Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-30
Virginia News.

A hol. Of lightning in yesterday after
moons shoWer struck and killed William
Rimcus as be passed near tree on his way
home from work In South Fayette town.
ship, near PittsburE, Ps.
| Mrs. Eatma Pee is in q hospital 10
Utics, n. Y, With broken neck and
her lite Ia despaired as the rssnlt OF an
st.enpt to bug her. She was working
near The steep fight of stairs in her
house when Stanley Czspsct, % years
of age, bosrder, threw his arms about
her. She pushed him from her aud be
fell, Dragging the woman with him down
the entire flight.
Munford Ellington, Richmond boy,
was shot in the mouth In FrederlcKs'
burg lat night In a vaudeville sketch
while "doiDg" dsring stage robbery
act. Another actor bad occasion to he
what mas supposed TO be blank oar
fridge, but which some one had mixed.
Staggering from the stsge, young Filing
ton fell into the arms of an attendant,
where ne tainted.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant, this
weak, to citizens of this state, of the fo!-
loving patents: Emilio F. Brunello,
Preacher, umbrella; Henry 0. jackson,
Norfolk, automatic coin-controlled yend.
ing machine for Insurance policiee,
tickets and the like; James 0. Peraons,
| Norfolk, apparatus for lining pipes;
VIM. W. Scott, Hampton, Vehicls.t re,
aud Arthur Wendlinger, Richmond,
door-check.
Preston Smith, a mail clerk, whoee
home Is in GordonsVille, was arrested at
that place yesterday by Postoffice In.
spector Merles and held in 81, 900 bail
by United States Commissioner Meredith
on the charge OF stealing four registered
letters. Smith denied his guilt, tu'
waived examination before the commits
sioner. His mother.iu.law, Mrs. Mary
B. Bruce, OF Gordousvllle, went on his
bail.
Charles a. Fryer, of Center Hsrbor,
n. f., aud Etpest NJ. Harlow, a CAT
driver, were killed end MIR. Buyers wife,
katherine, was probably fatally injured
last night, near Wa7erly, Mass, when
q cab In which they were on their way
to a wedding was struck by train ct s
crossing on the Boston and Maine Rail.
road. The wedding, that Of Mrs. Brye,'t
sister, was abruptly postponed when
news OF the accident reached the church.
Mrs. Buyer Is 81 years old and waa
married only a year ago.
Fishermen at Bu3kroe Beach near
Norfolk, are marveliug at cst:h Hhich
they made. Observing disturbance 10
the water SURF 1diug three seines which
we're being drawn tightly as tie poles to
which they were attached bnckled, they
hastened to haul them. Their nets were
full ID the breaking point, aud they took
shad from them, the 6sh for which they
had been patiently waiting. When they
ceased operations apparently there were
ss many shad In the wafer as before,
and they were moving into deep water
again. More than Is. 900 of them were
taken. 1t was the greatest catch of shad
ever known in the Chesapeake.
| Governor Mann has appointed as q
commission to present to France the
copy of the famous Houdon statue, oil
Washington, Colonel James Mann. OF
Norfolk, State Senator Don P. Halsey, Of
lLynchburg, aud State Senator F. W.
King, of Clifton Forge. Colonel James
Mann will be chairman of the com
mission and the personal representative
of the governor.
| Announcement is made of the engage
ment of Miss Anna Louise Ferguson, OF
rittsburg, TO MIR William Thomas
Clagett Rogers, of Leesburg. The wed
ding will take place in June at Belmo Mt
the country estate OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fer
guso1 in Loudoun county. MIR. Rogers
is a son of the late Alexander Hamilton
Rogers, of Loudoun county.