Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-14
Virginia News.


A marriage license was issued in Wash
ington yesterday to Charles II. Hid aud
Mary r. Magnee, and to Oden n. Casey
and Lulu Haycock, both of Leesburg,-
L. K. Culberson, charged with election
frauds in the municipal primary was
brought to Richmond last night by an
officer from York, Pa. He will be ar
Ranged later.
Mrs. Oscar Gresham, of Caroline
county, died at her home near Bowling
Green Monday night after lingering
illness aged sixty-three years. she Is
survived by her husband.
The -four and corn mills ofthe Lynch
burg Milling Company was partly burn
ed early yesterday and the loss, which is
partly insured. is estimated at several
thousand dollars, the principal damage
being due TO water.
Charles Dean, who murdered Fletcher
Hawkins last April, was hanged yester-
day morning at New Castle, Craig
county. Both slayer and victim we're
negroes. This is the county's first exc
cution since 1868, when girl slave was
hanged for attempting TO kill her owner.
Mrs. Ellen Bernard Lee, widow of
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, has written to Mayor
Carlton Mccarthy, of Richmond, thank
ing Richmond for tue honor done the
memory of Gen. Lee when be was buried
there. Mrs. Lee wrote from SaH Fran
cisco, where she is en- route to the Phil
lippines.
Chap Ramsey, who shot and killed his
nephew, William Ramsey, at Rocky
Mount, on September 3, gave himself up
to Deputy Sheriff T. A. Ramsey, of
Henry county, Tuesday night, and was
carried from Henry to Franklin county
Jail. He claims the killing TO have
been in self-defense, and says he would
have given up at once, but feared mob
violence.
A now phrase was brought 10 light
yesterday in the union printers strike
in Richmond for an eight-hour day,
when it was announced that unless the
employers accede to the demands of the
men a cooperative job Office will be
started by the strikers, with a view to
taking the work which the employing
job printers will be unable to do for lack
of men.
President Roosevelt al Oyster Bay, L.
l., yesterday signed the commission of
Robert Il. Tally, OF Norfolk, Va, as the
United States District Attorney for the
Eastern district ofVirginia. Mr.. Tally
was appointed to succeed District Attor-
ney l.. L. Lewis, whose resignation was
accepted in order that he might become
candidate on the republican ticket for
Governor.
The State board of education has
awarded the contract for printing the
new edition of the Virginia School Reg
lister to the Hermitage Press, L. H. Jen-
kins, president and manager. The award
was made yesterday and the work is to
be done at once. Two thousand copies
of the register are TO be prepared forth
with, and are to be ready for distribution
in two weeks. Instead of paying IS
cents for the register, as under the old
scheme, the books are to cost Is cents
each. They are to be smaller than the
old register and will last for one term
only.
A dispatch from Winchester states
that Major Edward Contee johnson,
son of the late Hon. Reverdy johnson,
United States Senator and Minister to
England, dropped dead shortly before
shutdown yesterday evening at his coun-
try place, at Millwood, Clarke county,
from an attack of apoplexy. The ill
ness was very sudden and unexpected
and Major johnson expired before a
physician could be procured. Up to
the time he was seized he was supposed
to be in robust health. Major johnson
was formerly lessee of the famous old
Tyler House, of Baltimore, and had
been living in Clarke county two years.
He was about go years old and leaves
widow, two daughters Miss Mary Bowie
and Annie Johnson) and a number of
sisters and brothers living in various
,Na ITO If tho conptrv