Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-05
Virginia News.

A special grand jury is Investigating
the Richmond primary.
Fire destroyed a barn attached to the
Central State Hospital, in Dinwiddie
county, near Petersburg, Monday; los.
$500.
Mrs. Charlotte Humphries died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs Jefferson
Walker, in Fredericksburg, Sunday
morning, OF general debility.
Reports from all over the State show
that the Fourth was celebrated more
generally in Virginia than at any
time since the days before the wsr.
Officers of Hanover county, near Old
Church, are seeking Burton Douglas, q
wears old, charged with attempted crimi-
nal assault on Irene Burton, the half-sis-
ter Of his mother.
Lieut.. Clifton SouthwOrth died al
Sunlight, the home of his relative, Mr..
Geo. Perry, in Spotsylvania, Saturday
night, aged 6S years. He was gallant
Confederate soldier and an officer of the
Fredericksburg artillery.
Peter Skeeter, of Portsmouth, was fir
ing a toy cannon yesterday when spark
ignited the box of powder he was using.
The explosion which resulted burned
his eyes so that he may lose the sight OF
one, if not both, of them.
Four men we're killed outright and
seven others were so seriously injured
that some of them will die by the explo-
sion of threshing machine engine on
the plantation of Rush Eanes. near Ak
ton, Henry county, Monday afternoon.
A charter has been granted TO the
Brdgewater Milling Corporation, OF
Fredericksburg. The incorporatOrs are
J. B. Ficklen, president; E. G. l.. Flick
len, vice president and treasurer; A. ID.
Tapscott, secretary, all Of Fredericks-
burg. Capital stock is maximum, $780,
900; minimum, $4,000. The objects
and purposes are to deal in grain of all
kinds.
On the ninety-third anniversary of the
birth of Rev. John Jasper, the noted
negro preacher, occurring yesterday
amid a vast cOncOurse of ccored people,
was unveiled at Richmond the monu-
ment to John Jasper. The ceremonies
began at O'Clock, the unwilling at
1870 and the affair, so memorable 10
the colored people OF the South, was
finished at o'clock.
The socialist party of Virginia has
nominated the following State ticket:
For Governor, George NJ. Norris, of
Richmond; Lieutenant-G Governor, Will
liam Gath, Newport News; Secretary OF
Commonwealth, Max Boehm, Newport
News; Treasurer, James II. Cooper,
Newport News.
A reunion of the Fourth lmmunes,
Spanish-American Wss Veterans, was
held in Fredericksburg yesterday for the
purpose of organizing regimental camp
and holding annual reunions. This reg
iinent is composed mostly of men from
Maryland, Pennsylvania, District of
Columbia, Virginia and West Virginia
A fair crowd was present to participate
in the exercises, which were joined in
by the Confederate Veterans, Sons of
Confederate Veterans and the Washing
ton Guards, of Fredericksburg.
A severe electrical storm, accompanied
by a heavy downpour of rain, lasting
over an hour, visited Charlottesville and
other portions of Albemarle county yes
terday afternoon. Lightning struck the
city's new high school building and the
residence Ct DIR. Paul B. Barringer. at
the university, setting fire to the porch
of the dwelling. A panic was narrowly
averted at the dancing pavilion at
Jefferson Park, where 500 or more peo-
pie, mostly women, we're gathered. The
Southern Railway track was washed
out near Arrowhead, seven miles south
of Charlottesville, blocking traffic on the
main line of that road