Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-10
Virginia News.

Inc university OF NiIRlhlh pA9cD@''
nine defeated the Midshipmen at Ann
apolis Saturday, by score Of Z to 3.
Mr.. William Barsom. aged 81 years,
died at his residence, near Unison, Fri
day night. He leaves widow, wild
owed daughter and several grandchll-
dren.
James r. Foster, of The Plains, has
lately added to his large landed interests
the Burgess farm adjoining, containing
SOC acres. The purchase price was $50
an acre.
Mrs. Elizabeth H. Pitmsn, wife of A.
II. Pitman, prominent resident OF
Frederick county, died Friday at the
no ne Of her daughter, Mrs. Frank r.
Colstnn, in Clarke county. She was SO
years of age. Mrs. Pitman was formerly
Miss Hett.
Mr.. NJ. K. Lowrey, OF Stafford county,
will, it is reported, be offered the posi-
ton of division deputy collector of in
ternal revenue under the Collector,
L. P. Summers. Mr.. Losrey is the
only republican member of The legisla.
ture rroIa the Eighth district.
| Alexander Tinsley, colOred, 20 years
old received an aggregate sentence Of 81
years in the Henrico court Saturday for
robbery and criminal assault. His vic
tim was Helen Daniel, an aged colored
cook, whom be beat nearly to death. Tin
sley came near being hanged on the
charge ofcriminal assault.
Mr.. ]. l.. Stokes, manager of the
Prince William Hotel at Manassas APP
piled to the Cir, nit Court last week for
a licen'e to sell liquor. Judge Nicol
refused to grant the Ii iense because the
applicant was not recommended by the
Town Council, in 1accordante with a
provision OF the charter OF the town.
James H. Hayes, the colored lawyer
and politician, who said he was tender d
the place of consul at Guadeloupe, will
decline the place He does not relish
the idea of leaving the United States,
especially for such post as that offered.
Hayes was opposed by A. W. Harris, Of
Dinwiddie, aud it is said that the place
might possibly go to Harris.
The wife Of Captain Brooke Payne, Of
the artillery service at Fort Monroe, has
filed notice of a suit for absolute divorce
against her husband. Strenuous efforts
we're made to keep the matter secret and
the bill of complaint accompanying The
notice has not been made public. The
officer is ranking captain at Fort Monroe,
is native Virginian and is said to have
married his wife in Wisconsin about 10
years ago.
The coming legislature. which meets
next January, will elect successors to
the judges of the State Court of Appeals,
all of whom, with the exception of Judge
Stafford G.. White, have served twelve
years. The only new candidate so far
is Judge ]. w. G.. Blackstone, of Acco-
mac. Ii Is stated that there is move
ment ia the eastern section of the State
TO bring out candidates against all FIVE
of the judges.
In an explosion which occurred Satur-
day at the Ardway limestone quarry near
Allisonia, in Pulaski county, eight men
we're blown to atoms, death coming to
ali simultaneously and without a mo-
ments warning. Two others were so
badly injured as TO preclude all hopes OF
recovery. The explosion occurred while
the men we're tamping powder in a
blast about 2 O'Clock Saturday afternoon,
and in some way the charge accidentally
went of.
r. A. Clark, Otto Myers, and Frank
Tbwaite, of Chesterfield county, are i'll
at the Virginia Hospital, suffering from
arsenic poisoning. Clark's wife and sew
eral others are i'll at their home in the
county from the same cause. Probably
all will recover. Annie Jones, colored,
was arrested in Richmond Saturday on
warrant charging her with having put
arsenic in the coffee the sufferers drank.
She was Clark's cook. The woman
denies the charge, but she left the house
hastily just before the family was taken
| i'll.
Capt William f. Hinton, aged go,
died at his home in Petersburg yesterday.
He had been an invalid for 10 to II
years. He entered the Confederate army
as a member of Company f, Twelfth Vir-
ginia Regiment, and was subsequently
made sergeant major Afterwsrd he was
a member of the City Battalion and later
was adjutant on General bearings staff
For some years after the civil war Cap
tain Hinton took an active part in poll
tics and ran for Congress from the fourth
district of Virginia, but was defeated.
He served his senatorial district in the
State Senate, and about 1875 was a mem
Der OF the City Council of Petersburg.