Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-06
Virginia News.

Sunday night the residence OF Mrs.
Jennie Hurxthsl, in Wanenton, was al
most completely destroyed by FIRE.
The house of Daniel Mullen, about
six miles from Fredericksburg, in Spots
sylvania county, was destroyed by fire
Sunday night.
10 half hour Sunday $40, 900 was
raised toward rebuilding the Newport
News Baptist Church, which was re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
A marriage license was issued in
Washington yesterday 10 Julian N.
Wilkerson. of Westmoreland county,
and Vara F. Rollins, of King George
county.
A public meeting of the business men
and citizens of Herndon was held last
Saturday for the purpose of taking steps
toward securing an extension OF the
Great Falls end Old Dominion railway
from Great Falls to Herndon.
Rev. J.. NJ. Anderson, pastor of The
Irvington charge of the Methodist Con-
ference died Sunday night, after two
day. illness of neuralgia of the heart.
He was in his seventeen year and 10
the fflieth year of his service in the
ministry.
A young man named Abbot, from
Brandy Station, Culpeper county, was
painfully hurt by the accidental discharge
Of revolver at Calverton Saturday
night. The revolver was in the hands OF
bis friend, Neale Bealle. While they
were fooing, the pistol was discharged,
the ball taking effect in his thigh.
The Senate yesterday confirmed the
nomination of Joseph B. Stewart as col
Iector of customs, district of Ric mOnd,
and the following Virginia postmasters
G. II. Rivercomb, COvington; j. NJ.
Griffin; Fredericksburg; G. P Smith,
Martinsville; w. T. Miller, Shenan-
doah; Edwin M. C, Quimby, Suffolk.
New indictments were found by the
Norfolk grand jury yesterday against
DIR. Luther R. Chiles and James Frank
lin. in connection with the death OF
Miss Sarah Atkinson. DR.. F. NJ. Nor
gan, county coroner, WIS indicted,
charged with performing an illegal
operation upon Mrs. Josephine Davis, Of
N.rfolk.
Last night DR.. James l.. White, one
of the most widely known end popular
physicians of Farmville, was waylaid,
brutally assaulted and robbed. He was
on his way home from his store and had
gotten inside his iron, gate when man
stepped from behind large oak tree and
with brick felled him to the ground,
robbed him and made his escape.
The discovery that arms and ammu-
milton are being struggled into Finland
may lead to diplomatic difficulties be-
tween Russia and Sweden. For the first
time in history Jewish instructor has
been appointed to the Moscow University.
Trsinmen refused to carry General Ma
darof from Hardin to Vladivoslok,
where he was to investigate the recon.
disorders.
The marriage of DIR. }. S. DeJarnette,
of Stanton, and Miss Chesiney Hop
kins, NJ. d., has been announced to
take plqce Feb. IA, at the home Of Mrs.
Walter ralley, sister Of DR.. Hopkins, at
Upland, Pa. DR.. Hopkins has been
connected with the medical staff of the
Western State Hospital at Stanton for
10 years. DR.. DeJarnette has also been
connected with the hospital for years.
Rev. H. St. George Tucker left Nor
folk Sunday night for New York on the
way to Japan to resume his missionary
labors. He will sail for Europe on the
steamship Kaiser Wilhelm and visit his
brother, VINO is student at Oxford,
England. Rev. Mr. Tucker is president
of t. Paul's-- College, at Toxic He has
been on an extended visit to his father,
Rev. DIR. B. d. Tucker, of Norfolk.
Jesse Cross, colored, is dead at his
home in Suffolk, Va, as result Of a
fight with Herbert P. Winborne last
week, while Winborne is confined in the
county Jail awaiting the verdict of the
coroner's jury. Winborne is member
of the firm of r. N. Powell & Co.,
grocers and liquor dealers. He bad
words with Cross over an alleged due nc
count. 1t is claimed that Cross started
for Winborne with Ratchet when the
latter grabbed four-pound weight and
hurled it with much force, striking Cross
on the head and crushing the skull.