Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-01

household necessities. This was the de-
cision under the new law rendered by
Judge Crutchfeld in the civil docket
trials of the Richmond Police Court yes
terday.
Mr.. George s. Shackelford, Of Orange,
who al present represents the 10Th, sen-
senatorial district composed of Culpeper,
Rappshapnock, Madison and Orange
counties), states. positively, that he has
decided, for business reasons, not TO be a
candidate for reelection to the State
senate in which body he has served for
eight years.
DIR. Adam Irvine Clark, the Oldest
physician 10 Lynchburg, Gied yesterday,
aged SO years. He had served many
years ago in the General Assembly for
several terms as representative from
Campbell county, and after moving to
the CITY was president of the board of
health and of Lynchburg Academy OF
Medicine.
Percy T. Crown, son of the late
John o. Crown, tor many years editor
of the Clarke Courier, OF Berryville,
is in a serious condition at bis home in
that place as the result of having been
shot by negro, James Sims, at the
Planters Chemical Company, at Tall
adegs, Ala, of which Mr.. Grown is
superintendent.
A corps of engineers for the Southern
Railway have been making surveys be
tween Dry Fork and Danville, with
view of changing the course of the road
so as to avoid the heavy grades and to
enable the Southern to put down double
tracking. The company also contem-
plates the erection of another iron bridge
across Dan river.
Representative Maynard, in speech
in Portsmouth last night, said that, as
democratic measure, he introduced the
bill in Congress increasing the Presi-
dents salary to 300, 900. Under the
present system, he said, of special appro-
priations, the President receives nearly
$3.50, 900 annually. He thought the
500, 900 enough for all purposes.
Cards have been issued announcing
the approaching marriage OF Mr.. Marshall
Mccormick Milton, of Baltimore, form
erly of Berryville, and Miss Elizabeth
st. Clair Lee, of Gloucester. The cere-
mony is TO be celebrated on Wednesday,
September 8, in Ware Protestant Episco-
pal Church at Gloucester, of which the
bride-elects father, the Rev. Henry b.
Lee, is rector.
Senator Daniel and Governor Swan
son have ANNOUNCED their intention to
deliver campaign speeches In the Ninth
congressional district in behalf of the
candidacy OF ex-senator Bruce, the dem
ocrstic nominee, and report also has it
that State Chairman Ellyson will make
40 effort to induce William Jennings
Bryan to appear there. Secretary Shaw
will speak in that district in behalf
of Congressman Slemp.
1t is understood that the family of the
late Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, former presi-
dent of the jamestown Exposition Com
pany, will request the company to pay to
his estate sum which is in the neigh
borho,d of $4,000, for services render
ed. General Lee preferred not to have
his salary fixed during the early period
of the exposition movement, although
he drew nomiua sum monthly and
was reimbursed for his expenses. The
salary OF President Tucker was placed at
$4,000.
Eight farms have been recently sold
in the upper part of Caroline county to
newcomers, who expect to substantially
improve them. Among these sales was
the farm OF G. r. Collins, near Guineys,
containing 1852 acres, on which is locat-
ed the farm house in which Gen. Stone
wall Jackson died after being wounded
in the Wilderness during the civil war.
The price was $4,000. The farm OF L.
w. Catlett, in the same neighborhood,
containing $50 acres, was sold to 0. T.
Griffin, of Remington, for "a, 300.
Thomas Burke, who was employed
as foreman of construction work on the
Tidewater Railway, near Roanoke, was
instantly killed yesterday evening by
blast. Burke was passing the point
where the blasts had been set, when a
man handling the electric igniters put of
the second blast, which resulted in HE
death. He was knocked from a high
cliff, and his body badly msngled by fly
ing rocks and the force of the explosion.
A gang of laborers, mostly Italians, get
upon Joseph Trieco, who set of the
blast They beat him numerically, and
it was with great difficulty that the en-
ragged iaboiers we're prevented from
lynching him. He finally escaped to the
mountains after rope had been secured
TO hang him.