Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-05
Virginia News.

DOv DaDy, apparently hontn VIZ,
wss found alive in stable 10 Elklon,
yesterday morning. The child was well
dressed, but there was no means OF iden-
tiicalion.
The new steamer of the State oyster
navy, to be used as the flagship by
Chsirman w. Med Lee, of the Board
of Fisheries, will b, christened Com
modore Maury"
The death Oh Colonel Thomas +. Up
shaw, which occurred in St Louis on
August 2Slh, will be regretted by very
large circle of friends throughout Vir-
GINA, his birthplace.
Mrs Evelyn L. Hewitt wife OF MI.
Charles Hewitt, formerly OF Falmouth,
died Monday at her home in Wasblng-
ton after long Illness, aged 81 years
She was a daughter of Mr. Charles W..
Robertson, of Falmouth
Some excitement was created In Pur'
cellville. Loudoln county, Saturday, by
the robbing of the safe in the postotfice oil
that town between and 2 O'Clock that
morning. The door of the safe was
opened by dynamite and about $500 IN
STAMPS and money taken out.
Miss Charlotte Reed Poythress, daugb-
ter Of Mr.. Wm. p. Poythress, residing
at No. s west franklin street, Rich
mond met with fa,a, accident last night
at | | O'Clock by falling from second
story window, sustaining injuries from
which she died shortly thereafter.
A south bound freight train of che
Southern Railway was wrecked yester-
day at Fall Creek, about six miles north
of DanvilIe. and as result traffic was
delayed until this morning. The wreck
was caused by spreading of rails, and
six cars left the track. The wrecked
cars we're smashed to pieces and were
piled no in heap.
Miss Elizabeth Wise, daughter OF
William L. Wise, was carried from
Onancock to Baltimore last Sun
day night suffering from appendicitis,
and has since been operated ON at ST.
Joseph's Hospital. Her condition is ia
vorable. This is the sixth case of this
disease within the town of Onancock and
immediate vicinity during the past three
| weeks.
Gov. Swanson has ordered special
election TO be held inthe Fifth congress
sional district, on November 6, the day
of the usual election, in order that the va
cancy caused by his own resignation as
a member OF Congress may be filled.
This means that the name of Judge +.
w. Saunders, the democratic nominee,
will appear on two tickets, that for the
unexpiredterm and for the regular term.
Mrs. Virginia Guckenheimer, daugh.
ter OF the late j. S. Gerst, of Danville,
aud Herman Myers, mayor of Savannah,
Ga. we're married at the Country Club,
DanyiIle, yesterday. DR.. George Salst
mon, Of Savannah, officiated. The mar.
riage WAS kept secret, and even the
most intimate friends and relatives did
rot know OF it until the ceremony had
been performed. Mr.. and Ms. Myers
left on the evening train for bridal trip
west.
Millions of tiny fish marked in a pc
culiar manner were seen yesterday
swimming about in the water that nils
80 per cent of the cellars of Winchester.
The water is due to the recent rains and
cloudbursis that continued for three
months. The fish average an inch in
length. The upper part OF the body is
black and the tails are white. How the
strange creatures got into the cellars is d
mystery. Fifty years ago, according to
old inhabitants, fish were found in the
cellars of Winchester, and at that time
fatal epidemic of typhoid fever pre-
vailed.
Charles f Allen, aged thirty-four
year,, who has tor several months been
employed on the double tracking of the
Southern Railway at Hurts, near Dan
vile, committed suicide at an early hour
yesterday morning at the Hotel Morgan
in Dsnville, by taking an overdose OF
morphine. The guests were aroused
BY bis groans, out all efforts to save the
man proved futile. His home is il
Little Hooking, Ohio. Allen was for
mslly employed as conductor on tn,
Great Northern Railway in Montana
and married in Danville. He and his
wife had separated.