Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-07-25

Harris0nburgH. G. Bradford will
Ia few days start new weekly
paper at Luray. Page county.
Orange During severe electrical
storm lightning struck Walkers
Episcopal Chapel, about one mile from
Woodberry Forest School. burning IL
to the ground.
HarrisOnburg. Seeing proWl6f
peerfng through her window Thursday
night, the wife of Policeman Early
took pistol from her dresser and
fred three times at the marauder. He
escaped uninjured.
Orange. Mr.. L. w. Booton, we'll
known cattle dealer of Orange com.
united suicide by blowing his head on
with shotgun in q piece Of woods
near his home. He leaves wife and
one daughter.
! Norfolk. The Corporation Court OF
Norfolk held that drug clerk, who
had signed physician's name to pre-
scriptions for cocaine, was not guilty
Of forgery, because no financial fraud
was involved. as the clerk had paid
for the Cocaine himself.
Fredericksburg. The eleventh SEES,
sion Of Mount Hermon, Baptist Asso-
citation will convene at Bethel Baptist
Church. in Caroline county, July 81,
and be in session three days. Rev.
Andrew Broaddus, OF Sparata, is mod
Grafton Of the association.
Harrisonburg. The body of Frank
Button. 20 years old, who was drown
ed Sunday while bathing in the Shen-
nandoah river at E.4ton, was found
by his brother, James Button, and
taken to Jeffersonton, Culpeper coun-
ty, for burial.
Lynchburg. Capt. John A. Davis
died at the state epileptic colony,
aged So years. He was the son Of q
physician of Bedford county, and DUR
ing the Wafawas a captain of the Vir-
glnla Military Institute and took part
In the charge at New Market.
Bristol.-The building committee of
the board of visitors of the Radford
State Normal and Industrial School,
to be located at Radford, Montgomery
county, has let the contract for the
erection of the first building of the
new school. This will be known as
the administration building and will
cost more than 100000.
Bristol Judge Kelly, of the Cor
poration Court, dismissed the petition
of G. w. Hammitt and others seek.
Ing to GUST George M Warren, Dem
crat. as Mayor-elect of Virginia Bris-
tol, stating in his opinion that Warren
Is eligible and that he was qualified
voter on June II, the date of the cleo.
ton. Warren is a young man and
was elected by large support OF the
Eiks
Luray -Luray wiz celebrate its one
hundredth anniversary on August 20
and 81. The frat day will be devoted
to farming interests. The general
program will be devoted to an illustra-
ton of the advancement made in farm
ing conditions in 100 years. The CEN
tennial on the second day will be CO.
incident with the annual reunion OF
Rosier-Gibbons Camp of Confederate
Veterans, when the celebrations will
be held jointly.
Petersburg Lillian Bishop,
wife of Thomas Bishop, an employee of
the Norfolk and Western Railway
Company, committed suicide at her
home in West Washington street by
shooting herself through the right tenn
pie with a pistol. Her death resulted
almost instantaneously. Mental trou.
BILE and i'll health are assigned as the !
cause. Mrs. Bishop stood before a I
mirror to shoot herself and was alone I
with her two little children when she 7
committed the died.
Lynchburg.- The last request of (
Rev. Clarence v. T. Richeson, electro
cuted in Boston last May for the muir
der of Miss Avis Linnell, was COM
piled with, when his body was laid
beside that of his mother The father
of the former pastor had had the re-
mains buried beside those of young
Richeson's grandparents. A sister,
Miss Russell Richeson, of Philadel-
phia, finally obtained consent Of her
father for the removal Of the body.
It was disinterred today, carried five
miles through drizzling rain and
placed In the ground beside that Of
his mother.
Suffolk, John johnson and Lorenzo
Hubbard, 13-year-old boys, were
caught, it Is said. in the act Of setting
fire to the Maxwell Hosiery Mill, Suf-
folk, at a place cutting OF the only
means of exit for the employees in the
second and third stories. Johnson was
seeking revenge, it is said, for dis
missal from the mill. The Maxwell
Hosiery Mills are situated in the heart
OF the business district The blaze
was discovered ana extinguished by
Capt. Joseph Winstead in the nick of
time The lives of so employees, most
II girls, were endangered. and both
boys are under arrest.
Petersburg Two girls, Ruth, aged
IL, and Blanche, aged IA years, daugh-
tiers OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Everly, of
Chesterfield county while driving to
this city were struck and killed by
fast passenger train from Richmond.
They were struck while driving
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