Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-02-25
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Chas. w. Jones, a petersburg, va;
mail carrier, has been arrested Tor mall
robbery.
Great floods are in the Potomac ana
all the western rivers, and much dam
age is being done.
Hon. VIM. T. Thompson, at one time
democratic treasurer OF W. Va, dled
at HUI ntington on Sunday night last.
The cotton factories around Norfolk
are prospecting and are running 1uli
forces.
Miss Matte Towner was seriously
and possibly fatally injured, IN hlGn-
mond last week. by being run over ny
a colored bicyclist.
At a meeting of tie bar OF Lexington
on Wednesday memorial was aGopt-
ed in reference to the death OF John
Randolph Tucker.
Mr.. Jacob Battle, jr., and Miss Mat
tie Nash Wright eloped from Peters
burg Wednesday night and Went 10
Washington, where they were married.
Major Robert Douthat. formerly OF
Charles City county, but for the past
two wears a resident OF Danvllle. cleo
last week, in the seventy eight year OF
his age.
Nearly Sc 900 acres of West Virginia
land brought only $50, 900 when it was
sold for taxes last week. 1t lay in Lo
gan county and had been in litigation
| for some years.
Work has been commenced on the
West Virginian Northern Road, which
rms along the Cheat River Valley
This road will be about fifty miles IN
length and will connect with the King
wood. Tunnelton & Fair Chance Rail
road.
1t is said in Norfolk that the South
ern Railway purposes erecting at
Primers Point two more immense
warehouses for the accommodation OF
their growing business.
i The large flour mill of Capt. r. J..
Hancock, situated about twelve miles
south of Charlottesville, was totally
destroyed by fire at one O'Clock Satur-
day morning.
Tt is reported that a fracas occurred
| at Chamberlin's, at Old Point, last Sat
urday night between Senator Black
burn and Nat Goodwin and Henry =.
l
Dixey paid the damages.
Mai. A. J. Birdsall, formerly super
intendent of the National Cemetery al
Fredericksburg, and lately occupying
] the same position at Hampton, died or
3 Saturday at his residence in the latter
, place after long illness.
v In Fredericksburg on Saturday
! while connecting pipes in a deep sewer
Ira L. Turner, a plumber, lost his life
by the caving in of the earth. A col
q ored man who was in the trench will
t | Turner, escaped.
!. Nathan T. Brooks, a notary public
+ was arraigneG before the United State
commissioner at Danville last Thurs
day charged with forging pension pa
u pers. He was sent to Jail to await tn
action of the grand jury.
Il Mr.. Nathan Kohn, a clothing mer
chant, who has been a resident of Win
v chester for more than thirty years, diet
q lastweek. Mr.. Kohn was native o
q Winden, Germany, and was sixty tw'
years of age.
8 Mrs. R. G. Mccarthy, of near Middle
burg, died very suddenly on Monday
: She was visiting her son near Della
q plane, and while taking q walk com
t planned of feeling unwell. took sea
O on the roadside, and at once expired
She was the daughter of the late Sam
i uel Meg cath, a we'll known citizen o
8 Loudoun.
- Some irregularities having been dis
l. covered in the Office of City Audito
o W. A Noble of Roanoke, in the issu
S of warrants on the treasury. his resie
- nation was on Saturday night handle,
: to the mayor and transmitted to
8 special meeting of the council tina
It night.
The announcement from Danvill
last week of the death of Mrs. Mari
Louise Boissieu adds another to q lis
of remarkable N ortality in that family
o five having died in two months an
h four in twenty days. She was the wifi
of W. G. Boissieu, revenue commission
. err, who died Monday.
nj William E. Right, of Norfolk, VIII
was employed on the improvements t
IL the Dismal Swamp canal. nea
W Wallaceton, accidentally fell into on
Y. of the cutting machines which was a
Is work excavating the dirt last Friday
:. and before the rapidly moving knive
u could be stopped he was crushed
le death.
N. G.. Aaron, who occupied a room i
10 the WertZ Building. in Roanoke, nal
n rowly escaped cremation last week. II
Re was awakened at 5 o'clock by the pla,
10 tering falling and found the Who'll
room in a blaze. He rushed out an
y gave the alarm. and after damage t
Dr. the amount of $500 had been done tn
" flames were checked.
The approaching visit of Hon. Wn
as J. Bryan to Washington is attractin
t. a great deal of interest among the den
" ocratic organizations of that city an
the many democrats who were activ
u in his support in his late campaign
y He is to be given a dinner during hi
stay in the city by Hon. John R. M
Lean, of Cincinnati.
Otis j. Smith. formerly cashier {
the Georgia Security and Bankin
IS Company and a we'll known figure
Atlanta society circles. has been hel
~ by detectives since Saturday on
e charge of embezzlement. He has sigr
- ed statement confessing that he is
forger and embezzler, and has throw
.: himself on the mercy OF those Whol
is he has wronged.
I'd Mr.. f. NJ Stratton. clerk in th
Y. Richmond freight Office of the Chess
81 peake g. Ohio Railroad, was found nes
ch the exposition grour DIS on Monda
!. night In a dying condition. An exam
- ination revealed the fact that his lie
;; jaw and one arm were broken. 1t
- thought he fell off train on the Ricl
mond & Fredericksburg Ry.
rs Guido Rossati. wine expert of tt
II italian government. spent Monds
k with Mr.. Adolph Rnssow at Charlotte
vile. Mr.. Rossati is sent by his GO
TO eminent to the United States to Wis
,r. all grape growing States and to repo
10 on the vineyards, products, ETC. +
IN started out from New York city ear
o.. in November and has visited TT
m Middle States. California and all IL
re Southern States where grapes al
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