Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-04
Virginia News.

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disease, ate. q brief illness.
Lightning struck the power-honse of
the electric plant at Buckhorn, n. o.,
yesterday afternoon, killing five men
and iDiuring between 20 and 20 Others.
The boat building plant Of j. W. Nc
Aloney, located at Fairport, Northum-
berland county, together with contents,
was burned yesterday. The loss is about
| "a, 900.
Lightning struck the Belmont Meth
odist Episcopal Church, in southeast
Roanoke, yesterday evening. The
steeple was badly shattered and the win
dows broken.
George Lindsay, who on June 3, last,
shot and killed Joseph Csbell Coleman,
was convicted in the Corporation Court
in Danville yesterday of murder in the
second degree, and the punishment liked
at 10 years 10 the penitentiary.
10 anticipation of q riot Monday night
when it was said another attack would
be made on the Greek restaurants in
Roanoke, the entire police force was on
ddty. A heavy thunderstorm interfered
with the plans and there was no trouble.
A quarrel between George Taylor and
his bride of three weeks 10 Lancaster,
Pa, last night euded by her selling q
butcher knife and slsshing him across
the body, inhicting wound ten inches
long. Taylor is 10 a serious condition.
His wife fought desperately with the
police before being arrested.
Edward II. Eunhsm has adopted q
novel plan to increase attendance at the
Third Presbyterian Sunday school, Of
Trenton, N. j., of which be is superin-
tendent. He will appoint a reception
committee of the prettiest girls for each
Sundays session for the purpose of
shaking hands and welcoming all comers.
Robert H. Sexton, director Of con-
crosses and special events at the James
town Exposition, yesterday filed a vol.
untary petition in bankruptcy, placing
his liabilities at sS,26S. His assets are
given as naught. Sexton was connected
with the st. Louis fair. A business
venture in st. Louis was unsuccessful.
His creditors are in Baltimore and st.
Louis.
Gen. Stith Boiling, of Petersburg,
well-known as one of the most popular
Confederate officers ia the South, was
injured in a runaway accident at Gen.
trsla yesterday. He was on his way
to Chesterfield Courthouse to attend
reunion of the veterans of that county.
The mule drawing the vehicle ran away
throwing General Boiling out and break
ing his arm.
In head-on collision last night Of
two well filled cars on a single-ttack line
Of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Traction
Company, running out of BrambletOn
toward Ocean View, four passengers
were slightly injured and many shaken
up. The two big trolly cars we're badly
smashed, and it is remarkable that q
number of passengers we're not man.
gled. The mOtormen saved themselves
by jumping.
One OF the mos. violent thunderstorms
ever experienced in that city swept over
| Lynchburg last night. 1t continued an
hour and forty minutes, during which
time 1862 inches of water fell. Several
hundred telephones were disabled by
the electricity, and the electric current
throughout the city was of for two
hours, the city being in darkness dur
ing that time and the street cars com.
pletely tied up.
The preliminary examination OF the
negroes, Jim Taylor and Frauk TOliver,
for alleged murderous assault upon
James Jacobs, station agent for the
Southern Railway at Rspidan, yes
terday afternoon, resulted in Taylor
being sent on to the next grand jury and
Tolliver being fined and imprisoned at
hard labor. The evidence showed a
conspiracy previously formed on the
part of number of negroes TO murder
the station agent.
Two true bills have been found against
the Southern Railway by the Superior
Court grand jury of Transylvania couu-
ty, N. O., on account of the condition Of
the Southern roadbed, which, it Is alleg.
ed, is in highly dangerous condition.
Accidents have been Of frequent occur
renee of late on the Southern from Hen
dersonville, N. O., TO Lake Toxaway,
n. O., and short time ago passenger
train which had 800 passengers on
board was partly overturned on steep
mountain grade.
Mrs. w. II. Blumenstein, wife Of q
bookkseper employed by the Pinnacle
Coal aud Coke Company, at McComas,
near Pocahontas, was shot and almost
instantly killed yesterday by Frederick
Stahl, a uine-year-old boy, who went to
the Blumenstein home to carry some
vegetables. The Stahl boy and To-
year-old son of Mrs. Blumenstein were
playing with a rife when the Stahl boy
pulled the trigger. The bullet entered
Mrs. Blumenstein's forehe ad near the
eye. She lived 80 minutes. She was
80 years old, and leaves husband and
two children. The shooting was purely
accidental.
Members of the republican Stale COM
lnittee gathered in Norfolk last night.
They are there TO map out plan for
the fall campaign, and the committee
will meet tonight for that purpose. A
movement ia or foot to align the Vir-
giuia delegation to the next convention
for Roosevelt for President. The lilly
Rhiiesu are annreheasive Of the attitude