Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-07-28
Virginia News.

Mr.. ]. Nee. Digges died at line
Retreat" in Fauquier county. on Mon,
day afternoon about O'Clock, aged
about 67 years.
Mr.. C James Swart, of Lunette,
Loudoun county, died of complication
of diseases, on Saturday, the 10th inst
aged 10 years.
Richmond butchers state that the
local supply of meat is sufficient for all
demands, and the market will not be al
fected by the strike.
The State executive committee of the
republican party of Virginia has been
called to meet at Murphy's Hotel IN
Richmond, at s p. m. Saturday, July
Both.
The Richmond councilmanic tangle
has been unraveled, and the delin-
quents will now get their certificates
from the clerk of the Hastings Court and
qualify according to law.
Ernest Steinmetz, whose trial OIL
charges of criminal assault on Carrie
Goode, aged Is and using drugged candy
OH the girl, commenced in Henrico on
Tuesday, was acquitted of the charge,
but fined $50 for disorderly conduct.
The first annual report of the State
Corporation Commission is now being
printed, and will soon be issued. The
report shows that the total tax derived
by the State for the year 1908 from the
steam and electric railroads is $572, 400.
80, as against s276,0O5. 80 for the year
1902, showing an increase for the year
1903 Of 1927, 402.07.
A syndicate of northern capitalists has
purchased the McCoul and Fairchilds
farms, which form portion of the bat
tlefeld OF Spottsylyania Court House,
and on which the celebrated "bloody
angle" is situated. They propose to re-
store the breastworks, erect suitable
monuments and convert the property
into a park. The company will be in
corporated.
Fred. Carter, negro boy, aged four
teen years, is under arrest at Gate City,
charged with attempted criminal assault
on Miss Rosa Strong, young woman
living one mile from that town. She
was awakened by the boy, who had
crawled through a window into hei
room. Her cries made him flee, and he
was later captured. Although the citi-
zens are very indignant, the law will be
allowed to take its course.
NJ. Marshall Langhorne, of Lynch
burg, has been appointed United States
consul at Chingking, China. This is
one of the treaty ports just opened by
China to trade, and provision for a con-
sulate there was made at the last session
of Congress, at a compensation of SO, DOC
per annum. Mr.. Langhorne was COM
mercial agent at Dalny before the out
break OF the Russo-Japanese war, but
was obliged to leave that place with all
the other foreign residents when hostili-
ties broke out.
Late Yesterday afternoon the testi'
mony in the case OF Joseph II. Copen-
haver, on trial for the murder of his
wife, was concluded at Berryville, after
argument by counsel. The day wa
spent in hearing testimony for the de.
tense, which put on the stand So raj
witnesses, who testified to the good char
acter of Copenhaver and to his high
standing in the community prior to the
commission of the crime. Insanity was
the plea offered by the prisoners counsel
for the crime. Copenhaver has beer
confined in lunatic asylum seyera
times for treatment for alcohol excess,
and was crazed by drink at the time he
murdered his wife. That his mind was
undoubtedly unbalanced at the time o.
the crime is admitted by everyone, but
the murder was one of the most brutal
10 local history. The jury will probably
render a verdict today.