Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-01-12
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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John NJ. Kaufman, g retired cancer
physician, died suddenly in Winchester
yesterday, aged 20 years.
c. Ross Barr died in Winchester on
Saturday, of dropsy, aged so years. He
was a well-known horse dealer.
A number of persons in Richmond
we're recently made sick by eating salad
with %mayonnaise dressing that had stood
in a tin bucket.
William Chambhn, son of Mr. A. B.
Chamblin, of Bloomfield, Loudoun coun-
ty, died on Sunday night, after a short
illness from pneumonia.
The residence on the farm of Mr..
George Waite, in Culpeper county, was
destroyed by fire a few nights ago and the
tenant, J. A. Johnson, lost all of his
personal effects.
Division Freight Agent John R. Mac
Mordo, of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, died yesterday in Ashland.
He was IS years old and had spent hall
his life in ~railroading.
The Crismond case was resumed a Spott-
sylvania Courthouse yesterday, with f.
H. Dejarnette, jr., as prosecuting attor-
ney, in place of r. L. Gordon. AS there
are eight indictments the case will oc-
cupy some days.
Mrs. Jennie Z. Scott, whose 4-year-
| old son was drowned at Newport News
last July, was given a verdict for 3d. 900
damages 10 the Corporation Court. The
child was drowned in a hole after yester-
day heavy rain.
Colored men armed with clubs and
stones surrounded a car which had cut
off the arm of Maria Shafter, a small
colored girl, and threatened the lives OF
the crew in Richmond yesterday. Pas
sengers drove them away with pistols,
and later Motorman j. w. Davis was ar
rested and held in $500 bail pending the
result of the girls injuries.
Chief Of Police B. F. Howard was
held guiltless by the Police Commission
ers in Richmond last night of charges
brought by the secretary of the Anil
saloon League of not aiding in convict
ing those selling liquors on Sunday. A
resolution was adopted dividing the city
into two police districts. There are
now three. An inspector of police was
| created.
Brilliant, genial "Jack'' Peasants, the
hero of Amelie Riyes' famous book
"The Quick or the Dead" died in Rich
mond a day or two ago, of pneumonia.
He was the cousin of the authoress, who
is now the Princess Troubetzkoy. By
his fine figure and handsome face he APP
pealed to her Imagination as the n to
play the leading role in her first book.
During the boom days in Virginia he
was private secretary to Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee.
Hunter Chennewith, 35 years of age.
of Arden, w. Va, was accidentally
shot and probably fatally wounded
while out cunning nea Hopewell,
Frederick county, yesterday. He was
on a visit to his brother-in-law, John
Kinney. With Wesley Kinney he had
scared up a rabbit, and in getting over a
fence the hammer Of the gun became
caught. Both baraels were discharged
only one load of shot, however, taking
effect in Chennewith's lungs.
Noah and William White, aged
eight months and six years, respective
", were burned to death in their home,
zeal Parksley, yesterday afternoon. A
third child, Lewis, narrowly escaped.
The children had been left alone by
their parents, who had gone to work,
and during their absence the house
caught fire with the above result.
The mother returned il time to save
Lewis, the only one Of the children to
escape.