Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-23
Virginia News.

The home Of G. J. Carter, at Wades-
vile, Clarke county, was destroyed by
fire Saturday, causing a loss of 81, 500.
Somerfeld, the home of Jack Bran
BILE, near Coan Wharf Northumberland
county. was destroyed by fire Sunday.
Farmers and business men of Hern-
den have organized corporation for the
establishment of canning factory in
that place.
Charles Taylor, freight conductor on
on the Norfolk and Western, was killed
yesterday by shifting car backing over
him at Buena Vista.
Jas. II. Shumate, one of the Oldest
inhabitants of WarrentOD, died Saturday
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. George
Gaskins, in Washington.
II is announced that a change for the
wor.e has taken place in the condition
of Mr.. Marshall Mccormick, of Berry,
vile, who is under treatment at Win
chester Memorial Hospital.
| With his throat cut and wrists LAGER
ated, former Treasurer II. B. Smith, of
William and Mary College, was found
dead in the woods yesterday. He had
been missing for some time.
James Bell Hawkins, a retired con-
tractor and builder, died Sunday even
ing of pneumonia, in the eighty-frst
year OF his age. He had been resident
of Charlottesville for over go years.
Mrs. r. H. l.. Chichester, of Stafford
c0lniy, was brought 10 the Mary Wash
ington Hospital, Fredericksburg, last
week TO undergo an operat on for what
was supposed to be sI.lintered hip
bone. The operation developed the fact
that the cause of the trouble was
needle which had become Embedded in
| her hip.
Montana Hall, the handsome coun-
try home Of w. G. Conrad, the multi
millionaire, mining and copper king of
Great Falls, Mont, whose estate in Vir-
ginia is located near White Post, Clarke
county, was badly damaged by fire on
Saturday last. Several carpets, lot of
| furniture and valuable piano were
burned and the loss will reach 81, 500.
The fire was caused by defective hue.
The dead body of Harry Smith, the
missing Newport News draughtsman,
WAS found Sunday few miles from
Wi liamsburg. Beside the body was a
razor and a knife, with one of which The
throat had been cut. Smith had been
missing since January 6 and his friends
feared that he had committed suicide,
as i'll health, following an attack OF
Chagres fever, had caused dependency.
Two damage suits have been fled in
the Circuit Court of Loudoun county.
Mr.. r. +. Hibbs, of Arcola, sues the
Southern Railway Company to recover
81, 900 damages for injuries sustained
January 8. Mr.. Hibbs, it is alleged,
WAS struck by train at Sterling station
and badly injured. Mr.. J. X. Reynolds,
Of Round Hill, has brought suit against
DIR. j. f. Copeland, a prominent pract-
icing ply sician Of that place, to recover
81, 900 damages for alleged SANDER.
News has been received in Petersburg
of the death of w. w. Jones, formerly
of Sutherlands, Dinwiddie county, who
lef! some months ago for Gallix, Texas,
and was killed there, it is alleged, by
the proprietor of hotel. The death
blow, it is said, WIS given with chair
Jones for some years owned aud operated
sawmil near S1therlands. He was
appointed several months ago lumber
inspector for the government and had
been in Texas but short time.
Another murder was added to Wythe
county's bloody record Saturday mid
night, when James Hudson, a white
man, was shot and killed by George
Boysley, a negro, of Max Meadows.
Boysley escaped. The killing is said to
have been unprovoked. Hudson was
with several friends, and in passing
party of negroes accidently brushed
against Boysley, who, without warning,
drew a revolver, and shot Hudson 10 the
breast. This is the fourth murder at
Max Meadows within IL months, and
the twelfth in Wythe county in the last
two wears, besides r number of killings
alleged 70 have been accidental.
+. G. GARNER K Co., members of the Pitts