Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-09
VIRGINIA NEWS.
The President has denied pardons to
TT Atkins and Lloyd Echols, of Vir-

The President has denied pardons to
Bert Atkins and Lloyd Echols, of Vir-
ginia.
The receipts of the recent Upperville
Colt Show were 50 1926 and the ex-
penditures So, 299,49.
Mrs. Laura Bitter Gregg, wife of
Daniel Gregg, of PurcellVille, died on
Tuesday lsst, aged Al years.
Mrs. Ellen Bowman, wife of Capt. S.
II. Bowman, a well.known merchant
of Woodstock, died last evening.
The Shenandoah Valley National
Bank of Winchester has declared q
semi-annual dividend of per cent.
The Berryville Jockey Club has an
nounced the programme for the races
which will be held at the Shenandoah
Driving Park on August Oath and 25th.
Judge Paul, in the U. S. District
Court at Lynchburg, yesterday, con-
firmed the sale OF the Roanoke Iron
Company's property to Robert Todd, of
New York, unless proper exceptions
are filed by July 20.
William Thomas, more generally
known by one of many aliases, who
shot Police Officer Minor in Richmond,
May Is, was sentenced to ten years in
the penitentisry yesterday. The OIL
| Ger, whose eye was shot out, has re-
covered.
The employees of the repair shops of
the Norfolk and Western Railroad, at
Norfolk, have declined to work at the
so per cent. reduction. No strike will
result, for the company has granted
the men an hourly rate until new
schedule can be submitted.
Colonel Morton Marye, the Auditor
of Public Accounts, states that the laws
enacted during the past session in re-
spect to criminal expenses have been
very effective, and that by the opera
ton of these laws the criminal expenses
have been reduced at the rate of about
$4,000 per year.
| The various floods CT recent years
have entirely destroyed the canal dam
just below Greenlee's ferry, on the
James river, Rockbridge county, and
the water is so low that it will necessi-
ate the removal of the ferry boats at
that point. This ferry is one of the
Oldest landmarks of that part of the
State.
The damage suit of Mrs. Laurada
Dowden against Major Lewis Ginter
and his niece, Miss Grace Arents, was
postponed in Richmond yesterday un-
til September. This was made neces-
| sary on account of the absence of Ma
jor Ginter, who is at Bar Harbor. Mrs.
Dowden's claim for damages is placed
at $1,000
] Up to this time COG of the 1859 dele
gates to the Roanoke convention have
been elected. These figures show that
Major Tyler is leading Mr.. Ellyson by
more than three to one. The vote
stands: Ellyson, 1913; Tyler All; unin-
structed, u. Forty-one of the 100
counties have elected, nearly seven
Fights of which chose Tyler delegates.
In Norfolk yesterday William Nick.
erson, fourteen-year.old colored
youth, had narrow escape from the
gallows for criminal assault upon
nine year-old white girl. Ten of the
| jury were in favor of inficting capital
punishment. The facts in the case
were plain, and the prisoner was SEN
fenced to eighteen years in the penl-
Tertiary.
Miss Ruth Summers, sixteen years
old, an employe of the Farmers Manu-
featuring Company, of Norfolk, mar
rowly escaped horrible death yester-
day. Her skirts became caught in the
rapidly revolving shafting, and che was
whirled around with terrific force,
striking q heavy support frequently.
Her fellow employees rushed to the
rescue and tore her from her entangling
skirts. Before she was free she had
tainted and was badly injured.
The dead body of stranger, whose
name from papers on his person seems
to be E. L. Payne, of Richmond, was
found at Lynchburg early yesterday
morning on the Southern Railway. An
autopsy disclosed the fact that the man
died from pneumonia, and the coroner's
jury returned verdict accordingly.
Payne had been around Lynchburg for
several days and had complained of
suffering. His body was at the base of
Il cliff on the side of which the railroad
ran and it is supposed that he rolled
from the top of it to the railroad in his
death agony.