Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-08-03
Virginia News.

wss found guilty of the murder oil Con
rad Boyd and sentenced to Is years IN
the pepilentiary.
1t is now believed the next encamp'
ment of the Grand Camp, Confederate
Veterans OF Virginia, will be held ID
Roanoke next October.
Governor Swanson has accepted th'
resignation of Col. George Wayne An
derson, of the Seventeen Regiment, but
has fixed no date for the election OF
successor.
John b. Caldwell, former treasurer oil
the Virginia Coal aud Iron Company, al
lnman, hiss been sentenced to seven year:
10 the penitentiary for the embezzlement
of $l5, 900.
Arrangements have been completed by
the committee of the Piedmont Hunt
by which Middleburg will shortly be-
come one Of the leading hunting centefs
in the United States
Andrew j. Williamson, postmaster at
Guinea, Caroline county, died suddenly
Wednesday sight OF heart disease, aged
sixty-four years. He had been post
master for twelve years, and served as a
Confederate soldier.
Mrs. Emma L. Garnett, widow OF
General Thomas Stewart Garnet, died
yesterday at her home at Spyhill, King
George county, in the sixIy-second year
OF her age She had been in falling
health for more than year.
The governor has appointed Thomas
A. Lynch, Of Tazewell county, to be
clerk of the senate, to succeed Joseph
Button, who qualified yesterday as in
sursnce commissioner, until the next
meeting of the legislature, when the
clerk will be formally elected by that
body.
Col. John Alexander Gibson, aged
7S years, died at bis home, on Timber
Ridge, near Lexington, yesterday, of liver
trouble. He was a Confederate soldier,
serving throughout the war. He was
very prominent during the readjuster
movement and went with Malone into
the republican party.
The jury trying George o. Andrews,
a Richmond street carconductor, tor
alleged attempted criminal assault on / l.
year-old Ida Bsyoe, reported yesterday
that it could not agreed and asked to be
discharged. This was agree to, and the
prisoner was remanded to Jail. He will
be tried again IN September.
Col Joseph S. Button was sworn in be-
fore the Corporation Commission in
Richmond yesterday as insurance COM
missioner, and at once assumed the
duties OF the position. The ceremonies
we're brief and OF the most cordial char
acter. The chairman of the commits
sion, Judge Crump, administered the
oath, and Colonel Button affixed his sig
nature. Judge Crump assured him Of
the earnest and hearty cooperation OF
tho commission in the conduct of his
Office.
Henry Rose and young son, Scott, Of
White Oak, Stafford county had a mar
row escape from drowning by being
washed down Claiborn's Run, which was
much swollen when they attempted to
cross it. Willie and Robert Sullivan,
of the same neighborhOod, attemptel
to cross the same point about au hour
later in a buggy. They were washed
Iown, but succeeded in swimming out
and rescuing the horse, The buggy
was demolished.
Republicans of Culpeper county held
meeting yesterday. j. R. Button, j.
r. Corbin, I. r. Covington, G. w.
Curtis and f. G.. Eggborn were elected
delegates to the alexandria COMPRESSION
al meeting, and Samuel Diener, j. w.
Colvin, NJ. ID. Belts, j. 0. FAINT, and
l.. l.. Whtestone were elected as alter
mates. The present county organization
was reelected. The county and State
organizations we're Endorsed, and the adj
ministratiOn of President Roosevelt
eulogized, w. 81. Eggborn was Endorsed
for State committeeman.
The next session of the Potomac Pap.
list Association OF Northern Virginia
will be held at Waterford, Loudoun
county, from August IS to August II
The moderator is Judge G E. Nicol, OF
Manassas; the clerk, Rev. f. H. James,
of Round Hill, and the treasurer, Mr..
J. w. Kincheloe, of Rectorlown. Fifty
five churches comprise the association,
representing membership in Alexandria,
Fairfax, Prince William, Fauquier, Lou
dOun aud Stafford counties. The value
of church property in the bounds OF the
association is 1929, S66; membership,
1894; Sc Sunday schools aud 2,9l0
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