Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-08-09
VIRGINIA NEWS


lightning Wednesday night, during
the storm, aud completely destroyed
by the fire which followed. This
church was one of the old land marks
of the county, and during the civil
war was used as hospital. Numer-
Gus bloodstains from the wounded
still remain in the floor. During all
these years sacred and solemn religl-
Gus services have been held there. II
is said that Gen. Thomas j. (Stone-
wall) Jackson, the praying general
of the South, entered his church and
asked for divine guidance in those
troublesome days when the armies of
the North and the South were at
grips at he battles of Bull Run and
Manassas.
B. C. Goodbare, alias H. G.. Garland,
aged thirty live years, of near Clifton
Forge, brakeman in the employ of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway,
was arrested in Stanton yesterday
afternoon, charged with entering an
express car on the Chesapeake and
Ohio on the morning of July 80, be-
tween Charlottesville and Staunton,
binding express messenger A. L. Mar
shall, of Washington, and rifling the
safe of $4,000 in money and other
valuables. During the past week
Goodbare has been stopping at the
same hotel with detectives working
on the case. He has spent money Law
ishly, and Chief Express Agent Tom
J. Watts and Z. 3. Harrigan, who,
with railway detectives and Pinker-
ton men, worked up the case, state
they have accumulated evidence
which they regard sufficient to con-
Wet.
w. Otis Bland, now filling the un-
expired term of the late Representa-
tive William A. Jones, of the New
port News district, has been nominal
ted for the long term, as a result of
Tuesdays primary, having received a
plurality over Mapp of Accomac, of
222. These figures are based On re-
turns from every section of the dis
,trict complete together with figures
furnished from the eastern shore, Ac-
comac and Northampton, by Mapp.
: Armed with riot guns, Captain Of
Detectives A.sS. Wright and'a detach-
ment of plain clothes officers, rushed
to the freight yards of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railway, in Richmond yes
terday morning in response to a tele-
gram saying that Bernard Moore, a
white man, had murdered woman at
Providence Forge, and then forced
his way into the caboose of a'freight
train en- route for Richmond. When
officers entered the caboose they were
met by trainmen who verified the
shooting at Providence Forge, but
said the man did not get on the train.
"A later telegram from Providence
Forge said that Moore had killed him.
self after he shot the woman. "
During a severe electrical storm in
Warrenton Wednesday night, Miss
Sarah White and Robert White,
daughter and son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John J. White, who 1--we near Warren
ton, were killed in, their home by
lightning. Frank Dowell, a visitor,
was rendered unconscious for 80 min
utes and was badly burned about the
face, arms and body. The rest Of the
family, although sitting in the same
room and the adjoining room, suffered
no injury.
Mrs. S. C. Hill, who died at her
home in Halifax county Wednesday in
her Tooth year, was buried yesterday
evening at Republican Grove. Mrs.
Hill was never known to have been
i'll until she broke down, from the in
firmities of old age eight weeks ago.
Until then her vision was unimpaired
and she read without glasses. She
also could walk unaided. She lived all
of her life in Halifax county, where
she was born. -
Rear Admiral Harris, at the head
of the Fifth Naval District War In
dustries Board, last night notified the
Norfolk and Portsmouth Traction
Company that today he would take
over and direct the distribution of all
electric current, in order to conserve
and utilize the supply for the more
important lines Of industry and trans
portation. The step was decided upon
in order to relieve the present acute
traction situation.
Much of the late, tobacco at Arvonla
has been seriously damaged as re-
suit of the intense heat during the
mast few dnys.-In MANY instances