Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-04
Virginia News.

A handsome Episcopal church is be-
ing built at Lewiston, Spottsylyania
county.
The heading and stave mill of Elliott
Boswell at Burkeville, on the Norfolk
and Western railroad was partially de.
stroped by fire on Sunday.
Mrs. Mary II. Amiss, widow of the
late Richard Amiss, died a few days age
at her home in Morrisville, Fauquier
county, aged eighty years.
Capt. Frank II. Revere has resigned
as commander of the Washington Guards
Of Fredericksburg. First Lieutenant L.
NJ. Larkin will probably succeed him.
There was reduction of the force OF
mechanics in the construction and re-
pair department of the Norfolk navy
yard Saturday TO the extent OF twenty
two men.
r. L. Parker nearly severed N. w.
McMullen's little toe on a Chesapeake
and Ohio excursion train running from
Richmond TO Newport News yesterday.
McMullen sat behind Parker and occa-
sionally placed his feet upou Parker's
shoulder.
Mr.. /. A. Miller, for a number OF
years dry goods merchant of Rich
mond, died Sunday in the pulpit of
Kenuesette Israel Synagogue while as
sisting the rabbi in conducting the SER
vices. While going through the part Of
the services assigned him he reeled and
fell, and apparently died instantly. He
leaves widow and seven children. -
Hon. j. F. Rixey spoke at Manassas
yesterday 10 a large and appreciative
audience. Mr.. O. c. Carlin, the elector
for the district, was unable to be pres
ent, and Mr.. j. r. Cation was unex-
pectedly called upon by Mr.. Rixey to
speak, which he did with credit TO him
self and to the edi6cation of his hearers.
Mr.. Cation will speak at the fag-raising
at Gainesville next Saturday.
Three bullets from a revolver have
probably ended the feud betSeen Ed
ward Burnett and Henry l.. Fulcher.
Burnett was in a saloon in Richmond
Yesterday, when Fulcher entered and
jumped on him from behind on attempted
to strange him. Burnett succeeded in
drawing a revolver, placed the muzzle
against Fulcher's stomach and fired.
The latter let go his hold of Burnetts
throat and staggered back. Then came
three more reports. One bullet entered
Fulchet's chest aud the other his hip.
The third inflicted simple flesh wound
Burnett went to the police station and
surrendered.
Ministers of the Adventist Church were
in Lynchburg yesterday consulting law.
yers preparatory to the prosecution of a
mob of sixty men armed with shotguns,
who, they allege, on Friday pulled down
and carried to the depot large tent III
which the Seventhday Adyentists had
been holding a meeting for several weeks
past at Marina, a village in Campbell
county, about twenty-five miles from
Lynchburg 1t ia also alleged that they
made Elder |. B. Rule, who had been
conducting the meeting, remove the
tent in which he had made his home,
after warning him by letter to stop
preaching and leave. The matter will
be brought to the attention of the grand
jury at the November term Of the Cir
cult Court at Rustburg.
Edward n. Hardy aud Miss Cora
Shirley. prominent yaung couple from
Frederick county, left Winchester on
the early train yesterday morning and
went to Hagerstown, Nd, where they
were married by Rev. w. 9. Griffin at
the Methodist parsonage. A day or two
ago Hardy and his prospective father
in-law, Christopher Shirley, became in
yolved 10 an alteration because, 1t is
alleged, the girls father objected to the
attention paid his daughter by the young
man. They exchanged shots in the
middle of the road, the angry father
using shotgun and Hardy a revolver.
The young lover was filled with buck
shot. His wounds were dressed, and,
despite the irate parents opposition, he
and the girl outwitted thosese to watch
them aud eloped.
Thousands of acres of valuable timber
land and many homesteads have been
laid waste by fierce mountain FIRE that
has been raging in the western part Of
Frederick county and in Hampshire
county, w. Va, since Friday. In at
tempting to clear his land a resident Of
the CapOn Mountain range started the
fire, which was caught by a high wind
and famed into uncomfortable fury.
The fire is burning in an easterly d.
rection, and now extends over thousands
of acres. The loss in valuable timber
also can hardly be estimated, while
many are homeless as result of the
conhagration. Residents OF that section
say that owing to the high winds and
the dry weather the fire will be one OF
the most destructive that has ragged
in that part of the country for m any
years.
Gov. Montague az Suffolk.
A large democratic mass-meeting was
addressed al Isle of Whit Court House