Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-14
Virginia News.

home in Spotsylvania Wednesday morn
ing after lingering illness of ten months,
aged 80 years.
The following are among Mr. RixeY's
appointments Dumfries, Herndon,
ForestvilIe, Potter's School-house and
King George Court.
Mr.. Frank Barr and Miss Maud
Louise Difende.ier, both of Winchester,
drove to KernstOwn late Wednesday
night, and were married.
Miss Pearl Garrett, daughter of Will
liam E. Garrett, lawyer of Leesburg,
and Mr.. Harry Chamblin, of that place,
were married at the brides home yester-
day.
In order to attend the Hagerstown
fair together, H. D. Whiteacre and Miss
Getty v. Anderson, both of Frederick
county, went TO Winchester and were
married early yesterday morning.
Colonel Higgins, of the Seyenty-first
Virginia Regiment, who, on Wednesday
night inspected Company F, the Suf-
folk Grays, says the command has fallen
below the minimum membership re-
quired, and unless recruits are received,
the Grays may be mustered out after
sixty days.
The State conference of the Daughters
OF the American Revolution, will be held
October 26 and 81 in Fredericksburg.
About sixty delegates and regents Ci
chapters are expected, and probably a
hundred other prominent visitors will
likewise attend the meeting. Mrs.
Charles w. Fairbanks, president-general
of the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, is expected to be present.
A seizure by customs officials at Nor
folk of Turkish and Persian goods, val
ued at thousands of dollars, which were
brought there from Europe By the naval
collier Hannibal has created sensation
in naval circles, and is now in the hands
of the Secretary Of the Navy for investi-
CATION. Two naval officers, sad to be
of high rank, and attached to the battle
ship squadron in European waters are
mixed up in the case.
A wedding of interest to residents of
Culpeper was solemnized Wednesday
afternoon in the New Willard Hotel in
Washington, when Miss Catherine New
house, daughter of s. NJ. Newhouse, was
married to Mr.. Sayre j. Thompson.
Both are from Culpeper. Rev. Clement
II. Brown, assistant rector OF the Pro-
Cathedral Church of the Ascension, OF
Washington, performed the ceremony.
The mother OF the bride aud few init
mate friends and relatives of the two
families were present.
Having become respondent from
brooding over financial reverses, Alger-
non Turner, farmer of Isle Of Wight
county, yesterday drank 10 cents worth
of strychnine and died in Is minutes.
Formerly lumber manufactures and
we'll to do, Turner had lost money and
credit. He went to Smith6eld and fail
ing to get trusted for family supplies re-
turned home without them, after invest
ing dime for poison. Shortly after ar
irving home Turner swallowed the drug.
He was about so years old and leaves a
family.
J. d. Wilkinson, SO years old, was
found dead, hanging from ladder at
the rear end of his home in Richmond,
about 3 o'clock yesterday morning. He
was in his night clothes and was discoy-
cred by his wife, why woke up and found
him missing. She instituted search
and found him swinging between the
ladder and the house How long he had
been dead could not be determined. He
had been in i'll health for several weeks
and was respondent. He was h native
Of Prince Edward county, and the body
will be taken to prospect for burial.