Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-16
Virginia News.

: Friends of Senator John w. Daniel
and Mr.. A. G. Braxton are pushing each
for the yice-presidential nomination.
The Chesapeake and Ohio grain eleva-
tors closed down at Newport News Satur-
day evening for an indefinite period.
Mr.. Robert Wells died of pneumonia
at his home near Passapatanzy, King
George county, Friday, in the 55th year
of his age.
Joseph Lorenzo Bilisoly, cashier of the
Bank of Portsmouth, Confederate and
capitalist, died on Saturday of heart
disease, aged 60 years.
Mrs. Turner, wife of the Rev. B. 7.
Turner, rector of the Episcopal churches
of King George, has been sent to New
York city for medical treatment.
Daniel J. Turner, of Norfolk, has been
appointed district organizer for Mary
land, Virginia and the District of Column
bia by the Endowment Rank, Knights Of
Pythias.
DR.. J. S. Wenz, father Of Edward l..
Wentz, made an apology to the Big
Stone Gap coroner's jury for the report
ed statements that the family discredited
the jury's verdict.
Dependent because of i'll health,
Charles H. Lowry killed himself by cut
ting his throat at his home in Hanover
on Saturday. He was car inspector
for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for
many years.
Mrs. Jennie Gibson, wife of Edward
Gibson, of CuIpeper, died at Columbia
Hospital, in Washington, ID. c., on
Saturday, while under treatment there
She was Miss Jennie Grigg, of Rich
mond.
Rev. Nelson P. Dame, for seventeen
years rector of Christ Episcopal Church
in Winchester last night rendered his
resignation to take effect June Is. He
has accepted call to st. PauPs Church,
Ossining, N. Y.
Mayor Robert NJ. McLane, of Balti-
more, was married in Washington on
Saturday to Mrs. Mary Van Bibber,
widow of DR.. John Van Bibber, of Bal
timore. The ceremony was performed
in St. Andrews Episcopal Church by
the rector, Rev. George Calvert Carter,
son of Mr.. Bernard Carter.
Miss Mary Louise Yates and her sis
ter, Miss Margaret Yates, both of Har-
risonburg, were participants in double
elopement and wedding on Saturday.
They were married late in the evening
at Towson, Md, Miss Mary becoming
the bride of Mr.. William A. Root and
her sister was welded to Mr. H. j. Lus-
by. Both bridegrooms reside at Mount
Jackson.
The armory of the Culpeper Minute
Men was crowded one night last week to
witness a competitive drill between the
picked members of that military company
and an equally fine military company of
young ladies of that town, as to the most
proficient in the manual of arms, the
marching and the various military evolu-
tons. The three judges unanimously
decided in favor of theyoung ladies' COM
pany.
The board of visitors Of the Univer-
sity of Virginia met Saturday afternoon
at that institution, and, after brief dis.
cussion of the presidency question, adj
journed without any apparent action in
the matter. A member, upon being ask
ed what had been accomplished, replied:
''No disclosure will be made for the
present." The apparent failure of the
board to elect leads to the belief that the
man selected at the April session Gf
choice was then made) had declined to
accept the position, and that Saturdays
gathering was simply to decide what
further steps should be taken.