Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-01-13
Virginia News.

Three men were fined 500 each Tor
selling cocaine on the streets OF KIcn-
mond yesterday.
The dwelling house belonging to b.
L. Estes, at Sperryville. RapPahannock
county. was destroyed by fire Thursday.
The entire town was threatened Tor
awhile.
MIR. B. Mcintosh, who hiss been as
sistant cashier of the Peoples National
Bank of Leesburg, was yesterday elecleo
cashier 10 place of II. A. Thompson,
who resigned on account o; III health
Mr.. William Weaver, formerly OF
Westmoreland county, now OF wash
ington, was robbed of $500 recently
while on Potomac river steamer be-
tween Washington and Deer Point
wharf.
The Rockingham wheat crop OF 1000
is estimated at 1900, 900 bushels, the
largest produced in any county IN Viz
GINA Sixty threshed outfits assisted to
house the crop, which required $1,000
tons of fertilizer and brought in million
and half dollars.
The 3-year-old son of Mr.. aud Mrs.
Hunt Strother, OF West Virginia, met
horrible death near Culpeper yester-
day at the home of his grandparents by
falling into a large kettle of boiling
grease and water, which had Just been
taken from the stove.
A dispatch from Leesburg says that
several hunters while touring throu h
the Blue Ridge Mountains lily
came across the skeleton VI man. 1t
was concealed under a pile Of logs
across the line in West Virginia. 1t is
reported that a careful examination
disclosed bullet hole 10 the left temple.
Mr.. Ernest A. Brulle, a prominent
business man of Fredericksburg, died
Thursday night at the home of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. Brulle, Of
typhoid fever, after brief illness, aged
SO years. He was member OF the firm
of Brulle & Timberlake, was Exalted
Ruler of the Elks. an Odd Fellow, men,
Der of the Junior Order If United Amer
lean Mechanics aud of the Patriotic Sons
of America.
The will of Mrs. Rodrigvez, mother OF
Mrs. Frank Msson, of near Leesburg,
who died recently at an advanced age at
her daughters home, is being contested
by relatives who live in Texas. Mrs.
Rodriguez's will was prObated and she
devised all of her property in Texas and
Virginia to Mrs. Mason. Lack o; tesla
mentary capacity is alleged. The tesla,
trix was of noted Spanish family and
owned considerable property III Texas
aud this State.
The case against Thomas Johnson,
for unlawful fishing in the Potomac
river, was dismissed in the Circuit
Court OF King George county this week.
The charge upon which Johnson was ar
rested depended upon the passage OF
similar action by the legislature Of
Maryland before it became operative,
and the Commonwealth failed to show
that Maryland had similar Law, so the
court instructed the jury to find the de-
PENDANT not guilty.
The case of Henry G. Niche, the
young travelling man, charged with ex-
torting money from the late Robert ID.
Ballaniine by blackmailing, was sent on
to the grand jury at Charlottesville yes
terday by Justice Watson. rhe case OF
the three accused parties will come be-
fore the grand jury on Monday. AT
present the whereabouts Of F. @. Dun
can is a matter of conjecture. If he is
indicted there will be vigorous effort
to locate him and bring him back for
trial. Commonwealth Attorney Dab
ney is said to be in possession Of adj
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