Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-01
Virginia News.

postmaster st Flat Run, Orange county.
J. Milton Yates, of Rappahsnnock,
sixty years old, died yesterday morning
near Msrkhsm.
Benjamin 7. Mitchell, special de-
livery boy in the Roanoke postofice, WIS
arrested yesterday on chfrges of robbing
the mails.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, who has
been stopping fer several days in Wash
IugtoD, lef. today for her home at Cher
lotte, n. O.
The Lynchburg Cotton Mill, for the
FIRST time in its history, closed down
Thursday evening for one month on &C.
count of the unsettled condition oil the
market.
Norman E. Msck, chairman OF the
democratic n6tionsl committee, yester-
day appointed committees to serve dur
ing the campaign. Senator Daniel, OF
Virgins, is on the advisory committee.
The Norfolk and We,tsrn Railway
Yesterday announced Inst an increase
OF 20 per cent. 10 the carpenter force st
The Roanoke shops will be made on next
Monday. This means 80 men will be
given employment.
Captain James Waverly jarrett, Of
Suffolk, was yesterday declared by a
jury to be insane, and will go to an ssy-
lam. He WAS accused OF numbering
Policeman George T. Smith.
A determined effort is being made 10
shield the principal actors 10 the murder
OF Baby Vaughan ct the Richmond City
Home. The ptrests OF the baby ere
known, but their identity may net be
made public.
William j. Barbee, son of Hubert
Barbee, OF Bentonville, Warren county,
WAS run down by freight train tt
Rileyville Tbursday night and sustained
serious and perhaps fatal injuries. Bar.
bee WAS returning from an excursion to
Pen.Mar.
John Lambeth, the white man charged
with throwing his child in the fire while
intoxicated, causing such severe buros
as to necessitste the amputiting OF both
legs, wss found guilty yesterday in
Princess Anne court, the jury sending
him to the State prison for eight years.
John Finney, colored, WAS convicted
Yesterday at Rocky Mount, OF criminal
assault upon little white girl, aud wss
sentenced TO be electrocuted in the peni-
tertiary al Richmond, Ott)ber 30. Fin.
ney will be ihe first man In Virginia 10
die in the eiettdc chair. The jury was
out five minutes.
The case of Charles M. Minis, color.
ed, postmaster at Ocaupacis, Essex
county, charged With ENLIGHTENMENT Of
1914 postofice funds, WAS called before
Commissioner Bulznor at Fredericks.
burg yesterday evening. His counsel
waived hearing and Minnie was held
for the United St'tes grand jury.
The contractor on The Plains Middle-
burg road have gotten down t. work in
earnest. The fr,ding hiss been going
on for rome time. The force consists Of
twenty couvicts, twenty.six mules, and
prehaps a dozen teamsters. The rock
crushers, rollers and spriDklers are in
place. The road will be fourteen feet
wide from The Plains - Hallway and
ten feet wide from Halfway TO Middle
burg.
Robert Emmett Connolly, aged 20,
exssptrIttd at the refusal of Miss Kate
Beelmsn to mPrry him, approached the
girl in locsl dry goods store in Rich
mond yesterday, where she was employ
eI. and fred three shots at her, two Of
the bullets limb, dding themselves 10 the
counter in front Of the girl. The third
struck the girl in the eide, hatteniug
itself against a steel in her corstt. The
store WAS crowded ri the time. Shop
pers fed precipitatsly through doors and
windows, many employees taking refuge
behind the cOuDtsrs. Several women
tainted and others went into Mysteries.
The doors Of the establishment remained
closed fer several hours until quiet wss
restored. Miss Bselmsn and young
Connolly had been swetthearts for sew
ersl months, but Ihs girl recently broke
her engagement to mary him because he
was out of employment.