Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-01
VIRGINIA NEWS.

year.
The Standard Oil Company has erect
ed tanks near the depot at Front
Royal.
The Southern Railway has com.
menced work on their new depot at
Front Royal.
Mrs. John Edwards died at her
home near Falmouth on Tuesday night
in her 10th year.
Mrs. Mary Burton, of Stafford, died
on Tuesday and was buried yesterday
afternoon at Falmouth. Mrs. Burton
was in the 70 year of her age.
Vice President Axtell, of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio, says the company will
cause no delay in beginning work on
the proposed $4,000 600 depot at Rich
! mond.
1t is generally conceded that DR.. G.
M. Wallace, of Stafford county, will
| receive the democratic nomination for
the State Seuate in that district to sue
coed Senator Little.
1t is reported that another Richmond
man of high standing has left that city
under cloud. He has been gone sew
| eral days and it is said forged paper
has turned up. From what can be
learned those whom he has wropged
| will make no complaint to the law OIL
| GERS.
There are twenty-five trap nets in
the Potomac that are in sight from the
river bank, at Pope's Creek. Several
gill nets are working the channel for
shad. The shad are being shipped to
Philadelphia and New York markets,
where the fishermen claim they get
good prices.
1t is rumored that Mr.. Coils P. Hunt
ington and several English capitalists
have decided to establish an ordinance
and steel armor plant at Newport
News. 1t is said that the plant will be
| the largest of its kind in the world.
and will give employment to about
10000 men.
If Consul General Lee returns to this
country in time he will be present at
the Grant monument ceremonies IN
New York on April 81. General Lee
was Governor of this State when Gen.
| Grants funeral took place. He was
conspicuous figure among the atten-
| dants on that occasion.
Mr.. John Waller, of Stafford, was
rendered unconscious and severely
bruised and hurt Tuesday while in the
act of jumping his horse over a high
fence near Garrisonville. The horse
baked as he took the jump, throwing
| Mr.. Waller aud falling on him. Assis-
lance was quickly at hand, and yester
7 day he was resting easy.
W. Scott Bailey, for many years q
well-known Richmond grocer, who has
been missing from his home since De.
cember 1, 1885, is reported to have died
in Colorado. 1t is known that Bailey
carried about $4,000 or $4,000 insur.
ance upon his life, and it is of some in
terest to his relatives to know whether
be is dead or olive.
At Raohine, Rockbridge county, yes
terday, Mrs. ]. Lunsford, with her
three.y ear-old child, attempted to
cross the road while wagon was pass
ing. The child becoming frightened at
a dog under the wagon, ran under the
wagon wheel, which crushed out one
of its eyes and mashed in the top OF its
head. The child lived a very short
time.
The State Board OF Health held its
annual meeting, in Richmond, Tuesday
night, and organized for the year by
re-electing DR.. Rawley w. Martin, of
Lynchburg, president. The principal
subjects discussed were hygiene in pub
lie schools, compulsory vaccination
and quarantine regulations. Commit
tees were appointed to prepare reports
dealing with these subjects.
The belief is strong in Richmond that
the man who took his life in a cheap
hotel in New Orleans on Tuesday after
destroying every evidence of his identi-
ty, was Frank D. Stegar, the default
ing secretary of the Mutual Assurance
Society, who left Richmond March 18th
with his accounts short in q large
amount. The description of the sui
eide tallies in nearly every particular.
"Carlton," the handsome residence of
R. Fl. Rawlings, near Charlottesville,
was destroyed by fire yesterday. The
dwelling-house was insured for S11 900.
carlton" was a handsome brick
structure built on the western slope of
Carter's mountain, less than a mile
from Monticello. Next to Monticello,
the site of Carlton" affords probably
the handsomest view in southeast AL
| bemarle.
In the United States Court in Norfolk
Yesterday the case of J. McHugh & Co.,
LIQUOR dealers of that city, vs.. VIM.
| Ryan and R. S. Roykin, United States
collector and deputy collector of inter
nal revenue, respectively, of the Nor
folk district, was decided. The action
was to recover $4,000 damages for the
detention of the plaintiffs stock of
liquor, under suspicion of violation OF
the revenue law. The jury found for
the defendants.
Two farmers, named Joseph and
Lewis Kronk, of Spotsylvsnia county,
near Fredericksburg, have received
notice that they are among the heirs to
an immense fortune LETT by million
aire great-uncle in Holland, who died
century ago, leaving his immense
fortune to be kept intact one hundred
years, and then to be divided among
his descendants of the fourth and fifth
generations. The brothers Kronk are
of the fourth generation, and will get
half million as their share.
FAUQUIER NOTES.
Mr.. r. M. Seaton died at his home in Rec