Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-25
VIRGINIA NEWS.

1t is said United States Senator Thos.
S. Martin is opposed to calling con-
stitution convention in Virginia.
Fire in the lumber yards of La Crosse,
Wis, Yesterday caused loss of $500, OOO
principally to the La Crosse Lumber
Company.
Edgar Stratton, of Gordonsville, who
shot Thomas Noble last Christmas Eve,
was tried in the county court at Orange
yesterday and acquitted.
a dispatch from Winchester says ex-
Governor Holidays condition was some
what improved yesterday. His articu-
lation was more distinct.
Mr.. John w. Burrow, one of the
largest wholesale druggists in the
South, died at his home in Norfolk last
night of apoplexy, at the age of sixty.
Mrs. B. Cammack died at the home
of her nephew, Mr.. Frank Beckwith,
in Fredericksburg, Monday night, hav-
ing reached the ripe old age OF four
score and four years.
In the local-option election held in
Heathsville, magistrate district, North
cumberland county, yesterday, the
"wets" succeeded in carrying the cleo
ton by majority of eight.
Four delegates at large and sixteen
out of the twenty other delegates to
the republican national convention for
Mckinley is the present outlook OF the
republican State convention.
President Cleveland is to be invited
to the annual meeting and banquet OF
the alumni association of the UNIVERSE
ty of Virginia. This will take place at
the Jefferson Hotel, Richmond, on JEFF
ferson's birthday, April IS.
The noted PAGER Buster was sold on
Monday at StauntoD, at auction, and
was purchased by F. G. Smith, of that
city, at 500. Buster has marked
record of 2:29, but it is said he can
make his mile in better than 2:2O.
The republicans of Loudoun county,
in mass convention, at Purcellsville,
yesterday, elected eleven delegates to
the State convention to be held in
Staunton April %. The convention
endorsed Col. VIM. Lamb for State
chairman, and delegates were instruct
ed to support him. The convention
did not endorse any one for President.
Col. W. ]. Martin, professor of chem
istry in Davidson College, North Caro-,
lima, died on Wednesday. Col. Martin
was the father of Prof VIM. ]. Martin,
instructor in chemistry at the Univer-
sity of Virginia. He was with his
father when he died, and had lectured
for him for some time. Only few
weeks ago Professor Martin lost his
wife, who died at the university.
The Powhatan, the new warehouse
on Virginia and Carey streets, Rich
mond, belonging to Mr.. John Pope,
collapsed yesterday. The structure
was built as stemmery, but has been
used recently in which to store tobacco.
At the time of the accident there were
700 hogsheads of tobacco belonging to
the American Tobacco Company 10 the
building. The only loss sustained was
in injury to the house.
A meeting of Confederate Veterans
and number of ladies representing the
Ladies' Confederate Veteran Associa-
ton of New Orleans was held in that
city Friday evening, at which steps
were taken to complete the subscrip-
! tons to the fund for the erection OF a
monument to the memory of the Louis
lana soldiers buried in Stonewall Gene
tery, Winchester. The monument has
already been ordered and will cost
about 300, of which Mr.. Charles B.
Rouss, of New York, contributed $3.50.