Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-17
VIRGINIA NEWS.

mitted suicide yesterday by hanging.
Mr.. Nelson Page died at his resi-
dence, in Manchester, Sunday morn
ing.
The livery stable of ]. l.. Carver &
Co., in Charlottesville, was burned yes
terday.
Mr.. J. Fl. G. Beverly, prominent
Virginia populist, has gone over to the
democrats.
One man was killed and two injured
by the falling of the walls of cotton
storage warehouse in Norfolk yester-
day.
Col. Murat Halstead has written q
letter favoring the holding CT the Grand
Army Eocampment in Richmond in
1899.
Joe Fife, colored, under sentence OF
death in Richmond for attempted
criminal assault, has confessed to other
similar attempts.
The body of Mrs. Bradford, widow
of DR.. Bradford, has been found in the
James river, near the Natural Bridge.
1t is supposed she committed suicide.
VIM. B. Cobbs, aged thirty years,
one of the wealthiest young men in
southwest Virginia, died in Louisville,
KY, yesterday, as the result of surgi-
cal operation.
Irving Brown, who murdered Eman-
uel Crull, OF Richmond, near Sisterville,
W. W., and threw his body into the
Ohio river, escaped from jail in Richie
county Sunday night, and is still at
large.
A severe electrical storm, accompa-
MED by rain and hail, visited Clarke
county Sunday evening. The resi-
dences of William A. Young and Frank
Wise were struck by lightning and
slightly injured. Several persons were
stunned and made very sick by the
shock.
The safe of the Richmond brewery
has from time to time been robbed OF
sums of money ranging from $50 to
500. By a system of marked notes
James Kitchen, bookkeeper in the es.
adjustment, was detected and arrested
yesterday. He is q cripple, and lives
with aged parents in Richmond.
The trial of r. E. Byrd for assaulting
Whitacre in the court room on July
30, came up before Justice Crebs in
Winchester yesterday and the former
gentleman waved an examination and
gave bond to the amount of $1,000 for
his appearance at the Corporation
Court, which convenes the third Mon
day in September. For the first time
since the assault Mr.. Whitacre is able
to be about.
Mr.. Lee 81. Clements, well.known
merchant of Swansboro, was danger
ously gored by bull Sunday morning.
He was leading the animal by rope
when the beast apparently without
proyocation made q sudden dash at
him from the rear, striking him on the
right side, breaking three ribs and
decorating the covering of the right
lung, producing what the physicians
term emphysema.
The story of a horrible murder mys.
terry in Washington county ID publish
ed. Iu branch near the south fork OF
the Holston river there was discovered
the body of q young white girl, which
had been cut into three pieces and
stored in barrel. The remains were
covered up with sediment from the
branch. 1t is said that young girl of
the community has been missing for
some time and that there are ciroum-
stances surrounding her disappearance
which may bring about solution of
the murder.
Lieut.. Kelly, of Washington, has re-
ceiyed q dispatch from Thompson
Shackelford, special officer at Riverview
Camp meeting, near Qusntico, asking
him to look out for VIM. Maboney, who
is suspected of being implicated in
recent shooting affair at that place.
Mahoney is described as being five feet
ten inches tall, light hair, blue eyes,
with slight impediment in his speech.
he is seventeen years onld. Lieut..
Kelly sent his dispatch to the several
precincts, and the police are on the
lookout for the fugitive. Mahoney was
last seen near luantico Saturday.
Over 1000 people attended River
View camp meeting in Stafford Sunday.
Seven ministers are conducting the ser.
vices. At night William Mahoney fire d
a pistol several times on the outskirts
of the crowd, and one of the balls
struck Tenning Bradshaw, a young
man OF Washington, in the face, infict-
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