Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-14
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Socialists have founded CLUB IN Nor
folk.
Philadelphia Masons were entertained
by banquet and special ceremonies by
Fredericksburg lodge last night.
Giacomo Getto, Norfolk suicide, is
said to have committed murder in
France for which two men are in prison.
Rev. DIR. J. L, NJ. Curry, who died
at Asheyille Thursday night, will be
buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Rich
mond, tomorrow afternoon.
One of the famous Mcneil partisan
Rangers of the civil war, E. A. d.
White, died at his home, Marmion,
Rockbridge county, Thursday night.
Mayor Taylor, of Richmond, has We
toed the ordinance providing that the
city pay the carfare of members of the
council, not to exceed $50 a year a
member.
In the hastings court at Radford yes
terday Lee Farrow was convicted OF
murder in the second degree for killing
Samuel Scott last December, and sem
fenced to four years in the penitentiary.
An Injunction awarded several months
ago restraining the West End Furnace
Company from operating a branch rail-
road from the Roanoke and Southern
Railroad to the Griffin mines, four miles
from Roanoke, for the hauling of iron
ore, was yesterday dissolved.
The secret marriage in Baltimore
January 5, of Herbert Dorsey Waters,
of the senior law class of the University
of Virginia, and Miss Frances Bland
Walker, of Charlottesville, was an
nounced at Charlottesville yesterday.
Mr.. Waters resides at Germantown, Md.
Reports yesterday of the presidents of
the boards of directors and the superin-
tendents of the insane hospitals in Vir-
ginia, held in Petersburg, show that
there are 2,0i2 white and 1852 colored
insane in the State. All The white hos
pitals are crowded, and there are few
vacancies at the colored hospitals.
Richard Robertson an old negro, who
gave his age as II years, was granted a
marriage license at Newport News yes
terday to marry Catherine Lewis, aged
81. He announced that he was body
servant Of Jefferson Davis, adding that
Mr.. Davis owned 200 slaves, and never
struck one Of them during his life.
Tom johnson, a negra, thirty years of
aoe has been LODGED i'm iail at Berryyille
for alleged attempted criminal assault
upon Mrs. Charles L. Holiday, near
Boyce during her husbands absence
from home. After struggle Mrs. Hol-
liday managed to reach an axe with which
she tried to kill her assailant The
negro then fled.
Secretary Root has issued an order to
carry out the purpose Of Congress direct
ing the submission of Edward V. Valen-
tine, OF Richmond, of designs for a
bronze statue of Gen. Hugh Mercer, and
has invited the Mayor of Fredericksburg
TO secure and convey to the United
States site suitable for the statue,
which is to cost $21, 500.
Miss Maud G.. O'Ferrall, a neice of
Ex-Governor O'Ferrall, was married to
Mr.. f. /. Penick in Richmond day or
two ago under romantic circumstances.
Accompanied by the groom's sister and
without the knowledge of anybody else
in the house, they walked to the home
of a minister, were married, returned
home to supper, and then attended the
theatre.
Levi Walker was on trial in Norfolk
yesterday, for the third time for murder.
Twice he has had a mistrial for killing
Walter Gray. He accused Gray of ruin
ing his sister, and was looking for him
and for another man for the same Of
tense, when, seeing them together, he
fired at one man and hit the other.
There had been a number of quarrels,
and the testimony is conflicting. Mean
time the principal witness against Walk
er has fled from the city because there
are charges against him which he does
not wish to face. The jury finally re-
ported that it could not agree on ver-
dict. This is the third hung jury in the
Gaze.