Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

restore old Arlington church building
to its original form.
The condition of Mr.. S. Wexford Cor
bin, of Farley Vale" King George
county, is not improved.
In Lynchburg yesterday G. F. Wool
folk, the driver of an ice wagon, was
run over by an electric Car and instant
ly killed.
MI. T. B. Embrey, of Stafford, drop
ped dead of heart trouble while walk
ing in the woods near his home Satur-
day, aged fifty years.
Mrs. W. R. Mayo, wife of Mayor
Mayo, died at Norfolk on Sunday. She
was the daughter of the late Commo-
dore Decatur, United States navy.
Mrs. Ellen Crockford, widow of the
late Col. VIM. Crockford, died after q
protracted illness at Franklin Farm"
in Albemarle county, on Saturday. She
was in the eighty-third year of her age.
Charles J. Harris, doing business as
the Old Dominion Cycle and Supply
Store, in Richmond, and Joseph j.
Myer, a west Broad street grocer, Of
that city, filed deeds of assignment yes
terday.
Miss Lizzie Hancock, daughter of
| Col. r. j. Hancock, of Albemarle DUN
ty, has been selected by Miss Mary
Russell, Virginia's sponsor, as her maid
| of honor at the reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans at Nashville,
Tenn, in June.
A meeting of citizens was held in
| Staunton last night to secure the hold
ing of the democratic State convention
there this year. The fight seems to be
| between Staunton and Lynchburg. 1t
is thought the republican convention
| will meet in Staunton.
Saturday afternoon about twilight
Mr.. Hugh Jones, of Morrisville, Eau
| quier county, met death near the old
Grove church, in that county, by being
dashed against a tree while riding a
race with his companion along the pub
lie road. He was about % years old.
A young man giving his name as j.
D. Litton and claiming to hail from
Pennington Gap, was arrested in Lynch
burg yesterday on the charge of in
sanity. He endeavored to buy thou
sands of dollars worth of goods. When
arrested he declared his detention due
to Charles Broadway Rouss and George
Gould, and threatens both of those
gentlemen with suits of several hundred
thousand dollars. He is we'll dressed
and q clever talker.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis Wheat, wife Of
Rev. J. G. Wheat, died near Port Re-
public yesterday at an advanced age,
after q long illness. She was a men,
/ Der of the famous Lewis family, the
pioneers of the Shenandoah Valley,
and was one of the mothers in Israel.
She was q sister of ex.United States
| Senator John F. Lewis, and half-sister
of Judge Lunsford Lomax Lewis, OF
Richmond. Three sons-Messrs. Cliff
ton and John Wheat and DR.. Lewis
Wheat, of Richmond, and a daughter
survive her.
In Richmond yesterday the hearing
of the case of William Thomas, color
ed, charged with shooting Policeman
Minor was postponed to May % to
await to result of his victims wounds.
Minor will lose one of his eyes, but his
condition is not considered at all criti-
cal. An immense crowd gathered
about the Police Court and the Jail yes
terday to see the negro prisoner as he
passed on his way to be arraigned.
Some little fear has been expressed
that the prisoner might be lynched by
the friends of the wounded policeman.
There are, however, no reasons to be.
lieve that the man will be interfered
with In any way The colored people
are %manifesting the deepest interest in
Thomas's case.