Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-11-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

his home at The Plains,on wednesday.
Mrs. John Carlisle died yesterday al
her home in BerryviIle, aged sixty
three years.
Mr.. Henry c. Stuart, announced in
Richmond yesterday evening that he
would be a candidate in the next guber-
material election.
DR.. John Flagg Gardner, soldier,
scholar, and physician, died Of old age
Saturday, in his home, in Warrenton.
He was sc years old. and had been in
feeble health for the last ten years.
Miss Humphrey Levi. daughter Of
Mr. J. o. Levi, and Mr.. Robert ARMS.
tead Colston were married in the Berry.
vile Baptist Church yesterday even.
ing by Rev. Julian Broadhis.
A. L. Goodloe. president OF the
Goodloe Wholesale Company Of Cul-
pepper, was badly injured at his whole
sale house in Culpeper by falling back
ward down fight OF circular stairs
day or two ago.
Miss Sue Conway Taliaferro, daughter
OF the late DR.. Alfred Taliaierro, died
at her residence in Culpeper county
Tuesday, at the ago OF seventy years.
Miss Mary Eleanor Smith, daughter
OF Major T. Towson Smith, OF FauquieI
county, has been appointed teacher OF
Harmony in the Stern Conservatory
Berlin, where she has been a student
for the past two years.
Edward Shumate, brother Of Judge
w. B. D. Shumate, OF Calyerton, Eau.
quier county, with whom he had made
his home for the past three years, died
at the Tuberculosis Hospital, Washing
ton, Tuesday. He was 60 years OF age
Former Governor Montague la:
been selected by the Virginia Bar AS
ISOLATION to represent the state at 9
special term OF the United States gu
preme Court on December 10, when
tribute will be paid to the late Chief
Justice Fuller.
At the home OF the bride in Cul
pepper yesterday evening, Fred Hud'
gins and Miss Mamie Nalle were
married by Rev. Harry D. Lee, rector
of the Episcopal Church at Chariot
tesvilIe
DR.. Claude NJ. Fisher. proprietor Of
drug store at Graham, received Q
Black Hand letter Wednesday in which
the writer demanded that he place $500
under a billboard near his place on
November 80. 1t further said that un-
less he did so he must pay a dire
penalty.
William E. Wright, a merchant Of
Rhoadesyille, Orange county, commit
ted suicide Wednesday evening by
hanging himself in a back room OF his
store. in Fredericksburg. Mr.. Wright
had been acting strangely recently
and it was thought his mind was affect
ed Arrangements we're being made tc
send him to sanatorium.
When George Washington Johnson
aged 20, heard that his son, Walter Lee
Johnson, intended to marry Miss Mary
E. Keckley in Winchester yesterday
he sent a message to Mrs. Eliza Avery
to come along, and double ceremony
was performed at noon in liable Hat;
by Rev. John Henry Parlett, OF the
United Brethren Church.
Lewis Bartlett, "a years old, died in
Norfolk Wednesday from wounds on
the head received November 7, when a
negro walked into his store at Lam
bert's Point and felled him and his
brother Enoch. The negro used an
iron bolt. Both men we're found uu'
conscious on the floor by a customer.
Enoch Bartlett recovered, but the elder
man was unconscious for four days be-
fore he died.
Harry st. George Tucker, in an in
teryiew in Norfolk last night, while
not admitting he will or will not be a
candidate for the United States Senate
next summer, declared he will gladly
support a sound democrat who may
oppose Thomas s. Martin, senior Sen
ator from Virginia. Mr.. Tucker held
that all democrats who believe Mr..
Martin should be retired from public
life should unite upon some one man
in the senatorial primaries. He en-
gagged law Offices in Norfolk yesterday
and announced that he would spend
the winter in Norfolk.
Isaac, alias Izona Wilson, colored,
vas shot and killed in the yards OF the
Norfolk and Western Railroad at
Roanoke early yesterday morning by
Policeman Thompson. The negro was
proving about the place, and when
told to consider himself under arrest
and throw up his hands. he pulled out
a pistol. The officer was too quick for
him and opened fire. He struck him
once and the negro then ran. The
second shot fired by the policeman was
also effective and the negro fell, dying
a few minutes later. When the body
was searched it was found that Wilson
was we'll supplied with ammunition,
having Is rounds OF shells. In his
pockets we're four skeleton keys.
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