Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-04
Virginia News.

Miss Emma Harvey. daughter OF
Jacob Harvey, and Frank Steadman, sou
of Marshall Steadmsn, both OF Leesburg,
were married Saturday.
R. P. Pulley, q young merchant oil
Capron, Southampton county, shot him,
self to death yesterday because the girl
he loved gave him the uitten.
Mrs. Alice NJ. Henry, wife of W. L.
Henry, died at her home in Winchest Ell
Sunday, after briefillness, ofpsralysls,
aged fifty years. She was daughter oil
Joseph Cooper, of Frederick county.
The dead body of John Talbot. whose
home WAS at Bentonyille, Warren county,
was found late Saturday night on top oil
the Blue Ridge Mountains, IN ClsrKe
count, where he died Of heart disease
The Sixth district republican conven-
ton met in Roanoke Yesterday and nomi-
mated G. A. Hermans, of Christiansburg,
Ms the republican candidate to oppose
Carter Glass, the democratic nominee for
Congress.
Mrs. Harriette Lyon Thomas, former
ly of Elisabeth, N. j., but now OF Eau
quier county, and Mr.. William Gibbins
Coates, of Philadelphia, will married be
at 5 O. clock this evening at the residence
OF the bride-elect, Evelyn Heights, near
Catletts.
Mrs. Fred Franklin, who resides on
Eleventh avenue southwest, Roanoke,
was attacked by negro in her bedroom
last night. He succeeded in tearing her
clothing from her body, but her screams
and the sound of approaching footsteps
caused him to flee.
Major Il E. Bufum, Confederate
soldier, died yesterday at the University
of Virginia Hospital, after a long illness,
at an advanced age. he was native
of New Hampshire, but located in Ten
uessee several years before the breaking
out of the civil war.
Giles Devier, for many years publish.
er of the Rockingham Register aud post
master at Harrison burg under the seco nd
Cleveland administration, died yester-
day. after an illness of several years.
Mr.. Deyier was born 10 Rockingham
county in July, 1920 He was men,
Der OF the Ashby Battalion during the
civil war.
A suit for limited divorce was filed 10
the Circuit Court of Rockingham yester-
day by Mrs. 0tie Wager against her hus'
band, Thomas p. Wager, one OF the most
prominent merchants in that section.
The grounds for the suit are desertion
Mrs. Yager is a daughter of DIR. j. b
Webb, one of the beat known citizens ol
the county.
The Library Board of the Virgins
State Library is publishing under the
Q litorshis OF John Pendleton Kennedy,
The Journals of the House of Burgesses
OF Virginia. The publication, of these
j,urusls, from 1919 to l776, will extend
over q period of six years, and will ap-
pear upon the market at the rate Of
three volumes per annum.
Mr.. William B. Hibbs, of Washing
Jon, has purchased eighty acres OF land
from Mr.. Randolph Rhodes, OF Leesburg.
The land ia in The southwestern suburbs
Of Leesburg close to Rock Spring farm,
the home of Mr. Harry I. Harrison.
Mr.. Hibbs will begin the erection Of q
handsome new summer home on the land
10 the very near future.
A coroner's jury, after a lengthy in
vestigalion Of the murder of Casper
Monggold, in Brooks Gap, Rockingham
county, last Friday night, returned a
verdict holding the boys father, Israel
Monggold, responsible. Monggold was
arraigned before Magistrate Cooper and
sent TO Harrisonburg Jail. The alleged
murderer is SO years old and is said to
be the father of so children.