Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.

/ Wednesday a new house at White
Hall, King George county, belonging
to MIR. Gus. Wallace, was destroyed by
fire.
1.-THE Mary Washington Hospital for
the Sick of Fredericksburg" has been
organized in that city, with Mrs. V. NJ.
Fleming as president.
The twenty.ninth annual convention
of the Grand Lodge of Pythians of Vir-
GINA will be held in Richmond on Feb
ruary 1918, beginning at s o'clock.
Rev. w. Dorset has resigned the
pastorate of the Baptist Church at Mill
wood, having accepted call to the
Baptist Church at Summervile, S. G.
The twenty-frst annual convention
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tions of Virginia will be held at the
Tabb Street Presbyterian Church, in
Petersburg, from February 24th to 2Sth.
Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson, II years
Of age, died in Lexington on Saturday.
She was the widow OF Mr.. Hiram 81.
Henderson, who was Mayor OF Licking
ton for several years after the close of
the war.
The Christian Heurich Brewing Co.
| of Washington has purchased piece
| of property in Norfolk upon which they
| will erect cold storage warehouse,
stables, &c., for an extensive branch of
! their business. .-.--.
John Clancy; 9 discharged employe
of the Norfolk County Dairy, which
supplies several hundred patrons in
| Norfolk, has been arrested on the
charge of poisoning the COWS from
which the milk is obtained.
1t is reported that the presidency of
Washington and Lee University, at
Lexington, has been rendered to Hon.
William L. Wilson, Postmaster Gen.
eral, who has the offer under considera-
ton and will shortly make known his
decision.
Mr.. Michael B. Leonard, superinten-
dent of the telegraph system of the
| Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, who had
been suffering for several days with a
caucerons growth in the throat, died on
Saturday evening at the Virginia Hos
pital, in Richmond.
Mrs. Georgiana 2. Robinson, mother
of R. n. Robinson, editor of the Orange
Observer, died at her home in Orange
on Tuesday last of heart disease. She
was seventy-two years old and was u
daughter of the centenarian, Mrs.
Peyton, who died in that county last
spring.
Mr.. R. F. Wells, who is at present
principal of Lorton public school in
Fairfax county, was stabbed in the
back last Friday afternoon by Fred
Maltby of that neighborhood. The
cutting was the result of an alteration
regarding some school matters. Mr.
Wells is now in Washington III charge
of a surgeon and his exact condition
! cannot be ascertained.
Mr.. Samuel Bryan, ofthe Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company. and
Gen. S. S. Burdette have exchanged the
farm property which was the site of the
battle of Appomattox for the residence
of Maj. George A. Armes, in Washing
ton. The city property is worth about
$4,000, and the 5000 acres of land
which was bought about twenty years
for $4,000 is now valued at about the
same figure. 1t is understood that
Maj. Armes will devote his newly.ac
quired land to sheep raising purposes
until Congress gets ready to purchase
it for military park.
On Friday afternoon Mrs. j. ]. Funk
of Vinton, near Roanoke, went to q
next door neighbours, leaving her two
children, girls, eight and six years OF
sge,in a room where there was an open
Franklin stove. She was soon alarmed
by the cries OF the children, and rush
ing out to 60 home, she saw Mary, the
youngest, enveloped in flames. A
neighbor also heard the screams and
went to the unfortunate child ss quick.
ly as possible, throwing a heavy over.
coat around her to smother the flames.
Her clothing was practically all COZ.
sumed, and the child died the next
day.
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