Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-12-06
Virginia News.

Miss Bette May Jordan died at hel
home in Gordonsville Sunday Of typhoid
fever.
Bart j. Noonan, thirty years of age
one of the most popular young mer o
Winchester, died yesterday mornir &.
VIM. R. Jones, So years old, rormel
Confederate soldier, of Winchester, died
yesterday. He was parelszed three
weeks ago.
Colonel r. Z. Withers, who has beer
i'll at his home, in Wytheville, is mucr
better and every symptom points TO
speedy recovery.
Colonel George w. Miles, of East
Radford, long head of St. Adams School,
has gone to New York to accept a part
nership in the banking firm Of E. H.
Chapman & Co.
The Richmond City Council has in
vited President Roosevelt to stop over in
Richmond on his tour South. and COM
mittee will go to Washington to invite
him in person. Danville will also ask
the President 20 make that city visit OH
his trip.
H. L. Cannon, a shipbroker and tow
ing aud transportation manager, filed
petition in voluntary bankruptcy in Nor
folk yesterday asking relief from debts
amounting to S3l ,545. SO, of which S23,
626. II is in unsecured claims. The sum
of 81, $40 is given as due in secured
claims. Cff
A bill asking for an appropriation oil
So, 600, 900 for the Jamestown Exposi-
ton was introduced in the House yester-
day by Representative Maynard, of Vir.
ginia. The bill makes some changes in
the nature of the Government aid asked.
The principal, though, is the increased
appropriation.
Mrs. Mary Brent Foster died in Rich
mond yesterday at the home of her SON.
in-law, Judge S. B. Witt She was the
widow of Major Thomas r. Foster, Of
Fauquier county, and sister of former
United States Senator Eppa Hunton.
She will be buried at The Plains, Fau-
quier county.
An Intellectual attempt was made in
Lynchburg yesterday to hold the annual
meeting of the board Of trustees OF the
Odd Fellows State Orphan Home.
Bids were received for The Old Folks
Home, which it is proposed to build,
and the resignation of Gov. Montague
as member OF the board was read. No
quorum being present, no action was
taken.
Miss Z ith Ford, daughter of G. a,
Ford, a merchant OF Boyce, Clarke coun
ty, was seriously injured in a runaway
accident near her home Sunday night.
Miss Fords horse ran of and the young
lady was thrown violently TO the ground.
She became entangled in the reins and
was dragged a distance of 100 yards.
Her arm was broken in several places
and she was cut and bruised.
Considerable uneasiness is felt over a
threatened smallpox epidemic in Vir-
ginia this winter. The infection has been
scattered over the State by negroes from
railroad camps, and it has broken out in
more or less yirulent form in a num-
her of places A number Of casees exist
in Spottsyluania county, and the disease
is troublesome in the southwest counties.
The Board of Health of Virginia, which
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is without appropriation, can do little
except advice the local authorities.
The Circuit Court for Prince William
county convened at Manassas yesterday
morning, with Judge Charles E. Nicol
presiding. The only trial of much in
terest TO be heard at this term of the
count will be the-case of the Common
wealth against X. L. McInteer who is
charged with attending to kill Dennis
Colbert at Dumfries. Mclnteer was
sentenced to the penitentiary some time
ago for attempting to kill his brother,
but was pardoned by the Governor.
The War Department has directed
that Stephen Putney, jr a recruit of the
general service, Jefferson Barracks,
Mo-, be discharged without horror from
the army on the ground that he enlisted
under false pretensei. Putney is ayoung
man from Richmond who recently gctinto
trouble at st. Louis resulting in the loss
of all his money. One of the stories was
that he had been kidnapped and robbed
of some valuable family jewels and that
be enlisted in the army while suffering
from the effect of a drug given him by
the kidnappers.