Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-11
Virginia News.

II. II. Poston, seyenty-seven years
old, died yesterday morning at his home
in Hern lon. He had been i'll about
year.
NJ. Marshall Mccormick, of Clarke
county, has sold his fine saddle horse,
"Joe Wheeler" for $3.50 to NJ. I.
Birch, a well-known racehorse man, of
Washington.
Mrs. Lynn Chancellor, wife Ct DR..
s. G. Chancellor, died yesterday at the
University of Virginia Hospital, where
she was operated on some 10 days ago
for appendicitis
Mrs. Rebecca Jane Atkins, widow Of
Robert + Atkins, died Saturday at her
home al White Post, Clarke county after
a lingering illness, aged eighty-seyen.
She was Miss Pullam, Of Rappahaunock
county, before her marriage.
Mrs. NJ. Shedey Peters, widow of
Col. William + Peters, emeritus pro-
les.or Of Latin III the University of Vir-
ginia, died suddenly Saturday afternoon.
She was the daughter of the late James
White Shelley, of Marion. One son
survives.
Mss Rosa Johnston Tucker, eldest
daughter of Hon. Henry st. George
Tucker, was married at Lexington Sat
urday evening to Slas Boxley Mason, Of
Frankfort, KY Rev. Dallas Tucker,
of Bedford City, ofiiciared. The bride
wss given away by her father.
The postoffice at Newmarket. eighteen
miles north of Harrisonburg, was ROBBED
at an early hour yesterday morning by
a gang of "yeggmen." The safe was
blown open with nitroglycerin, and the
office furniture, rs well as the safe door
wrecked The burglars secured only a
small sum Of money and quantity Of
stamps.
Several thousand people visited APP
pomalox Courthouse Yesterday to wit
ness the unwilling there of monument
to the deceased Confederate soldiers of
that county. Speeches we're make by
Governor Swanson, Congressman Flood,
Judge Hundley aud others. The Lynch
burg Homo Guards and City Band took
part in the exercises.
Eleven men were blown TO pieces and
five others ,ere seriously injured by the
explosion Saturday of a dynamite plant
near Peques, Pa, along The Susquehan-
ma river The accident was one of the
most horrible in the history of Lancas-
ter county. The victims were literally
torn to pieces, not enough remaining of
single body to make identification
possible. The cause of the explosion is
not known.
Capt. w. H. March, Of Reidsvile,
convicted in the United States Courl
Friday Of imprisoning j. w. Gallaghe'
on his oyster dredge, and acquitted OF
the charges of cruelty and Withholding
food from Gallagher, was fined $50 and
costs by Judge WaddiI in Norfolk yes
terday. Judge Waddill, however, sus
pended sentence until Captain March
could 90 to his home and raise the |
amount OF the fine.
Frank SprOuse, who recently escaped |
from the Augusta county Jail, Saturday,
after a quarrel aud fight killed Conner
Boyd, foreman at the Virginia Portland |
Cement Works, at Forwick, and mar
rowly escaped lynching by mob. He !
was captured after desperate struggle
during which he was shot and is now in
jail The shooting of Boyd was the re-
suit OF feud which long had exisle
between the two men.
The charges made by the outs"
against Superintendent Foster, of the
Eastern State Hospital, have not becn
proven. Even those who criticise other
officers of the institution acknowledge
this to be a fact. The directors have
not escaped, for the questions regarding
The awarding of contracts have been
and have shown that there
has been waste in the purchasing end
lack o. intelligence in awarding contracts
for supplies. The great point that has
been clearly shown is that the negro
hospital of the State has been given
advantages by the State legislature that
nave been refused the white asylum.