The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-06-10
yIRGIYIA NEWS NOTES.
Items Gathered Here and There and
Everywhere Throughout the state.

Everywhere Throughout the state.
Bishop Randolph, Of the Episcopal
Diocese Of Southern Virginia, Will locate
in Norfolk I'm November next.
Bedford county is swarming with seven
teen-year locusts. Farmers have lost
large numbers OF hogs from eating the
pests, and the insects are running the
best timber in the county.
Charles Price, a colored boy, was
drowned in the river at Lynchburg Mon
day afternoon. While rowing on the
river he lost his oar and jumped in the
water after It and never came to the
surface again.
James Hounshell. about nineteen years
old. the stepson Of Rush Kegley, OF Pu-
laski fell from a freight train on the
Norfolk and Western railroad at Radiord
where has was a brakeman, Tuesday
night, and was killed
Scion Armentrout. who was SEN
fenced to Jail for sixty days and one
hundred and fifty dollars fine for I'M
lawful cutting, made his escape from
the jail in Woodstock on Sunday morn
ing, by taking the lock off the door lead
ing 20 the street.
Captain e. +. Wickes. OF Berkley
bookkeeper for Williams Brothers, OF
Norfolk. on Friday night last sat out on
the porch Of his residence till late in the
evening Monday he was called, and not
responding, a member OF the household
went to his room and found him sitting
in the chaic by the window dead
In Lexington. after sitting ten days
hearing the evidence as 10 DR.. Il. J.
Walkers insanity in the will case under
consideration. the jury reached verdict
.44au~ Of
was in favor Of Or. Walkers heir and
adopted daughter as named in his will,
Miss Hope Irvine.
A severe electrical and rain storm
passed over the Woodstock section OF the
Shenandoah Valley yesterday afternoon.
battery IN the Western Union telegraph
Office I'm Woodstock was shattered and
several telephones were burned out.
Lightning also struck the residence Of
L. c. Kneisley. The building was not
injured, but Miss Neitie Kneisley was
Frustrated by the shock.
The Hygea Hotel and all the other
private property on the Government res
ervation at Fortress Monroe will pay
State taxes in the future. suit for
taxes has beer compromised, the Com
monwealth Is TO receive $4,000 hack taxes
from the Phoebus estate and $4,000 from
the Hygeia Hotel Elizabeth city county
will receive So .219,5O from the Phoebus
estate and 81 1880 from the hotel. and
the property will be assessed in future.
There appeared at the Lafayette House
In Newport News Friday q well dressed
stranger, who gave the name OF II.
Evarts. saying that he had just come
from Old Point I'm a carriage, not know
ing that the electric cars were running,
and was tired and hungry. Being a man
OF good address, he was shown to one Of
the best rooms IN the house. When he
came down stairs later he told Landlord
Harris that he represented large capital
lists at the North and that he had been
sent here for the purpose Of taking steps
looking TO the establishment Of a cotton
factory. Evarts managed 10 get himself
introduced TO number Of leading people
in town and seems TO have succeeded in
gaining their confidence. On Sunday he
made frequent visits to his room, but no
one suspected that he was a crook, until
Mrs. Harris visited her chamber and dis
covered that the box I'm which she kept
her jewelry had been tempered with, and
that a gold watch and five valuable rings
were missing. Mrs. Harris told her hus-
band what had happened saying that
she believed Evarts 10 be the thief. When
Mr.. Harris went TO look for him he had
gone. Evarts was an assumed name.
In Richmond the same fellow went by
the name Of Harry Melville. lie is one
Of the best known crooks in the country,
and halls from Maine.