Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-05-15
Virginia News.

Inc virginia Funeral Dlfec1ol' 90
ISOLATION If Virginia meets at NorioiK
"Wednesday for three days session.
ArtiIlerymen at Fort Monroe have
raised SO, 900 to prosecute Officer Phil-
lips, of Phoehus, who killed George
Dowrey, a soldier, last week.
Miss Nellie Norris, &c years OF age,
died near Winchester Saturday OF gas
trio fever. She was native OF Cnlpeper,
where her remains were taken for burial.
AT Baltimore Saturday the Hopkins
University carried off all honors in the
track meet with the University of Vir-
ginia athletes, scoring So points to their
opponents 46.
Later reports received from south
west Virginia show that the damage
done by wind, rain and clondbursts Fri
day and Friday night was not overesti-
mated. Two lives are known to have
been lost.
George II. Turner died at Charlestown,
w. Va, yesterday after an illness OF
several months, aged rs years. TIE
deceased was a native ofLoudoun county,
and had resided in Jefferson county
over 80 years.
Charles Mulliken and Eben Richards,
of Clarke county, have purchased the
imported hackney stallion Ely Stock.
we'll from Mr.. A. ]. Hays, of Loudoun
The price paid, $4,000, is the highes
ever given in Clarke county for hack
ney horse. 3'N
H.. d. Kemp, once well-known
newspaper man of Baltimore and Wash
ington, died in Richmond Saturday, OF
consumption, at the home of his BROTHER
in-law, J. St. George Bryan. He wa
81 years OF age. The funeral and inter
ment will be in Gloucester today.
Charles jenkins, 16-year-old youth
fired a load of buckshot from a rifle al
his father, James jenkins, at Gilmerton,
Norfolk county, yesterday, terribly
mangling his left arm. The father was
numerically beating the boys mother
whose cries prompted his act.
Griffin F. Edwards, member Of the Law
firm OF E wards & Hopper, of Ports
mouth died yesterday aged 81 years. HI
was former clerk of the Corporation anC
Norfolk County Circuit Courts, an ex
member of the Virginia State Legislature
He was also formerly superintendent o
the Portsmouth public schools.
The memorial window presented b!
the Maryland Division of the Daughter
of the Confederacy to the Confederate
Museum, in Richmond, was unveiled
Saturday with impressive ceremony. A
bust of General Lee, also the gift of thu
Maryland Daughters, was presented t
the Maryland room of the museum,
A dispatch from Richmond says Mr.
Kelly's retirement renders it very likely
that the next speaker of the house vii
be w. ID. Cardwell. of Hanover, al
though Capt. Robert f.. Lee, jr., of Fair
fax, and John w. Churchman, of Au
gusta, both able and popular mel, arr
candidates with a considerable following
| Ol inc WHAT vi tuC Oiu bonhhioi
steamers in Richmond Saturday evening
a box containing quantity of dynamite
accidentally caught fire from some waste
whereupon it was seized by Rober
Pocklingtor, who was at work nearby
aud who leaped overheard with it, thu
preventing what might have been ca
tastrophy.
The body Of Major f. T. d. Myers
was laid to rest in Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond, Saturday afternoon. Th'
congregation was dismissed at the clos
of the services at the church and thu
burial was private. At o'clock every
wheel on every car of the whole system
of railroads of which he was presiden
stopped, every shaft in every shop ceased
to turn, and every man stopped worl
and was silent for five minutes.