Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-04-07
Virginia News.

Miss Estelle Ruffin Marks and Mr..
John Clayton Armistead we're married
in Petersburg yesterday.
Elisha Buford Estes, retired merchant,
died at his home in Lynchburg yester-
day aged seyenty-three years.
Richmond and Manchester negroes
have employed lawyer to oppose IN the
courts all jimcrow legislation.
Franklin A. Thompson and Miss
Mary G. Hope, daughter Of Charles
Hope, were married at Hamilton, on
Tuesday.
Thomas Reid, an aged resident OF
LoudOun county, living near Leesourg'
died Tuesday morning, in his seventy
fifth year.
Wade Hicks, a we'll known citizen
and Confederate soldier, died at his
home in Fredericksburg on Tuesday
night, aged sixty-nine years.
DIR. ]. Wade Garrett, of Greenyille,
Texas died at his home in that city
Wednesday, March 30, aged 56 years
He was son of the late Rev. John u.
Garnett, of Culpeper.
Miss Estelle Annette Pizzini, daugh-
ter of Capt. Andrew Pizzini, ofRichmond'
was married yesterday evening at the
home of her parents to George Everett
Sprague, of Lynn, Mass.
The annual races of the Warrenton
Hunt Club we're held yesterday after
noon. The courses extending over the
Bellaire and Kennedy farms, and not at
Barry's, as has been the case in the past.
Mr. John 7. Gooirick, has announced
that he will be candidate for mayor of
Fredericksburg, in the election to take
place on Tuesday, June IA. Maj.
Thomas p. Wallace is also candidate,
having announced himself some weeks
ago.
Col. G. w. Anderson, who was in
charge of the military which went to
Roanoke to protect the negro Henry
Williams during his trial for assault
on Mrs. Shields, has asked the governor
to order court-martial to inquire into
charges made by Mayor Cutchin, of
Roanoke, that the only disorder en-
that occasion was due to drunken
soldiers,
A meeting of citizens of Falls
Church, Fairfax county, was held Tues
day night to take steps to secure the
location of the proposed State normal
school for young women within the
corporation of Falls Church. 1t was
decided to appropriate bonus of SlO,-
900 to secure the school, the amount to
be obtained by an increase in the rate
of taxation.
The British steamship Doune Castle,
with the South African Boer war exhibit
for the St. Louis Exposition, arrived at
Newport News yesterday. On board
we're the famous old Boer veteran, Gen
eral Cronje, two hundred veterans OF his
command, one hundred and twenty
British veterans, fifty women and chill
dren, and about twenty natives Iulus,
Kaflirs and Zambesis.
Virginians won big cock fight in
Baltimore last night The stake was $500
for the match, with $25 on each main.
Maryland won four to Virginia's one,
and betting was against Virginia, but in
the wind-up the Maryland birds were de-
feated seven out of thirteen, and the Vir-
ginians returned yesterday with feathers
flying high. Several Richmond sports
came back with plenty of extra money.
The outside door of the large iron safe
in the postofTice at Louisa was blown off
by burglars yesterday morning. DyDa-
mite or nitro-glycerine was supposed to
have been used. They we're frustrated
in their scheme of robbing the safe by
Mr.. w. NJ. Perkins, who was awakened
by the explosion, and who fired two shots
at them with his gun, loaded with buck
shot. The burglars fred four times at
Mr.. Perkins. Nothing was taken from
the store, and the contents of the safe
was intact.