Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-18
Virginia News.


FS Mays died in Petersburg yesterday
aged l04 years. Up to q Oh ort time before
his death Mr.. Mays was frequently seen
on the street.
The term of enlistment of 10 or more
of the members of the Petersburg Grays
has expired and all of them have express
ed their determination not 70 re-enlist.
This will badly cripple the company.
George Matthews, the Washington
artist, has been engaged to paint an i'm
mense picture of "Lee and His Gen.
erals" for the jamestown Ter-Centen-
NAL. The canva. vii be tweniy-four
feet by nine feel.
Governor Swanson and party LETT
Richmond this afternoon for the James
town Exposition site, where tomorrow
the Governor will make the principal
address at the laying Of the cornerstone
Of the Virginia buildings for the expo
sition.
The Lynchburg Jail saw its first deliv-
cry in thirty years Sunday night, when
three negro criminals, who were among
the worst confined in the Jail, made good
their escape by saving through the bars
and nothing has since been heard OF
them.
Israel Monggold, SO years old, was
indicted yesterday by the grand jury in
the Circuit Court of Rockingham for the
murder of his lS-year-old son. Mong-
gold is one OF the wealthiest landowners
in northern Rockingham and says he is
the father Of so children.
The breach in the Richmond Light
Infantry Blues battalion is rapidly wild
ening. The members OF the two COM
panies are preparing petition to be pre-
scented to Governor Swanson, asking him
not to accept the designations OF the two
captains and four lieutenants which have
been forwarded to Major Cheatwood.
Placing his liabilities at $75. 597. 81
and assets at not as much as one cent,
Allen Caperton, who gives his occupa-
ton as that of clerk aud his home as
Suffolk, has fled petition in voluntary
bankruptcy in the United States Court
at Norfolk. But the property to the
value OF perhaps $50, 900, now held by a
trustee, will be applied toward the pay
ment of the debts Of the petitioner.
The funeral of Mrs. Marion Wallace
Owens Vail, a Confederate heroine and
daughter of DR.. Escrom Owens, of Cul-
pepper county, will be held Wednesday
morning. She died in St. Louis Sunday,
aged seventy-six She was an ardent
southern sympathizer, and, after seeing
an army of Confederate prisoners, many
of them wounded and dying, marched
into st. Louis from Fort Donaldson, she
volunteered to nurse in several federal
prisons. In june, 1868, Gen. Leighton
banished her from st. Louis Tor liberat'
ing Confederate prisoners.
The most thrilling OF all the experien-
ces of the storm of Sunday night was
that of the sailing yacht Palatine. owned
by @. III. Leadlie, wealthy civil en-
gineer of ST. Louis. She was towed to
Norfolk yesterday rudderless, with the
copper plates on her bow riven by the
seas, her main boom broken and most
of her rigging gone, by the British steam
ship Lovaine. The Palestine was on
her way from New York to Baltimore,
with her owner, his wife and son and
five in the crew. But for the timely
arrival of the vessel which towed the
yacht to Norfolk she would have ended
her voyage on the shoals of False Cape,
near Hstteras, upon which she was drift
ing when picked up.