Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-05-19
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The new cottages now in course of cree.
ton at the Confederate Soldiers Home, near
Richmond, are approaching completion.
A row of ten newly erected frame houses
fell in Berkeley, opposite Norfolk, yesterday,
collapsing from the root and causing COM
plete wreck.
Bids were opened in the Office Of the su-
peryising architect in Washington yesterday
for work and materials of the iron roof of
the Lynchburg postoffice, as we'll as the GAL
vanized iron required in its construction.
A cablegram from Rome states that the
Italian government did not award the con-
tract for the 1900 hogsheads OF Virginia leaf
tobacco. The bids were all above the max
imum fixed by the government, and new
bids will have to be made.
The case of Charles Shaw, the burglar and
safe. blower who created sensation in Rich.
mond few weeks ago, and who is on trial
for shooting Police.Sergeant Brooks, was
given to the jury iu the Hastings Court last
night.
In the House of Representatives on Mon.
day Mr.. Brady presented the petition of
Adelina T. Blick, praying that his war
claim be referred to the Court Of Claims !;
also, papers relating to the claim of Ada
lena IT. Blick, of Ream's Station, which
were referred to the Committee on War
Claims.
In case involving the question whether
liquor license would be issued upon evil
dence that coupons had been rendered there
for, Judge Atkins, of the Hastings Court of
Richmond, has decided that no license could
be issued except upon certificate OF the
treasurer that the applicant had paid the
amount required by law Unless a higher
tribunal interferes this decision will prevent
the use of coupons in payment of liquor IL
cense in that city.
Three colored men, Richard Jones, VIM.
Nash and Rufus Floyd, confined In Jail in
Portsmouth awaiting conveyance to the pen
itentiary, knocked down the assistant jailer
yesterday morning with bar of iron, and
then smashing the locks of the outer doors
with the iron bar got into the jail yard and
scaled the walls to the street, after which
they fled to the open country. They were
pursued and overhauled on the Deep Creek
road, three miles from the city, just as they
were about to plunge into the recesses of
Gum Pond swamp.
Miles Wilson, who has been on trial at
Suffolk for killing his wife several months
ago, has been convicted of murder in the
first degree and sentenced to be hanged on
the 31st of July next. Wilson and his wife
had quarrel growing out ofjealollsy on the
part of the murdered woman. The hus-
band became so enraged that he seized
heavy cudgel, with which he dealt his wife
several blows on the head, inhicting wounds
which caused her death. After committing
the crime the murderer took the body
aud placed in an ash pile few rods from
where he and his wife lived, where it was
found.
An unsettled condition of affairs exists in
the coal regions in Pocahontas. A portion
of the miners, those belonging to the labor
unions, received ten per cent. advance in
wages some time ago, but the non. union
men were refused an advance. On the 10th
inst. meeting was called for the men to
Join the Federation of Labor, but the citi.
zens of the town called an indignation meet
ing and broke up the miners assembly. The
town sergeant entered the meeting with
large crowd and threatened to arrest all the
speakers and ordered Brown, the organizer
of the federation, to leave. Much indigna.
ton exists among the miners, and trouble is
feared.