Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-09-14
Virginia News.

lottesyille, died at Manitou, Colo, re-
Gently. She had been suffering from
tuberculosis of the glands of the neck and
died of strangulation.
Governor Montague has granted res
pile to Henry Dickersou, colored, who
was to have been hanged Friday, until
October 81. He was convicted OF rape
on a colored girl, in Prince George
county.
The dead body Of Leonora Jackson,
young colored woman, was found in
vacant lot in Fredericksburg yesterday.
No one had seen her since Saturday
night. The cnroner's jury has not reach
ed verdict in the case, but foul play is
expected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Marion Lake,
of ''Rural Retreat" Virginia, announce
the engagement of their daughter, Miss
Ella Hatcher, to Mr.. Hempstone Wesley
Van Syckler. The wedding is to tax
place at 10 a. M, October twelfth,
Roszel Chapel, Philomont.
The Department of Dentistry of the
University College of Medicine in Rich
mond announces very welcome addi-
ton to the ranks OF It's teaching corps,
in the person of DR.. Richard l.. Simpson,
of Fincastle, who became Lecturer on
Dental Surgery and will have charge of
the Dental Infrmary.
The Corporation Commission com
menced hearings in Richmond yesterday
on tax assessments on railroads, steam
boats and other transportation compan-
les, and will continue them until Sep
TENDER Is, giving daily hearings. There
are many railroad attorneys and others
present interested in the subject.
Monday evening the ladies and citizens
of Manassas and vicinity, approaching
the efforts of the officers and men of the
provost guard stationed there during the
army encampment, gave a lawn fete to
the soldiers in the grove adjoining the
residence of Judge @. E. Nicol. Res
olutions OF thanks to the provost guard
we're adopted.
The grand maneuvers took place at
Dijou, France, on Saturday, with 90, OOO
men in an attack and defense similar to
Garibaldi's operations against the Ger
mans in 1870. Maj. I. Bentley Mott,
American military attache, was among
the military observers. Maj. Mott is a
Virginian and son of the late DR.. A.
Il. Mott, of Leesburg.
The Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad Company has pur-
chased from John l.. Williams and Sons
the old fair grounds property, on west
Broad street, Richmond, containing Sc
acres of ground, and will use it for adj
ditional side tracks for its heavy freight
business. The price paid is said to be
800, 900. The ground is largely occu-
pied by the Hermitage Golf Club.
Assistant Postmaster w. H. Saunders,
of Fork Union, Fluvanna county, was
indicted by the federal grand Jury at
Lynchburg yesterday for embezzling.
Two witnesses who were too drunk to
testify in a revenue case were sent to
Jail, one for week and the other for As
hours, for interfering with the business
of the court, and the case was continued
until today in order to give the witnesses
time to sober up.
Capt. T. McCracken, a prominent
liquor dealer of Fredericksburg, while at
Bowling Green Monday, was requested
by a colored man to send him half
gallon of whisky and rendered the
money. An officer saw the transaction
and consulted Judge Mann. Captain
McCracken was arrested and fined $500
He gave bond. He says he was not
soliciting. The case will come up in
the Circuit Court of Caroline.
Wiley Gibson, youth being held in
the Lee county Jail at Jonesyille, to
await conveyance to the penitentiary at
Richmond to serve ive-year sentence
for robbery, made his escape by depart
ing from the prison clad in the dress and
bonnet of his aged mother, who had
been left alone with her son that she
might say goodbye. Gibson's escape
was discovered when a fellow prisoner,
after the departure of the supposed
mother, went to the young robbers cell
to comfort him, and there found the
aged lady dressed In the clothes her son
had discarded.