Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-17
Virginia News.

Capt. John /. Dlilard, Confederate
veteran, died in Roanoke yesterday OF
paralysis, aged rs yenrs.
The Senate Yesterday confirmed the
nomination OF John w. Kimberly TO be
postmaster at Fortress Monroe.
George w. Lewis, well-known farm
er, OF Frederick County died yesle rday
at his home, near Winchester, aged "A
years.
Mrs. Mary Alice Flippo, wife of Levi
Hippo, died at her home, near Thorns-
burg, Spotsylvanis county, Monday, al
an advanced age.
Jesse Cornell. of Fairfax, and Miss
Lizzie Daymude, daughter of Samuel
Daymude, of Broad Run, were married
yesterday at Herndon.
John f. Hickey, OF HillsborO, and
Miss Rosa Lee Florence, daughter Of
Rasmus Florence, of uear Round Hill,
were married at Hillsboro yesterday.
The fifth annual convention of the
Anti-saloon League of Virginia met in
Petersburg last night al the First Bap-
fist Church, and will be in session until
Thursday night.
Senators Blackburn, of Kentucky;
Money, Of Mississippi; Hon. John F.
RIxey and Judge Samuel Williams, Of
Wythevile, will deliver the principal
addresses at the celebration of Gen.
Lees birthday, in Leesburg, on Friday.
At meeting of the stockholders of
the Roanoke Fair association, held Mon
day night, the sale of associations's fair
grounds, in the southern section of the
city, to the Tidewater Railway Company,
was ratified. The purchase was $28.-
900. The association paid So, 900 Tor
the grounds three years ago.
The death of Mrs Ada Moore, % years
old, at the home Of her mother, Mrs.
John Crown, in Richmond, yesterday,
makes a remarkable coincidence. Three
danehters, Ada, Beulah and Maude
Crown, the difference in whose ages was
exactly one year, have all died within
three years. Each of the young women
was % at the time Of her death. Mrs.
Moore was bride Of just four weeks
The stockholders of the jamestown
Exposition held their third annual meet
ing in Norfolk yesterday and elected the
directors for the ensuing year. The re-
port of the chairman of the board of
governors for the work of the past year
was read, and the auditor submitted
financial report that was gratifying.
The directors chosen included Hon.
Henry St George Tucker, OF Lexington,
and Park Agnew, of Alexandria.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant this
week, to citizens of this State, of the
following patents Lindsay Gaskins, of
Hamilton, automatic bell signal for rail-
way track crossings; Jordan w. Grant,
of Portsmouth, pop safety valve; John
Hermann aud G. Schwaner, OF Char
lOtiesville, wire stretcher; Thomas j.
King, of Richmond. combined weeder
and harrow; Isaac J. Marcuss, of Rich
mond, street metal eau.
Charles Leake, aged twenty-oue years,
brother of Chesapeake and Ohio train
dispatcher, made an unsuccessful at
tempt Monday evening to commit
suicide by lesping from eastbound
Chesapeake and 0hiD Train No. 10.
The unfortunate man was taken TO Char.
lottesville Monday night and placed in
the hospital. Leake jumped from the
train while it was in full motion, aud
was found by the conductor of the west
bound train in q field near the track.
One leg was injured and il is feared that
internal injuries we're sustained. Leake
is said to have told the train crew that
it was bis fault; that he was trying TO
ride on the blind baggage aud wanted to
end his life when he jumped. A train
man said Leake tod him, when first
picked up, that he wanted to kill HIM
self