Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-20
Virginia News.

Colonel George G. Csbell, jr., will run
for congress in the Norfolk district
against II. /. MAYNARD next year.
Fire broke out Friday night in Front
Royal in the frame wing OF the Alton
Inn Hotel and caused slight damage.
The storm which ragged Friday and
Saturday was one Of the severest ever
experienced in Virginia this early in the
season
While calling on the daughter Of a
friend John p. Strobe, OF Stephen City,
was stricken with heart disease and fell
dead yesterday.
Virginia is the second State in the
Union 10 the total number OF postofiices,
having 1926, a fairly close second to
Pennsylvania which has 4,377.
The Gladys Ion, at Clifton, the larg-
est hotel on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, was damaged So, 900 by fire
yesterday. This is the third time the
Gladys Inn has been on fire in the past
three months.
James Walker, travelling salesman
of Richmond, was shot through the neck
at Catlettsburg yesterday, by Henry
Price, city attorney of that place. Jeal-
ousy of a young woman is said to have
been the cause of the shooting.
Mr.. Heber Ker dropped dead at his
residence in Stanton yesterday, aged
60 years. Mr.. Ker was prominent re-
publican leader Of that section and had
been employed as chief deputy United
States marshal under Col. S. Brown allen
for years.
The marriage of Miss Louise Patton
Baker, formerly of Winchester, but now
of Washington, to Mr.. William Wood
Glass, of Waynesboro, took place Satur-
day at the Church of the Epiphany in
Washington. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. DR.. Randolph McKim.
Leila Baker, young unmarried wom-
an, who had been on trial charged with
the killing of her infant child by suto-
cation at her home near Waterford, last
September, WAS acquitted on Friday and
released. The accused, who is about %
years of age, was of respectable parent
age.
The sleet storm that ragged tor Is hours
al the end of the week left the State un-
der coating of ice that will cost thous-
ands of dollars. Wires were Frustrated
in every direction and travel was inter
fered with, especially for pedestrians in
many of the cities, who were in continu-
al danger of live wires torn from their
places.
Henry Niche, one of the three men
accused Of participating in the crime OF
Matchmaking Robert Ballantine, who
killed himself week ago, surprised the
Charlottesville authorities Saturday by
voluntarily returning to the city and
giving himself up to the officers of the
law. He was released on bail and de-
clared he knew nothing of the affair.
jamie Laws, a domestic employed by
Town Sergeant George c. Ricamore, Of
Berryville, was found yesterday evening
suffering from a wound in the stomach
caused By bullet from 92-caliber re-
volver The girl stated that she was shot
by an unknoSn white man wearing blue
overalls. The revolver was later identi-
fed by Sergeant Ricamore as belonging
to him. The girls condition is serious.
The Hotel McAden, at South Hill,
was burned to the ground early yesterday
morning, its thirty or more guests being
turned out into the blizzsrd.like weather
which has prevailed in Virginia since
last Friday. The town was saved only
by heroic work on the part Of the citi-
zens, who were greatly aided by the
cool headed direction of the Rev. Mr..
Hall, the new Methodist minister,
whose power of organization was marked.
Instead of getting out an injunction
against Rev. Father Guzzardi, the Ital-
ians of Norfolk who are opposing him
have telegraphed to Bishop Van De
Vyver, at Richmond, to direc. Father
Guzzardi tn deliver the keys of the ltal-
ian church. The object is to prevent
Father Guzzardi from holding meeting
in the church this afternoon to see
whether the congregation want the gifts
t. the church returned or turned over
with the keys of the church to Father
Doherty, of st. Mary's, as directed by
the Bishop. The opponents of Father
Guzardi insist that the meeting will not
be held in the church today. They con-
tend that the proposed meeting may
break up 10 row.
Richmond was in heavy coating of
ice Saturday. Every policeman ia the
city and every fireman, including the reg
ular reserves and call men, were on duty
that night patrolling the city 10 warn
people away from fallen wires and 10
watch out for fires. The fire alarm sys-
tenn is q wreck, except in the business
section OF the city, and the telephone
and street car systems were seriously
crippled. Richmond was almost wholly
cut off from telegraph and telephone
communication with the northIand south.
The handsome old trees in Capitol square
have been broken and fallen in all d.
rections. Trees in old St. Johns Church
yard have also succumbed.
Fifty-ninth Congress.
Washington Dec IL