Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-01-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.


Four houses erected 10 Front Royal
10 1890 by the Front Royal Improve
ment Comp were burned on Sun.
day night; loss $1,000.
Mr.. Wade Augustine Thornton. Of
Port Royal, Caroline county, died aud
IDENTIFY Of pneumonia few days ago st
the home of his daughter in Norfolk,
aged 70 years.
Mrs. Wharton, wife OF w. F. Wharf
ton, one of Warren county's pomineDt
citizens and near relative of Rev. II.
M. Whartou, the evangelist. died at
her home at Riverton yesterday, aged
SIS years.
A gang OF 25 men are now at work
ct Passspatanzy fishing shore, on the
Potomac, preparing for the opening of
the fishing season, and fishermen gen.
orally are busy arranging their nets
and boats.
The first farmers institute ever held
10 fredericksburg, or 10 that section,
opened there yesterday under the
direction OF Mr.. ]. H. @. Beverley.
member Of the State board of agricul-
ture for this Congressional district.
A passing engine on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad set Ere to the ware
house OF David Meade, jr., on Sunday,
at White Post, Clarke county. The
warehouse and contents were de-
stroyed. entailiDg a loss of 81 900 with
$500 insurance.
1t is reported that The Chesapeake
and Ohio will soon doubletrsck its road
ell the way from Newport News to
Richmond, q distance OF eighty-four
miles. The siding Is 30 extensive that
the ble.traoking operation will not
require much work.
Burglars broke into the postof6cs at
Orange Court House Sunday night,
blew open the safe and secured stamps
to the value of 5000. They then made
their escape. Postmaster Carter had
taken out of the building Saturday
night the money and other valuables.
Montpelier. the estate 10 Orange
county, formerly the home of President
James Madison, has again changed
hands, Mr.. Charles K. Lennig, of Phil
adelphia, who recently purchased the
property, having sold it to Dir. Will
liam Du Pont, OF Wilmington, Del.
Ernest Walters shot bis friend, Will
liam Sebrell, 10 Portsmouth last night
and then turning the pistol upon him
self, inflicted q wound which caused
his death. Jealousy is the cause as
signed for the deed. Sebrell's wound is
not necessarily fetal. Sebrell and Wal.
ters were friends, and in December last
Sebrell married girl with whom
Walters Is said to have been 10 love.
John Winkler, of Stafford county
died suddenly Sunday night, and Csp-
tain James M. Jones. member OF the
Board ofSupervisors Of Aqua district,
in the same county, is said to be seri-
ously Ill. perhsp' dying. 1t is stated
that these two gentlemen drank bot.
tie of ginger, and the above results
followed. 1t is supposed there was
some poisonous substance in the drink.
Mr.. James E. Carruthers, one of the
best known men 10 Loudoun county,
died at his home at Round Hill yester-
day after brief illness of pneumonia.
Mr.. Carruthers was about SO years of
age and was man OF general popu-
larity. He vas formerly deputy
sheriff, then high sheriff. and after
ward treasurer of the county. At the
time OF his death he was note clerk of
the Loudoun National Bank, Lees-
burg.
G. s. Williamson, the young medical
student, who, in November last, shot
and severely wounded Mics Bessie
Stuckey, a nurse at the Virginia Hos
pital, In Richmond, with whom he was
In love, was tried 10 the Hastings Court
In that city yesterday and fned 800.
The plea OF the defense was temporary
insanity superi1duced by alcoholism,
Miss Stuckney stated on the witness
stand that the engagement between
herself and Mr.. Williamson no longer
existed.