Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-11-05
Virginia News.


At Richmond yesterday Virginia Poly
technic Institute defeated the Georgetown
football team by 20 to 0, in fcriy-hve
minutes of play.
George Joy, who was shot 10 Nor
folk saloon last Thursday By Thomas
Hobbs, died Yesterday. Hobbs, who is
now In ii, shot the other man because
he refused to buy him drink.
The Georgia building at the James
town Exposition has been closed AID the
New Hampshire building with its con-
tents has been sold for 1000.
The engagement is announced OF Miss
Emma SeatoO, formerly Of PurceIlville,
to DR.. Earnest Hagao, Of Purcellville,
Loudoun county. The wedding will
take place this month at the brides
home 10 Washington.
Mrs. Matte Brittou, died Saturday,
in Norfolk, az the result of bullet
wounds received at the hands Of her
son-in-law, John w. Childress, when
the latter, iu q Jealous rsge, October
&c, shot aud killed his wife and then
committed suicide.
The republicans OF Bristol, ir mass
convention last night, Endorsed the csn
didacy of David F. Bailey 10 succeed
the late Congressman Slemp from the
Ninth district, and expressed themselves
as opposed to a formal nomination.
Bailey addressed the convention, de-
nouncing the alleged republican combine
10 The district.
Johu George, a prominent farmer OF
L1udoun crunty. died Sunday at his
aume near Lovettsv.lle, aged about sixty
yea's o. Wednesday Of last week he
fell from bis riding horse and the shock
brought on paralysis, which was the
immediate csuse of bis dead. He was
a Confederate soldier end member OF
the Eighth Virgiuis regiment.
The marriage Of Miss Lucy Chiffon
Klomsu, youngest daughter Of Mr.. ~
ward f. Klomsn aud The lac Mrs. Agnes
Pickett Klomsu, OF Wsrren.on, to Mr.
jesse Andrew Davis toak place in Bali
more yesterday at the home of the brides
sister, Mrs. r Lloyd Characteristic.
The ceremony WAS performed by Rev.
William n. Laird, OF Wsrrenton.
With his throat cut and his wrist
lsce:ated, DR.. Jsmes d. Talkiu, a prom
iuent pbysicisn of Baltimore, lies in
Kings Daughters II upital, Portsmouth.
he IVES found yesterday With his wounds,
evidently self-iof c.ed, in bis stateroom
sboard the Baltimore steamer Alabama,
as that vessel reached her dock at Ports
mouth. DR.. Talkin is expected TO re-
cover.
Mr. Mary Holland Bull, of Norfolk,
has issued cards announcing the eu-
gsgement of her daughter, Miss Mary
| Augusta, to Mr.. Fentou Fur Priest,
son of the late John II. Priest, of Mid
Jleburg, Loudoun county. The 6edding
will take place at the Second Presbyter-
ian Church, Norfolk, on Thursday even
ing, November IA. Afr. Priest is well
kn,sn throughout L)udoun county.
Frank O. Bonner, forty years old,
committed suicide by drinking csrbolic
acid at his home in Newport News yes
terday morning. after furnishing his ten
year old son because he knocked from
his fathers hsDd lumber containing
p)is)D. Bonner had been on a spree
Tor seversl days, and WIS 10 a shattered
physicist condition at the time he started
10 take his life. Bonner wss employed
at the ship yatd as a boiier-maker for Il
humber Of years.
At Ofiskany, a station on the Craig
branch of tie Chesapeake and Ohio
K ,lroad, Sunday, c. d. Boyle, the rail-
way agent st 0risksny, was shot and
killed by John McNelis. Boyle was
seated 10 the station when McNels en-.
tered. McNelis was intoxicated, and re-
marked to Boyle that if he hsd pistol
and bottle of whisky, lie would COM
mi; suicide. Boyle though his caller
gss kirg, and handed McNtlis pis-
tol and told him to kill himself. Nc
Nelis walked GU side the building, and
then sto. through q window at Boyle
hitting him in the head. Boyle died
five hours later. MtNelis has been ar
rested.