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

A boil Of lightning 10 yesterday after
moons shower struck and killed William
Rimeus IS be passed near tree on bis way
home from work In South Fsyette town
ship, near Pittsturg, Pa.
Mrs. Estma Pee is In q hospital ID
Utlcs, n. Y, With broken neck And
her life 10 despsired as the result OF al
st!smpt to hug her. She was working
near the steep fight of stairs 10 hel
house when Stanley Czspsct, % yeaI'
OF age, a bosrder, threw bis arms Rbou
her. She pushed him from her aud b'
fell, dragging the woman with him dowr
the entire flight.
Munford Ellington, q Richmond boy,
was shot 10 the mouth Ia Fredericks'
burg lat night Ia vaudeville sketet
while "doiDg" a dsring stage robbery
act. Another actor had occasion to hTt
what was supposed TO be q blank car
fridge, bat which some one hsd mixed.
Staggering from the stage. young Filing
ton fell into the arms Of an attendant,
where ne tainted.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant, this
week, ID ctIzens OF this state, of the fo!-
loving patents: Emilio F. Brunello,
Preacher, umbrella; Henry o. Jackson,
Norfolk, automatic coin-controlled vend'
log machine for Insurance poIicie',
tickets and the like; James o. Persons,
Norfolk, apparatus fer lining pipes;
WIN. W. Scott, Hampton, Veblcle.t re,
aud Arthur Wendlipger, Richmond,
doOr-check.
Preston Smith, a mail clerk, whose
home Is Ia GordonsVille, was arrested at
that place yesterday BY Postoffice In.
spector Msrles and held In 1000 bail
by United States Commissioner Meredith
on the charge Of stealing four registered
letters. Smith denied hia guilt, tu'
wsiVed examination before the commits
sioner. His mother.in.law, Mrs. Mary
B. Biu,e, OF GordousvllIe, went on bis
bail.
Ohsrles a. Dryer, Of Center Hsrbor,
n. H., aud Erpest NJ. Harlow, a cab
driver, were killed and MIR. Buyers wife,
Katherine, was probably fatally injured
last night, near WaVerly, Mass, when
cab in which they we're on their way
to q wedding was struck by train OF a
crossing on the Boston and Maine Rail-
road. The wedding, that Of Mrs. Bryer's
sister, was abruptly postponed when
news OF the accident reached the church.
Mrs. Buyer is 81 years old and wac
married only year ago.
Fishermen at Bu,kroe Beach near
Norfolk, are marvelIug at cSt,h shicb
they made. Observing disturbance 10
the water SURF undiug Ibree seines which
we're being drawn tightly as the poles to
which they were attached bnckled, they
hssteued 10 haul them. Their nets we're
full to the breaking point, aud they took
shsd from them, the fish for which they
had been patiently waiting. When they
ceased operations apparently there we're
as many shad 10 the water as before,
and they were moving into deep water
sgain. More than Is 900 Of them were
taken. 1t was the creates! catch OF shsd
ever known In the Chesapeake.
Governor Mann has appointed as n
commission to present to France the
copy of the famous Eloudon statue, OF
Washington, Colonel James Mann, of
Norfolk, State Senator Don P. Halsey, Of
Lynchburg, and 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
Pittsburg, to Mr. William Thomas
Clsgett Rogers, of Leesburg. The wed.
ding will take place in June a.. Belmont,
the country estate OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fer.
gusoQ in Loudoun couaty, Mr.. Rogers
is a son OF the late Alexander Hamilton
Rogers, of Loudoun county.