Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-05-29
Virginia News.


Williams f. Dunn, known to marine
men as Button" dropped dead IRON
an attack OF apoplexy in.New YORK yes
terday.
Capt William T. Smith, a prominent
citizen of Prince George county, COM
mitted suicide yesterday. He had been
in feeble health and respondent foI
some time.
Miss Blanche Hite, daughter OF Will
liam Hite, and descendant OF Jols'
Hite, the first white man to settle in the
valley of Virginia, died in Mecklenbure
yesterday aged 10 years.
Col. William NJ. Patton, professor Of
civil engineering at the Virginia Poly
technic Institute, died in New York
Tuesday where he went to be treated
for cancer of the stomach.
1t is reported that j. Aston Cabell,
OF Richmond, will in few days with
draw from the race for the Office of lieu
tenant governor, and that the election
of State Chairman j. Taylor -Ellyson
will be unanimous so far as the demo-
Gratis are concerned.
The Chatham Savings Bank and adj
joining building we're burned yesterday,
entailing loss of $4,000, partly COW
cred by insurance. The fire originated
in the store adjoining the bank, and
was beyond control when discovered.
The courthouse ignited at one corner,
but was saved after very hard fight.
A dispatch from Port Deposit, Md,
says that Lieutenant Commander Charles
Miller, of Fairfax Courthouse, who fell
from sunstroke Friday afternoon, after
receiving medical attention, has left for
Erie, by way of Lancaster and Colum-
bia. He is SO years old and is very
feeble, and fears are entertained for his
safety.
A man who gave his name to the
police as John w. Davis, twenty-five
years old, was arrested in Washington
Saturday, charged with the larceny Of
$500 worth of silverware. 1t is alleged
he broke into the southern Express
Company's Office at Leesburg, May 8
last and stole the silverware Sheriff
Monroe came from Leesburg late last
night to take the prisoner back.
Mrs. Mamie Laughorne Shaw, third
daughter G. ID. Langhorne, of Abe
marie county, and divorced wife OF
Robert G. Shaw second, of Boston, will,
il is said, soon marry Lord Revelstoke,
prominent and exceedingly wealthy
peer of the British realm. Mrs. Shaw
is quite young and one of the prettiest
of the famous beautiful Langhlrne sis
ters. Lord Revelstoke is member OF
the widely known banking firm of Bar
ing Bros, and is 43 years old
Three young men from Fredericks-
burg were yesterday locked up in Wash.
ington as fugitiges from their parents.
They are Stanley Taylor Scott, aged IF
teen; Jam IS Frank Cobey, nineteen, and
John w. Hunter, sixteen. Armed with
new revolvers and carrying a bul's-eye
lantern, the lads had every appearance
of being out on so ne dime novel expeli-
ton. The boys parents were Motif ID,
and CJbey was locked up in the Sixth
precinct station, the others being sent to
the House of Detention.
Archibald Timberlake, agel nineteen
years, son of James E. Timberlake OF
the Charlottesville wooden mills, was
drowned yesterday in the Rivanna river,
one mile east of Charlottesville. While
boating, young Timberlake engaged in
a scufiie with his companion, Claude
Graves, and the boat was upset in twenty
feet of water. Although both young
men could swim, they at once grappled,
and in the struggle which ensued youn ;
Undertake went to the bottom. Graves,
after releasing himselfflom Timberlake' $
hold, had barely strength enough left to
reach the bank.