Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-10-04
Virginia News.

Joseph I. Moss and Miss Hattie Cum
mings both of Mount Gilead, Loudoun
county, were married yesterday.
Miss Lula Foster Fletcher, second
daughter of Mr.. Joshua Fletcher, living
near Upperville died on September oath,
aged 16 years.
Rev. George Boardman Taylor, for
thirty-ihree years president Of the Bap-
list Mission 10 Italy, died in Rome yes
terday. He was born in Richmond, De-
cember 81, 1882.
James N. Moore, of Reidsville, y. O.,
son of John r. Moore, of that city, and
Miss Bessie Downs, daughter of Cicero
Z Downs, Of Lincoln, Loudoun county,
were married yesterday.
In a runaway accident at Clearbrook,
Frederick county, Yesterday, Miss Lille
Bursey sustained fracture of the skull,
and her mother, Ms Lavinia Bursey,
escaped with few bruises. A passing
train caused the trouble.
William J. Fowler, of Baltimore,
thirty-two years OF age and married, a
lineman on the Richmond and Chesa-
peake Bay Railroad, csme in contact
with a live wire while stringing wires
along the line yesterday, and was almost
instantly killed.
NJ. d. Mcbride, yourg attorney of
Houma, La, aud Miss Nellie Cleveland
Watson, daughter of the late A. S. Wat
son, for years one of the most prominent
farmers of Albemarle, were married yes
terday at the residence Of the brides
mother 10 Charlottesville.
Miss Matilda Slaughter died at the
home of her nephew, Mr.. Fielding
Slaughter, at Norfolk, Wednesday, aged
about 70 years. She was the last sur
viving child of the late William Slaugh-
ter and Harriet Ficklen, mis- wife of
Fredericksburg where her remains were
brought for interment yesterday evening
G. N. Sbumate, charged with the
THEFT of valuable packages from the
Adams Express Company, for which he
was a messenger, was in Richmond yes
terday convicted and given a year in the
city Jail. ShImste is the third man TO
be convicted on this charge, the other
two having pleaded guilty and been
given shorter terms.
Developments OF yesterday may result
in the solution Ofthe mystery surrounding
the discovery near the jamestown Elk
position grounds of headless and dis
membered body packed in a box. A
de- erted hut, built of tin, in thick
woods, few yards from the spot where
the body was found, has beea discover
ed 1t is now believed that the mutt
lated body is that of girl.
The Charlottesville branch ware house
of Charles King & Son, of Alexandria,
wholesale grOcers, had narrow escape
from being wiped out by fire Wednesday
night. Shortly before midnight flames
were discovered on the first floor of the
building, and it was only after hard
fight of forty-fve minutes that the FIRE
was conquered. The loss By fire was very
small, but the damage done by water
and smoke will probably amount 10 81
900. The building was insured.
"Senator John w. Daniel, of Lynch
burg ia my choice for the next President
of the United States. | think that the
South should come to the front and
formulate the policy of the party and as.
sumo the leadership in the coming cam
paign." This statement wss made in
Richmond yesterday by j. Taylor Ely
son, lieutenant governor of Virgiois, who
has been State chairman of the demo-
cratic State central committee for num-
Der Of years.