The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-24
VIRGINIA NEWS NOTES.
Items Gathered Here and There and
Everywhere Throughout the : alto.

cora reese, aged twelve years, OF o~Ott
county was married recently.
The three-year-old daughter OF a. $.
Johnson, Of Spotsylvania county, was
burned TO death Tuesday.
The Touring mill OF :. +. Housenfluck
and the barn of Jerry Bauscrman. in
Shenandoah county. were destroyed by
fire Monday night.
Jacob l.. Moon. a banker at Scottsyille.
Albemarle county. has made an assign
ment. Liabilities, $1,000, assets, about
the same. mostly in real estate.
At Suffolk house was destroyed by
fire early Tuesday morning, and col
ored woman and her two children We're
burned to death. and the husband and
father badly burned.
The store-house and contents OF Arthur
7. Kellam, merchant, at Belle Haven.
Northampton county. were destroyed by
fire last Saturday night. Cause OF fire
unknown. Loss, about $500; covered by
insurance.
The oldest lady in Louisa county is
claimed 10 be Mrs Della Trce, living
two miles east OF Louisa. She IS very
hardy. and ii is believed she viii attain
her one hundredth anniversary. Ms.
Arnett living near her, is only a few
years younger than Mrs Trice, and is the
only pehsioner in the county Of the war
of 1>l2.
\ panic occurred in the county court
room at CnntwOod scott county last
Friday. by some one raising ala alarm
that the building was cOilapsins. People
rushed for the door. jumped out OF the
windows, tramplcd upon each other. ana
AT last 1t was discovered that there had
been no cause whatever for the alarm.
IN overdose Of laudanum came near
terminating the life OF Mr.. John ONeale.
a young Alexandrian, Monday night. The
prompt remedies OF DR.. William Smith,
who was called in as soon as his condi-
ton was discovered. alone prevented "A
fatal termination. Whether the l1udanum
was taken with suicidal intent or by &C
cident is not known
William f. Anderson. the white boy
who shot and killed the negro, Shaver.
i'm February. at salem, was indicted TOT
murder by the grand jury Tuesday morn
ing In the afternoon he was arralsned'
pleaded not guilty, and on account OF the
absence Of material witnesses his trial
was postponed until the April term.
United states Deputy Marshal Thomas
Ii. Cross. Of Norfolk sold at Newport
News Tuesday the steamship Finance,
of the United States and Brazilian Mail
Steamship Company under four hbels.
She has been lately repaired by the New
mort News Ship-Building Company. whose
bin Is $4,000 She was bought by Bernard
II. Smith. OF Brooklyn. ~ Y, for $1,000.
When the steamer Danville left West
Point on Monday for Baltimore the town
authorities were investigating the death
OF an infant, about three weeks Ola
whose body was brought TO the surface
by the wheels OF some OF the steamers
4 a.
neck OF the child was a brick. which had
been tied with A tape-measure. II is OK
pected that there will be some arrests
i'm connection with the affair.
Major Mann Page, president Of the
Virginia Farmers Alliance, says under
M circumstances will he consent 20 De-
the Third party candidate for Governor.
The Alliance, he says, Is nou-poutlcal
organiation and. as its president, ne
could not consistently permit himself TO
be nominated for Governor. President
Page expresses the opinion that that par
" will place at the head OF its state
ticket this year a SILVER Democrat.
The losses by fire at Martlnsville We'd
nesdav were as follows: j. W. Tuggle
dry goods Insurance, $500. loss $500;
Herner AZ Son. dry goods, insurance NlGD
loss $1,000: W. NJ. Hundley x Co, hard
ware and feed store insurance $500. loss
81 400. r. NJ. Fox d Co., undertakers and
crockery. insurance $500. loss 5000;
Thompson. Num- & CO., groceries, in
surance 81. 900. loss $1,000 The Star Cloth
ing Company saved their stock with a
loss of only 500. There were quite a
number OF offices above the stores in
which everything was lost. The building
was worth $4,000. insured for $4,000. All
told. the losses amount to about $4,000;
insurance. $1,000.