Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-06-20
Virginia News.


The formal announcement Of Judge
Samuel w. Williams, OF Wythe, for at
torney general was made yesterday.
Miss Mary E. HURLEY, widow Of the
Rev. T. NJ. Hunley and mother OF Mr..
George Y. Hunley, member Of the Leg
islature, died few days ago at her
home in Mathews county, Of paralysis,
aged 76 years.
A pistol and club put an end to an
incipient revolt in the Norfolk county
Jail yesterday, and Ben Hinton, des-
perate negro awaiting trial for stealing q
large quantity of wire from the Norfolk,
Portsmouth and Newport News Com
pany, is in double irons.
William Hall, so years of age, met
death in peculiar way yesterday at
Richmond at a brickmaking plant. He
was fixing some shsfting, when he
slipped and accidentally pulled the
whistle cord, signaling the engineer to
start This he did, grinding Hall to
pulp in the machinery.
Following the enforcement Sunday
afternoon of tolls on the Cottage Toll
Bridge road, leading to the Norfolk
Horse Show and Fair Association
grounds and tracks, rs or more truckers
of Tanners Creek district, Norfolk county,
proceeded at O'Clock yesterday morning
to tear down the toll gates on that road.
w. P. Postcn, S5 years old, carPen-
ter, of Round Hill, was killed Sun
Sunday night at the Round Hill depot
by a passenger train OF the Southern
Railway. Poston was lying asleep on
the railway track, and the cOroner's jury
returned a verdict that the railway COM
pany was not responsible for Poston's
death.
The Board of Visitors of the Virginia
Military Institute have authorized Su-
perintendent Ship to build mess hall
according to plans submitted by him,
the hall TO be ready for use next season.
rhe old mess hall was recently destroyed
by fire. Major J. Mercer Patton, adju-
tant professor, was made full professor of
the chair of modern languages, with
rank of colonel.
The State Corporation Commission
has made ruling under which the
Standard Oil Company and the Ameri-
can Can Company are compelled to pay
charter fees of S., 900 and 80, 900, re-
spectively. Ordinarily the fees would
be only 5000, but the charters of the
two concerns give them the right to
exercise the privilege of transportation
or transmission companies.
Judge Bergman Green, one of the
best known and most highly esteemed
citizens of DanvilIe dropped dead in his
home there Sunday. Judge Green was
60 years old, Confederate veteran and
prominent in public affairs in city and
State. He was one OF the leading mem
bers of the constitutional convention and
a prominent lawyer. He was for years
the Commonwealth Attorney of Dan
vile and for one term Judge of the Cir
cult court.
Mrs. Eva Fuller, aged Is years, wife
of H. /. Fuller a motormaD, was burn
ed to death while kindling fire with
coal oil Sunday night in Petersburg.
The oil in the can exploded, scattering
the burning fluid all over her clothing.
Mrs. Fuller ran out into the yard, ut
ering loud screams, but before any as
sistance could be rendered her all of her
clothing had been burned from her
body. She fingered until 1920 o'clock
that night, when she died. Mrs. Fuller
was the daughter of the late George
Tucker, of Dinwiddie county, and had
been married only three months.