia to bring Kennedy
back to Stanton for execution.
Will Murray, sixteen-year-old boy
from Richlands, was jailed at Tazewel
last night for criminally assaulting Bessie
Lester, the fve-year-Old daughter of j.
B. Lester, a highly respected citizen of
that county. The officers who brought
the prisoner to the Jail say that if Muir
ray had not been taken from the commu-
nifty Immediately, or as soon as the news
of the affair became known, he would
have received rough handling at the
hands of the girls friends.
The army board, consisting Of Brig.
Gen. Frederick ID. Grant, Tasker ii
Bliss, Thomas II. Barry and Lieut.. Col
John G. d. Knight, met at the War
College in Washington yesterday and ar
ranged for visit to Manassas to prepare
programme for the joint regular army
and military man@uvres to be held there
in September. Col. II. O. 5. Heistand.
Adiutant- General of the Atlantic Divi-
sion. at New York, conferred at the
War Department yesterday regarding
the maneuvrts. He has been at Man
assas locating the camps of the several
regiments and organizations.
Fire Sunday night destroyed a 81, 200
barn on Assistant Postmaster 5. B. Car
news farm near Norfolk. In the building
were IL horses and mules. Two OF these
were burned to death. In rescuing the
Others Mr.. Carney's son narrowly escap-
ed death under the falling roof The fire.
bug is supposed to have been negro who
insulted lady at Battery Park. This
man was chased by citizens and he ran
across fields to the Carney farm. His spur
suers were close behind him and it is
thought that the negro ran into the barn
and fired it to direct attention from him
self. The negro was arrested, however,
and fastened to a tree, with arms extend
ed about the trunk and with the hand
cuffs. While the fire was raging a crowd
of coIored people gathered and some OF
them released the prisoner while the cap
tors were engaged 10 saving things from
the barn.