Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-03-18
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chester, died Saturday.
DR.. P. B. Pendleton, one Of the old
eat and best known citizens of Louiss,
died at his home, at CUCKOO, Saturday.
Rev. Frank Lee, rector Of Emanuel
church, LyDchburg, has received q call
to St. Georges, Dallas, Tex, and will
probably accept.
Mrs. Margaret Wright Demory died
Friday at her home, near Haymsrket,
In her seventy-niuth year. She wa:
the widow of the late Alexander Demory.
Capt. Walter w. Marsh, 40 old Con-
Tolerate soldier and mariner, died yes
terday at his home in Baltimore. he
was 81 years old aud had been an invalid
for two years. He was born near Heaths'
vile.
While presiding over the Strothel
trial at Culpeper, Judge Harris,n Of
Winchester had judicial matters In hi:
own circuit much delayed, and since re-
turning he has been holding court day
and night.
1t is rumored in Lynchburg that the
Southern Railway will suspend building
its 100000 cutoff around Lynch
burg, if the City Council does not per-
nit it TO build its own passenger station
in the West End.
That Miss Nora Langhorne, youngest
of the FIVE beautiful daughters of @. d.
Lsnghorne, OF Albemarle county, is to
marry Prince Francis of Teck, brother
Of the Princess OF Wales. ia the report
that reaches here from London.
Eleven men killed, four seriously in
jured, and three missing, is the resul'
of firedsmp explosion 10 the coal mine
owned and operated by Bond Il Bruce,
at Tacoma, five miles east ofNorton, in
Wise county, Saturday morning.
II. A. Wood, Of Rappahannock coun-
~, the first candidate to announce him
eelf from the district comprising the
counties Of Culpepor, Orange, Madison
and Rappabannock, for the State Sen
ate, has Withdrawn from the race.
As result Of ptomaine poisoning
from canned peaches last Wednesday
night Melvin Ives, aged thirteen, and
Leonard Lee Ives, aged seven, sons Of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Ives, of Hampton.
are dead, and their mother is dying
Peter Good, alias Charles Schseffer,
the man who murdered his Sweetheart,
Miss Fannie Stroup, in Page county,
last fall, will be hanged Friday next,
Governor Swanson having declined to
commute the sentence Of the man to
life imprisonment.
The Virginia Conference Of the
United Brethren Church, which will for
mally adjourn at Edinburg today took 9
decided stand in the divorce question.
Ministers we're forbidden to marry
divorced persons who had been separat.
ed on any but scriptual grounds.
The trial Of Eugene Ballard, charged
with the murder of Raleigh Cooper,
after occupying the Circuit Court Of
Stafford county for more than two days,
resulted Saturday in a hung jury. Judge
Mason discharged the jury, and the case
will come up again at the next term Of
court.
The accounts OF one OF the clerks in
tae Office OF the treasurer OF the Norfolk
and Western Railway in Roanoke are
reported short several thousand dollars.
The discovery of the shortage was made
a week ago, and experts have beer
working on the books in the tressurer'f
Office night and day.
J. B. Ficklen died suddenly at his
home in Fredericksburg Saturday aged
SO years. lie was president Of the
Bridgewater Milling Corporation and the
Rappahannock Electric Light and po"oi
Company Of that city. He was promi'
nent Mason and Odd Fellow. His widow
who was Miss Ellen Oaskie London, o.
Richmond one son, one daughter, two
brothers Prof John Ficklen, of Tulane
University, New Orleans, and Willie F.
FickleD, of Stafford county, and two
E'sters (Mrs. J. P. Corbin, of Fredericks'
burg and Mrs d. M. Lee, of Stafford
county survive him.
Robert Chew died at Charlestown, w.
Va. yesterday aged CT year.. He wa,
born in Londoun county, Virginia, but
had lived in Jefferson comfy since mis-
carly hovbnod Ha WA one nf Mosbv' 4
Rangers and was wounded in skirmish
near Leesburg, but again reported fol-
duty and served to the end Of the war.
Since then he had been actively engaged
in farming. He was at the time Of bis
death president Of the Farmers and Mer'
chants Deposit Company. He leaves
two brothers-Col. r. Preston Chew and
j. Aldridge Chew-snd two sisters
Mrs. Robert Earle and Mrs. William o.
Norris,