Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-04-12
Virginia News.

There is reported to be on foot plan
10 consolidate the Virginia iron, stee
and coal concerns.
The Taylor Wagon Works, of Lynch
burg has been conveyed 10 A. b. Percy,
as trustee, for the benefit of its creditors.
Samuel b. Ridgeway, prominen
farmer of Frederick county, died yester.
day after a lingering illness, aged seventy
five years.
The Richmond Board Of Aldermen
last night killed the plan adopted by the
Council looking to slight enlargement
of the city limits.
Among the civilians designated fol
appointment as second lieutenants in the
army are William p. Currier, Edmund
c. Waddill and John III. Ellerson OF
Virginia.
Marriage license was issued in Wash
ington yesterday to Charles w. Harris
and Eva NJ. Carter, both of Montrose,
and to John Lewis and Floyd Gregory
both of Caroline county.
Charles w. Melton, white laborer,
was instantly killed at the Richmond
Locomotive Works yesterday by n smoke
stack falling from new locomotive.
He was % years old and leaves a wife
and one child.
Edward Leland Williams, aged p
years, of Tennessee, member Of the
senior law class of the University Of
Virginia, died Monday night at the
University Hospital. Mr.. Williams was
operated on on Friday last for aPpendicl'
It's.
Commissioners sold the Stauntou
city street car property last night a
private auction for $40, 500. The
property was purchased by John NJ.
Spots and associates, all of that city,
who, it is understood, will operate the
cars.
One OF the largest shipments of blue
fish in the history of Old Point was made
there yesterday, when over 400 barrels OF
the delicious fish we're shipped to the
northern markets. SO fa-this has been
the most successful season for bluefsh
in a number of years.
The building committee ofthe Presby-
terrain Orphans Home of the Synod OF
Virginia has accepted plans for a gen
eral scheme of buildings to cost hun
bred thousand dollars, and will at once
spend SIS, 900 in erecting two cottages
on their property in Lynchburg.
At a Meeting of the Board of Alder
men at Lynchbnrg yesterday that body
refused to concur in the action of the
Common Council last week, making a
contribution of $4,000 to Randolph
Macon Women's College for new
building, City Attorney n. G. Manson
giving it as bis opinion that il was I'M
constitutional.
Miss Mary Forbes of Fauquier coun-
ty, while following the hounds on Sat
urday, met with a serious accident Her
horse bad just jumped a high fence,
when il was struck by another horse inn
mediately following. Both the horse
and rider were thrown. Miss Forbes
remounted and. with a broken collar
bone, finished the course.
Miss Jean Cater, ri Warrenton, and
Mr.. Arthur Cameron Humphreys, of
Norfolk, were married in Warenton this
evening. The marriage took place at st.
James Church aud was followed by a
reception at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hamilton, cousins of the bride. Miss
Carter, sister of the bride, was maid OF
honor and Mr.. Thomas w. Shelton was
best man.
The preliminary hearing of William
J. Thompson, the Shadwell mountaineer,
who was arrested on Wednesday last
upon suspicion of having murdered his
wife and two children, whose remains
were found in their charred cabin home
on the morning Of April l, was held yes
terday afternoon at Shadwell. After
listening to the evidence of some fifteen
witnesses, the case against Thompson
was dismissed and the prisoner SET free.