Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-08
VIRGINIA NEWS.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
on Sunday night to burn Garlan0's
Hotel at Warsaw. Richmond county.

An unsuccessful attempt was made
on Sunday night to burn Garlan0's
Hotel at Warsaw, Richmond county.
Incendiaries made an unsuccessful
attempt to FIRE the dwelling house own
ed by Mr.. James B. Russell, in Win
chester Sunday night.
The University of Maryland football
team played the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute at Lynchburg yesterday and
won victory by the score of % to 0.
Policeman Dolan, of Petersburg, has
lost all three of his children, who died
with scaelet fever. Two died on Satur.
evening and the other on Sunday.
The reprising factory of Mr.. J. P.
Williamson, in Petersburg, was de.
stroyed by fire yesterday with $1,000
pounds of leaf tobacco and machinery
and fixtures.
Tazewell Lovett, proprietor of the
I. Lovett rolling mill, of Berryville,
evening of apoplexy, aged 50 years.
he was native of Loudoun county.
The little 5-year-old daughter of
Walter n. Bowers, of Newport News,
was perhaps fatally burned yesterday
by the accidental igniting of a box Of
matches held in her hand.
Capt. James E. Fitz, the veteran
| Chesapeake and Ohio conductor, who
! had been running between Richmond
and Clifton Forge for third of CEN
fury, died yesterday at his home in
Richmond.
In the matter of q. E Mcdonald. who,
as stated yesterday, killed Thomas
Gray with shovel, near Round Hill,
LouJnun county, on Saturday, jury
of inquest rendered verdict of justifi.
able homicide.
DR.. J. T. Strickland's residence at
Engleside, Roanoke, was totally de-
stroyed by fire yesterday. DR.. Strick-
land, who was sleeping in the house,
| barely had time to escape. But few
, things were saved.
Mr.. George Spring, aged about eighty.
three years, died Sunday at his home,
near Taylortown, Loudoun county. Mr.
Charles S. Hutchinson died of ty-
phoid fever at his home, near Ashburn,
il the same county, on Friday last.
The first regular passenger train on
the first twenty miles of the Richmond,
Petersburg aud Carolina Railroad
south from Petersburg, which have
just been completed, was run yester-
day to Butterworth's store, in Dnwid
die county, the extreme twenty mile
limit.
The grand jury of the Hustipg Cour
Ct Richmond, yesterday brought in az
indictment against S. /. Hobson, who
recently assaulted Mr.. George E. Fish
! er, the general manager OF the Rich
mond Street Railway Company. Hob
son some weeks ago attacked Fisher
and gave him a severe beating.
The steam Touring mill of c.. Nj
Smith q Co.. at Toms Brook, Shenan-
doah county, was burglarized Sunday
night. The iron safe was carried out
to lime kiln hundred yards distant
and smashed with huge sledge. The
robbers got 1878 in checks and lot oil
small change and valuable papers.
Prof. William Howard Parkinson,
Phi. D., of the chair of modern Ian
guages, after q months illness died
yesterday at the University of Virginia.
He was born in Petersburg 81 years
ago. Prof. Parkinson was one of the
youngest professors in the University
and one OF the brightest members of its
faculty.
The Court of Appeals will CONVEX Q
in Richmond tomorrow for the No
vember term. All the members will
be on the bench except Judge Rely,
who, after bis long and severe illness,
ia a. his old home in Halifax county,
recuperating. There are some ninety
two cases on the docket altogether to
| be heard.
Mary Turner, of Norfolk, does not
deny that she threw frying pan Of
hot grease in the face and eyes Of
George Brown, from which the latter
will in ell probability lose the sight Of
his lef; eye, and be disigured for life,
and defends herself by saying that she
was protecting her husband, Abraham
Turner, whom, it is claimed, Brown
tried to shoot.
It IS understood that the State board
of education has notified all of the
book publishing concerns who were
given contracts for textbooks, that
they must not permit any Of their
agents to take appeals from the decision
of the local boards. If this is persisted
in the board intimates they will revoke
these contracts. The idea of adopting
this policy is to break up cour;e which
is source of the greatest annoyance to
the Virginia school authorities.