Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-11-28
Virginia News.


eide in Norfolk yesterday because he
couldn't slsep.
All the officers of the Dry Fork Dis
filling Company were indicted by the
Federal grand jury at Danville yesterda- =.
Louis Freedmsn, merchant in the
suburbs Of Portsmouth, was sandbsgged
and probably fatally injured BY highwsy-
men las. night.
Chsrles Van Buren, Warner, for many
years connected with the Virginia Mill
iary Institute, died at bis home at Lex
ington yesterday OF kidney trouble, aged
70 years.
After more than years illness, j..
VI. Marks, well-known merchant Oh
Berryville, Clarke county, died yester-
day, eyed fifty years. He was native
of Warren county,
Miss Fannie Vsndegrift, former
p0stmistress at the University OF Virgins
and for a long time the head Of the dis
pensary at that institution, died yester-
day at the age Of IS.
Miss Edith Green, daughter of Mr..
james Z. Green, Of Markham, Fsuquisr
county, and Mr. James I. Jones we're
married this afternoon at 4:SO o'clock,
ia the d.. E. Church South, Markham.
Henley O. Hoge, Of Unison, Loudoun
county, con OF DR.. G. b. Hoge, OF that
Mace. died at his home on Tuesday
night from pneumonia, aged thirty-slx
yesu. lie was commissioner of the
revenue for Mercer district.
Mr.. Henry B. Gilpin, of Baltimore,
hss purchased from The Whiting heirs,
the farm 10 Clarke county near BeSce,
kaown "a Pleasant Hill and containing
abou; 800 acres, for slS5 per acre, the
highest price ever paid for land in this
county.
Townsend Frazier died Tuesday night
at his home near Tfsppe, Loudonn coun-
ty. He was one OF the besi-knogn
citizens OF the county, and one OF the
largest landowners 10 northern Virginia.
He was eighty-six years of age, and is
survived by elk sons and two daughters.
A young man was found yesterday
beside the tracks of the Richmond, Fred
ericksburg and Potomac Railroad near
Summit, by section crew, with both feet
cut cf. He wss taken to tho May
Washington Hospital, in fredericksburg
Papers found on bin lead 10 the !elef
that he is Ward Breeze, oil Gladstone,
Mich.
Upon the execution of bond for 81,
272 so, estimated 10 be The value of the
l75 cases of cigarettes recently seized by
he federal authorities at Norfolk. Judge
WfddilI yesterday afternoon entered an
order releasing The property pending a
trial Of the cause and permitting its
owners, the British American Tobacco
Company (Limitod)to tske charge.
Alexander Morris, of Reidsville, Va +,
who made fortune in the menhsden
fisheries, disappeared from the Hotel
Archdale at Atlantic City last Saturday,
and is believed by the police to have
wandered off and possibly committed
suicide. Mr.. Morris, who is forty-eight
years Of age, has been suffering from
nervous prostration and wss ordered to
Atlantic City for his health.
1t was stated in Richmond yesterday
that Judge Jeter @. Pritchard, Of the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals,
who left for his home, at Asbeville, N.
O., Tuesday night, will not return on
Saturday, when the final decision 10 the
Virginia passenger rate cases now pend
ing in that court will be decided, but
that the attorneys in ibe case will agree
upon a decision aud send it to Judge
Prilchard for bis consideration.
Eddie Boone, years old, was fatally
iriared in Richmond yesterday when
his 7-year-old sister Mary struck him
scrogs the head with the sharp edge of 2
Ratchet. The boy remained unconscious
for some time after the accident. Little
hope is entertained for his recovery. The
two children were playing together in
the back yard of their home, when the
boy cried for the Ratchet. To silence tue
brother the girl struck him across the
head. The boys hesd was torn open
several inches, and it is feared that bis
skull is fractured.
Il is reported that the jamestown Ex-
position will be placed in the hands of a
receiver On Monday next, by an agree
ment reached several weeks ago. The
managers will cluse the gates on Satur-
day, winding up the exposition which
has been a financial failure. Liabilities,
according to official figures, will resch
the sum of SO, 46j, 900. The total as
sets are $4,000. The failure of the
exposition is blamed on poor manage
ment, and the report that the purpose OF
some of the oTiginstors of the fair was TO
promote a real estate speculation.
NATION VER5US STATE.