Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-12
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. Charles F. Shepherd died at his
residence in Fredericksburg Saturday
evening. aged fifty eight years.
Mrs. Mary Griffin O'Donnell, wife of
Andrew O'Donnell, of the Weems line
of steamers, and sister of Councilman
John M. Griffin, of Fredericksburg,
died at her home in that city yesterday.
E. B. Whitehouse, deputy treasurer
of King George county, charged with
embezzlipg funds belonging to the State,
was given hearing at King George
courthouse yesterday, and was bailed
for his appearance at the January term
of the court.
A mass meeting of citizens was held
at Roanoke last night TO take some
steps looking 10 the aid of the Univei-
ty of Virginia. Committees were ap-
pointed to solicit subscriptions and to
memorabilia the legislature to make
appropriations.
Lutte Price, brick mason, fell from
a scaffold from the third story of the
Odd Fellows building, in Stanton,
yesterday evening, and will die of his
injuries. A plank slipped with him,
and he fell to the pavement, striking
his head aud shoulders.
The fifty-sixth anniversary OF the
founding of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute was celebrated at
Lexington yesterday morning by the
suspension of all duties, firing the
usual salute by the battery and sump-
tuous dinner to the Corps of Cadets at
Mess Hall.
Senator VIM. M. Stuart, OF Nevada.
bought at public sale at Leesburg yes
terday of the commissioner in the
cause of Janney, administrator, vs..
Klein, the farm known as Ashburn,
containing upward of five hundred
acres and situated near FAREWELL,
Loudoun county.
Game .on,n the property of Mrs.
Kate Rose, in King George county, was
sold at public auction last week under
deed of trust. 1t contains about 300
acres and was purchased by Mr.. ]. r
Baker for $500. Another tract of I'M
improved land, 119 acres, was sold for
S2l0. The saw mill belonging to MIR.
Whitehouse was sold under a deed of
trust and brought 1920.
The electoral board of Pi:tsylvania
yesterday decided in favor of Wood,
republican, for the House, over White,
democrat; taking the ground that they
had no right to correct an error found
in Whites favor The matter will go
into the courts. The board of Halifax
decided in favor of Calvin Hudson,
democrat, throwing out the vote OF
News Ferry en- account of irregulari-
ties.
Two forged notes purporting to be
drawn by the firms OF Savage, Beverage
& Co. and ]. G. Tinsley & Co., respec~
lively, both of Richmond, in favor OF
the E. F. Kirwan Manufacturing Com
pauy, of Baltimore, and bearing what
appeared to be fac smile of the en-
dorsement of the last named firm, were
received at the Merchants National
Bank, Richmond, last Saturday. Both
notes had been negotiated through q
Baltimore bank.
The trial of Mrs. Magnolia Williams
on an indictment for the murder of her
husband in Northumberland county
several months ago, which had been in
progress at Saluta, Middlesex county,
for the past ten days, was ended last
night by the jury rendering verdict
of not guilty. The case was given TO
the jury at 7:2O p. 10. and the verdict
WAS returned in less than ten minutes.
1t was received with tremendous cheers
from the immense crowd in attendance.
The verdict was not unexpected. Mrs.
Williams retired to her room in the
hotel and was introduced to each Of the
Jurors and to over hundred of the
most prominent people in the vicinity
in less than thirty minutes after the
verdict. Mrs Williams will leave for
her home Northumberland to-day.