Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-02-09
Virginia News.

Mr.. William Smith, of Stafford couu-
ty, died Friday at his home near Brooke
Of paralysis, aged IS years.
The government buildings at Mount
Weather, near Trap, Loudoun county,
we're seriously damaged by FIRE on Sun
day night.
The Newport News Common Council,
at its meeting Friday night, passed the
ordinance providing that all saloons 10
the city shall close from 1880 p. m. to
5 a. m.
A pretty home wedding took place
yesterday near Msuyertown at the home
Of the brides parents, Mr.. aud Mrs.
BENJAMIN Fravel, their daughter, Miss
Ada, becoming the bride of Ralph Sager,
Of Orkney Springs.
The jewelry establishment Of K. l..
Brewer & Son, the leading jewellers OF
Suffolk, was broken into and robbed yes
terday morning OF several hundred dol
lars worth of jewelry. The safe that
contained thousands of dollars worth OF
diamonds was not touched.
Augustus Ragland, of Goochland
county, killed himself Sunday by placing
shotgun in his mouth and pulling the
trigger with stick. Family troubles
are said to have been the cause. Mr..
Raglsnd leaves young widow. He
was son of Charles Rsglsnd, of Gooch-
land.
Mr. and Mrs. Gusts Grymes Meade,
of White Post, Clarke county, have seat
out invitations to the wedding Of their
daughter, Hiss Jsnie peterborough,
to Mr.. John Calhoun Lee, the ceremony
to take place att o'clock on Wednesday,
February 22d, 1905, at Meade Memorial
Church, White Post
A New York telegram announces the
death in that city Tuesday of Francis
Stuart Bowen, former prominent resi-
dent of Winchester, who had for many
years been the confidential friend Of the
late Charles Broadway Rouss, the blind
millionaire merchant. Mr. Bowen was
70 years old aud unmarried.
1t is reported that the President has
definitely decided to send to the Senate
the name of General I. L. Rosser as
postmaster at Charlottesville, and if Gen.
eral Rosser does not care to accept tho
Office, that will be his own business. No
other position, however, is to be tender
ed to General Rosser.
William X. feathers, a native of
Boone county, Kentucky, but for the
past Is years a resident of Warren
county, died suddenly at his home
near Front Royal, Tuesday, aged &c
years. la 1890 Mr. feathers married
Miss Lucy Marshall, daughter of Capt.
James Marshall. His wife survives him.
John O'Neil, alias William johnson,
a negro storekeeper, was given 80 years
in the penitentiary Yesterday by Judge
Witt, of the Richmond Hastings Court.
on various charges of grand larceny
HOUSEKEEPING and stealing. 10 ONeiPs.
house and in that Of the woman he lived
with were found stores of stolen goods
O'Neil pleaded guilty to all charges.
During a hszing encounter at the
high school grounds in BerryviIle.
Clarke county, yesterday, Grover Bush
seriously stabbed Jones Rutherford near
the liver. The injured lad was in
precarious condition last night. The
boys are about 10 years old and are
members of prominent families of the
vicinity, An investigation of the affair
is being made by the school authorities
In the Richmond Police Court yester-
day Ash Kestor, young man. was
fined $40 for cursing and abusing Madge
Cash, a pretty young woman. Kestor
did not have the needed funds. As he
was being led away to Jail the girl,
struck with pity, rushed forward aud
kissed him in the crowded courtroom.
She then left to endeavor to raise the
money To secure his release from the
prison.