Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-27
Virginia News.

Miss Evelyn hurry AMI Mr.. George
l.. Davis, we're married at The Plains
this evening.
Mrs. II. c. Schooler, Of Bristersburg,
Fauquier county, died last week, aged
seventy years. She was a daughter Of
the late Col. George Waller, of Stafford
county.
j. r. Bencher, one of the firm OF w.
S. Jenkins and Company, operating
large flour mills in Lynchburg, has sold
his interest to DIR. Joseph Nj. Fox and
Mr.. w. S. jenkins.
Grafton Hall, the mansion house on
Farm No. 6, belonging to the estate OF
the late II. G. Dulany, near Upper
vile, which was recently destroyed by
fire, has been rebuilt at cost Of $50, 600.
Two Virginia Military Institute cadets
were shot and slightly wounded Monday
night by negroes, at whom party OF
cadets were firing Roman candles during
the Christmas celebration. The negroes
escaped.
Ernest Pylout, a Sixteenth-street
merchant, was fined 800 in police court
of Richmond, yesterday for alleged at
tempted assault upon l5-year-old Rosie
Yuuis. Peter Yunis, father of the girl,
was also a prisoner charged with at
tempting to shoot Pylout.
A check for $50, 900 was among the
Christmas presents received by Joseph
+ Funkhouser, retired farmer OF Win
chester. The check represented the prin-
cipsl and interest Of debt many years
old, and of which Mr.. Funkhouser bad
given up all hopes CT recovering.
r. T. Hicks, ofOrange, has instituted
suit in the Circuit Court of Spottsylvania
county against the Potomac, Fredericks-
burg and Piedmont Railroad for 50, 900.
He claimed he was assaulted by brake
man while returning home from the
Fredericksburg Fair liz September.
Roseland Cooke, the little daughter
7. A. Cooke, of Hampton, was shot in
her eye by her brother Marvin with an
air rife which came as Christmas pres
ent. The boy was aiming at target
on the folding doors of the parlor at his
fathers home, and pulled the trigger
Just as the door was thrown open aud
his sisiered entered.
Holt Edmundson is in the ho'pital al
Danvile as the result of injuries received
from the explosion of cannon cracker
thrown under his feet Monday evening.
His right hand is so seriously lacerated
that it may have TO be amputated. hi:
right leg vas also burned from a point
above the knee up over the hip.
Rev. II. l. Weston, the pastor of Ep'
worth Methodist Church, Richmond,
yesterday turned ouer to Mayor Nc
Carthy the 1925 which was obtained
from A. Chadwick Burton, the man un'
der indictment for obtaining money in
the name of The church under false pre-
lenses. Mr.. Weston, 10 consultation with
the board of stewards of the church, de-
cided that the money is tainted, and
though the church owes debt of 81, POO
none of it will be paid with money thai
was fradulently obtained.
Messrs. Davis 4 Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report the grant
this week, to citizens of this State,
of the following patents: JOsePhu'
F. Bussells, Of IrviDgtop, continuous
screw-press; Walter A. Mccormick, OF
Pulaski, car axle; aud George I. Moore,
of Roanoke, machine for facing pedestal
legs of loo motive engine frames; also
the following trade marks: Valentine
Meat Juice Company, of Richmond,
preparations of meat juice, and Valentine
Meat Juice Company, Of Richmond, ex'
tracts of meat.