Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-11-24
Virginia News.

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Aaron H. Palmer, of Roanoke, Va.
has been elected steward of the Virginia
Military Institute.
David Lowenburg, director-general OF
the jamestown Exposition, suffered a
stroke of paralysis. in Norfolk, yesterday.
Mrs. Lavinia Gibbons Lee, "a years
old, died Thursday at the home of her
son-in-law, Capt. George NJ. Rogers,
at Fulton, Richmond. Mrs. Lee was the
widow Of Robert R. Lee, Of the Metho-
dist church.
A meeting of the militia officers from
throughout the State will be held in
Richmond November 80. The object of
the meeting will be to perfect an organ
ization who will look to the betterment of
the militia in the State.
The first annual meeting of the Grand
Herd Convention of Bufaloes, in session
in Richmond, adjourned yesterday to
meet next August in Cincinnati. after
electing Charles T. Bland, Of Ports
mouth, grand bison, and other officers.
DR.. L. R. Chies and James E.
Franklin, arrested in connection with
the case of Miss Sarah Atkinson, who
died at the Norfolk Protestant Hospital
as a result of an alleged criminal opera
ton, waived examination in the Norfolk
Police Court and were yesterday sent on
TO the December grand jury.
Edgehil. the residence of ]. l..
Vaughan, near Richmond was burned to
the ground yesterday. G ,nsiderable house
hold effects were saved from the flames,
but the damage to these was considerable.
The property was about half insured.
Edgehill was probably the most magnif-
Gently appointed country home in the
Shawsville section.
Stephen Putney, one of the Oldest
members of the well-knOwn shoe house
of Stephen Putney & Co., and closely
identified with The business life of Rich
mond, died last night after long illness
OF heart disease. He is survived by two
children, his second vile, who was Miss
Ellie Withers, daughter of former Sena
tor Robert f. Wiibers.
Ben Armel, the Is yesr-old son of
Jesse Armel, of White Post, Clarke coun-
ty, fell from traction engine late yes
terday afternoon and was run over and
probably fatally injured. The boy was
riding on the engine, which was being
moved across field. He fell directly
in front of the wheels, which passed
over both thighs, crushing them to a
pulp.
Judge Grinnan 10 Richmond allowed
the employing printers who figured in
the strike proceedings twenty days in
which to prepare an appeal from his
order dissolving the injunction recently
granted. This leaves the matter as it
was before the judge gave his opinion
dissolving the injunction, and the origi-
nal injunction will stand for twenty days
before Judge Grinnan's order goes into
effect.
Mr.. Henry G. Sellman, of Leesburg,
died at his home Thursday night of pa
ralysis, aged SO years. He was ma
tive of Maryland, a Confederate soldier
and served throughout the war with dis
tinguished gallantry in Colonel Whites
battalion. He married a daughter of
the late DR.. A. r. Mott, of Leesburg,
and is survived by his widow and one
daughter, Miss Clara Selman. His re-
mains were inferred in Union Cemetery,
Leesburg, today.
Winston Gaines, colored, of Charles
City Courthouse, WAS hanged in the county
Jail yard Wednesday. Gaines was a
complete nervous wreck and had to be
taken bodily and carried to the scaffold.
On the night Of the 18th OF May he en-.
tered the home of an old respectable col
Ored woman, named Laura Ennis, and
her granddaughter, Mamie Christian.
He killed the old whman with club
and left the young one for dead, but she
recovered and exposed the crime. His
motive for murder was that Mamie had
refused TO marry him and her grand
mother had been the cause of the refusal.
Gaines made full confession before be
died.