Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-11
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mrs. Raleigh Chinn died at her home
near White Oak, Stafford county, Sun
day, aged about 81 years.
A. c. Hippey, general superinten-
road. died at his residence in Roanoke
yesterday.
Mr.. Lewis H. Stern, freight agent of
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po-
tomac Railroad Company, in Rich
mond, died there yesterday.
Col. George w. Johnston, promi-
nent citizen of Norfolk, is dead, and Mr.
James Buchanan died in the same city
yesterday aged eighty-two years.
Allen T. Webb, an officer on the bat
tleship Massachusetts, was arrested at
Newport News yesterday on charge
of seduction made against him by Miss
Resale Donkin, of Portsmouth.
Fire yesterday evening destroyed the
planning mills of Mrs. F. w. Clark, in
Petersburg. Loss, 5000, partly COW
cred by insurance. The stables of Mrs.
Victoria A. Romano, Mrs. CLARK, and
Bartlett Roper, near the mill. took fire
and were burned to the ground.
The State Encampment of Odd Eel
lows met in their hall in Lynchburg this
morning. An address of welcome on
/ behalf of the city was delivered by MIR.
!; ]. Emory Hughes, representing the
Mayor, and on behalf of the Virginia
encampment, No. S, by Mr.. H. A. Rob-
inson.
Lavinia Jones, Is years old, convict
ed of poisoning F. l.. Hollands family
by placing arsenic in coffee, was SEN
fenced at Suffolk yesterday to three
years in the penitentiary. Six persons
were made i'll and one died from the
effects of the poison administered by
the girl.
The q. S. Express Company's office
at Lexington was broken into last
night and the messengers safe robbed
of S143. The Office is in the Union de-
pot, and the robbers secured the keys
from Express Messenger Parkinson
while he was asleep. Parkinson rooms
at boarding house near the depot.
Mr.. F. Lewis Marshall, of Orange,
nephew of Chief Justice Marshall, and
for many years the most prominent re-
publican in that county, and for sew
eral years the county chairman OF that
party, repudiates Mckinley and the re-
publican platform and will give Bryan,
Sewall and free silver q hearty sup
port.
Joseph Miller, a Hanover county
farmer, died at Richmond yesterday at
at hospital, from the effects of injuries
received Saturday by being struck by
train on the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg and Potomac Railroad. Miller
was returning from Richmond Satur-
day in his wagon when train struck
the vehicle and tore it to pieces.
An enthusiastic Bryan and Sewall
ratification meeting was held in the
court house at Louisa yesterday at
which resolutions fully and most heart
lily endorsing the Chicago platform in
its entirety were adopted and the Chi
cago nominees were endorsed. Speeches
were made by Judge ]. B. McCabe,
General ]. G. Field and Hon. VIM. +.
Gordon.
Yesterday was August Court day at
Leesburg and after court proceedings q
large meeting was held and a bimetal'
lie club for the county of Loudoun, to
be called the Bryan and Sewell silver
club, was formed. The officers are T.
L. Worsley, president: William p.
Garrett, secretary, and A. X. Bradfeld,
treasurer. Over 800 names were en-
rolled, of which it is said fifty or sixty
were free silver republicans.
One of the largest crowds that has
gathered for years at Bowling Green,
Caroline county, assembled yesterday.
1t was truly day of politics and all
other business was neglected. Hon. w.
A. Jones addressed the democratic
voters in the courthouse, while Messrs:
]. Hampton Hoge, of Virginia, and
Jacob Kemble, of West Virginia, spoke
from platform on the court green.
There was much enthusiasm in both
crowds. The republicans would not
accede to the terms of the democrats
and declined joint discussion. Mr.
W. B. Tyler, of Fredericksburg, repub-
lican candidate for Congress, has an
nounced that he is incapable of making
a speech.
MIR RPVAN'S TRIP