Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-09-21
Virginia News.

Miss Alice Creekmore in st. PauPs
Church, Norfolk, yesterday morning.
A hospital association, with capital
stock of $4,000, is being organized to
establish a local hospital in Leesburg.
A big democratic meeting and barba-
cue was held at Stanardsville yesterday,
at which Mr.. Swanson and Senator
Martin spoke.
Mrs. Barbara A. Wager, wife OF Geo.
w. Wager, a prominent citizen OF Marks
vile district, Page county, died Tues
day, aged about so years.
Miss Emma Hunt, daughter of the
late William H. Hunt, of Purcellville,
Loudoun county, died on Tuesday, at her
home in that town, from typhoid fever,
aged 20 years.
Henry G. Hough, of MOulton, Iowa,
died at his home in that city on Sun
day, from heart disease, aged about So
years. He was native of Waterford,
Loudoun county.
The prospect for large number of
students this session at the University
of Virginia is very promising. Up 10
yesterday nearly seven hundred had
matriculated in the various departments.
AS result from a fall from Seven
Pines street car yesterday afternoon, Mr..
Harris Hobson, sixty years of age, died
at the Virginia Hospital in Richmond,
ten minutes after the ambulance had
taken him there.
Capt. Joseph E. Willard is expected
next week to resign as Lieutenant Gov
ernor in order to accept a position on
the Corporation Commission. His sue
cessor will be HenryT. Wickham, Presi
dent pro tenn of the Senate.
Capt. j. r. Williams, a well.knowl
contractor OF Lynchburg, died last night
at the home of his son-in-law, DR.. ID. G.
Darnitz at Christiansburg, of heart dis
ease, aged 65 years. He was native of
Botetourt county and was an cx-Confed-
crate veteran.
Marriage licenses we're issued in
Washington yesterday to James w.
Nethers and Alice NJ. Compton, of Gull
pepper; George F. TODey, of Montgomery
county, Nd, and Mary Williams, of
Fairfax county, and to Ebert E. Ruffin
and Sadie V. Pierce, both of Warenton.
The jury in the case of Policeman
Robert A. Phillips, charged with the
murder of Artillerymau George A.
Dowri, returned a verdict of not guilty
in the Circuit Court of Elizabeth City
county yesterday. The officer made a
plea of self defense, and was completely
exonerated.
All the arrangements have been COM
pleted for the great Roanoke fair which
will open in the city of Roanoke mex.
Tuesday, September 25, to continue four
days. Excursion tickets will be sold at
one fare for the round trip. We ac-
knowledge the receipt Of an inyatiOn to
attend the fair.
Azeale Thaxton, two years old, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Y. G. Thaxton, died yester-
day in Newport News from the effect of
sucking the heads of matches. The
child is said to have been in the habit OF
putting all the matches she could obtain
in her mouth. Yesterday she secured
enough Of the poisonous substance to
cause death.
A. w. Scott, who was recently nomi
mated in a democratic primary in Bed
ford for the house of delegates, fell from
his horse Yesterday and was killed in
stantly. He was driving some cattle to
Lynchburg and the heat and fatigue Of
looking after the animals is believed to
have brought on an attack of heart
trouble, from which he had been suffer
ing.
The democratic convention of the
Twenty. third senatorial district, embrac-
ing the counties of Henry and Pittsyl-
vauia and the city of Danville, met yester-
day. William A. Garrett, ofHenry county,
the incumbent, was nominated for the
Senate by reclamation. A feature OF the
convention was the adoption by 2 large
majority of a resolution opposing the
primary plan of nominating candidate
for State and Federal offices.
In the special term of the Circuit
Cour: for Warren county yesterday,
Judge 7. w. Harrison presiding,
the following were convicted and fined
for illegal sales of whiskey: Byrd
Fletcher, SO, 200; EwelI Rose, %, 100;
T. a. Lake, $3.50, and George Oden,
800. The total amount of fines i'm
posed, including those imposed Tuesday,
is $500. Today it will be an
nounced whether Jail sentence will be
imposed upon the convicted parties.
There is possibility of these cases being
taken to the Court of Appeals.
Upon information contained in tele-
gram from the Commonwealth Attor-
ney for Amelia county. G. A. Wells,
colored, 25 years old, charged with the
alleged murder of Boney j. Lipscomb,
colored, OF Amelia, was arrested at his
home, on Jackson street northeast, Wash
ington, last night, by the central office
detectives. When questioned at the
Washington police headquarters Wells
admitted that he had been in Virginia
near Amelia county several weeks before
the murder was committed. He was in
a very nervous condition and the detec-
tives think that the suspect knows more
than he is willing 10 admit. The papers
in the case will reach Washington to-
morrow morning and special officer
from Amelia county will go their to
claim the prisoner.