Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-04-10
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Bishop Whittle preached morning
and night at Fredericksburg on Sunday
and confirmed two classes.
Three children bitten by rabid dog
in Roanoke county have been taken to
New York for treatment at the Pasteur
Institute.
Mr.. Caleb Lawson, who was stricken
with paralysis several weeks ago, died
at his home in Fredericksburg yester-
day, aged siXty-eight years. He was
born in Caroline county and was
Mexican war veteran.
Shemariah Presbyterian Church, near
Middlebrook, Augusta county, was to-
tally destroyed by fire Sunday morn
ing just as the congregation was as
sembling for service. The church was
seventy-fve years old. Loss about
5000.
a cyclone east of Guthrie, Okla,
swept large area of farming county
yesterday. A dozen buildings were
destroyed and several people injured.
The four-year-old son of George Green
away was cremated and two oth'r
children badly burned in a prairie fire.
The sixteen-year-old daughter OF Mr..
Lewis 4. Monroe, who lives near Wash
ington, Rappahannock county, met
with horrible death on Friday last.
She was sitting or standing near the
fire, when her clothing caught fire, and
when found she was dead and all her
clothing was burned Off No one was
in the house at the time.
Judge Golf wrote the clerk of the L.
S. Court at Richmond yesterday that
he would be in that city on Thursday
next to consider the decree for fore
closure and sale in the Richmond and
Danyille railroad case. Counsel for all
parties in interest have been notified
and the report of the Masters, which
will be filed today, will probably be
acted upon.
While Rev. Mr.. Savage, Baptist
minister. was at church on Sunday his
house in King George county was en-
tered BY negro man named Ben Hank
lin, who carried off all of the dinner
besides other meats. The white girl
who had been left in charge of the
house and baby was frightened by
threats against her life. The negro was
subsequently arrested and is now III
jail
The downfall which seemed to threat
en- the Rosebery Cabinet yesterday
was averted at the last moment by the
grace of the radical wing, which sup
ported the government in its motion TO
shelve for the present the anti-Lords
motion of Mr.. Dalziel The vote stood
2GS to 244, showing that the radicals
hold the balance of power and can hurl
the ministry out of power when they
choose.
The coroner's jury selected 10 inves-
tigate the cause of the death of the
victims who were killed by the cXplo-
sion in Petersburg on Saturday finished
the examination of witnesses yesterday
afternoon. Their verdict was that the
victims were killed by an explosion in
G. n. Romaine's fireworks factory.
The city council yesterday made an APP
preparation of 81, 600 for the relief Of
the sufferers by the fire and explosion.
On saturday altcTDoOH INC CltiErbS W
Berkeley came very near lynching Jesse
Everett, white man about forty years
of age, who is charged with attempting
criminal assault on his siX-year-old
daughter. Everett recently spent his
months wages in debauch, and, going
home, brutally beat his wife and small
child. He then cut up all of his wife's
clothing, and drove her from the house.
Neighbors interfered. and Everett was
arrested. Shortly after his arrest, his
nine-year-od daughter died of con-
sumption and he was released to attend
her funeral. He then went to his
house, and, it is charged, attempted to
assault his six-year-old child. The
citizens of the town were indignant,
but the police appeared in time TO save
him.