Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-13
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Dir. a. Robert Mckee died suddenly
i'll his Office in Charlottesville on Satu-
day.
&. s. English, Il prominent citizen of
Wcstmoreland county, died very su :
denly last week.
Mr.. II. Glennan. OF the Norfolk Eir-
qinjon, has withdrawn his application
for the postmastership there.
The faculty of Roanoke College has
expelled five students for attempting
10 blow up with dynamite the quarters
of a student named Willis, who acted
as j.nitor i'll payment for his tuition.
On the night of the Sth instant Mr.
George Bruce, of King George county,
died at his home, in Pumpkin Neck.
He vas one of King Georges oldest
citizens. having nearly or quite reach
e Il his four score OF years.
Miss Alma Buckley, daughter Of T..
W. and Mary +. Buckley, who reside
near Catharpin, Prince William coun-
ty, was married on Friday odd to Mr..
Clinton Lawrence Thomas, of Mont
gomery, Lycoming county, Pa.
Early Saturday morning professional
burglars broke into the Atlantic and
Danvile Railway office in Danville,
and. drilling holes in the large fire
proof safe used dynamite and blew the
safe open. They stole about $3.50 in
currency and about $3.50 in checks.
On Thursday morning Lewis Golf
man, an old man. disappeared from his
home in Roanoke. and on Friday after
noon II. Garland Brown, another we'll
known citizen, walked out of his front
door and has not been seen since. They
were temperate, happy in their home
life and, it is feared, they are the vic
tins of foul play.
Mr.. Basi! Gordon and q party Of New
York and Baltimore gentlemen were at
Newport News on Saturday presuma-
bly, prospecting as well as looking over
the large works there. Though the
Mexican mission escaped him it is said
Mr.. Gordon is still seeking appoint
mcnt in the diplomatic service, and
has gone to Washington with that
view.
Mr.. Lloyd Logan, one of the oldest
citizens of Winchester. died on Satur-
day. He had been in failing health for
about two years, but, being a man of
marked energy, WAS confined to his
room only for few weeks Mr.. Lo-
gan was cighty-iive years of age. He
went to Winchester from Alexandria in
1898 and engaged in the tobacco bust
ness there, which he conducted success
fully for sixty years.
Mrs. Eliza l.. C. Harrison, wife OF
the late Professor GesSner Harrison,
died in Charlottesville Saturday at the
residence of her son-in-law, Professor
Francis II. Smith. Mrs. Harrison 5
life was co-extcnsivc with the history
of the University Of Virginia. Her
father, Professor George Tucker, was
one of the original faculty selected by
Nr. jefferson and appointed to the
chair of moral philosophy in 1925, at
the opening of the first session of the
school.
The populist leaders are watching
with some interest for the disappoint-
ments which are expected to result
from the distribution of federal patron
age in Virginia. This effect Chairman
Pierson, of their State committee, says,
will come too late TO be any great deal
of service to them in the coming con-
test for State officers The well-known
opposition of Dir. Cleveland and his
cabinet to the unlimited coinage of sill
yer is, Mr. Person thinks, of more i'm
portance to their party as an issue than
any expected detection growing out OF
failure of certain democrats to secure
offices.