Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-09-07
Virginia News.

After an illness of several weeks Mrs.
Lavina A. Lewis died at her late resi-
dence in Fredericksburg on Monday IN
the 10Th year of her age.
Capt. E. w. Sullivan, who command
ed Company G, Second Virginia Volun-
teers, in the Spanish-American war,
died last night at Harrisonburg.
Governor Montague's friends deny the
story that he will leave the State to
practice law at the end of his term, and
declare he will enter the senatorial race
formally in a short while.
Morton Pennington, aged II years, OF
Kinsale, was accidentally shot by his
brother, while handling cat rifle, on
Monday and died at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital in, Baltimore yesterday,
Governor Montague yesterday issued
a conditional pardon to Wade jenkins,
convicted of murder in the second degree
and sentenced to six and half years in
the penitentiary from Rappahannock
county.
Mrs. Margaretta j. Matter, widow OF
a prominent physician, who had from
choice lived alone near Hampden.Syd-
ney College, was burned to death yester-
day morning in fire accidentally started,
which destroyed her house.
A charter was granted yesterday to
the Virginia Racing Association of Ma
uassas. Prince William county. The
capital stock is to be from 81 600 to
So, 900. The incorporators are Paul V.
Portner, CHARLES r. Hoof, jr., j. Jen-
kyn Davies, B. n. Merchant, John
Davies, Robert Neville, H. n. Lips
comb.
B. J. Shannon, until last July editer
of the Stanton News, was found
dead iu his room in Harrisonburg yes
terday. He had been in bad health
during the early summer, and his death
was caused by an overdose Of morphine,
taken to relieve pain. Mr.. Shannon
was As years old. He was native of
Iowa, and came to Virginia about two
years ago.
Telephone information from Kemps-
vile states that cyclone Sunday after
noon struck that settlement, which is in
a remote section of Princess Anne county.
A church crowded with negroes was
twisted on its foundation, but no one
was injured. A barn on the farm OF
Barney Wilson was completely destroyed.
Several outhouses on farms in the path
of the cyclone were blown over, but nc
loss of life Is as yet reported.
Eugene Bode, a prominent merchant
and liquor dealer of Fredericksburg, met
with shocking death yesterday morn
ing while attempting to board moving
train at 10.47 O'Clock on the r., f. and
P. R. R., for Washington. He lost his
hold and fell to the ground, the car
striking his foot, and throwing him i'm
mediately under the wheel, cutting his
body in two. The train was detained
an hour before the body could be extri-
Gated from the wheels. Mr.. Bode was
fifty years old. He leaves his widow
and three children in comfortable cir
cumstances.
Fire yesterday morning at O'Clock
totally destroyed dwelling house al
Kingsville, Prince Edward county, and
its only occupant, Mrs. Marguerite
Natter, was burned to death. She was
over eighty years of age and cripple
and for number of years had lived in
the house alone. Mrs. Matter was the
widow of DR.. Mater, well-known ply
stefan, and leaves three grown children.
There are no means of fighting fire al
Kingsville, and the flames, famed by a
stiff breeze, ignited large brick house
adjoining the Mater residence, and il
also was burned to the ground.
The remains of a young man found
Oh the R., F. & P. R. r., near Milford,
in Caroline county, Monday, have been
identified as those of Richard Vaughan,
son of the late /. n. Vaughan, wealthy
tabacconist, who resided near Ashland.
The head and face were badly mutilated,
several trains having passed over the
body, and it now seems impossible
TO tell how he met his fate. Some think
he was murdered and placed on the
track. He was last seen Sunday after
noon, and his presence twenty-five miles
from his home, where his body was
found, is mystery. He was twenty
three years old and was an electrical
engineer. The family is very wealthy.
The democratic primary Congressional
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election TO nominate candidate for
Congress from the Fourth district OF
Virginia, to be voted for at the general
election in November next, was held
yesterday. The candidates voted for
we're Judge Leonidas d. Yarrell, of
Greensville county, and Congressman
r. G. Soutball, of Amelia county. The
returns received up to a late hour last
night indicated that a light vote was
polled throughout the district. The to-
tai democratic vote of Petersburg is
about 3, 600 The total vote polled there
yesterday was GA. SOuthall received
9l2 and Yarrell 302. The precincts in
Greensville county, the home of Judge
Yarrell, gave Yarrell 202 votes, Southall
IL. Many of the voters in Petersburg
were not permitted to vote, as the list Of
qualified voters used by the judges of
election contained only the names of
such voters as had paid their poll tax
for the years 1901, 1902, and 1903.
Judge Yarrell claims that he has carried
the district by 1000 majority, but later
returns indicate the denomination Of
Congressman Southall by a safe ma
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