Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-15
Virginia News.

Mayor Riddick, OF Norfolk, has started
a crusade against the poker joints of that
city.
John Parrott, a well-known citizen OF
Orange county, died suddenly Wednes'
day, aged 65 years.
A letter from Culpeper county, where
Mayor T. p. Wallace, of Fredericksburg
has gone to recuperate his health, says
there is no improvement in his condi-
ton.
Rev. Father Frederick Locke, late
chaplain for the Sisters of Charity, at
Hollybrook, has been assigned as assist
ant to Rev. Father NJ. Edwards at Falls
Church.
Thomas Payne died at his home in
Fredericksburg yesterday, after brief
illness of typhoid fever, aged twenty
seven years. He is survived by his
widow and three children.
Col. Charles Epker was last night
chosen to be commandant of the Lee
Camp, Confederate Soldiers Home,
near Richmond. Colonel Euker is a
native of Marburg, Germany, anda Con-
federate veteran.
While Senator Henry G. Davis and his
party were at Carksburg, w. Va, on
Thursday Senator Daniel, Of Virginia,
was relieved of his watch by pick
pocket. The watch was an heirloom and
much regret is feltat the Senator's loss.
Addison Fairfax, convicted Of bigamy
at the last term of the Prince William
court and sentenced to years in the
penitentrary, has been pardoned by
Gov. Montague. The pardon is con-
ditioned upon a separation from his last
wife.
Adjptaut General VIM. Male has &C
cepted the resignation of Capt. f. II.
Revere as commander of Company L.,
Seventeen Regiment, Virginia Yolun-
teers Washington duards) of Freder-
ioksburg, and has placed him upon the
retired list with rank of captain.
Saturday last William Harper, Of
Center Cross, Essex county, told Miss
peni Derham, who had been bedridden
Is years, that if she would get up and
walk he would marry her. The cere-
mony took place the next day, and the
bride is apparently we'll. She is 30
wears old.
Ernest Conner died at strasburg at an
early hour yesterday morning. His
death was due to consumption. lie
was a native of Warren county, but he
spent the greater part of his life al
Sirasburg. He is survived by widow
aud one brother. He was twenty-eight
years old.
Democratic State Chairman Ellyson
saws he will have socie good speaker at
Wythevile October 29 to meet Secretary
OF the Treasury Shaw, who is to make an
address on behalf of Colonel Slemp's re-
election to Congress. An effort will be
made to have both Senator Daniel aud
Judge j. w. Marshall.
The trial of Paul Painter, for criminal
assault on Sarah Clark, aged seven years.
was concluded yesterday in the Circuit
Court of Rockbridge, and he was given
30 years in the penitentiary. Painter is
about 30 years old and typical noun
taineer. The crime was committed in
South Mountain last April
The Confederate Memorial Literary
Society, of Richmond, which is deeply
interested in aiding the government in
securing complete roster of the soldiers
who took part in the civil war, has de-
cided to allow the original rosters of the
Confederacy in the possession Of the So
ciety to be taken temporarily to the
War Department, at Washington.
The last chapter in the double suicide
of Robert Lee Gill, ir., and Miss
Bessie Walden Stone, at Ashland, was
closed yesterday afternoon, when the two
lovers were laid side by side in the
cemetery, according to their dying re-
quest. The funeral took place at the
Christian Church, where an immense
crowd assembled. The services we're of
the simplest character.
MOlie Freeman. col0red, was found
guilty in the Londoun Circuit Court
yesterday of a felony and sentenced to
three years in the peDitentiary. She
was charged with stabbing negro man,
upon whom she inflicted a dozen danger
Gus wounds. One of her brothers is now
serving life sentence for robbery, and
another was tried Thursday for felonious
assault and sentenced to nine years.
The application for receiver for the
Commonwealth Tobacco Company, mad
Yesterday before Judge Barksdale, Of the
Lynchburg Circuit Court, in the suit Of
George P. Butler, was granted, and
Jerome Taylor was appointed receiver
and gave the sl5, 900 bond. The com.
pany is New York concern doing
business 10 Lynchburg. A receiver was
appointed several days ago in a New
York court.
A conference.-the old son Of Mr..
Buford Cooke, living near Danville,
strnyed from home and sat down on the
Southern Railway track day or two
ago. A fast train soon approached, and
the engineer being unable to stop the
train it struck and passed over the child.
The little one was found between the
ties bruised and battered and badly
frightened, and with half Of one foot cut
entirely away by the wheels of the en-
CINE. The escape of the child from
death is regarded as miraculous.
Beware Of 0intments for Catarrh
that Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy. the sense of