Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-02-17
Virginia News.

Mrs. Mamie Manning Stone, wife OF
DIR. Robert w. Stone, of Winchester,
died at her home yesterday aged 81
years.
Benjamin Grinbert, postmaster at
Oceana, has been arrested, charged with
taking an aged negro's pension check
for $24 out of the mail. He says the
negro owed him the money.
City Judge William NJ. Atkinson has
set March 22 as the day for holding the
special lOcal-OptiOn election for Win
chester, which was requested by repre-
sentatives of the Virginia Anti-SslOOn
League.
President George w. Stevens, of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, placed
an order for 40 engines with the Ameri-
can Locomotive Company yesterday,
and stipulated that they should be built
at the Richmond branch.
The bill which has passed the House
OF De egates known as the two-cent mile
age bill, is not intended to apply TO
passenger rates generally in Virginia,
but to thousand-mile tickets between
stations in the State Of Virginia.
Five thousand dollars damage was
done to the pattern shop of the Rich
mond Locomotive Works last night by
fire of unknown origin. The entire
frame work of the building was burned
away, the burning mass falling in on
the machinery, which was practically
ruined.
Fire discovered early yesterday morn
ing BY negro stsble-boy in the new
livery stables OF G. l.. Grizzard, at
CORTLAND, wiped out a considerable
amount of property in that town, with
damages amounting to $l9, 900. Among
the buildings destroyed was the Court
land Hotel.
Former Governor A. J. Montague lett
Richmond last night Tor New York,
where tonight he will deliver the annual
address before the Alumni Association
of the New York City University. Mr..
Montague will remain in the metropolis
for few dayp, and on February 22d,
he will appear in Toledo, Ohio, to speak
along with Governor Joseph Folk, OF
Missouri, and other men of national
reputation.
Commouwealth's attorney l.. o. Wen
denburg, of Henrco county, is prepar-
ing an appeal from the decision of Judge
G. E. Nicol in the Richmond annexa-
ton case. The officers OF Henrico are
stunned at the decision, which takes
from the county one third of its reye-
nues. The appeal will be based on the
uncOnsiitutionality of the annexation
act and the lack of necessity for taking
in so much territory.
At ten O'clock this morning Judge c.
+. Nicol cow ened the Hen'ico Circuit
Court and entered his opinion on an-
nexation, prin ted in Thursdays Gazette,
as an order of the court There was no
material change in the order from the
opinion. Commonwealth Attorney l..
0. Wendenburg said yesterday that be
would take the matter to the highest
court, and wonld there make a fight
against the constitulionalty of the law
that provides tor the extension Of city
limits.
Elijah Marlowe, a farmer at Castle
mans Ferry, Clarke county, lies in
critical condition at his home as the re-
suit of an attempt to end his LIE. Sit
ting in his chair yesterday, Mr.. Mar
lowe suddenly pulled a revolver from
his pocket and fired a bullet into his
ltft breast. With blood pouring from
the wound, he fell from the chair and in
a short time lapsed into unconscious
ness. For several years he had been in
poor health and at times was very des-
poudent. He brooded over his condi-
ton until his mind became deranged.
His daughter, Miss Lilly Marlowe, who
was in the room at the time, saw her
father with the pistol pointed at his
breast, but before she reached his chair
the shot had been fired.