Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-08-28
Virginia News.

R. L. Cleveland, Culpeper merchant
of prominence, died this morning, aged
81 years.
Senator Daniel, one of the members
of the subcommittee OF the National
Monetary Commission, which has been
stodyinQ the financial systems OF Great
Britain aud France, called for home yes
terdsy.
John NJ. Halliday, civil engineer
and mining expert, OF Spottsylvania
clunty, has recently discovered nesr
Heights Branch, in that county, sui
phuf mine which shows extensive rich
ness of sulphur and pyrites.
Edgar Allen, j., son of the late Gen.
E gr Allen, at one time Assistant
United states st,orney general, wss
elected commando r-in-chief of the Ma
tional Society Of the Sons of Veterans Il
Niagara Falls, yest-rdsy. Mr.. Allen is
assistant pos msttsrs at Richmond.
Great excitement prevails at Pulaski,
where q crowd is bunting a negro, who
Yesterday attempted an assault on Miss
Msrgie Bosaug, the 16-yesr-old dsugb-
t-r of Mrs. NJ. J. BOsang. The girl
WAS alone in her home, when her sssail.
ant entered. She screamed, and the
negro ran.
Bud Miller, a Roanoke negro, was ar
resed at Roanoke, yesterday by Police
nan Ayres, charged with oriminally as
saulting Mrs. Mslcomb Meeks in Der
home, st Ellistou, last May. Miller de-
nies that he is the man wanted. Mrs.
Meeks was terribly beaten by her as
ssilant.
John M. Parsons, of Grsyson county,
YVES nominated by the Fifth district re-
publican convention, held at Msrtus-
Vile, yesterday, for Congress. Only two
names parsons and DIR. ]. W. Simmons,
of Msr1nsviIlr) were presented, Parsons
winning by vote Of "a to 81. Dr..
Simmons wss the nominee in the last
election, being defeated by Congressman
Saunders by a small msjorty.
Frank Young, colored, st nte nee to die
in MeCklenburg county on June for
murder, and who was rtspited by the
governor until September 4, will not be
required to 90 on the scsffold on that
date. Gov. Swanson directed yesterday
bat The man be given smother respite
until October 9. Yourg lie said to be in
sane, and is now in the asylum at Peters
burg.
Mrs. R. A. Parsons, wife of produce
dealer of Cape Charles was fatally burned
ut her home 10 that city, as result Of
an explosion of gasoline stove, due to
defective feed pipe from the tank.
Having discovered the defect she en-
deavor,d to throw the stove into the
yard, when she met with the accident.
She WAS burned about the body and be-
came unconscious In which condition she
remained until her death.
Expert burglars worked Main and
Broad streets, Richmond, Wednesday
night, carrying away loot which cannot
be estimated until an inventory of the
places visited has been made. The
thieves entered the Broad street places
by means Of the skylight. Jewelry and
cash are missing from Bschrach's pawn
shop and from TrIgle's drug store. The
s'orehouse of l.. 5 Ledmsn was entered
on Main street, uni rellss ard shoes be-
ing taken. The police are confident that
the work was done by profe' SIGNALS.
Policemen A. Oliff Hodges and A. @.
Hodges, ofNorfolk county, rrothers, yes
tsrdqy w,rs given preliminary beniig
On warrants charging them with the
murder Of Wesley Adams. q colored boy,
II years old. The boy, charged with
HOUSEKEEPING and under arrest, was
shot down by A. Cliff Hodges Wednes-
day afternoon as he made bresk for
liberty. A. o. Hodges was with his
brother when the fatal shot was frel.
The warrants against the policemen we're
sworn out by brother of Adams, and
hey were admitted to bsil in the sum Of
$3.50 each. A corontr's jury had ex-
honerated A. Cliff Hodges for taking the
life of the boy.