Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-20
VIRGINIA NEWS.

C.L. G. Cole, prominent merchant
of Fredericksburg, is dead.
Lancaster and Tazewell counties
were added to the free silver column
by the action of their conventions yes
terday.
Rev. DR.. Moses D. Hoge, Of Rich
mond, has decided to attend the Peace
Conference in Glasgow, and will leave
Richmond June 80 and sail July /.
A dispatch from Suffolk says Thos.
w. Powell, well-known business man
of Crittenden, dropped dead Sunday
night while attending church services.
Mrs. Jennie Proctor, proprietress of
the Dry Dock Restaurant, at Newport
News, was fatally burned yesterday by
the explosion of a can of coal oil, dying
in few hours.
Mrs. Sallie S. Hickey, the oldest ma
tive-born Lynchburger, died at the res
idence of her daughter, Mrs. David
Oglesby, in that city yesterday, aged
ninety-three years.
An election on the liquor question
was held in Aqua district, Stafford
county, on Monday. About one
half the vote was polled and resulted
against license by large majority.
Col. John T. Stovall died yesterday
at Martinsville, aged Sc. He was prom
inent in the politics of Virginia in re-
adjuster days and was the readjuster
candidate for Congress against George
G. Cabell, the democratic candidate in
1880.
The suit of H. C. Purvis against the
city of Charlottesville for $1,000 dam
90 o; for injuries received by falling in
the excavation for the postoflice build
ing, resulted yesterday in verdict for
the plaintiff, who was awarded the sum
of S264.S0.
The democratic elections held in Vir-
ginia so far make it evident that the
free silver men will have majority of
something like four to one in the State
convention. Whether or not they
will have enough votes to adopt the
unit rule remains to be seen.
The trial of Walker K. Haar upon
the charge of attempting to kill Lucy
Mccain on the 2Sth of last January
while returning from services at the
Methodist Church, in Woodstock, has
been eaded in the County Court. The
jury failed to agree, standing eleven to
one in favor of conviction.
The large cooper shop of II. Matz
gers Sons, on Eighteenth street, be-
tween Main and Cary, Richmond, was
burned last night. The pickle factory
of Mrs. Johnson, adjoining the cooper
shop, was also destroyed. There were
four alarms and the entire department |
turned out. Loss about $4,000.
Charles A. Morganfeld, the Aqua
Greek train robber, who was sent to
the penitentiary last year, with brok-
en- leg, is now able to hobble about on
crutches. His leg did not knit togeth-
er properly and he will never be able
to perform any work of consequence.
Morganfeld still displays sullen dis
position.
1t is said that Gen. Bradley T. John
son, who recently removed to Rich
mond from Baltimore, has COMPRESSION
al aspirations. He is not announced as
q candidate for next fall, but it is re-
ported that in the event of hot fight
between Messrs. Wise and Elicit the
generals friends will try TO secure the
prize for him.
At meeting in Richmond yesterday
of the Confederate Memorial and Lit
erary Society, at the Confederate Mu-
scum Building, it was decided to invite
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Miss Winnie
to hold reception in that building,
which YVES their old home during the
war, on June 30, the day of the open
ing of the Confederate reunion.
The free silver people of Richmond
will only have fifty-one candidates for
the one hundred and one delegates to
to the State convention to which Rich
mond is entitled. Yesterday the list
closed and only this number of free sill
yer men had entered their names on
the official list. This will leave fifty
places which the sound money people
will secure without contest.
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