Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-11-03
Virginia News.

The new house in Bedford City of Hal
B. Mosby, the inspector of free rural
mail delivery service, was burned yester-
day.
Mrs. Mary Cave died at Winchester
Tuesday night after brief illness, aged
go years. She is survived by number
of children.
w. Upshur Bass, of Simpson, Bass 6.
Co., died in Richmond Yesterday morn
ing OF pneumonia, alter an illness OF a
week. He was in his sixty-6rst year.
Dir. Ennis Lewis, of Spottsylsania
county, and Miss Gertrude Wright,
daughter of Mr.. j. IL. Wright, were
married at Fredericksburg Friday night,
at the residence Of the brides parents.
A reduction 10 the hours of labor to
nine hours with nine hours pay, at the
Seaboard Air Line shops in Ports
month, yesterday, caused Is pipefitters
to leave. Other employees threaten to
strike.
Iugleside Castle, the home of the
bride, near Winchester, was the scene of
pretty wedding at o'clock yesterday
afternoon, when Miss Annie Lyle Cart
NELL, only daughter of Mr.. Thomas X.
Carlmell became the wife of D. Coup
land Randolph.
The ladies of the Norfolk Women's
Christian Temperance Union at their
weekly meeting yesterday began prelimi-
nary arrangements for a committee CT
ladies to go to the polls in Norfolk city
IN election day and distribute prohibition
presidential instruction tickets 10 voters.
Ethel Lowry, lG-year.old schoolgirl
was struck by nOrthbound freight train
on the Southern Railway yesterday
morning about Is miles north oil Lynch
burg. The girl has broken arm, four
ribs fractured and internal injuries. The
trainmen knew nothing of the accident
and she lay alongside the track for some
time until the morning local to Wash
ington picked her up and took her to
Charlottesville, where she was placed in
hospital. The girl is probably fatally
injured.
T. G. Powell, chairman of the New
port News board Of police commission
ers, has rendered his resignation tn May
or Buxton, to take effect Immediately.
The resignation came as surprise. The
effect is to give Mayor Buxton control OF
the police department, as he will appoint
Powell's successor and thereby have a
majority of his constituents on the board.
AS the result general shakeup Of the
department will occur, and it is believed
a new chief of police will take the place
now held by Capt. Thomas A. johnson.
The State Corporation Commission
yesterday granted a charter to the Vir-
ginia and Southeastern Railway Com
pany. The capital stock is placed at
from 81, 900, 900 to $40, 900, 900. The
promoters of the enterprise are said to
be interested with John d. Rockefeller
and other millionaire coal, iron and oil
men, and have unlimited capital. Direc-
tors as named in the charter are: Oliver
H. Payne, New York; Grant Schley,
New York Walter Ferguson, Stamford,
c.. Henry K. McHarg, Stamford, CT. (;
John B. Newton, J. Bueley and d. d.
Hull, jr., Bristol, Va.
Yesterday at st. Paul's Church, King
George county, we're married Mr. Hugh |
Mercer Tennent aud Miss Roberta l..
Berry. Rev. B. T. Turner performed |
the ceremony. The old edifice was ex-
quisitely decorated with ported plants,
terms and eyergreens, and was filed with |
friends and relatives. The bride was
given away by her brother, Charles
Berry. Immediately after the marriage |
Mr.. and Mrs. Tennent left for bridal !
tour in the north. The bride is an only |
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Berry, OF King George county,
while the bridegroom is well-known
farmer of King George. They will re-
side at Liberty"