Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-11-29
VirginigNe

DR.. Thomss w. Smith died Of peri
tonits at ais home near Bethel Academy
Wednesday night, sged ffty-two. de
is survived by bis wife aud one daughter.
he was the eldest son OF Anderson ID.
Smith, nov living at an advanced age.
The dead body Of Charles FL. Hunter
was found yesterday in mud puddle 10
the southeast section of Roanoke. He
left home about IL o'clock Wednesday
night and is supposed to have stumbled
over an embsnkment where the city Is
engaged in making Gil. He was un-
married.
The Middlesex Hunt Club, OF Mssss-
chusetts, met their English pack of
hounds Yesterday at "0ltlands," the
country home of William Corcoran Eus-
It's, near Leesburg. Riding to hounds
as guests of the club were Assistant Sec
rotary of State r )bert Bacon, and Post
master General Meyer, both of whom
have hunting stables in Leesburg.
A fire, the most disastrous in Char
lottesviIle in ten years, started about s
o'clock last night in the Jefferson Audi
loium, Charlottesville's only theater,
and spread to Ebenezsr Church, COL
ored Baptist Church. The thester and
the church were totally destroyed and
other buildings were somewhat damaged
By fire ard water, including the stocks of
J. II. Dekinson's grocery and A. G..
Benefits Tailoring establishment. The
loss is about $4,000. The FIRE origi-
mated on the stage. Tie electric current,
according to the jsnitor was switched
of the entire building, and there had
been no fIe in 1t for a week.
At the N. Z. Church, at Markham,
Wedues lay, Miss Edith Virginia Green,
daughter of Mr. James r Green, was
married to Mr. James Tulloss Jones. Of
Baltimore. The ceremony was perform
ed by Rev. Flank A. Strother, Of Fair
fax, assisted by Rev. J. NJ. Kline, of
Linden. The maid of honor was Mis-
Mary Phillips, of Alexandra. William
E. Mckay, OF Baltimore, was best man.
The brides attendants were the Misses
Katie G.. Cable and Gaylord Gibson, and
Miss Virginia Gable was flower girl. The
ushers we're Russell A. Jones, of Balti-
more ]. Frank Jones, of Washington;
Alexander G. Green, OF Markham, and
Antrim 4. Mckay, Of Baltimore.
Mrs. Mary Perry, nineiy-Oue years Of
age, was assaulted in her home in Rich
mond last night by James Booker,
negro, who gained access TO her apart
ment through a rear window. 1t is be-
lieyed to have been the intention of the
negro, when he entered the house, TO
seek the apartment OF Mrs. A. @. Smith,
a daughter of Mrs. Perry. Mrs. Smith
who was in an upstairs room, rushed
into the street, crying loudly for help.
Policeman ]. B. Goodman captured the
msu in Mrs. Perry's room, beating him
into insensibility with his night stick
Booker was taken to a hospital, where
he is still in an unconscious condition.
The condition OF Mrs. Perry is critical.
The negro had dragged Mrs. Perry from
her bed to the floor and matreating her
when the officer pulled him away.
Train No. 81, the Washington and
Southwestern vesIibuled limited, OF The
Southern Railway, struck and killed
three negroes early yesterday morning
on tie Stanton river bridge, twenty
FIVE miles below Lynchburg. The negroes
we're so badly uanglsd that identified.
ton Is impossible. They were crossing
the bridge when they were run down by
the train. BY a peculiar coincidence,
Engineer Mckinney, of Spencer, N. O.,
who wss engineer of the train carry
ing President Spencer when he wss kill
ed early on Thanksgiving Day 1906, WAS
10 charge of No. 81 yesterday. He
had FIVE brothers who we're locomo-
tive engineers, one of whom YVES killed
10 the wreck of the Jacksonville express
at Danville, ten days after President
Spencer's death. Another brother also
was killed on duty.