Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-18
Virginia News.


Mr.. Robert Edwards, of Westmoreland
county, died suddenly few days ago.
He is survived by his wife and three
children.
A pretty wedding took place at Lees
burg yesterday when Walter n. Bene-
dunn, sor of John Z. Benedum, of Pur-
cellville, and Miss Jessie Stocks, of Air
mont, we're married.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee will be the orator
at the Hebrew Memorial Day exercises
this evening in Richmond. DIR. Caliseh
will offer the prayer and Roscoe Nelson
will introduce the speaker.
Col. H. NJ. Lewis, of Charlottesville
has organized national bank at Berry
vile, Clarke county, with Charles w.
Brown as president, G, ]. Rixey, vice
president and James Foley, cashier.
DR.. J. A. Quarles, professor of moral
philosophy in Washington and Lee Uni
versity, who was to deliver the annual
address before the pupils Of Tazewell
High School, lies dangerously ill at the
sanitarium there.
The Upperville Colt and Horse Club
has issued an attractive premium list
for its fourth annual exhibition at
CRATIC Hall, near Upperville, on June
5 and Is. There aya sixty-one classes
to be shown, with premiums aggregating
over %, 900.
The Newport News Docks and Coal
Corporation has beer incorporated. The
capital is 800, 900, and it is authorized
to hold so, 900 acres Of land. The pres
ident of the new company also is presi-
dent of the Chesapeake and Ohio Coal
and Coke Company.
In the Circuit Court of Winchester
yesterday, Judge T. w. Harrison grant
ed a divorce to Mrs. Annie Hopper
from her husband, J. W. Hopper. The
case was one of the most sensational
ever tried there, one feature being a
shooting ARRAY in which one man was
shot.
On Tuesday night q mob attempted to
break in the Jail at Fredericksburg with
the purpose of lynching Charles II. Blan-
ford, negro, who is confined there on
serious charge. Two officers came on
the scene and fred in the air, which
caused the men to disperse. They lett
crowbars and other tools.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant this
week to citizens of this State of the
following patents: George E. McVey,
gypsum, for cancellation stamp; Jas.
w. Leech, of Stanton, for circuit
closer Augustus W. Ball, of Richmond,
for a process of curing and preserving
meats Henry 7. Farnsworth, of Glade
Spring, for an automatic Pneumatic sig
nal system; Christopher @. Boykin, OF
Norfolk, for paper punch or perfora-
tor.
The social event of the season at
Front Royal was the marriage of Miss
Susan Bertha Millar to Lieut.. Rudolph
Otto Macmillan Ruthardt, in Calvary
Protestant Episcopal Church yesterday.
The bride is the daughter of Captain
and Mrs. Samuel Rolfe Millar. The
groom is a lieutenant in the German
army. Miss Millar met Lieutenant
Ruthardt while touring in Germany.
The couple left on the evening train for
New York, and from there will sail for
Germany, where they will reside.
The meeting of the Episcopal council
for the Diocese of Virginia began in
Richmond today. The session will last
three days, Bishop Gibson presiding.
Besides the voluminous routine work,
the question of establishing the Office of
archdeacon of the diocese, who, under
the direct coutrol of the bishop, will
have supervision of the missionary work
in the diocese will come up. Deputies
will have to be chosen to the general
convention which meets in October in
Boston. The delegation will be in
structed to invite the convention to
meet in Richmond in 1907.
A meeting of the board of directors
of the jamestown Exposition, held in
Norfolk last night, the resignation of
Lieut.. Gov. Joseph E. Willard as a
director of the company was received
and accepted. The board expressed a
desire that Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, presi-
dent of the company, remove his home
to Norfolk and assume active manage
ment of the affairs of the company.
Gen. Lee, expressed willingness to re-
move to Norfolk, and will do so immedi-
ately. Many reports from officers of the
company were read, all being of an Opt
mistic character.