Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-01
VIRGINIA NEWS.


was destroyed by fire yesterday.
Mrs. r. H. McGhee died at her home
in Fredericksburg yesterday of con-
sumption. She leaves husband and
nine children.
Mr.. ]. D. Ray and Miss Annie e.
Bowling, daughter of the late A. ].
Bowling were married in Fredericks-
burg on Thursday night.
Governor O'Ferrall has detailed Ma
jor W. D. Turner to represent the Vir-
ginia troops at the United States army
surgeons Chicago convention May %.
At a late hour last night Wesley
Mayo, colored, on trial in Manchester
for criminal assault on Mrs. Mamie
Lowry, was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for ten years.
A story comes from Roanoke that
John Shsrkey and wife, each of whom
supposed the other to have been drown
ed in the Johnstown (Pa.) disaster, met
in Roanoke this week.
AS the result of the democratic prim-
airy election, in Lynchburg, on Thurs
day, John w. Bransford was renomi-
| mated treasurer, and, with two excep-
| tons, the present city council were
again chosen.
The largest manganese bronze cast
ing ever made in Virginia was cast on
Thursday at Caskie Brothers. foundry
at Newport News. The casting weigh.
ed IA 900 pounds. 1t is propeller hub
for the hattleshin Kearsarge
Major Lewis Ginter, the millionaire
cigarette manufacturer, has resigned as
a director of the American Tobacco
Company. He says i'll health is his
reason for resigning. He is the wealth
lest man in Virginia, if not in the whole
South.
BY premature explosion on Thurs
day of nitro glycerine at the stone
quarry of Slade & Co., near Blueheld,
w. Va, Benjamin Barlow and Horace
Porter were killed. Porter's head was
blown OIL. Bartlow's remains were sent
to his home at Fairfax.
The gold democrats of Portsmouth
have been excluded from participation
in the primaries of the regular organi-
cation in that city. About one humid
red OF them who voted for Palmer in
the late election held q mass meeting,
when the executive committees action
was made known. They arraigned the
party managers for their action, and
passed resolutions severely condemning
individual members of the committee.
At meeting of the board of trustees
of the Assembly's Home and School, in
Fredericksburg, yesterday, Rev. DR.. I.
r. Sampson rendered his resignation as
president of Fredericksburg College.
I The board after considering the matter
accepted the resignation, to take effect
at the close of the present session. The
board passed resolution Expressing It's
appreciation of DR.. Sampson and re-
GREETING his resignation.
George French Strother, who was in
dcted for assisting in the lynching OF
negro desperate in Mcdowell county,
W. Va, fifteen months ago, who had
shot down with provocation William
H. Strother on Norfolk and Western
passenger train, was acquitted at
WEIGH, w. Va, yesterday in the Coun-
tv Court. He is son of Colonel John
r. Strother, a prominent man Of Gull
pepper. The verdict gives general salts
| faction.
1t is predicted by some in position
to know that less tobacco will be grown
in Virginia this year than ever before.
| The acreage has been gradually reduc-
ed during the last few years. The
reason for it is the low prices tobacco
brings. Farmers are turning their at
tention more to diversified crops. About
| Richmond more attention is being given
to truck farming than ever before.
Several farmers who sold tobacco dur
| ing the winter claimed that they did
not receive for it more than enough
money to pay for the fertilizer used.
Forest fires in Goochland and Flu
wanna counties have been doing con-
siderable damage. The greatest de-
struction was near Caledonia, where
the gold mines are located. Miles OF
growing timber have been destroyed.
| People in that neighborhood have been
fighting fire ever since Sunday. The
territory of the conhagration extends
over one mile wide and three long. 1t
commenced on the Webb property,
owned by John L. Williams and John
Shelton Williams, of Richmond, swept
northwest over Belgore and Gilmor
gold mines, when the wind changed
and blew the blazing sheets back over
the burned district.