Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-07-17
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J. f. Lent for many years resident
If Rivertou, ~ at the NsrroWs, July
S.b, after wy short Illness. His re-
mains were 8 - Front Royal for In
terment
Only sma proportion Of the wheat
in the valley Ia as yet been threshed
bat enough hos been to show that the
crop will be considerably below the
average.
Typhoid fever has been prevalent 10
the lower par. OF Westmorelsnd county,
for several months, add it hes claimed
number of victims. Mrs. Henry Talia'
ferro died few days ago, and her two
children are sick.
A storeroom Of the Oulpeper Hard
ware and Manufacturing Company, con-
tanning sash, doors, and blinds, wss to-
tally destroyed by FIRE early yesterday.
The loss is several thousand dollars,
with smell insurance.
Mrs. Mittie Jones, wife OF Mr. W.
e Jones, OF Stafford, was found dead IN
the loft OF an clubhouse Friday morning.
Il is supposed she committed suicide by
taking laudanum. She is survived by
her husband and six children.
A storm of cyclonic intensity passed
over Suffolk yesterday afternoon, blow
log down a peanut factory, unrOohug
another, leveling trees and fences, and
litteriug the streets with limbs from
shade trees. The wind was accom-
panied by heavy rain and thunder.
Considerable damage was wrought
among growing crops.
Dan Rice, alias Joe Thomss, was yea
te1day positively identified by Rev. W.
4. Il. Joyce, pastor OF Trinity Metho-
dist Episcopal Church at Roanoke, SIS
the burglar whom the minister Thursday
engaged in q desperate struggle in the
church, st which time the burglar at
tempted to brain the preacher with a
Ratchet and threatened to kill him With
a big knife. Rice was captured early
yesterday while trying to board a freight
train. He halls from DauVille.
The remains of Hon. John Goode, who
died on Wednesday mt Norfolk, we're
buried yesterday afternoon in Long wood
Cemetery, at Bedford City. All stores
and other places of business in the town
we're closed from the time the body ar
rived until it was lowered into the grave,
and many hundreds Of persons crowded
into the little cemetery topay homage to
the deceased. The Bedford Bar Asso-
citation and the Bedford Board Of Trade
at meetings yesterday passed appropriate
resolutions.
Asa result OF a visit to Stsunlon yes
terdsy by the scouts and scout cars OF
Washington and Richmond in the in
terest of a national highway between
Washington and Richmond and good
roads 10 general throughout Virginia,
The citizens of Saunlon and Augusta
county have decided 10 make a deter
mined effort to raise 81 ,0O0, 900 by a
bond Issue aud construct q b hWay
from 5 aunton across the Blue Ridge
mountains, thus connecting Oharlottes-
vile and Richmond with the valley Of
TIE Shenandoah. -
Twenty FIVE years ago William Fra
zier, Of Sptrryville, Rsppahanuock
county, sustained what he regarded as
an Insignificant wound to one of his eyes
while burning brush on bis farm. Lit
tie attention was paid to the matter I'M
I'll about l9 years sgo, wheO the wound
began to cause him considerable pain,
which, he says, hss grown more intense
every day. He refused 10 consult an
oculisf, saying If there was anything in
bis eve it would come out when it got
ready. On Thursday a splinter more
than half an inch In length worked its
way from under the eyebalI.
Mrs. Lucy Lewis Funston, widow OF
%. r. Fuusten, died 10 Winchester yes
terdsy, aged ca yesrs. She was the
daughter Of the late Judge George w.
Lewis, of Westmoreland county. She
is survived by one brother DR.. Thomas
NJ. Lewis, of White Post, Clarke county,
and two sisters Mrs. J. NJ Long, OF
White Poet, Snd Mrs. Wallace, Of Gal.
pepper. Her death resulted from fall
she had sustained at her home at Whits
Post recently, wheu she broke her arm
and thigh. She was a lovely woman Of
many virtues The remaios were sent
to Sisunton for in!erment beside those
~ har huahand