Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-19
VIRGINIA NEWS.

"CHiGuicSt CitiLOuS VI l4cAluStOEI AiSU
at his home there yesterday.
Capt. Christopher L. Fowler, who
was once mayor of Charlottesville, died
at his home there on Sunday.
Mr.. John F. Smith, respected resi-
dent of White Hall. Frederick county,
aged seventy,seven years, died on Sat-
urday.
A hall is to be erected at the Univer-
sity of Virginia in memory of tie
alumni who fell fighting for their State
during the civil war.
MIR. Edward Cary died at his late
residence in Washington, Rappahan.
mock county, on last Wednesday, aged
II years.
Rev. W. E. Wright, pastor Of Gibson
Baptist Church, in Northumberland
county, has rendered his resignation, 10
take effect as coon an possible.
A number of new tents were received
for the Virginia militia from the War
Department yesterday, and stored in
the arsenal in Richmond. This is the
second consignment since the war agi'
tation.
The dwelling and outhouses of Mr..
Andrew Allen, on Potomac creek, in
King George county, were burned to
the ground early yesterday morning.
MIR. Allen and his family narrowly
escaped with their lives.
MIR. Fl. M. Clements, well-known
young shoe merchant, of Richmond,
was yesterday added to the long list OF
deaths recently occurring in that city
from cerebro spinal meningitis. He was
twenty-six years old, and leaves wife
and two children.
Col. N. M. Taylor, for many years
prominent as lawyer and citizen OF
Bristol, died Sunday night. He was
near relative of Gov. Tayler, of Ten
nessee, At the time of his death ne
was general counsel for the East Ten
nessee and Western North Carolina
Railroad.
A dispatch from Newport News says:
No armor will be placed on the auxil-
larry cruisers Yosemite, Dixie and Van.
kee, formerly the steamers Ell Sud, I'll
Rio and Ell Norte, of the Morgan line.
This decision was caused by the fact that
the vessels may be needed before they
can receive the armor.
1t is reported at Newport News that
the battleships Kearsarge and Ken
lucky, launched at the shipyard there
on March "a, will be ready to go into
commission in three months. Now that
war is considered inevitable, the au-
thorities at Washington are very anx.
ious to get these vessels in the service.
Harvard appeared at Athletic Field
at the University of Virginia yesterday
fer the first time since 1898. The re-
suit of the game was victory for Har-
ward. The game was in doubt up to
The last inning, Virginia led by one
run till the eighth, when Harvard bat
ted out three runs, winning by the score
of ? 10 3.
Suffering from an incurable brain dis
ease, Mrs. Lucy Eley, wife of William
Eley, prominent dry goods mer
chant of Suffolk, crept silently from
her bedroom at 3 o'clock yesterday
morning, and threw herself into els
tern. She was taken out dead. Mrs.
Eley was thirty.nne years old. Four
CHI ldren survive her.
The grand jury at Amherst County
Court yesterday brought in a true bill
against Jesse Malone, the eighteen
year-old youth who was arrested last
week on the charge OF committing a
criminal assault on tourteen-year old
colored girl. Negroes in the section
have been heard to threaten lynching
unless the law is enforced.
A. letter has been recovered by a
very prominent citizen in Richmond
from distinguished northern man say
ing if Fitz Lee can be induced not to
talk too much he can be made the next
president of the United States. Gov.
Tyler, who is just back from Washing
ton, says he heard considerable talk OF
Lee as presidential possibility.
A dispatch from Richmond says:
Governor Tyler has received no Or
ders as to calling out the Slate militia.
The troops are ready to march on
,ew hours notice. Gen. Lee, who is
here, states that orders calling upon
the States for $4,000 militiamen bave
been prepared and will be sent out the
moment the President signs the resolu-
ton Congress has agreed upon.
Frank Gryant, living on John w.
Cox's farm, near Norfolk, on Sunday
evening left his three small children
locked up in the house, while he went
of to work. One of them secured can
of oil and started a fire. There was
the usual result. The burning oil was
thrown over all three OF them. a boy
OF eight years was burned to death. The
other two were badly burned, but will
probably recover.
Engineer Kennedy, on the Cinch
Valley division of the Norfolk and
Western, was smothere d to death yes
terday in long tpnnel near 8luehelds,
and his fireman, conductor and brake
man were carried out in an insensible
condition. The train, which was pulled
by one engine and pushed by another,
became hung up in The The tunnel and the
engineer Tied from the great heat be- |
fore help arrived
The maa who drove the carriage in
wbicn s.'~a Egangelns Cossio Y Cis-
neros made her escape from ,AVaI@ ID !
in Richmond. He is g. p. Carbonell,
of Havana. He arrived in Richmond
Sunday morning, and it was not long
before he sent communication 10 Miss |
Cisneros at Gen. Lees residence. Mr..
Carbonell presumably informed the
young lady of his arrival and asked per-