Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-12-13
Virginia News.

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Mr.. H. Z. Kinzer, of lower FauquleI
county, died suddenly recently at bis
home near Casanova.
The Norfolk and Southern Railway
has secured control of the chesapeake
Transit Company's line.
Gov. Montague left Richmond yester-
day afternoon for Fairfax, where ne VIII
address the County Good Roads
Association today.
Miss Emily Mander, public school
teacher of Fredericksburg. who went to
Washington some time ago for treatment
at hospital, died there yesterday.
Mrs. Estell Penuel, wife of DR.. A. l..
Penuel of Leesburg, died at her home,
Saturday night. She was formerly q
Miss Macarthur, ofLeesburg.
DR.. Bickerton l.. Winston, a former
legislator, member of the State demo-
cratic committee, and leading physician,
is dead at his home in Hanover county
in his iorty-ninth year.
So much displeased at the lack oil
space are the judges that there is seri-
oas talk among them of moving the SIT
tings OF the United States Circuit CUurI
OF Appeals from Richmond TO Baltimore.
The wedding ofMiss Jane Leigh Os'
borne and Mr.. Thomas Swami Whipple,
of Leesburg, took place quietly in Wash
ington yesterday morning at the Church
of the Ascension, on Massachusetts, ave-
nue., Rev. q. w. J,nes. officiating.
A man named Hume was found
murdered on election day in piece OF
woods in Orange county. The affair
was shrouded in mystery, but now Louis
and George Davenport brothers-ln law
of Hume, have been arrested. charged
with the crime. Neither of the prisoners
is over 80 years ofsge.
Capt. I. j Adams, familiarity known
throughout the Valley as Capt. Jack
Adams, died Sunday night at the resi-
dence of his cousin. Miss Nan Quick, at
Quicksburg, Shenandoah county, aged
about II years. During the civil war
he organized company. which was en-
listed in the Twenty third Virginia
Cavalry, under Colonel Whites com.
mand.
As the result of wound inflicted two
months ago L. II. Fulcher is dead at a
hospital in Richmond and E. G. Burnett
has been arrested and released Oh bail.
Fulcher VAS a man of giganic size and
uncertain temper. Believing that Bur-
nett WAS paying attention to Mrs. Full
cher. he attacked him 10 a saloon OctO-
Der and endeavor to strangle him. Bur-
nett, who is quite small, drew pistol
and shot Fulcher.
Mrs. Brightwell, wife Of Dabney
Bnghtwell was burned to death in her
home, Belmont, Spottsylvania county,
Friday. Mrs. Brightwell was paralytic
and alone in the house. Her husband
was out on the farm when attracted by
smoke in the direction of his residence.
He ran and found the house a seething
furnace, with flames bursting from every
door and window. He made a heroic
dash for his wife's room. but failed to
reach il and was himself badly burned.
The house and its contents were destroyed
and the charred trunk OF Mrs. Brightwell
was all that was lett of her body.
As a result of domestic chickering's @.
w. Price, a carpenter, of Moundsville,
w. Va is dead. and Reese Carr, his broth
erin law, is fugitive from justice. Mrs.
Price was brought back recently from
the Weston Asylum by Carr, aud ber
husband constantly asserted that her
mental condition had not improved.
There was frequent quarrels on tho sub
iect between the husband and BROTHER,
and Mrs. Price naturally sided with
Carr. Yesterday the two men stepped
into the yard of their home to fight it
out, when Carr whipped out revolver
aud fired two bullets into Prices body,
one passing drought the heart and
causing instant death. Carr fed and
has not been unprecedented.