Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-08-31
Virginia News.

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Mrs. Susan A. Thompson. widow of
the late A. A. Thompson, died at her
home in Warrenton Monday, aged n
years.
An unknown person entered the resi-
dence of George Laurens in Stanton
Tuesday night and stole 5000. 500 OF
this was Sunday-school money.
1t is said that the leather trust which
recently bought the tannery of Cover q
Drayton of Winchester, will also pur-
chase other tanneries in Virginia and
Maryland.
A crowd estimated at over 1000 per-
sons representing many parts of Virginia
and other States helped to make the
first day of the Warrenton Horse Show
yesterday the most successful in its his
tory.
Judge William Hodges Mann and Lieut..
Gov. Joseph E. Willard, both defeated
in the recent contest for the Governor
ship, are getting ready to begin cam
paign for the nomination four years
hence.
Mr.. Rush w. Chamblin, of Bloomfield,
Loudoun Aunty, and Miss Maria Myrtle
Monroe, daughter OF Mr.. Madison Mon
roe, of Unison. were married yesterday
afternoon at Unison in the Methodist
Episcopal Church South.
The Culpeper county School Board
decided that the charges of general
unitness as a teacher brought against
Prof T. w. Hendrick, principal of the
Culpeper Graded School by Rev. j. w.
Ware and Others were not sustained.
The survivors of the Clarke Cavalry
held their annual reunion at the hume
of their comrade, J. j. LaRue, near
Rippon, w. Va, last Saturday, Aug
Just 26. The officers chosen for the ell
suing year are James Watson, Presi-
dent; R. A. Lewis, ce-President; R.
O. Allen, Treasurer; w. T. Milton,
Secretary.
j. w. Robertson, of Selma, n. c.,
has employed able counsel in Norfolk to
assist Commonwealth Attorney TiltOn in
the prosecution of Capt. E. w. Jones
for killing his daughter, Maud Cameron
Robertson. He will use proceeds of the
estate she left to prosecute her slayer.
Captain Jones's friends are trying to
keep him in st. Vincents Hospital for
the self-inaicted wound in his throat,
while Chief of Police BOush urges that
he should be in Jail.
Mr.. John d. Spencer, prominent
citizen of Danville, is in a critical condi-
ton at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, in
Baltimore, as the result of being shot in
the mouth by burglar on July 81 in
MartinsyiIe. Mr.. Spencer was sleeping
at the home of his brother, Mr.. ID. II.
Spencer, when he was awakened by hear
ing someone walking in the house. As
he arose the intruder fired his revolver,
the bullet entering Mr.. Spencer's mouth.
Immediately after the shooting Mr..
Spencer was removed to the Danville
General Hospital, and on August l6
went to Baltimore.
George L. Christian, formerly Judge
of the Richmond Hastings Court, has
declined to serve on the committee of
fifty authorized by the mass-meeting in
the Capitol Square to endeavOr to secure
honest elections in Richmond. 10 a let
ter to the chairman Judge Christian says
that the courts are now well organized
and honest and that the day for vigilance
committees is past. Such movement,
he says, reflects on the courts and is
calculated to create dssension in the
democratic party. Mr.. James n. Boyd
and Mr.. L. u. Morris have also declined
to serve on the committee.
An electric road extending from Ash
land to Tappahannock, taking in Pc
tersburg and Richmond and running
through the counties of Hanover, King
William, Essex. HenricO, Chesterfield,
Prince George, Dinwiddie, Amelia and
Powhatan is at last taking some tangi-
BILE form. The road will be about one
hundred miles long. A charter for such
an enterprise was granted yesterday by
the State Corporation Commission to the
Virginia Light and Power Company
with Henry w. Anderson, Thomas l..
Wheelwright, G. B. Williams, Edw. L.
c. Scott, and F. Sitterding as incOrpora-
tors.