Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-29
Virginia News.

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Miss Edith Middleton. died at her home
at Bealeon on Thursday of last week.
The Betsey Harris copper mine, about
mile from Cub Run in Fairfax county,
has been sold 10 a syndicate Of capital.
lists from Allentown, Pa.
Miss Annie Wharton Gresham, Of
IIerndon, Fairfax county, was married
Wednesday afternoon to Mr.. w. w.
Orrison, a prominent merchant OF Lou
doun.
Major Francis Peabody Leavenworth,
Of Petersburg, has issued cards to the
wedding of his daughter, Miss Helen
McGill, to Mr. r S. Blackburn Smith,
If Berryville. The wedding will take
at noon, July 7.
Miss Lula A. Brown, daughter of Mr..
nd Mrs. Asbury Brown, of PhilomOnt,
Loudoun county, was married Wednes
day to Mr.. Thomas Wesley Carter, of
North Fork. Rev. Frank P. Berkeley,
pastor of the Baptist Church, performed
the ceremony.
Mrs. Lucy Taylor Gordon Willis, OF
Fredericksburg the wife of ex-Mayor NJ.
G.. Willis, died yesterday inner home
in that city. Mrs. Willis was born Au.
gust 2S:h, 1S47, in the county of Gull
pepper, and was the youngest daughter of
Edward Harrison Gordon and Fanny p.
Herndon.
Miss Grace Duffy, daughter of the late
Judge Henry Duffy, was married yes
terday to Mr.. Francis Talaferro S.
Powell, OF Leesburg: The wedding took
place at the home of the brides mother,
in Baltimore, and the ceremony was per.
formed by Rev. Wm. NJ. Dame, rector
of Memorial Protestant Episcopal
Church.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of
clothing was yesterday burned blythe
government on arecently acquired reser-
walton adjoining the navy yard. The
clothing was recovered from pawn shops
last December by Special Agent F. II.
Cntchins. The bonfire yesterday was
the result OF the failure of officials to
find the original owners.
During storm about O'Clock last
night lightning struck the Methodist
Church, at Fredericksburg, tearing the
slate roof up and throwing slate in every
direction. The Sunday school room to
the rear of the church was filled with
ladies and children, who we're forced To
go ia from the lawn, where they were
holding lawn party.
Mrs. Eliza Almond, wife of Mrs. Jas.
II. Almond, a carpenter OF Stanton,
while picking cherries on the farm OF
Mr.. II. Eichelberger, yesterday fell from
the tree and was killed. A passer-by saw
her lying on the ground and went to her
assistance. She asked for water, which
was given her. She died within Is
minutes, and before a physician could
reach her.
Norfolk is to have a clock, said to be
the largest in the world. 1t will be 40
feet from the ground, in tower on the
Garrett Winery. Its dials will be %
feet in diameter and they will be so ar
ranged that the time may be told from
ny.point in Norfolk harbOr, the cities
of Norfolk and Portsmouth or their sub
urbs for several miles around.
Harry Stewart, who was arrested on
in Winchester, charged with
criminally assaulting Miss Ethel Owens,
a white girl of Is years, employed as a
domestic at Ills home near Brucetown,
has made a confession and offered to
the case, which has been
declined by Magistrate w. J. Best.
Stewart has not been admitted to bail,
and it is understood he will be refused |
should be apply. His wife is i'll at home
and there is no one to attend to the