Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-07
VIRGINIA NEWS.

George county, is critically ill, and
will be taken to Baltimore for treat
ment.
State Senator P. S. Hyde, of Pied
mont, w. Va, died suddenly in Win
chester last night. He was q guest at
the Taylor House.
Up to date over 1000 cases ofmeasles
have been reported in Norfolk. 1t is
not prevalent among children alone,
but adults, have, to large extent, also
been sufferers.
A colored man of Fredericksburg,
while shocking some large oysters tax
en- from the Potomac recently, found
in one of the shells large and beautl-
full pearl, which he sold in Baltimore
for S25.
Miss Mary Eliza Russell, daughter of
Mr.. James B. Russell, of Winchester,
has been appointed sponsor for Vir-
GINA at the reunion of the United Con-
federate Veterans, at Nashville, Tenn,
in June next.
Mr.. John B. Names, of Winchester,
and Miss Annie Eiosser, of Chambers
burg, were quietly married at the par
sonage of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South in Winchester yesterday,
Rev. DR.. S. K. Cox, officiating.
Mrs. Carrie Howard, wife of Lieut..
George Howard, died suddenly yester-
day at Charlottesville at the residence
of DR.. r l.. Howard, from dropsy Of
the heart. She was about 55 years OF
age and leaves husband and five chill
dren.
The trial of the suit of James Wilson,
of Roanoke, against the Johns Hop
kins Hospital and Drs. E. d. Clark and
Joseph G. Bloodgood, of Baltimore, for
S25, 900 damages for an alleged unnec'
essary operation, was begun in the U.
s. District Court yesterday.
Two sous of Robert Collins while
hunting yesterday near Christiansburg
ran ground squirrel in a hollow log.
One of the boys, aged eighteen, shot
his pistol in the log. The ball passed
out at the other end, striking his six.
teen-year. brother in the head and
killing him instantly.
w. II. Mcneil, q married man who
recently separated from his wife, has
been arrested in StauDton and lodged
in Jail awaiting preliminary hearing
on the charge of criminal assault. The
alleged victim is 9.year.old girl, the
daughter of a Mrs. Coffee, who has
been cooking for Mcneil at his house,
q mile and half west of Staunton.
Mcneil protests his innocence.
Clifton Hill, white man, about so
years of age, is in the Norfolk county
Jail charged with committing o crimi-
nal assault on a 12-year-old child. He
had hearing yesterday morning be-
fore Justice B. F. Vaughan, was held
for court and taken to jail yesterday
afternoon. 1t is reported that the
prisoner he's made confession of his
crime. The victim is Mary L., daugh-
ter of H. 7. Culpepper, OF Pleasant
Grove district.
The Society for the Preservation OF
Virginia Antiquities will unite with
professors of William aud Mary Col
lege in celebrating at jamestown on
the 18th instant the two hundred and
nineteenth anniversary OF the founding
of the first permanent English settle
ment in America. The poem will be
read by Mr.. Roosevelt Page, Of Rich
mond, and addresses will be made by
prominent Virginians.
Judge Ingraham, of Manchester, yes
terday in the case of Wesley Mayo,
charged with criminal assault, set aside
the verdict of ten years in the peniten.
iary, rendered several days ago, and
fined the prisoner $1,000, in default of
which he sent him to Jail for one year.
Judge Ingraham's action is approved,
and recognized by the conservative
element as a right thing, although in
the face of considerable public feeling.
In his written opinion in this case the
trial Judge says that after a careful re-
view of the evidence he is satisfied that
it was not sufficient to convict the pris
oner of attempt at criminal assault. 1t
failed to show the most important ele-
ments comprising that crime.