Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-04
VIRGINIA NEWS.

A cold storage and ice plant at the
Western State Hospital at Stanton
will be completed this week.
Mrs. 8. J. Quinn, wife of Captain J.
J. Quinn, superintendent of the water
works of fredericksburg, died yester-
day from the effects of burns which she
received some days ago, by the explo-
sion of an oil lamp.
The scheme for Harvesting the James
river at Richmond and erecting an inn
mense electric plant for the distribu-
ton of electric power in that part OF
the State is believed to be in very fair
way to meet with success.
The barn belonging to George Rus
sell, about half q mile from Middle
town, was destroyed by fire yesterday,
together with farming implements, a
lot of hay and harness. The loss is
estimated at 81, 200, with 5000 insur-
ance.
Richmond Maury died at Danville
yesterday, twenty-four hours otter an
operation for appendicitis. he was
the second son of Robert b. and BERTHE
l.. Maury and was a native OF Rich
mond, where he was born November
80, 1866.
Near Norfolk yesterday Will Morri
son interfered in behalf of Mrs. Raiford
Mcdowell, who was being assaulted by
her husband, when Mcdowell fired at
him and beat him over the head with q
gun. In self.defense Morrison killed
his assailant with an ak.
The condition of ]. P. Whitacre, who
was assaulted with heavy ink bottle
by Richard E. Byrd in the court room
in Winchester on last Friday, remains
unchanged. BE is extremely i'll, and
his friends and the general public are
deeply concerned regarding his condi
ton.
The Southern Dental Association met
at the Hygeia Hotel at Old Point yes
terday, over one hundred members be-
ing present. In his annual address " :.
b. Richards, of Knoxville, Tenn, re.
commended caution in regard to con-
solidation with the American Associa-
ton.
Miss Virginia Oliver died at the
Western State Hospital at Staunton
yesterday, where she had been an in
mate for AZ years. All trace of her
relations was long since lost. In addi-
ton to an unbalanced mind she was deaf
and dumb and entered the hospital
from the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Insti-
tuition in 1851.
The wife Of John Roberts, a colored
farmer, of Eenrico county, and his two
sn all children, were burned to death on
Monday. The woman and her children
are supposed to have been asleep at the
time of the accident. The house wss
destroyed. Roberts was in the field at
work at the time and came home to
find it in ashes and his family burned.
At Bedford City ten indictments
against T. D. Berry, growing out of the
defunct Liberty Savings Bank, we're
dismissed yesterday. The accused had
been tried and acquitted on one and
the others have been dismissed. The
trial of ]. W. Smith, the cashier of the
bank, who was tried and convicted,
but who obtained q new trial, has been
set for Thursday.
Coroner Taylor, of Richmond, states
that within very few days the deaths
of two negroes have been reported to
him, the cause of which was assigned
by the members of their race to be ell
fects of coDjuring. In one case it was
claimed that the patient was afflicted
with snakes, lizards, and other reptiles
in his body. The diagnosis of physi-
iAns was liver disease.
The twentieth annual temperance
and gospel meeting, held under the
auspices of the Prohibition and Evan
gelical Association, of Loudoun county,
commenced at Purcellville yesterday.
Yesterday was Woman's Christian
Temperance Union day, and the meet
ings were conducted by the local mem.
bers of that organization. Mrs. Ella A.
Boole, of New York, delivered two ad-
dresses.