Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-24
VIRGINIA NEWS.

MISS 11alIlo IOUQ, lOTulerly vi MA
nassas, died at the home of her brother
in New Jersey recently.
Mrs. Jane Dulany, living near Thor
oughfare, died on Sunday morning,
November is, after short illness from
typhoid fever.
Miss Nancy Allen, daughter of Mr..
T. w. Allen, OF Allendale, and Mr.. H.
Ingalls, Kimball, jr., of Chicago, were
married in Winchester on Thursday.
Mr.. John w. Genther and Miss Fan
ME H. Maron, daughter of Mr.. John
Z. Maron, were married at the Presby-
terian Church in Fredericksburg yes
terday.
In the High School at Richmond yes
terday James McBarin, pupil, was
stabbed perhaps fatally by Dudley Sta
pies, school-mate. 1t is claimed the
cutting was accidental.
In Richmond yesterday evening
Thomas W. McNamee, tried for killing
Robert Lee Atwell, was found guilty OF
murder in the second degree and his
punishment fixed at FIVE years in the
penitentiary.
Gov. O'Ferrall yesterday accepted
the resignation of c. F. Moore as judge
of the County Courts of Craig and AL
leghany. Judge Moore, who only as
sumed the office in January last, re-
signs to re-enter the ministry.
Rev. S. P. Waters, who has been the
rector of st. Stephens Episcopal church
Culpeper, for the last five years,
preached his farewell sermon Sunday.
Mr.. Waters goes to Apalachicola, Fla,
to take charge of the Episcopal church.
The damage suit for 100000 brought
by S. T. Chapman, of Asheville, n. c.,
against the Yellow Poplar Lumber
Company, of Coal Grove, Ohio, was
Yesterday decided in the United States
District Court at Abingdon. The jury
rendered verdict for $45, 900 in favor
of the plaintiff. This trial lasted a
month.
The Grand Lodge of Masous will
meet in Richmond on the first Tuesday
in December. Major Mann Page is the
grand master. He is now serving
his first year and will, it is believed,
decline reelection. A few years ago
he was an earnest advocate of a motion
to limit the grand masters term to one
year, but the proposition failed. Major
Page, to be consistent, can't accept an
other term, so some people say.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union,
IF VIRGINIA in Richmond. Yesterday
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, J. c. Moss. of Lynchburg; first
vice-p president, John G. Pollard, of
Richmond; second vice president, r.
E. White, of Danville; third vice pres
ident, Lewis Hall, of Norfolk; secre-
tary, DR.. George F. Bagby, of Danville;
treasurer, A. A. Johnson, Of Roanoke.
The question of selecting the next place
of meeting was left to the executive
board.
John A. Cree, a widower, with sever
al children, who is in the service of the
Richmond Railway Company, was ar
rested in Richmond Thursday evening
on the charge of the betrayal of Miss
Ella Driver, of Manchester, under pro-
mise of marriage. Miss Driver is about
twenty years old, really pretty, and has
we'll rounded figure. Cree does not
deny having effected the girls ruin,
but claims that he can prove that he is
not amenable to the law and that there
are reasons why he should not marry
the girl. He was held in 1000 bail.
When the case against I. Jacobs for
larceny, brought by Greenbaum & Co.,
of Baltimore, was called in the Mayors
Court in Lynchburg Yesterday, it was
developed that MIR. Geeenbaum, who
was present in court on Thursday, and
testified, had suddenly left the city.
Jacobs was then placed on the stand,
and testified that the Baltimore firm
sold him the goods on 60 days time,
and had not consigned them, as was
claimed. The justice thereupon dis
missed the case. Jacobs has entered
suit against Greenbaum s. Co. for S1O,-
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