Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-12
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. Henry Lee Staples, a prominent
citizen of Richmond, died at his resi-
dence yesterday.
Capt. A. D. Armistead, principal of
the Pungoteague Academy, in the
southern part of Accomac, died Wed.
nesday night after brief illness. aged
GO years.
Elmer A. Weatherholtz, whose trial
for wife-murder excited much interest
in Shenandoah county. died in the hos
pital of the Virginia penitentlary yes
terday.
A deed of assignment from the White
& Dodson Company, one Of the largest
hardware and house furnishing estab-
lishments in Norfolk, was admitted to
record yesterday. The liabilities are
SIS, 900.
The marriage of Miss Gertrude
Brotherton, of Clarke county, to Mr..
Walter E. Brown, . prominent young
farmer of Jefferson county, w. Va,
was celebrated on Wednesday even
ing at the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, in Berryvilie.
The frequency of incendiary fires in
Portsmouth has prompted the councils
of that city to take extraordinary
measures for the apprehension of the
fre-bugs. They have empowered the
mayor to pay 500 for the arrest and
conviction ofany incendiary.
Miss Susie Egerton, daughter of eX-
Governor w. E. Cameron, and Mr..
Bryan Groom Whitfield, of Tallahas-
see, Fla, were married at the home OF
the brides parents, in Petersburg, yes
terday morning, by Rev. 0. S. Bunt-
ing, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal
Church.
In the United States Court, in Nor
folk, yesterday, the Merritt Wrecking
Company libeled the British steamship
Haxby, recently stranded at Virginia
Beach. The amount claimed by the
Merritts for floating her is 100000
The Haxby is at Newport News for
repairs.
1t is reported in Norfolk that the
Illinois Central Railroad and the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad have
obtained an option on the Rogers farm,
on the Western Branch, for termi-
nus, the purchase price to be $780,
The erection of grain elevator is said
to be part of the project.
e. L. Todd was appointed receiver
in Richmond yesterday for the Gallego
FIGURING Mills, which are among the
largest establishments of the kind in
that part OF the country. Its believed
in business circles that the company
will, under better business conditions,
be able to pay its indebtedness.
The stockholders of the Southern
|, Building and Loan Association, OF
| Knoxville. Tenn, held a meeting in
Petersburg yesterday. 1t was decided
to send Hon. W. p. McRae, promi-
! nent lawyer there, to represent their
interest at general meeting of stock
holders to be held at Knoxville on
March t.
The third annual celebration of the
birthday of Mr.. Charles Broadway
Rouss, of New York, under the
auspices of the Union Fire Com
pany, was 0eiu III the Courthouse HAL
at Winchester last night. 1t seemed
that the entire population had turned
out, and the number ofpersons turned
away would have filled three more
| halls of the same size.
The city of Portsmouth has lost its
suit against the Atlantic and Danvile
Railway Company. When the road
was first projected Portsmouth sub
scribed to S,150,000 of the stock and the
company entered into an agreement
that Portsmouth should be its eastern
terminus. The company shortly after
ward went into the hands of receiver,
and by permission of the United States
Court established terminals at West
Norfolk, several miles down the river.
The city applied for a mandamus to
compel the road to return there. Yes
terday the Supreme Court refused the
application on the ground that the re-
organized company was not respondent
to the suit.