Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-17
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Prof. M. P. Venable, a well known
teacher, died near Bristol yesterday.
The flour mill of A. G. Fray, in Al
bemArle county, was destroyed by fire
yesterday.
Maj. A. H. Drewry, the owner OF
Westover on the James river, denies
the report that he has sold that place.
The Flat Top coal operators have
contracted with the Illinois Steel Com.
pany, of Chicago, to deliver 2Oo,oOo
tons of coke.
1t is said the Norfolk and Western
road will make sweeping cut in the
number of its employees in order to re-
duce expenses one-third.
Mrs. R. A. Fair, mother of Rev. DR..
Jas. Y. Fair, pastor of the Grace Street
Presbyterian Church, Richmond, died
yesterday at an advanced age.
At Pocahontas on Sunday last James
NefI, a young man of twenty-four years
of age, was shot and killed by Mary
Edwards, woman of bad repute.
Col. Joseph Mayo, of Westmoreland
county, is critically i'll. He was the
treasurer of the State up to 1877 and
commanded Virginia regiment during
the war.
Mr.. w. II. Dickinson, one of the
most prominent farmers of Caroline
county, died on Monday at his home:
"Moss Side" after short illness, aged
seventy years.
The steamship Samoa sailed from
Newport News yesterday with $500
tons of grain and miscellaneous arti-
cles. This is said to be the largest
cargo ever loaded at that port on one
vessel.
George T. King, owner and proprie.
tor of the Richmond City Mills, filed a
deed of assignment yesterday The Ii
abilities are placed at S25, 900, and it is
thought the assets will cover the obi
cations.
Henry Russell, an English farmer,
who resides near Monticello, while
crossing the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad track just below the Char
lottesville depot about 7 o'clock last
night was struck by the engine of a
southbound freight train and seriously,
if not fatally, injured.
The employees of the Southern Rail.
way shops, in Manchester, went to
work yesterday on full time. Master
Mechanic Owens telegraphed from
Washington that the whole plant would
at once resume full time instead of hal
time, on which i. has been running fol-
some months. This order was hailed
with joy by the men.
Charles K. Bowers was seriously in
jured in Richmond yesterday in dar.
! ing and successful effort to stop run
away horse attached to a drag contain
ing Mrs. w. J. Walker, one of Rich
mond's best.known young society ma
irons. Mrs. Walker tainted and fell
| from the vehicle, but was little hurt
Mr.. Bowers head struck the curbing
and his condition is serious.
The lighthouse tender Violet arrived
at the Norfolk navy yard, at midnight
having on board ex President Grover
Cleveland and his party, who have
been hunting among the duckine
grounds of the North Carolina sounds
The ex-President is very we'll, and says
the trip has improved his health great.
ly. The Violet with the party left fol
Washington this morning.
Mr.. Samuel Spencer, president of the
Southern Railway Company, and q
large party of railroad officials arrived
in Norfolk yesterday to inspect the
Primers Point terminals, where the
company has spent one million dollars
in improvements. Mr.. Spencer ex-
pressed himself as pleased with the
railway situation in the South. The
prospects of his road, he said, were
never better.
Mrs. w. J. Walker, wife of a well
known insurance man, had narrow
escape from death in Richmond yester-
day. She was driving spirited horse
down Grace street, when the animal
ran away. Mr.. Charles Bowers per
formed daring feat by rushing into
the street and swinging to the animal
He saved Mrs. Walkers life and was
knocked senseless himself, and is bad
ly hurt. Mrs. Walker escaped with a
few bruises.