Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-10-06
Virginia Vows

Mrs. Frank Humphreys died at her
home near Brooke station, Stafiord
county, Thursday morning, aged "
years.
TIE grand conclave of Knights Temp
lar of Virginia will be held in Rich
mond October l6. Delegates of twenty
three Communicates in the State will be
present at the meeting.
Miss Sallie, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Nal Pritchett, of Brokenburg, Spoitsyl-
vania county, and DR.. Lewis Il. Berry,
of Richmond, were married Tuesday
night at Mine Road Baptist Church, in
Spottsylvania county.
A dispatch from Suffolk says the if-
teen months old infant of Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Patton, of Chuckatuck, yester-
day afternoon was choked to death by
piece of apple. The child strangled be-
fore the doctors arrival.
Col. Thomas Carter, who not long
since resigned as proctor of the Uni
versity of Virginia, was partially para
lyzed about two weeks ago, at "Oakly,"
the country home of his daughter, Mrs.
II. Rozier Dulany, in Fauquier county.
Maj. Robert Stiles, of Richmond, one
the oldest members of the oar of the
State, an author of note and an ex-Con-
federate, died at his home, BonAir, near
Richmond, yesterday. His death was
due TO a complication of diseases. He
was about seventy years old.
Mrs. Virginia Barber, of Washington,
has issued invitations for the marriage of
her daughter, Miss Fannie Barber, to
Mr.. Richard Kidder Meade, of Clarke
county, which will take place at the
Temple Baptist Church. in Washington,
on the evening of the 18th of October.
Miss Mabel LeRoy Rice, daughter of
Mr.. Monroe Rice, of Newmarket, Fred
erick county, Md, and Rev. Carroll
Maddox, of Front Royal, were married
yesterday in Trinity Methodist Episco-
pal Church South, at Newmarket, by
Rev. G. J. Hill. They will reside at
Fairfax.
H. NJ. Smith, one of the counsel for
the defense of a number of the persons
indicted for election frauds and Irregular
tiles in Richmond, yesterday, gave no.
tice in the Corporation Court that he
would demur to the indictment and at
tack the constitutional:ty of the law I'M
der which all the indictments were
made, save those which were made
under the Barksdale pure election law.
The Warrenton Virginian says. Mr..
lnman H. Payne was paralyzed on one
side, on Monday Sept. %. He was
visiting his daughter, Mrs. C.utchfeid, in
Hamilton, Montana, and while dressing
he was suddenly taken i'll. Happily his
son, Mr.. John Payne, who has been his
fathers constant attendant for years,
was present and rendered all the aid in
his power. A letter has come every day
to Mr. II. |. Hutton, OF this place giving
Mr.. Payne's condition, which remains
unchanged. He has been in an uncon-
scious condition since he was first stricken.
Wythe Blakey, OF Richmond, who
was found lying near the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks short distance from
Springfield, Md, early yesterday morn
ing, died later at the Emergency Hospi
tai, in Washington. When Blakey was
found by the track walkers he was un-
conscious. He was bleeding about the
head and was mangled about one of
his arms. He died without, having re-
gained consciousness, his death being
due to a fractured skull and internal
hemorrhages. Blakey had left Rich
mond about month ago to visit his
wife in New York, and it is believed by
the police that he was walking along the
tracks toward Washington when he was
run down by train.