Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-24
VIRGINIA NEWS.

ana CdrCliDs III lIOdu las uelei h'bou
to come to Redmond.
Mr. II. Cab Maddox predicts that
Judge Rhea will defeat Mr.. Walker in
the Ninth district by from Il to two
thousand majority.
Near Luray, Page county, on Satur-
day, Mrs. Susan Strickler, aged seven
ty-ive years, who lived alone, was
burned to death by her clothing taking
fire.
John Smith, colored, was shot and
killed by Detective T. l.. Feltz, on a
Norfolk and Western train, near Pc
tersburg, on Saturday, while the former
was resisting arrest.
Near Danville yesterday morning
Joshua Blackwell, g well-known youth
of that city, q student of Danville Mill
tary Institute, was drowned in Dan
river, while crossing the stream in a
small boat with q companion.
William Hall, q member of the Fitz.
Lee Rifles, Third regiment, was serious
", and perhaps fatally, cut, in Lynch
burg, on Saturday evening, with a
pocket-knife in the hands of Charles
Smith, a welI-knCwn young man OF
that city. Both of the men had been
drinking.
The football game between the teams
OF the University of Georgetown and
the University of Virginia on Saturday
was awarded to the former by q score
of 10 to O. After % minutes play the
Virginians refused to accept a decision
of the referee, who then gave the game
TO Georgetown.
The Southern Railway Company has
paid Mr.. John DelliDger, the father OF
the two young ladies who were killed
by a freight engine while in company
with George Slsler they attempted to
cross the track at Bowman's crossing,
in Shenandoah county, on Sunday
evening, September II last, the sum OF
$500.
Senator Daniel has gone to south
west Virginia and will speak almosl
every day until the close of the CAM
paign on the 9TH OF November. His
first appointment is at the courthouse,
Craig county, and the next Pocahontas.
He speaks quite confidently of a full
delegation from democratic Virginia,
and is hopeful of a democratic House
in the Fifty-sixth Congress.
Near Sperryville, in Rsppahannock
county, on Saturday, Jeremiah Dodson,
and William Atkins became involved
in q quarrel over some minor matter,
when Dodson drew a knife and stabbed
Atkins in the neck, intiicting a deep
wound. which soon resulted IN death.
Both parties had been drinking heavily.
Dodson made his escape. Dodson has
several children and Atkins leaves q
wife.
Mr.. Lewis Fleming, deputy clerk Of
the Chancery Court, Of Richmond, was
accidentally ,bu; perhaps fatally, shot on
Saturday by Mr.. Thomas Duke, also Of
Richmond, while hunting near Farm
Vile. Both had fired into a coyy OF
bids, and were looking for the birds
they had killed, when Mr.. Dukes gun
was discharged, the entire load of shot
taking effect in the calf Of Mr.. Elem
ing's leg. The wounded leg was an
puted yesterday.
Fire broke out in the drying ma
chimes in The Kinney branch Of the
American Tobacco Company, in Rich
mond, on Saturday, and caused $1,000
loss. Several hundred girls and wo
men on the upper floors of the big fac
tory became panic-stricken and fell
over each other on the stairways, block
ing the way. Some were hurt by jump
ing from the windows. A number
tainted in the jam, and were hauled
out limp by the fremen.
Representative r. 7. Thorp, OF the
Fourth district, was in Washington on
Saturday and had a conference
with Thomas L. Jones, colored, who
has claimed the republican nomi-
nation for Congress from that district.
After some elaboration Jones decided
20 withdraw from the congressional
race and wrote out an address. Jones's
name is on the official ballot Of Vir
ginia, but he asks republicans to vote
for Mr.. Thorp Notwithstanding this.
The suit of Mrs. Laura B. Dowden
against Miss Grace Arents was de-
cided in Richmond on Saturday, Mrs.
Dowden securing q verdict for 1000
damages. Miss Arents, who is a niece
and heiress of the late Major Lewis
Ginter, lost some valuable iewelry.
Mrs. Dowden was ~housekeeper at Ma
jor Ginter's residence. Her trunk was
searched for the missing jewelry, and
she brought suit for $4,000. Since
that time Miss Arents has become the
owner of the elegant mansion in which
she was then a guest.
Mr.. D. Lawrence Groner, of Norfolk,
counsel for Thomas F. Ryan, OF New
York, who holds one thousand shares
Of stock, equivalent to one hundred
thousand dollars, Of the Seaboard and
Roanoke Railroad Company, says that
Mr.. Ryan will himself, On November
10, ask the Virginia Court OF Appeals
Tor q madamus to compel President
Hoffman, of Baltimore. to allow an
examination OF the company's books TO
support his (Ryan's) charge that Presi'
dent Hoffman, while q member of the
firm of Hoffman & Co sold material to
the road at al enormous price, which
| charge MIR. Hoffman has denied.
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