Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-01-12
Virginia News.

Mrs. Clay Adams, vile OF Robert
Adams, a prominent resident Of Gaines
boro, Frederick county, died yesterday
aged thirty year,
Mrs. Alexander Mills, thirty years
old, died Thursday night al her home at
Cssilemsns Ferry, Clarke county, after
lingering illness Of consumption.
William Greenway Russell, former
prominent resident Of Winchester, but
for a number Of years past travelling
salesman for Baltimore house, died in
Washington yesterday.
Mr.. Il. Walton Moore. of Fairfax,
has been retained by Messr James
A. and Philip !. Sirother as associate
counsel in their approaching trial for
the killing of William F. Bywaters.
AT Ivanboe, Pulaski county, yesterday
evening, two boys by the name of Hart
ley aud lawson made an unsuccessful a.
tempt TO blow up the graded school build
ing with dynamite, but their plans were
discovered in the nick of time to save
the structure from demolition. The boys
we're arrested.
The fine new barn on the farm Of Mrs.
j. 3. Mccartney, near NiueVeh, Warren
county, was totally destroyed by fire yes
terday morning, together with its con
tents, sntailing loss of $4,000, with
only s., 600 insurance. The fire was
the work Of inceudiariea, and arrests are
expected to follow.
John Smith, charged with having
committed a criminal assault on MIS-.
Mollle Leggett, white woman, III Prin-
cess Anne county, was tried for the sec
ond time in ihe Corporation Court 10
Norfolk yesterday, He was found gull
" and sentenced to serye Is years in
the State penitentiary. Mrs. Leggett
failed to positively identify the negro as
her assailant
The Stafford Mining Company, OF
Fredericksburg, vas chartered Thur
day by the corporation commission. The
capital is from ten TO fifty thousand
dollars. The officers are Dr. W. C..
Bryary. president. +. ". McCaurdy,
treasurer; DR. +. c. lams, secretary.
Most OF the capitalists are residents of
pittsburg The object is to do general
mining business.
NIiss Gladya Shelton was taken 10
Lynchburg yesterday afternoon from
Amherat and is under The care OF DR.. c.
+. Busey. Her condition is favorable,
though she Is very nervous / her con
litiOn warrants il, the five negroes in The
Rustburg iii will probably be brought
to lYnchburg today. In case the men
are Identified the Governor will take
every rrecaution against lynching.
IL the charges brought against Lewis
Rogers. 8 las II. Mcclure, are sustained
the Richmond police have made an i'm.
portant capture. 1t is alleged that
Rogers is one Of gang OF baggage shsrps
who make a practice cooperating around
wealthy resorts and by a deit intarsbange
Of baggage checks at the Cations secure
luggage Of value. During The past year,
for instance, it is estimated that baggage
valued at 800, 600 has been lost by the
railroads
Miss Salie ParlingIon died in Rich
mend, Thursday afternoon, in the seventy
third year OF her age. Death was due
to pneumonia. The announcement Of
her death with recall memories of the
early stage days in Richmond, when the
old Marshall Stock Company was in fol-
swing she had attained the zenith Of
her popularity when, in 1862, The Mar
shall Thealcr burned, and the company
moved temporarily into tho old variety
theater. Miss P4rngton Baa noted for
her love ior lie Southern Coniederacy
In Richmond her name was A toast In
thc camDs she was an idol