Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-11
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Newport News VIII Spend SZUO,U UU
On public improvements this year.
In Norfolk, yesterday, ]. D. Shelby
fell into large vat of beer and was
drowned.
There were ten million cigarettes
shipped from Richmond yesterday, the
biggest shipment probably ever known
there.
Mr.. W.D. Fowler and Miss Alice ].
Fry were married, at Charlottesville,
yesterday at the residence of the BRIDES
father.
Capt. John E. Harris, of Riverton, a
well-known contractor and bridge
builder, died at his home, near Front
Royal, on Saturday.
Rev. DR.. Hartley Carmichael, rector
of St. PauPs Episcopal Church, Rich
mond, is i'll with nervous prostration,
the result of long suffering from in
somnia.
The season for the shooting OF part
ridges in Stafford and King George
counties opened on the 9Th of Novem-
Der, 1898. and closes on the 18th Of jan
uary, 1899.
The grand jury of the Henrico coun-
ty court yesterday brought in an in
dictment against James 2. Carter, q
merchant of that county, for the killing
of Charles F. Moore on September "a.
Eddie Simmons, son of James Sim.
mons, of Mstoaca, Chesterfield county,
aged about fourteen years, was shot
and instantly killed yesterday after
noon while out hunting near his home
with four companions.
A large barn, the property of Casper
Burner, farmer, living about mile
west of Front Royal, was burned Oh
Sunday. A horse and cow and large
quantity of grain and other feed was
destroyed. No insurance.
The governor yesterday pardoned
w. G.. Allen, colored, of Mecklenberg,
who was sent to the penitentiary for q
term of four years for criminal assault.
and served two years and eight months
The petition for pardon was signed by
the officials of Mecklenburg county, on
the ground of recent events that would
lead to reasonable doubt of the mans
guilt.
The democrats of Northumberland
county met in mass-meeting yesterday
at Heathsyille and elected delegates TO
the Senatorial convention which meets
in Warsaw on the 18th instant. to
nominate successor to the Hon. John
+. Mason. Strong resolutions, indors-
ing Hon. c. Harding Walker, OF
Northumberland, as q candidate for the
position, were adopted.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Samuel
Stein, living with her family in Ports,
mouth, in preparing breakfast filed a
lighted gasoline stove, and in an in
slant was a mass OF flames. Her
screams attracted attention, but before
help reached her the woman was hor
ribly burned all over the body. Mrs.
Stein was removed to St. Vincent's
Hospital, in Norfolk, for treatment but
will probably die.
Charges have been preferred before
the civil service board against Wray T.
Knight, postmaster at Richmond; his
assistant, John l.. Grubbs; n. ]. Smith,
deputy collector of internal revenue
uuder Collector Brady, and Morgan
Treat, United States marshal for the
, eastern district of Virginia, for levying
and collecting political assessments,
and bribery. The charges are made by
the Central Republican League, OF
Richmond.
The hotel owned and conducted by
W. T. Wallace, the postoffice, and the
large general store of Mr.. w. E. Cole
man, at Warsaw, were destroyed by
fire on Saturday evening. Several
stables, two barns and four or five
small outhouses were also burned. The
fire originated in the third story of the
Coleman store-house, and is supposed
to have been caused by mice getting
hold of matches. The entire post Office
effects were saved, and Mr.. Wallace
succeeded in getting most of his furni
ture from the hotel, but sustained con-
siderable loss in handling it. Loss
about $4,000.
To save him from lynchers, Jordan Webb,
q negro desperate, was yesterday taSen from
Southampton and lodged in the Suffolk jail to
be held for court. Webb committed crimi-
nal assault on Mrs. Lucy Bowden, a white
lady, 65 years old. County Judge Prince, Of
southampton, feared for the prisoners safety
in that jail. Webb was taken to Suffolk with
his hands pinioned behind and q stout rope
around his neck.
Mrs Harriet j. Hutter, wife of the late
Major George c. Hutter, died Sunday after
noon at her home, near Lynchburg. aged 90
years, She fell few weeks ago while walk.
ing in her yard and sustained disocston of
the hip which fastened the end Of her useful
and beautiful life. Mrs. Hutter was born in
Lynchburg in S)6, and was daughter OF
the late Major James Risque.
Mrs. Matte B. Weeks who. it was thought,
met her death among the names that con.
sumed her home near Elizabeth City last
May had her life insured for $S,O00 and
The Insurance companies are not so sure she
is dead, and consequently are making tho
rough examination. Mrs. Weeks mother,
who is her executriy, has left the State.
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