Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-12
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Major Peter ]. Otey, of Lynchburg,
may be candidate for State chairman,
to succeed Mr.. Gordon.
United States District Attorney
Francis r. Lassiter is confined to MS
house in Petersburg by sickness.
The Front Royal Normal closed on
Tuesday with the best of feeling amid
happy congratulations of teachers and
instructors, for the pleasant and sue
cessful session of the schools.
In Richmond yesterday Miss Lucy
Armstead Booker, the twelve-year-old
daughter of Mr.. Lewis Booker, was
thrown from buggy to which pony
was attached and so badly injured that
she died four hours later.
NJ. T. Fulton, postmaster at Bros
vile, Pittsylvania county, was ar
raigned in Danyille yesterday before
United States Commissioner w. o.
Coleman, charged with tampering
with mail placed in his keeping.
In consequence OF an irresponsible
rumor affecting the condition OF the
National Bank at Harrisonburg, a
slight run on that institution was start
ed yesterday afternoon. All checks
were promptly paid and the amount
withdrawn was Insignificant.
The Associated Banks of Lynchburg
have determined in view of the cur
rency famine that for the present no
bank will pay across its counter in cur
rency greater sum than $50 to any
customer. Similar action has been
taken by the Richmond banks.
Rev. S. c. Hatcher, young Metho-
dist minister, and several prominent
young men of Barton Heights, Rich
mond, were before county justice yes
terday evening. charged with trespass-
ing on the premises of negro who
was suspected of chicken stealing and
subiecting him to Klu Klux proceed
ings. All Of the gentlemen were dis
charged, and the negro was made to
pay all costs and was held for per-
Jury. The affair created the greatest
excitement in the suburb.
A meeting was held in Danyille yes
terday, attended by most of the bust
ness men of the city, to consider the
financial condition and to suggest some
means of relief. After discussion reso-
lutions were adopted that a committee
be appointed to prepare petitions to the
Virginia Senators and Representatives
in Congress, urging upon them the i'm
portance of prompt action in the repeal
of the purchasing clause of the Sherman
silver law, believing that such repeal
will 90 far toward restoring confidence
and relieving the situation.
1t is thought that the republican
State committee which meets in Peters
burg tonight will not take any special
action as to what the party should do
in the approaching fall election, but
that republicans will be left free to act
as they might think proper. 1t is like
" that the question of how far the
party should give support to the popu-
lists may be considered by the commit
tee in an informal way. It, is pretty
well settled that the republican party
of Virginia will not have a ticket in
the field this fall
Charles G. Eddy, the Philadelphia
railroad man, was found dead in Wash
ington Park, in Chicago Thursday
evening with bullet hole in his head.
The wound was self inflicted. He held
an important position with the Norfolk
and Western Railroad up to the time
that he was selected by President Nc
Lead as one Of his assistants in the
Reading management. A dispatch from
Roanoke says: Colonel Eddy's friends
here scout the idea that he committed
suicide. He carried S67 900 in accident
policies and about $50, 900 in life insur'
ance. No cause for suicide can be i'm,
agined.