Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-02

Twenty persons were snghtly III
iured last night when Norfolk and
Western passenger train No 2 struck
a broken rail and was wrecked seven
miles south of Natural Bridge, A
pullman car, diner and two day coach
es were hurled down an embankment
but sustained little damage.
w. E. Tarpley, county constable
was shot and seriously injured Sun
day at Shockoe, while attempting to
arrest Joseph Eckols, paroled penl-
tertiary convict, and fugitive from
justice. Tarpley received load of
buck-shot in his head and face, after
he entered Eckols's home with the
intention of recapturing him.
The badly mangled body of a white
man was found on the tracks of the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po-
tomac Railroad on Sunday morning,
about a mile north of Milford Sta
ton. 1t appeared from papers in the
pockets that the man was j. r.
White, of North Carolina, He also had
in his pockets $12 and appeared TO
be about 35 years old.
Rear Admiral A. C. Dillingham;,
United States Navy, retired, who is
a resident of Norfolk, has applied to
the Navy Department for permission
to become a candidate for election to
Congress from the Norfolk district
of Virginia, without prejudice to his
naval status. He explains that his
main object in entering the campaign
is to endeavor to promote the devel-
opment of the naval station at Nor
folk and make that city one of the
greatest ports in the United States.
Bishop John C. INilgo, will preside
over the session of the Virginia Con-
ference to be held in Richmond next
He will also preside over
the North Carolina and the Western
North Carolina Conference. Bishop
Hoss will preside over the Baltimore
Conference, Bishop Gambler over the
Upper South Carolina Conference and
Bishop Atkins over the South Carolina
Conference. This will be third time
that Bishop Kilgo has presided over
The Virginia Conference, having pre-
sided at the conference held at Sails
bury and at Portsmouth.
r. F. Brooks, 81 years old, is in
Jail in Danville, charged with shoot
ing and killing Jerry Hughes, color
ed, late Sunday night, in the lower
part of the city. Brooks had quar-
rel with Hughes and they nearly
came to blows. At 10 o'clock Sunday
right the white man found Hughes
assaulting an aged negrcss named
Sallie Vassar, it is stated. The quar-
rel was reopened, Hughes rescnting
Brooks's interfering. Brooks drew
a revolver and fired five shots point
blank at Hughes, it is alleged. Ore
of the bullets, probably the first fired,
struck the negro in the back, his coat
showing signs of powder burns.
Hughes was conveyed in dying con-
dition to the hospital, where it was
found that one of the bullets had
struck him close to the heart. He
died within an hour.
Mrs. Lizzie Creamor, 40 years old
living near Portsmouth, is a patient
in the county Jail hospital, suffering
from a number of severe stab wounds
and her husband, Robert Creamer is
locked up on charge of having as
saultcd and cut her. The assault, ac-
coriing to the woman, took place last
Saturday night, and she lay in an
open field until Sunday morning, when
man found her lying beside a path.
The woman's left car was nearly
severed from her head, and had to
lie scwcd back in position when she
was brought to the jail. a knife
wound, two INCHES long was in hcl
check, another in her scalp, and there
were numerous cuts and scratches
! about her body which looked as il
she had been thrown against Il wirt
fence. The husband was arrested.
The Rockbridge county Democratic
convention was held yesterday at
Lexington and delegates selected t.
the State Democratic convention t.
be held in Roanoke June 2. Congress
man H. D. Flood, of this county
chairman of the Foreign Affairs Com
mittce of the House of Representa-