Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-06-28
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Eight women mourners were injured
Monday 10 q panic caused by q severe
electrical storm during the funeral OF
George Serere ut West ki'taning. Pa.
The mourners were filing out OF the
house to board carriages Tor the Come
terry when the storm broke. The vivid
electrical display and loud peals OF
thunder frightened some Of tho women
aud they made rush to center the
house. In Il moment there was
struggling crowd in the front yard.
When calm was destroyed eight OF the
women were so badly hurt that medi-
cal attention was necessary.
A dispatch from Los Angeles says q
warrant charging murder and arson
has been issued for the arrest OF Gen
eral Mosby Of the Mexican iusurrectos,
according to Deputy United States At
.orney Stewart. Mosby is nov held at
Fort Rosecrans, San Diego. on 4 charge
of being q deserter from the United
States army.
Samuel Hall, laborer Of Washing
ton, kicked his 20-year.old wife IN the
abdomen yesterday and now she is at
the Casualty Hospital suffering from
serious internal injuries rs the result OF
premature childbirth. He was arrested.
Much damage was done in Frederick
and adjoining counties hy 4 terrific
electrical storm which swert over this
section of Virginia late yesterday
afternoon. Wheat aud corn i'll many
sections were beaten to the ground, in
hicting serious loss upon farmers.
Several buildings in the interior we're
struck by lightning, and some loss was
caused by fires Which followed.
DR.. G. AT. Nickel, a praeticing ply
stefan Of Millboro. near Clifton Forge,
committed suicide yesterday by shoot.
ing himself during a fit OF dependence.
DS. Nickel is about 60 years old.
While riding On wheat wagon with
her father and Il girl playmate, ne
Hinton, Shenandoah county, Monda y
Ruth Martin, II years old, fell fron,
her seat and was impaled on pitch
fork which she had been carrying
One Of the tines entered her skull jus
above the eycball and was driven t
inches into her brain. The victim &C
the accident is alive, but her left side
is paraIyzsd, and it is feared she cannot
live.
Miss Elizabeth Weldon Claiborne
Mann, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Bernard Mann. OF Petersburg. and Mr..
Lewis Parke Chamberlain were
married last night in Grace Episcopal
Church in that city hy RI. Rev. Robert
A. Gibson, bishop Of Virginia, assisted
w Rev. c. Braxlon B. Ryan and tue
Rev. Pembroke W. Reed. Miss Cath
ariue b. Mann, of Petersburg, was
maid Of honor and John Hampdeu
Cbambnrlaine, jr., OF Richmond,
brother OF the bridegroom, was best
man.
Chief among the attractions for
Home Coming Week in Luray, be-
ginning July II, will be the presence Of
Speaker Clark, Of the House of Rep
resentatives, and Gov. W. II. Mann. Of
Virginia. Former Speaker Cannon
may be speaker also.
Patrick Baker and family, of Feeder
icksburg moved two days ago into an
old frame house back OF q larger resi-
dence which was built probably $50
years ago. In repairing an old fire.
place in the second story, two pieces
of plank fell out OF the ceiling and a
big box dropped to the floor. Mrs.
Baker found it contained S400 in gold
coin and $500 in currency. Owing TO
its being SO old, tlio currency was in
very bad condition, portions OF it fall
ing to pieces in handling. fhe house
has long history and no one can tell
to whom the money belongs.