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Virginia News. The Court of Appeals opened its fall session in Richmond today. Dr. George E. Alsop, formerly of Newport News, died at the home of his sonin-law, Mr David R. McNeil, in that city, Sunday night, aged 68 years. A bold attempt was madeto burglarize Battle Town Inn at Barryville, Clarke county, early Sunday morning, but H, E Strudwick, proprietor, upon being aroused, fired at the men, who escaped after stealing some money from a cash drawer near the safe. William Davis, a negro, is under At. rest in Richmond on the charge that be is the man who assulted Miss Mamie Conners on Saturday night. Davis says be was drunk Saturday night, and when taken into custody asked if he had stolen anything or had killed anybody. John Beaton, a prosperous Norfolk county farmer, committed suicide at his home in Portsmouth yesterday by firing a pistol bullet into his brain. The only reason to be assigned for his act is that of despondency over the death of his brother and his mother a few months ago. Two foreigners, who recently went to Bristol to engage in railroad construction work, died yesterday afternoon, after eating two large buzzards which they had killed. After having partaken of a hearty feast of the buzzards, they became deathly sick, expiring & few hours later. The Georgia State building on the Jamestown Exposition grounds, a replica of the home of Marths Ballock, the mother of President Roosevelt, has been closed. Georgia did not make a very large appropriation for participation in the exposition, and this fund has been expended in maintaining the building and exhibit. When she learned that her intention to enter suit for divorce in order to remarry her first husband had become public, Mrs. Nellie Atchison, who has figured already in two romances, was 80 mortified that she attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the window of her room in the third story of the house at 1914 east Franklin street, Richmond, where she resides with her grandmother. Miss Murker, of Pennsylvania, was the principal yesterday in a mysterions exchange of handbags at the station in Richmond, by which she is the loser of jewels and silver plate valued at $1,000. The valise of the young woman was taken by a stranger, who left his OWD which resemblers hers. It is said that the name of a man in Farmville was found inside the grip left by the man who exchanged with Miss Murker. A dispatch from Comorn says fire early Saturday morning destroyed "Westwood," 8 large old Colonial house, built by General Young, of Revolutionary fame. Mr. and Mrs. Varn and children escaped from the burning building in their night clothes. Nothing was saved, and there was no insurance on the building. Before the war this farm was owned by Mrs. Ann Richards, and at her death it was inherited by John Temple, who died two years ago. At the request of a depositor of the People's Bank of Portsmouth. Judge Bain, last night, appointed John T. Griffin receiver of the institution. The application for and appointment of a receiver followed the posting on the door of the bank of the following notice, by the board of directors: "The report of the examiners made this day, al. thought not complete, is sufficiert in our opinion to disclose that there has been a falsification of accounts and a misappropriation of the funds of the bank by the cashier, and that the consequent insolvency necessitates the permanent closing of the bank and this application to the courts for the appointment of a receiver." Charged with attempting to criminally assault Mrs. George Hess, wife of Maj. Hess, keeper of the national cemetery, near Newport News, Robert White, a young salesman for the Virginia-Caro lina Chemical Company, is confined in the guardhouse at Fort Monroe. The arrest was made by the Hampton police last night upon a warrant sworn out by Msj. Hess before U. S. Commissioner Baulch at Old Point. It is alleged that White entered the Hess home yesterday while Maj. Heas was superintending a burial. Entering Mrs. Hess's bedroom, it is charged, White attacked the woman and threatened to kill her if she did not keep quiet. Attracted by screams from theiroom, a man who was in Maj. Hess's office went to the rescue, appearing on
