Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-07-29
Virginia News.
Colonial Beach ia celebrating the
cOnd annual inbilee of The reaort.

Va auC iCcSah
Harry Thompson, son OF the late Ed.
ward Thompson, Of Leesburg, died
at hospital 10 Washington on TUES
day, aged 80 years.
The taking of depostious in the local.
option case IN Bristol, Va, was begun
yesterday. The effort is being made to
Overturn wet" victory.
Morris 5eigle, Of Richmond, who
chopped his wife with an ice pick until
she ives nearly dead, says he did it be-
cause she henpecked him.
Rev. J. Oils Meade, now rector OF
Christ Episcopal Church in Richmond,
bss been called to Emmanuel Episcopal
Church, Bristol. DE will announce his
decision In August.
The Thomss B. Norris estate In Lou
doun county, located at the junction of
the Potomsc river and Goose creek, con-
tanning 700 acres, has been sold to Mr..
J. G. Hopkins, OF Greenwich, Conn.
DR.. j. B. Morton, of Lynchburg,
aged seventy-eight years, was instantly
killed at Lawyers yesterday evening by
fast freight on the Southern Railway.
The deceased came from Psmplin City.
There will be but one primary held 10
Prince William county this year, and
that for the purpose of voting for state
officers. Thomas II. Lion has been de-
clsred the nominee of the democratic
party for the House OF Delegates.
John w. Hodges, member OF the
House Of Delegates from Halifax county
dropped dead at court at Houston Mon
day. He WAS actively engaged in his
canvass for denomination to the House
when he was suddenly stricken with
heart disease.
The barn and contents, including bay,
wheat. grain and agricultural imple-
ments, owned by Isaac Stocks, we'll
known farmer, living near Round Hill,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday night.
Outbuildings aud gransries we're burned,
and the estimated loss is a 600
A charter has been granted Leesburg
Realty Corporation of Leesburg. II.
o. Littlejohn, president; w. o. Orr,
vice president; j. r. H. Alexander,
secretary aud treasurer; all of Leesburg.
Capital stock, 81, 500 to $l5, 900. OBJ
jecis and purposes: Real estste business.
Judge William Hodges Mann adj
dressed the voters OF fredericksburg last
night. He denied the numerous charges
preferred against him by his opponent
Mr.. Tucker. He discussed the edncs-
iioDaI questions at length. He also de-
clsreG himself in favor of good roads.
His views we're the same on the tenn
perance question as he had made known
in numerous other speeches.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant, this
week, to citizens of this state, of the
following patents: K. Coleman, of Hern-
don, fsh-stringiug device; H. w. Got
trell, Of Richmond, trunk-lock; K. II.
Prof1itt, of Radford, core; W. Scrim-
occur, Of Portsmouth, bydrocsrbon
burner, and J. A. rurpin, of NcrfOlk.
r3vOIuble clothes frame.
A special grand jury in Henrico
county yesterday indicted Holt Eppes
and Everett Bingham on charges OF
highway robbery and blackmail. The
Confession OF the prisoners carried
sufficient evidence on which to base
40 indictment. They we're charged
with representing themselves rs officers
and with holding up Misses May Hud-
gins and Helen Rstowski, two Balh-
more telephone girls, with their es-
corts, A. W. Folkes and Eugene F.
Davis.
The remains of Mrs. Betty Taylor
Daudridge, widow of Philip Pendleton
D4ndridge aud daughter of Gen.
Zachary Taylor, former president of the
UDited States, who died last Sun.
day, we're buried with simple but
impressive services in Mount Hebron |
Cemetery, Winchester, yesterday. The
funeral services were conducted at
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church
at II o'clock yesterday morning by the
rector, Rev. William ID. Smith, and
the church was thronged with the
relatives and many friends of Mrs.
cambridge.
Charles A. Adams, Of Lexington, yes
teriay morning borrowed a pistol for the |
purpose OF killing rats, aud as be was
his house the weapon went of |
and the bali entered his mouth, killing
him instantly. Bad health had preyed |
On his mind for some time, but it is
thought that The shooting was accidental.
Mr.. Adams had been tailor and cutter at |
he Virginia Military Institute for more
han fifty years. he was born in Will
lamsbuTg August 10, 1880 and went to
Lexington about the year 1852. He was
! Confederate soldier and was the Oldest
Odd Fellow In Lexington.