Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-25
VIRGINIA NEWS.

1NOn6.
A meeting was held in Staunton yes.
terday in the interest Of the proposed
electric road from that place to High
land county.
Congressman William A. Jones, it is
understood, will be named by the Yir
ginia democratic committee as one OF
the canyassers at large in the coming
campaign.
An injunction was granted in Peters
burg yesterday to the Richmond, Pc
tersburg and Carolina Railroad Com
pany against the Blackstone and South
ern Railroad Company.
DR.. John M. Shelton died at his home
in Lovingston on Monday, in the 18th
year of his age. He was q citizen OF
| considerable prominence having served
Nelson county in the General Assem-
bly,.
Miles Wilcox, 81 years old. press
| man in job printing Office in Rich
mond, committed suicide by jumping
from the canal dock into the water yes
terday. He wss intoxicated at the
time. He leaves a wife.
William Mcneil was tried in the
County Court of Staunton and acquit-
ted yesterday of the charge of assault
| upon a ten .year-old-girl. Willie Cotey.
The case attracted much interest, but
the verdict is regarded as a proper one.
Judge Golf, of the United States Cir
cult Court at Richmond, yesterday
rendered a decision in favor of the Bell
Telephone Company, perpetuating the
Injunction preventing the city from in
terfering with the lines of the company.
| Judson Hammer, an old and respect
ed farmer of Albemarle county, near
Glendower, was taken in custody at
Scottsville yesterday in completely
demented condition. Brooding over
the failure of crops, due to drought in
that section, is said to be the cause OF
his mental condition.
Mr.. Harrison B. Jones died in Lynch.
burg yesterday, after protrscted i'll
ness, aged 50 years. At the outbreak
of the war he volunteered in the Con.
federate service, and as lieutenant OF
Company 81. Thirty-third Virginia
Regiment, Stonewall Brigade, served
throughout the four years. struggle
The condition of Mr.. James P. Whit
acre, who was struck with an inkstand
throw by Mr.. R. E. Byrd, in the court
house at Winchester on July 80, was not
so favorable yesterday and last night,
he was suffering with pain in the head
and had considerable fever. He was
better to-day, however, and has been
resting quietly.
I Joseph Fife, the negro who is to be
hanged in the Richmond Jail yard to-
morrow for criminal assault on two
white women, the same day, about one
month ago, was baptized by Rev. Scott
Burrell. colored pastor of Richmond.
A large bathtub was placed in the jail
yard, and the ceremony took place in
the presence of officials and prisoners.
The scaffold on which Fife is to be hung,
which is being constructed, was in view.
The big force of clerks employed at
the Offices of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad in Newport News, which was
transferred to Richmond Immediately
after the large fire at the piers in New
port News, returned to their old places
on Monday, the rebuilding of the burned
piers having been completed. The en-
tire business of the road has been re.
sumed at that port, as also that OF the
Old Dominion Steamship Company.
Colonel William Lamb has given his
friends to understand that he is in
eernest in his expressed purpose to call
q convention of the republicans to
nominate State ticket. When the cali
is sent out the Mitchell-Bahen faction
will see to it that delegates are elected
in Richmond. The anti-Lamb people
will lose some of their followers in this
city as there are few, perhaps good
many, who desire convention held
and will participate in the local con-
vention.
In Richmond yesterday Judge Golf
filed decision there in the case of the
Central Trust Company vs. the Rich.
mond and Danville Railroad Company,
in the matter of the claims of the Ham.
burg Bremen Fire Insurance Company.
This company held policy on lot OF
wood in Pitt5ylvania county, which, it
was claimed, was burned by negligence
of the railroad, and that the damages
occasioned thereby should be paid out
of the proceeds of the sale of the road /,
as having equity superior to the claims
of the bondholders. Judge Golf decided
in favor of the bondholders.
The Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue at Onancock, has rendered his
resignation to the Treasury Depart
ment. This action was taken because
the department recently cut the salary
to the low compensation of 800 per an
mum. The salary was formerly 5000.
and was cut to $500, and finally toS10O.
The collector who has resigned is ademo-
crat, and it is believed by many that
the cut was made by the republican Of
6cials of the Treasury Department in
order to force this democrat out of of.
| fee. Under the new order of the last
administration this Office WAS under the
protection of the civil service laws.
Two of the appointments the next
Governor will have to make are now
filled by democrats who are said to
have declined to support Bryan last
fall. One is That of acknowledgement
and the other private secretary to the
chief executive. General Anderson was
frequent attendant upon the meetings
of the gold democrats and it is under
stood that he voted either for Palmer or
for Mckinley. Whether or not he will