Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-17
Virginia News.

| Mrs. James Brown Potter, formerly
Miss May Handy, of Richmond, will
sail in few days from England for this
country and will probably be in Rich
mond in the near future
Mrs. Hunter Holmes Mcclure, of
Richmond, announces the engagement
of her daughter, Frances B., to Mr.
Guy Davis, of Norfolk. The date of
the wedding has not yet been made
public.
A novel reason is given for the north
bound trains on the Norfolk Il Western
Railroad being Observation-Disclosures.
The shipment of these berries is 80 large
that much time is lost at many OF the
stations in loading them upon express
cars.
George Cuthbert Hutchinson, of Lou
doun county, died Friday at the home
of his son, DR.. H. B. Hutchinson, at
HerndOn, aged GA years. He served
throughout the civil war in the Confed-
crate army as a member of the Loudoun
Artillery and Whites battalion.
Col. Thos. H. Carter, after a decade
of faithful work in the proctorship, has
severed his official connection with the
University Of Virginia, and, accompa-
MED by his daughter, Mrs. Robert E.
Lee, has gone to the White Sulphur
Springs to spend the summer.
Whether Harrison Field killed him
self or was killed is now the subject of
an investigation by the Richmond au-
thorities. Field, who had been re-
spected young member of the business
world, was found Saturday night dead
near the reservoir just outside Rich
mond. He had a bullet through his
body and there was a small pistol near
him.
A letter from Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee re-
ceived 10 Richmond tells of the death
of her little grandcEild, Catherine Le-
Grand Rhea, FIVE months old, at Caloosa
Springs, Ga. The little one was the
child of Lieut.. j. G. Rhea, U. S. A.,
and Gen. Fitzhugh Lees daughter FL
len, who married Lieutenant Rhea about
two years ago Lieutenant Rhea is now
with his regiment in the Philippines.
Strasburg celebrated the installation
of its water system Saturday with big
carnival, which was attended by 5000
people. The day was filled with numer'
Gus novelty races and game of baseball
between the teams from Woodstock and
Edinburg, the latter winning by score
of 4 to 3. The fire companies repre-
scented were from Front Royal, Winches-
Ter, Woodstock and Harrisonburg The
Friendship, Of Winchester, and the
Shenandoah, of Woodstock, were the
only entries in the reel races. The
prizes we're $50 and $25, Winchester
winning first, in 81 seconds. Many of
the homes and business houses were
deliberately decorated
John Vowel, thirty-fye years old,
was thrown from buggy, and probably
fatally hurt, in runaway accident near
Berryville Saturday afternoon. Vowel
and Oliver Carroll, a younger man.
spent the day in Berryyile, and left
there in the afternoon for their homes,
a few miles away. Both were thrown
cut OF the buggy, Carroll escaping with
severe cuts and bruises. Vowel was
caught in the lines and drag ged nearly a
hundred yards. A broken plank in
the floor of a bridge across the road
caught him and tore gaping wound in
his abdomen. Physicians say he cannot
! recover.
The misforlunes that so rapidly followed
DIR. l.. +. Vaughan ended Friday night
in the death of DR.. Vaughan at hospi-
tai in Richmond. DIR. Vaughan was
the owner of a beautiful home near In
dependence, Grayson county, until last
Sunday night week, when fire burned
his house and everything in it, His
family escaped in their night clothes and
several were burned, his son very seri-
ously, and is now in a critical condition.
DR.. Vaughan lowered his wife to the
ground through a window and jumped TO
safety himself Next day, while standing
on the street at Independence, a small boy
accidently fired toy rifle, and the bali
lodged in Dr. Vaughan's abdomen caus-
ing his death.