Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-10-06
Virginia News.

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Success, Warren county, the service to
commence December |.
SIR. Jas. z. Nelson has rendered has
resignation as teller Of the Peoples Ma
tional Bank at Manassas.
Miss Nellie Mcintosh was married a
the home of her mother, near Leesburgr
Wednesday to Mr.. Josephus Carr, o.
Leesburg,
1t is said that turkeys will be scarce
and high this year, The wet weather
and cold nights have killed many OF th'
young birds.
Vinton NJ. Dickerson, sixty-six year
old, a we'll known citizen of King George
county, died Thursday at his home il
that county. He was a Confederate
veteran.
Rev. Daniel Blain, d. d., well-knowr
educator and prominent minister of the
West Hanover Presbytery, died Thurs.
day night at his home, at @ 'vesville, in
southern Albemarle.
Joel II. Cutchin mayor of Roanoke, was
Yesterday elected president of the Vir-
ginia League OF Municipalities, whose
first annual convention adjourned at
Newport News to meet next year in Rich.
m0nd.
Twenty-nine bodies have been recoy-
cred from the West Fork of the Poca-
bcntas Galleries Company mine at Po-
cahonsas, and a conservative estimate
places the total number of dead at 20
from the recent explosion in that mire.
John /. Edmonds, Familiarity known
as "Capt. Jack" Edmonds, died at
Warenton Thursday at an advanced
age. The burial took place yesterday
afternoon on the old Edmonds estate.
Capt" Edmonds was brother of the
late E. G. Edmonds, who was treasurer
of Fauquier county,
Gov. Swanson has made public proc
lamstion establishing quarantine in
Loudoun county, due to the presence in
that county OF Texas fever among cattle.
The quarantine will stand for ten days,
during which time the State veterinarian
will make an examination OF the disease
and determine whether or not it is con-
tsgious,
The armored cruiser North Carolina,
which represents the most modern ie-
sign OF fighting craft Of that type WAS
launched at Newport News today in the
presence of notable gathering of officials
from North Carolina, Virginia and Wash
ington. The vessel was christened by
Miss Rebecca Glenn, the daughter of
Governor Glenn, of North Caroline.
While walking in lot near her home,
at Myrtle, near Sufold yesterday, Louise
Landlord, aged 10 years, was grabbed
by Mark Underwood, negro, who at
tempted criminal assault. Her screams
attracted the station telegraph operator,
who FASTENED TO the scene with gun.
Underwood ran and did not stop when
the operator emptied the contents of the
weapon in his direction.
The remains of Judge Thomas Turner
Fauntleroy, former member Of the Vir-
ginia Supreme Court Of Appeals, men,
Der Of the Legislature and former Secre-
tary of State, who died on Monday night
at the home of his son, Thomas I.
Fsuntleroy, jr., 10 st. Louis, Mo were
buried ia Mount Hebron Cemetery, Win
chester, yesterday. Judge Fauntleroy's
old friends and members of the Win
chester bar were psllbearers. Judge
Fsuntleroy's family were present at the
funeral.
AT a meeting Of The Joe Kendall Camp,
Confederate Veterans, in Warrenton,
recently, the following officers we're elect
cd Thomas Smith, commander; s. +.
G. Beale, first lieutenant commander; j.
L. Lake. second lieutenant commander;
William H. Lewis, third lieutenant com.
mander. Among other officers elected
we're R. A. Hart, j. r Sewers, 7. @.
Thornton, w. B. Tompkins, A. F. Rose,
I. H. Robinson, William K. Skiuker
and J. NJ. Clatterbuck. A committee
was appointed to arrange for the erection
of monument to Capt. Mountjoy, &
veteran who served with Mosby.
The committee investigating the Will
liamsburg Asylum met at Richmond
yesterday, but it developed that it will
not be able to digest the 5000 page re
cord and reach conclusions before the
general hospital board meets next week.
The impression is that the committee
will reaJemble in November to formulate
the reports. There will be two. Great
satisfaction is felt there over the peaceable
outcome OF the Foster Ould controversy.
DR.. Fosters statement that he in-
tended no reflection on any lady at the
institution nor on Mr.. Ould was followed
by a brief meeting between the two men
who shook hsnds before parting. The
majority report of the committee will
sustain Dr.. Foster and commend his
administration, but will recommend a
larger appropriation for the asylum.