Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-08-29
Virginia News.

AbC pOotOluCc at hud, oudNi~'
ty, will be discontinued on September
30. The mail will go to Marshall.
The remains of Charles P. Brawner,
who died at his home on Cameron street
Sunday night, we're forwarded to ely
mont this morning by Mr.. b. Wheatley'
The Loudoun Methodist camp meet
ing, in Benton's woods, near Middleburg,
LOudoun county, after continuing ~
days, closed yesterday. The attendance
has never before been 80 large.
1t is reported that John Finlay Wal
lace, formerly of the Panama canal, viii
become president of the Seaboard Ar
Line system on May l, 1906, when the
contract OF j. NJ. Barr, the present presl-
dent of the company, expires.
A case of yellow fever is reported in
Lunenbnrg county. 1t is said that Wade
Handy, of that county, who has been
living in the far South for some years,
recently returned to his home, in Lunen.
burg, developed yellow fever and died
from il.
With ten counties and two cities miss
ing, and some returns not complete, the
vote in the recent primary was as follows
Martin, 42,716; Montague, 80, 29S;
Swanson, 4l,97S; Willard 1912;
Mann, IS, 5S3; Swanson will have a
clear majority of 5000. The total vote
is about $1,000.
DIR. E. K. Baughan, a dentist, was
yesterday in Richmond convicted in the
police court of four cases OF robbery and
given year in Jail. He was also jailed
for year as suspicious character and
will have to answer a charge of burglary
before the grand jury. He is about AZ
years old and his fall is due to drink.
The bedroom in the residence of Cap
tain w. s. AllenswOrth, in Manassas, a
passenger conductor on the Southern
Railway, vas entered by burglars Satur-
day night and twelve dollars in money
and handsome gold watch and chain
were stolen from his clothes, while Cap
tain Allensworth and his wife slept only
few feet away.
Dorathea Josephine Krause, the
pretty l9.yesr-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Krause, died at the residence
of her parents on the boulevard at New
port News early yesterday morning as
the result of a self-inhicted pistol wound.
1t is not apparent whether the shot was
accidental or intentional and the coro-
ner's jury did not express an opinion in
regard to that phase of the matter.
Mrs. Jane f. Tayloe. widow of the
late John Tayloe, a former resident OF
Fredericksburg, died Sunday at her
home 10 Baltimore, aged SO years. She
is survived by one son, Mr.. Fitzhugh
Tayloe, and one daughter, Miss Imogen
Tayloe. Mrs. Tayloe was daughter
of the late Henry Fitzhugh and Jane
f. bowman Fitzhugh, and was born
at 'Sherwood Forest" in Stafford
county. The remains we're inferred at
Fredericksburg yesterday.
The Confederate Veterans of Rceny
Camp, of New Market, are making ex-
tensive preparations for the annual re-
union of the camp, which will be held
Friday next near New Market. During
the day there will be speechmaking by
prominent ex-Confederate soldiers,
music by several bands, a big dinner and
other attractions. One of the features
of the reunion will be a big campfire,
which will be lighted on the evening be-
fore the reunion takes place and will be
kept burning all night for the benefit Of
the veterans that arrive early.
The alleged facts in the shooting cpl
sode at Hallway, Fauquier county, on
Friday have Just reached Warrenton.
subsequently to some bad feeling be-
tween Darrell Dawson and John Luns
ford the latter appeared in the village
store and found Dawson whiting q
stick. "Is that the knife you intend tC
use upon me?" inquired Lunsford
NO." replied the man with the knife
When commanded to close the knife
Dawson, it is said drew revolver, bu
Lunsford ran mile and half to his
home, procured shotgun, and, it is al
legged, waylaid his man in negro WON
ans yard. Forty shot entered Dawson
body and seven penetrated the lungs
Dawson is dying and Lunsford has es-
capped.