Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-27
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Andrew Jewell was struck and kill
ed by a Norfolk and Western train,
near Luray yesterday.
Mrs. Jennie Strother, relict of
late William A. Strother, died at Lynch
burg yesterday, after an illness of three
weeks.
Mr.. Edmund Haislip, a well.known
citizen of Spotsylvania county. died on
Wednesday at his home, aged eighty
years.
Lightning struck a threshing ma
chine on Brush Creek, in Montgomery
county, and two men were killed in-
stantly, two fatally injured, and ten
others seriously shocked.
John F. Alsop, one of the most prom.
inent and wealthy citizens of Spot.
sylvania, died on Wednesday afternoon
at his home in that county, aged 79
years. He was one of the largest land
owners in the county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Waller, widow OF the
Lyttleton Tazewell Waller, died in
Montreal yesterday. She was wo-
man of wealth, and spent her time
travelling, DR.. Thomas R. Marshall, hel
physician, being her companion.
The wheat crop Of Orange county is
larger this season than for twenty years
past, and macy of the farmers who
were holding for a higher price are
being rewarded, now that wheat has
an materially advanced.
Maj. Mann Page, National President
of the Farmers Alliance, besides pub.
licity declaring that he will support the
democratic ticket this fall, has written
to Hon. J. Hoge Tyler congratulating
him and all true Virginians on his nomi-
nation for Governor.
An unknown doner has sent 81, 00O
to President Wilson, Of Washington
and Lee University through e1-Presi.
dent Cleveland. The money is to be
used for the benefit of the university
according to President Wilson's per-
sonal judgment.
Collector William Ryan has received
official information from the Treasury
Department that his Office In Richmond
will be transferred to James D. Brady
at the close of business on the 31st in.
slant.
A special meeting OF the State Board
of Education was held Wednesday at
Dundee, Governor O'Ferrall' suburban
residence. Mr.. w. W. Pendleton was
elected Superintendent of Public
Schools in Allegheny county. This
completes the list in the State.
A new electric dynamo and $50 lights
have been added to the silk mills at
fredericksburg. These improvements
we're rendered necessary by the in
creased business of this establishment,
it being necessary now to work force
of night hands as we'll as day opera
tives.
Two large barns, each containing
about l 900 bushels of wheat, and be-
longing to II. P. Mitchell and D. E,
Strange, respectively, at Raphine Sta
ton, on the Valley branch, we're struck
by lightning Wednesday night and
burned to the ground, together with all
their contents.
Mrs. Mary A. Young, an aged Ger
man lady, fell in mill-race in the low
er end of Richmond yesterday, and was
nearly drowned when rescued by an
unknown man. She could not speak
English, and had to be taken to the
City Hospital. and resuscitated before
it was ascertained she had relatives in
Richmond.
The new trial of Newton Kibler,
charged with the murder OF Willis D.
Kibler, his uncle, set for trial at Luray
yesterday, was continued till Novem'
Der 3, that being in the October term
of the county court, upon motion OF the
prisoner. The sickness of MIR. w. K.
Alexander, of Winchester, associate
counsel for the defense, was the ground
for the application.
Isaac Maddox, a Portsmouth man,
was arrested yesterday, charged with a
brutal assault on his wife. The woman
was beaten into insensibility and was
found By police officer, lying on the
floor unconscious, with long cash in
her head. 1t was stated that the man
struck his wife with an axe, but Mad
dox says he only used his fist. The wo-
mans condition is serious.
At Newport News yesterday George
W. Ashby, weIl-known business man
of Hampton, was found guilty OF per,
jury by Justice Tignor and sentenced
to three months in Jail and to pay fine
of $3.50. Ashby is associated with J. B.
Birmingham in the furniture business,
in whose interests it is claimed he per-
jured himself while testifying in 9
suit for divorce brought against W. d.
Bridgeforth, a former partner of MIR.
Birmingham, by his wife. The d.
vorce was granted largely on the testi-
mony given by Ashby and resulted in
blighting the business as we'll as social
life of Bridgeforth.