Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Maryland and Virginia bound
airy commission is at work locating the
line between the States in Pocomoke
aed Taugier sounds.
Charles Glenn, an employee in De-
ford's taunery, at Luray, yesterday fell
into vat OF boiling water and was
scalded to death.
In the Court of Appeals yesterday the
case of Selden vs.. Camp was fully ar
gued and submitted. The court ad-
journed for the term. The next term
will commence on the 5th of January
1898.
At midnight last night, after long
debate, the Richmond board of alder
men granted franchise to the Vir
ginia Electric Company of Baltimore to
electrify the James river for power pur-
poses.
Mrs. Mary Ware Gait, formerly of
Norfolk aud widow of the late VIM.
r. Gait, died on Thursday at her home,
in Williamsburg. She leaves seven
children, all of whom are we'll known
in that city.
Mr.. B. r. Atwell, the Oldest citizen Of
Leesburg, died at his residence yester-
day. in the sSth year of his age. For
many years he served as sergeant ofthe
town, and in every sphere of life was g
man of rigid honesty and integrity.
Mr.. Thomas Ashby died at his home
at Laurel, Md, Thursday night. He
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icksburg, in 1910, and fought in the
Confederate cause during the late war.
having been volunteer in the Ninth
Virginia Cavalry.
The democratic legislative caucus
last night nominated Charles Catlett
for the county judge of Gloucester over
Mr.. Taliferro, q son of Gen. W. B.
Taliferro. The case of Judge Turn
bull, of Brunswick, the caucus decided
in effect, must be Investigated.
Governor O'Ferrall yesterday Issued
a requisition on the Governor of Mary.
land for the rendition of Joseph Hill,
alias Joe Hill, who has been indicted
in Hanover county for the murder Of
David Dangerfeld, and the malicious
shooting of Edward Moody, in July,
1897. Hill is at present in jail in the
city of Baltimore.
Governor O'Ferrall will, it is stated,
grant no pardons during his term of of.
fee. Mrs. B. B. Brock and her counsel
yesterday called on the executive and
appealed for pardon for the lady's
husband, who killed a man named
Hale. The Governor, while listening
patiently to the presentation of the
facts, announced he would take no &C.
ton in the case.
John Hardin, who has been confined
in Tazewell county Jail for the past two
months, was taken to Grupdy, the
county seat of Buchanan county, and
hanged at that place yesterday. The
crime for which John Hardin suffered
death was the murder of George Mounts
on September Is last. Hardin's wife
had deserted him for Mounts, and he
waylaid the seducer and shot him to
death. Hardin was only twenty-one
years old.
The case of John Anderson, cook of
the Olive Pecker, who is being tried in
the United States Court at Norfolk for
double murder and arson on the high
seas. remains in statu quo, pending
the securing of new grand jury, to
reindict him under the ruling ofJudges
Golf and Hughes, that the court could
not correct the record of the former il
dictment, except as to those facts in lis
memory. a grand jury was summoned
for yesterday afternoon, but it was pos
sible to secure only ten jurors. An
other venire of fifteen was summoned
for to-day.