Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-23
Virginia News.

The Post0ffice Department receipts ior
the year ended in March were $40, 227s-
6Sl.03 and the expenditures we're $751;
S62, 1O7 O4.
Mr. Thomss s. Dunbar, the Oldest
citizen of this place, died ct his home
at Upperville on Monday night of gene
raj debility. He was eighty-tEo years
old.
Frank Smith was killed by lightning
near Oulpeper during su electrical storm
Tuesday. He was going to his stable
when struck, bis wife finding him dead
sometime aiterward.
The general merchandise store Of Mil
hollen Bros, at Philomont, Loudoun
county, was struck by lightning and
with its contents burned to the ground
Tuesday night.
Miss Ruth LightfOot, eldest daughter
OF MIR. and MIRA. John Frasier, was
quietly married Tuesday st the home OF
her parents, near Upperville, to Mr..
William Pnckney Berry, OF Maryland.
Late Tuesday afternoon Joseph Creole,
employed on the fsrn of f. Scott Oar
ter, about six miles from Wsrfentou,
met with q serious accident by being
caught in threshipg machine and hsv-
ing bis right leg and right arm broken.
Among those booked to make speeches
at the Purcellville, Loudoun county,
hush meeting, which begins on August
h, arc Gov. Glenn, of North Carolina;
Governor Swanson, of Virginia; Senator
Martin, Judge Mann and Congressman
Oarlin.
w. B. Rsiuer, son OF Senator Issdor
Rsiner, OF Maryland, who has been re-
ported among the missing for several
months, WAS located at the Fairfax
Hotel in Norfolk and yesterday Senator
Rsiner arrived, returning on the night
boat to Baltimors, taking the young man
with him. The young man Is suffering
from temporary insanity.
A dispatch from Roanoke says there
is considerable excitement among parents
of Salem With small children over a dis
ease known as infantile paralysis, which
has appeared In that town within the
past two weeks. Physicians say the
disease is caused by germ, but is cpl
demic rather than contagious. A dozen
of the cases have developed at Salem
and one death has resulted. Many fam
lilies have sent their children out of
town.
The drought under which Virginia
has been suffering for more than a week
was partially broken yesterday afternoon
when a general rain swept over the
state, soaking the ground in macy Sec
tions aud effectualy ban ishiDg the heat
wave. Crop conditions are much more
hopeful now than they were yesterday
morning, although the harvest will be
considerably curtsilei by reason Of the
drought.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant this
week 10 citizens of this 1t tie, of the fol-
lowing patents: l.. Bailey, of Wind
sor, fertiliz'r-disIrbuter; j. Ii. CLARK,
of Richmond, pneumatic suspension
means; f. A. Oleland, of Lynchburg,
pipe-coupling; r. A. Fontaine, OF Fon.
taine, water.wheel; f NJ. Funk, OF
Wytheville, single-trigger double-bsrrel
gun (two patents; W. s. WoOtton, Of
Roanoke, bolt locE.
Mrs. Ann M. Lynn, lightweight
years old, died at Warrenton on Tues
day at the home OF htr grand
daughter, Mira. s W. Maphis. Her re-
mains were buried today in the family
burying ground near Broad Run, from
the Bapt st Charch ct New Baltimore,
of which she bad been an active member
for many years, Rev. Frank p. Berkeley,
a former pastor, officiating, she is sur
vived by three children, Mrs. 8. j. Con-
way, A. w. Strother, of Warrentoni
Rev. F. A. S'rothtr, of Fairfax, and a
step. son, II. F. Lynn, of Prince Will
liam county.
Baby Vaughan, a founding, the vic
tim of two mysterious poisonings, died
Tuesday night at the City Home, al
Richmond, supposedly at the hand Of
some person thoroughly familiar with
the surroundings. The first attempt to
poison the baby WAS made on Tuesday
Of last week when woman, now an
Inmate of the home, was the only per
son present. Corrosive sublimate was
used. The child was still in precari'
Gus condition when on Sunday chloro-
form was administered. The child was
brought to the home on May IL, when
only nine weeks old by its mother, who
gave her name as Mrs. Frances Vaughan.
The woman and her infant we're accom-
panied to Richmond by a man, through
whose fundamentally home was
found for the child. The mother said
she was an actress snd thst she was
on her way TO fill an engagement 10
Philadelphia. The police believe the
mother of the child is prominent
society woman in Richmond.
Use DeWitt's Little Early Risers, peasant
little pills that are easy to take. Sold by
w. F. Creighton Co.
SHOT BY DE5PERADOES.