Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-04-15
Virginia News.


Miss Maria Randall, of King George
county, died yesterday, aged sixty-seyen.
Mrs. NJ. J. Tyler, of Fredericksburg,
died suddenly at her home there yester-
day, aged seventy-one.
Governor Montague has issued a
proclamation designating April p as
Arbor Day and urging the people OF the
State to plant trees.
Miss Loula Kirk, daughter of Rev.
J. o. Kirk, formerly of Fredericksburg
died Wednesday night at her home near
Laurel, aged twenty years.
F. L. Pittard, brakeman on the
Southern Railway, was killed by SHIFT
ing engine in the yards of the Southern
at Danyile at an early hour yesterday
morning.
d. II. Larkin, a United States deputy
marshal of Virginia, was yesterday allow
ed $40, 600 by the House committee on
claims towards the expense he was put to
in defending himself in the courts for
HdNlHk hilltu
The Mount Elliott Springs and Santa
rum Company has been organized with
James r. Taylor, jr., president. Among
the directors is Mr.. John Critcher, jr., OF
Alexandria. The company has acquired
the Variety Springs, Augusta county.
JohnIL. de Treyille, Of Richmond, was
married yesterday evening at "Beach
HILL" Walbrook, Md, to Miss Jessie
Slingluff Hunter. The ceremony took
place at the home of the BRIDES parents.
Rev. Fathers Starr, of Baltimore, and
Hannigan, of Richmond, officiated.
The executive council of State Confer
ence of Charities and Corrections men in
Richmond on Wednesday to arrange a
a programme for the annual conference,
Nav II. at Norfolk. Mrs. Kate Waller
Barrett, of Alexandria Capt. Joseph E.
Willard and Others will deliver addresses.
Petitions are being signed by the ship
pers throughout Westmoreland asking
Congress for an appropriation for the
dredging of the head of Coan river to
Rowe's Landing, distance of one and
one-half miles from Heathsville, which
would make that place convenient to a
steamboat landing.
The body of Miss Helen Christian,
who died Tuesday last at the Columbian
Hospital, in Washington, was sent yes
terday to Lynchburg, where interment
was made. She was the daughter of the
late Charles w. Christian, of Lynchburg,
auditor of the Old Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad.
The Southern Railway is preparing to
erect at Monroe, the end of the division,
five miles from Lynchburg, arailroad Y.
NJ. c. A., building for the use of its en-
ployes. In the edifce there will not only
be reading-rooms, library and baths, but
also lunch counter and stopping apart
ments in charge of paid secretary.
Before a political meeting in Rich
mond last night the retirement of Col.
George Wayne Anderson from the race
for the Office of mayor of Richmond was
announced. The probable effect will be
the election of Capt. Carlton Mccarthy.
Col. Anderson, who is great-grandson
of Thomas Jefferson, is State senator
from Richmond.
The General Hospital Board held its
quarterly session at the Central State
Hospital near Petersburg on Wednesday,
and transacted much business of interest
to the hospitals of Virginia. There
being four hospitals in the State, one
meeting of the general board is held at
each institution once during the year.
There are 602 patients at the Eastern
State Hospital at Williamsburg, and
,O72 at the Western State Hospital, at
Staunton