Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-11
VIRGINIA NEWS.

to be in the vicinity of Newport News.
| Mr. George h. Isler dropped dead at
the Virginia Hotel at Berryville on
Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Maria Moore died at her home
near Washington, Rappahannock coun-
| ty, on Thursday. She was in her nine
tieth year.
The chaplaincy of the University Of
Virginia has been rendered to the Rev.
A. r. Cooke, pastor Oft The Presbyterian
church at Waynesboro.
The venerable Rev. D. P. Wills, of
the Virginia Conference, was paralyzed
on Saturday at his home, in Ports
mouth. ard his condition is serious.
Robert 3. Terry, a King William
farmer, who is charged with completely
in passing forged orders on the COM
monwealth, went to Richmond yester-
day and surrendered himself.
Robert Ridley. colored, was fonud
guilty By Sussex county jury on Sat
urday, of the murder of Dir. George
Williams, near Hilda, and was SEN
fenced 10 be hung on July 10.
The Bonsack Company has secured
an irjunction restraining the use By
William S. Carroll, of Lynchburg, of
the Munson cigarette machine. The
case will be heard in the United States
Court on April l.
Testimony in the two contested cleo
ton cases from Virginia has been re
ceived by the chief clerk of the House.
The cases are those of Thorp against
Mckinney, in the fonrth district, and
Yost against Tucker, in the tenth dis
trict.
Captain Troy Watkins died sudden
ly of heart disease at the farm of Mr..
Woods, Warwick, near Staunton, yes
terday. He was sixty years old, and
was for twenty-three years section
master on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad.
A barn belonging to Mr.. L. Marsh
Walker. of the Brook" near Char
lottesville, was turned Friday. Five
horses, one of them valuable trotter.
ten hogs, quantity of hay and corn
and all of his harness were lost. The
fire is thought to have been of incendi-
airy origin.
The Washington Methodist confer
euce, colored, in session in Richmond.
spent most OF Saturday morning listen
lug to eulogies on Fred Doug
lass, and passed resolutions of re-
spect to his memory. Thomas NJ. Tay-
lor and William Stephepy were elected
local deacons. ]. H. Baker, who was
exDel led from the conference two years
ago, had his papers returned to him.
Charles f. Whitlock, of Richmond,
the wealthy lumberman and box
manufacturer, who committed suicide
in Philadelphia in January last, left two
wills and three codicils, and his bust
ness partner, Mr.. James R. Gordon,
has been made curator of the large
estate, pending the determination by
the Chancery Court of Richmond, what
paper shall be probated as the last
testament of Mr.. Whitlock. The estate
is estimated at 100000.
Cary E. Arthur, well-dressed young
man of about twenty-fcur, was found
in Richmond in freight car on the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Pc
tomac road Saturday dying from ex
posure and starvation When discoy-
cred the young man was eating coal
that he had picked up in the car. Let
tiers on his person indicate that Ar
thur was from Frazie1's Bottom, Ohio.
A letter from his sister dated from that
place indicated that Arthur had been
leading wandering life for some time
past. He died Saturday evening at the
almshouse hospital.
DR.. S. K. Jackson had hearing be-
before the police justics at Norfolk on
Saturday evening and was sent on to
the grand jury. Mr. George Butland.
husband of the woman whom it is
claimed DR.. Jackson killed by malprac-
tice. was arrested and sent on as an ac-
cessory before the fact. Both gave
bond. The court was in session from
! 10 to 7 o'clock, and absolutely failed to
establish even the fact that any one
had been criminally guilty. The jus
ticc said he would send the case on so
that DR.. Jackson could be indicated
before jury.
Ed. Kennedy, the young white pris-
oner who set fire to the King George
county Jail on Wednesday in an at
tempt to escape, was on Thursday in
dicted by the special grand jury. He
was Immediately tried and convicted
of the charge and sentenced to ten
wears in the penitentiary. His fellow
;,o-or ,,ao tbe chief u itnps3 AGAINST
Kennedy. He told straight story
and it was upon his testimony that
Kennedy was convicted. The prison
ers are now at the residence of the
tailor, under guard, and will remain
there until some suitable place can be
provided.
THE PAGE FORGERY CAsEs.-The
March term of the Clarke County
Court ononad IN Tuesday. and Was