Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-12-20
Virginia News.

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The corporation commission has taken
no action 10 the matter OF the Fred
ericksburg aud Southern railroad, Tor
which a charter is being asked by
gentlemen in that city.
The reports Of the receiver for the
People. Bank Of Portsmouth and the
auditors who examined the books show
that the affairs of the institution are
in q chaotic condition.
The following postofices In Virginia
has been advanced to presidential
classes: Broadway, BLOC; College
PARK, $l,1OO: Dry Fork, 81, 300; New
Market, $l,loO; Stone Gap, 81 OOo.
John 7. Tyree, manager OF the Ns-
tiopal Seal Works, shot himself IN The
head, 10 the basement OF his place oil
| business In Richmond, st an early hour
Yesterday morning. The cause OF the
attempted suicide is mystery.
Mrs. Susan Dorr Dickinson. widow
of George M. Dickinson, OF Oharlestown,
In. a.. and aunt of Col. Joseph E. Will
lard. a member of the Virginia corpor-
alton Commission, died Wednesday plight
in the home of her sister-in-lsw, Mrs.
O. @. Willard, in Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Svart Of Lenah,
lLoudouu county, announce the approach
ing marriage of their daughter, Mary
Ellen Swsrf, to William Tulioss Costello,
of Prince William county. The ceremony
will be performed at high noon In the
Little River Church, near Lenah.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patents attorneys, report the grant, this
week. to citizens of this State, OF the
following patents: Edward O. Beverage,
of Montgomery, nut.lock; Charles b.
Ford and ]. N. Wood, Of Richmond,
vending machine; Boniisce A. Grssber-
ger, Of Richmond, clamp-setting ma
chine.
| Col. William E. Outshsw, City En-.
pineer of Richmond, who had been III
for several weeks, died last night. His
death was due to general breakdown.
Col. Cutshaw, was a gallant soldier OF the
Confederscy, and he was associated with
the Richmond Howitzers. 1t was while
serving in the army that he received the
wound which MANNED him for life.
The dead body of David N. Hufford
was found yesterday near Norfolk aud
Western Railway bridge, in the vicinity
of Pulaski. Suspicious circumstances
connected with the case caused the cor
oner's jury to adjourn over till today
{ Hufford was foreman Of furnace for
, the Bertha Mineral Company, and had
; been in the service OF that concern thirty
years.
: Alfred Clarke, the young ANNA
t trainer with the Ferari Wild Anima
Arena, now playing in Richmond, WHIT
: was attacked and lacersted until almos
, dead BY the lion Sultan in the areni
Wednesday night, was said by bis ply
/ sicians last night 10 be slightly improved
} They believe that the man has now
D chance to recover II boodpoisoniDg doe
b not set in.
NJ. P. Fulcher, a candidate for tn
State legislature in the last election
I, was burned to death In FIRE which de
, stroyed his home on the edge Of Floy'
I county at an early hour yesterday. III
, body of Fulcher was cremsted In tn
b ruins. Fulcher was sixty years OF sg
# and lived entirely alone in sparsel
b settled community. The origin of the fr
o is unknown.
1t is rumored that well.known bus
e ness man of Washington, ID. O., hs
q contracted for the controlling interest /
u three of the most famous springs Of Vii
pinia, and that the springs, with the
0 hotels, are to become the property OF th
o Fountains Company, a million-dolls
J. corporation now being formed by syn
: dictate. These properties are to be In
u proved, and to be advertised as th
J. Fountains of Youth"
= The State Corporation has imposed
- = fine of 800 on the Atlantic Coast Lii
- for alleged persistent disregard Of the d
" murrage rules In Richmond, aud hiss o.
~ dered that the money be paid With
a sixty days, or an execution will issue.
- is said that still another case OF the san
= kind Is being prepared against the Goa
Line company. The offense Is its fsilul
to pay the penalties imposed for non-ol
5 seryancs of the car-service rules.
ia Miss Fannie Young, aged about twel
Z ty-fiye, attempted suicide st her hon
N in Dsnvile Wednesday night, by drinI
9. ing laudanum, after which she rnshe
10 into the room where her father, Hale
d. Young, and other members OF the ian
4. ily were sitting, and threw the emp
ed lsudsnumIbottle on the floor. She sot
al became unconscious, but her life W
ne saved by prompt medical attention
G. The cause of the attempted suicides III
of known.
e, Mrs. Pearl E. Bsgby, a young wom'
d. living near the National Cemetery, u
Outside of Richmond, vas attacked by
negro Yesterday afternoon while retnr
- ing from Richmond. The negro seiz'
N; her pocketbook and attempted to wren'
40 II from her hand. Mrs. Bsgby held
K pluckily until the negro drew a rae
q. and gave her an ugly cash across q
'rs whist which disabled her right han
We Mounted men secured the neighborbo,
q, without finding any trace OF the mi
- creant.
10 POcahontas, the ouly point In t
L. Ninth Congressional district OF Virgin
e. where whisky is legally sold, voted o
Is the saloon in local option election ye
u terdao by msjority Of ten votes. Wom
paraded the streets and pleaded vi
|, -. A. 49,. Al nir hnlloia for the tdI