Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-02-13
Virginia News.


Mr.. Volney Purcell die1 Yesterday
morning at his residence in Washing
ton, after a lingering illness. DIR. Pur.
cell was native of Loudoun county.
Mrs. Hood Thompson died at her
home. at Kinlock, Culpeper county.
yesterday. She was before her marriage
Miss Sarah Hood Worthington, of Avon
dale, Md.
Mr.. f. w. Bowen's residence. in
Gordonsville, was totally destroyed by
FIRE Yesterday, loss about $4,000. Rev.
ID. Z. Hanna. a boarder, lost his library
aud other property.
The Colonial residence, "Glencoe,"
near Somerset, Orange county, belonging
to Mr.. Jas. McComb. was destroyed By
fire on Saturday. The house was said
to be over $50 years old
Mrs. Elizabeth Frasier, Of Bloomfield,
Loudoun county, wife Of Henry Frasier
and daughter Of Richard Chamblin, OF
AirmonI, died Friday night Of pneu-
monia aged about Al years.
James NJ. Matthews died in Richmond
on Saturday of pneumonia. He was
SO years old aud the nestor of the Rich.
mond bar. lie was engaged in chancery
practice almost up the last.
The new Suuday-schGol house Of
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal
Church South, Winchester, completed
at cost Of so, 900 was formally dedi-
Gated yesterday afternoon.
Lawson L. Hocknan has been ap-
pointed postmaster TO succeed Benjamin
NJ. Dawes, at Bartonville, Frederick
county, and G. G. Middleton to succeed
r. A. Cockrill at The Plains, Fauquier
county.
Representative Maynard Saturday
laid the report of the House committee
on industrial arts and expositions before
the House. IL carries, IS previously
stated, appropriations aggregating 81
ESQ, 600
With the inGrmities of old age, his
body racking with pains due TO long
illness, unable to do anything tor him
self fearful of being burden, John II.
Gill, rs years old and Confederate
Veteran, on Saturday shot and killed
himself in his home in Richmond.
A call has been issued for meeting
to be held in Richmond this week at
which a State organization for the pro-
lection of game will be effected. 1t is
believed that unless some steps to pro-
tect the game are taken. the result will
be its practical disappearance in many
sections.
Addison Butler Atkins, for the past
fifteen years the Washington correspon-
dent of the Brooklyn Eagle, died at his
residence in Washington Saturday. Mr..
Atkins was born in 1856, at German
town, Pa. His father, Addison b.
Atkins, was an Episcopal clergyman,
and his m6fber was Miss Ellen Cal
vert Stuart, OF Chantilly. Mr. Atkins
early education was received at the
Episcopal High School, near Alexandria.
After journey fraught with peril and
hardship, the Rev. J. w. Briscoe, pastor
of the Methodist Church at Hollands
Island, Nd, reached the bedside of his
vile 10 Norfolk Saturday night. In
binding snowstorm the minister walked
across an arm of the frozen Chesapeake
Bay, a distance of six miles, continued
his journey ten miles on the main
land afoot, made his way across another
vide stretch in rowboat that threatened
every minute to break to pieces in the
heavy ice foe, then drove twenty.four
miles across country to Cambridge, Md,
where he caught train for Norfolk.
Hollands Island has been completely
cut off from the rest of the world since
January II, consequently the pastor had
no means of knowing the condition OF
his sick wife in Norfolk. He found her
almost well.