Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-13
Virginia News.

A large barn near Manassas owned oy
Mrs. John Prescott and occupied oy
Mr.. E. H. Goodwin was destroyed oy
fire Friday night.
G. n. Coyle, grain dealer OF summit
Point, Jefferson county, W. Va, had MS
right hand torn off 10 a corn shelter ID
his elevator at Summit Point, Saturday.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway will
spend 81, 279, 400 for improvement to
rolling stock. This will consist OF ~
locomotives, vestibule, Z express and
| 900 freight cars.
Charles B. Lockhart, thirty-two years
old, has been arrested in Richmond
charged with attempted criminal as
SAUL upon Gertrude Barnes, thirteen
years old, Of east Main street.
Dr. Alexander Tunstall died at his
home in Norfolk Saturday night 10 the
sixty-third year of his age. He was a
native Of Norfolk and went through
the war of '6l-65 in the Confederate SER
vice.
The Leesburg Steam Laundry, which
belongs to the estate of the late John ..
Titus and Messrs. Carr and Clemens OF
Leesburg, was Friday night almost en-
tireIy destroyed by fire. The loss was
"a, 600.
Mrs. Jane Johnson, of Lovettsville,
Loudoun county, widow of Charles John
son, wealthy farmer, died on Friday,
aged about 20 years. She was
daughter of the late David Conrad, OF
Elvan.
The sale of Virginia farms to parties
in the west, who will make their homes
on them and will endeavor to work
them after the western methods, still
continues. two or three sales being re-
ported each week.
Robert B. Snead, while returning
home on a street car in Rchmend last
night, suddenly leaned his head on his
wife's shoulder and expired. MIR. Snead
was SO years of age and one of the Oldest
Masons in Virginia.
DIR. L. r. Chiles, one of the best
known physicians of Norfolk, was ar
rested Yesterday afternoon, charged with
performing an illegal operation upon
Sarah Atkinson, young woman, who
is now in a precarious condition.
Fire Saturday night destroyed the
plants of the Fredericksburg Ice Com
pany and the Fredericksburg Rim Fec
tory, that city. The fire started in the
rim factory, which has not been in use
for sometime; loss about $50, 600.
DIR. A. c. Wightman, head OF the bio
logical department of Randolph-Macon
College, al Ashland, and widely known
throughout the South as an authority on
scientific subjects, died suddenly at his
home there yesterday morning at Z
o'clock of paralysis.
Mr. F. G. Walker was Thursday las:
elected mayor of Colonial Beach in
special meeting of the town council, to
fiji the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Mr.. George Mason, who was on
Tuesday last elected to represent West
moreland county in the House of Dele
gates.
w. f. Cottrell member of the Board
OF Governors of the jamestown Expo
sition Company, states that Admiral
Togo. the japanese naval hero, will
come to America in 1907 and command
the Mikado's fleet, which is to partici-
pate in the naval rendezvous during the
exposition.
A furnished room will be prepared in
the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Lex
ington, the old Jackson home, which
has been purchased for the purpose by
the Virginia division, Daughters of the
Confederaey, for the use and benefit OF
Mrs. Jackson. The room will be ready
for the habitation of the widow of the
late Confederate chieftain whenever she
sees fit to occupy ii.
Mrs. Cora Lee Catlin, seventeen years
of age, daughter of Herbert NJ. Catlin,
Of Richmond, was fatally burned last
night. The young woman had arisen
from a sick bed and was reaching for a
bottle on the mante when her gown
caught fire. The draft from the Chin
ney drew her light clothing into the
CRATE. She suffered great agony until
her death several hours later.