Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-01
Virginia News.

A. F. Devine was elected recorder OF
Leesburg at a special election on Thurs
day.
Ephraim Tailor, a colored employee OF
the Suffolk postofiice, was arrested
yesterday on the charge of robbing the
mails.
Miss Anna Virginia Pennington, a
well-known lady of Winchester, died
yesterday after a lingering illness,
aged SO.
Hon. John F. Rixey and Mr.. G. q.
Carlin will address the citizens OF Prince
William on the issues of the campaign
on Monday, court day.
Henry Alonzo Orndorff, a prominent
young man of Winchester, formerly Of
Philadelphia, died yesterday after
lingering illness ofconsumption, aged 2z'
Mr.. Claude V. Colford, of Chicago,
H., and Miss Geneva Rebecca Birdsell,
daughter OF Eli Birdsell, of Purcellville,
were married Thursday at the resi-
dent of the BRIDES father, near that
town.
Mis-. Catherine A. Brady, widow Of
the late John l.. Brady, of Scottsville,
ALTERNATE county, died at the home Of
her daughter, Mrs. Robert A. Sanders,
at New Baltimore, yesterday afternoon,
in her ninety-frst year.
A telegram has been received in
Staunton stating that Judge Quarles'
condition is very critical. He was oper-
ated on several days ago at st. Luke's
Hospital, Richmond, for appendicitis,
and the operation was a most serious
one.
The statement is denied by liquor
dealers in Richmond, that the Virginia
Liquor Dealers Association. which adj
adjourned there yesterday, made arrange
ments TO set aside large reserve fund
to fight local option elections in various
parts OF the State.
The trial of James Chamberlain, COL
ored, on the charge of shooting Flora
Alexander, young colored woman, on
September 3, will come up at Berryyille
at the next term of the Circuit Court
The murdered woman was mistress of
Chamberlain, and her iniatuation for
another negro man is said to have led
to the quarrel that ended in her death
Chamberlain was captured in corn
field after the shooting and lodged in
Jail.
Word from Smithfeld, says that Mrs
Maggie Pope, young society woman of
that town, went with Robert L. Pope
her divorced husband, to Washington
on Thursday where they we're remarked
Smithfeld people got the first informa-
ton from letter written by the bride to
relative. The bride, formerly Miss
Chalmers, moved in the highest social
circles. They have three living children
all girls. Mrs. Pope before leaving
Smithfeld, sold some of her real estate,
and it is said they will reside in Rich
mOnd when the honeymoon il over.
Announcement hss been made by Ed
gar Allan, jr., executive committeeman
from the Third district and nominee of
one wing of his party for Congress, that
he has letters from Chairman Park Ag-
new, of the republican State committee,
recognizing him as the regular candidate
for Congress. This will put the pro-
spective nominee ofthe Treat convention,
which meets in Richmond next Tuesday,
in the attitude of being an Independent
candidate for Congress. 1t is the pur
pose, however, of the Treat wing to go
on and make a nomination, aud they may
likely appeal the matter to some higher
tribunal for final arbitration. Mr.. Allan,
however, claims that he has letters from
Congressman Babcock, chairman of the
national congressional committee, as
we'll as from Mr.. Agnew, recognizing
him as the regular nominee.
In the Circuit Court at Berryville yes
terday Judge Harrison passed sentence
on Joseph II. Copenhaver, the coDviced
Clarke county wife murderer. Copen.
haver will serve ~ years in the State
penitentiary, a jury having recently
found him guilty of the crime, His at
torneys, Marshall Mccormick and Black
burn Smith, secured stay Of imprison-
ment for 80 days in order that the Court
of Appeals may have time to act in the
case. 1t is not thought that Copen-
haver will be given new trial. While
in a drunken frenzy last April he shot
and killed his wife in the rear of their
home, near Berryyille. The murderer
then barricaded himself in his room and
defed the sheriff and his deputies with
loaded revolvers. He was finally cap
tured and lodged in Jail at Berryville.
The murdered woman was loved and re-
spected, and her death caused wide
spread indignation. Copenhaver has
the reputation of being dead shot with
a revolver.