Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-12
Virginia News.


Miss Emma Jennings, of Orange county.
were married at the residence OF Maj.
w. Jennings, near Earlysville, Abe
marie county, day or two ago, Rev. D..
J. Whise officiating.
Miss Lille Painter, daughter Of Su-
pervisor ". II. Painter, of Warren,
died Monday night Of typhoid fever,
aged about eighteen years. Mr.. Fainter
also lost son from the same disease Ia
Newport News last week.
Deputy Sheriff Hall, Of Charlottes'
vile, charged with the summoning OF
witnesses for the prosecution in the Nc
Cue murder case, has been unable to
find anywhere in the city or county the
McCue children, who, with relative of
that family, are probably in the county
Harold NJ. Huff, son of DR.. I. G..
HUFF, and a member of the University OF
Virginia law class of 1890, and Miss
Katherine Bagby. daughter OF the late
DIR. Richard Morris Bagby, were married
Monday afternoon at the residence OF
DR.. Hugh T. Nelson, at Charlottesville.
G. J. Pullian, a farmer of Spottsyl-
vania county, lost two large barns by
fire early Monday morning. In the
barns were thirteen valuable mules, five
tons of hay, large lot Of harness, &C.,
together with other valuable property,
all of which was consumed. The origin
of the fire is not known.
In few weeks the diocese of Virginia
will have two new priests, who were or
dained at All Hallow's Seminary, Ire
land, last June. IL is not known where
they will be assigned but the demand for
priests is so great throughout the State
that there is very little likelihood of their
being located in Richmond.
The republican Congressional conven-
vention to nominate a candidate for
Congress from the Fourth district Of
Virginia was held in Petersburg yester-
day. The convention nominated Judge
Charles Alexander, of Mecklenburg
county. Postmaster Stith Boiling, of
Petersburg, declined to accept the nomi-
nation.
Monday night between IL and IL
O'Clock, at Bedford Springs, Miss Lula
Arthur, aged seventeen, was burned to
death. She and her mother, lived 10
small two story frame dwelling. Miss
Arthur was asleep in bed when her
mother lighted lamp, which she left
in the room, and then went out to the
kitchen. While her mother was out the
lamp is supposed to have exploded. The
house was almost Immediately a mass of
flames, and before neighbors arrived the
walls were falling in. The remains of
Miss Arthur were taken out of the ruins
and inferred yesterday.
The recent epidemic of burglaries and
holdups in aud about Norfolk has caus-
ed phenomenal increase in the number
of residents who may lawfully carry con-
cealed weapons. Between four and five
hundred citizens of Norfolk ara now carry
ing concealed pistols by license, and
every day others are applying to the
court and receiving permission to do
likewise. The law gives man the right
to carry a weapon when he considers his
life in danger and he can establish a
good character to the satisfaction of the
court. Residents of the city seem to be
stirred up over the question, and not 10
many years have there been so many
licenses to carry pistols.
In the United States Circuit Court in
Richmond yesterday Judge Waddill
entered an order making permanent re-
ceivers for the Virginia Passenger and
Power Company Messrs. William North
rup and Henry l. Wickham. The lines
are controlled by Frank Jay Gould, and
the receivers were appointed by his re-
quest to forestall the former owner of
the electric road, George F. Fisher, Of
New York, who was pressing a suit in
the State courts to secnre the appoint
ment of receivers favorable TO him.
10 the same court petition was filed
by the Metropolitan Trust Company OF
New York asking the court to grant them
leave to sue the receivers. The Metro
politan Company is trustee for an issue
by the street railway company of$l ,000,-
900 in per cent. gold bonds. The
failed to pay the interest on
these, due last July, and the trustee
desires to foreclose.