Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-07-07
Virginia News.

wheat harvest Is ABOUT over III bOuu-
doun county. The farmers generally,
are not pleased with the crop.
After evading the officers for 10 days
Ebert Boyd, who shot and killed an
other man named John Galloway, near
Bristol, was captured yes terday.
DR.. Alderman has postponed for sew
eral DAYS his answer to the University OF
Virginia as to whether he will accept
the presidency OF that institution.
Mrs. Mamie Danson, widow OF the
late Thomas Danson. died in Fredericks,
burg on Tuesday night at the home oil
her son-in-law, Robert Perry, aged nifty
six years.
Mr.. BRYANT Glascock, son of Mr.
Henry Glascoek, near New Baltimore was
bitten by a rattle-snake on Friday last.
The proper remedies were applied and
he has recovered.
DR.. Frank Anthony Wake, one of
No,folk's best known and among her
most highly esteemed citizens, died at
his home in that city Tuesday night,
after protracted illness, aged 73 years.
The marriage of Miss May Buck to
Rev. Henry Bryant Stoneham took
place at the home OF the brides parents
at Front Royal yesterday. Miss Buck
is the daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
n. Buck.
In their answer to the suit for re-
ceiver for the Virginia Passenger and
Power Company, of Petersburg, Frank
and Miss Helen Gould yesterday made
sensational charges against George E.
Fisher, OF New York
One of the worst freshets that ever &C.
cured in Fauquier county took place on
Wednesday of last week when the crops
and roads were seriously damaged and
the water was higher than during the
Johnstown food, though the area affect
ed was nothing like so extensive.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed in
the clerks Office of the United States
District in Lynchburg yesterday by
Milton Cohen, leading clothier there,
doing business under the firm name
of Joseph Cohen & Sons, with liabilities
of s44, 1925, rs; assets of notes, debts and
stock in trade of $45, 650.S3.
The Spotsylvania Mica Mining Co.,
composed of capitalists of Homestead
and Charleroy, Pa. who are interested
in mining, have purchased part of the
Boggs property in Livingston district in
Spotsylvania county, and are working
the old mica mine, which was operated
foe sheet mica before the civil war.
An order which will effect 1900 en-
ployes of the Roanoke shops was posted
Yesterday reducing time from nine to
eight hours a day. The men were placed
on nine hours time aboutsix weeks ago.
This means a 20 per cent. reduction Of
wages and the earning capacity of the
shops employees. The new order becomes
effective at once.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant this
week to citizens of this State of the fol-
lowing patents Walter f Ellis, OF
Norfolk, for n window screen; John
FRASER, of Columbia, for an acetylene
gas generator; George NJ. Hanger, as
signor of ope-half to d. 5. Thomas, OF
Bridgewater, for hand pillow; William
H. Kelly, of Brownsburg, for carriage
top.
To avoid threatened lynching, the
acting chief of police removed james
Goode from Jail in Richmond at &
o'clock yesterday morning and kept him
secreted in his private office until the
examination in the Police Court. A
large crowd assembled at the Jail.
Goode was arraigned on the charge OF
the murder of George Fox, colored,
and Police Inspector Shinberger. Ex-
animation was waived. He was escorted
to the police van, handcuiled to two
police sergean s, with drawn revolvers
and hustled into the vehicle among a
squad of officers and hurriedly driven
back to Jail.
A colored girl by the name of Ella
Dawson, a servant at the home of Mrs.
James Dickerson, near Summit, IN
Spottsylvania county, was sent Monday
evening to the railroad camp near Sum
nit, the headquarters of a large force Of
labqSers, who are doing the double,
tracking work at that point. The girl
did not return promptly, and by bed
time much uneasiness was felt as to her
whereabouts. Early Tuesday morning
search was instituted and the authorl-
ties were notified. After diligent search
for some hours the body of the girl wa;
found in the bushes near the county
road. An investigation disclosed the
fact that she had been brutally assaulted
and then murdered. Suspicion points
to some of the negro workmen on th'
railroad.