Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-29
VIRGINIA NEWS.

~calities in Stafford county. Quarantine
has been ordered.
Mrs. J.. Harvey Fristoe, of Elgin,
Page county, died at her home Wednes-
day night aged about Ga years.
Mrs. James Leafe died in Winchester
Yesterday, aged 65 years. She was a
native Of Derbyshire, England.
On Sunday morning last Mr.. c. Flem-
ing Ford died of pneumonia, at his home
near Clifton, after an illness of only a
few days, aged SO years.
Yesterday afternoon Giles A. Mad
doz. of Baltimore, and Miss Anna
Boyd, of Browntown, Warren county,
eloped, and we're married at the resi-
dence of Rev. l.. Fox, in Front Royal
William Davis a Southern Railway
brakeman, was fatally injured in Rich
mond yesterday. He was about to
alight from a moving freight train,
when he was caught between a car and a
telegraph pole and crushed.
Richard Phillips, a negro, who sever
al years ago murdered a soldier at
Hampton, and was sentenced to hang,
effected his escape from the lunatic asy-
lum at Petersburg yesterday, where he
had been confined since being adjudged
insane.
The directors of the Lynchburg
Cotton Mill, after discussing the present
unsatisfactory condition of business in
their line, have ordered a cut of 10 per
cent. in wages of operatives at the mill,
of whom there are $50. The reduction
goes into effect February s.
Twenty-three towns and cities of
Virginia have offered a site for the pro-
posed State Normal School. The legis-
latiye committee which has the matter
in charge met yesterday and extended
the time for adecision until February II.
Meanwhile those applying are asked to
submit detailed propositions.
Mrs. Llewellyn Pugh, aged SO, wife Of
one Of Albemarle county, wealthiest citi-
zens, died of pneumonia at, St. Charles
Hotel, New Orleans, where she had gone
to spend the winter. Deceased was Miss
Josephine Randolph, daughter of DIR.
Peter Randolph, of New Orleans. She
came to Albemarle three years ago.
Miss Sarah Mcdonald, aged IS years,
a we'll known lady of Salem, was run
down by a Norfolk & Western freight
train at that place last night, and instant
ly killed, her head being severed from
the body. Miss Mcdonald, who was
quite near sighted and hard of hearing,
attempted to cross the tracks in front Of
the train.
Rabies or a similar disease has attack
ed the herd of cattle owned by Mr..
John &. Utterback, living near Lees
burg. On Wednesday four of his finest
cattle, were killed and burned by the
directions of expert veterinarians.
Other cattle in the neignborhood are
reported as affected, and the origin is
supposed to have been from the bite of a
mad dog said to have been in that Sec
ton about January |, when the first
symptoms were observed.
Representative Lamb, of Virginia, in
troduced a bill in the House yesterday
appropriating 81, 200, 900 ito the Negro
Development and Exposition Company
ofthe United States of America, incor-
porated under the laws of Virginia. One
million dollars is to enable a diatble ex-
position to be made by this company at
the jamestown Exposition, to be held in
1907, and 5000, 900 is to pay bounties
and arrears of pay due estates of deceased
negro soldiers OF the civil war.