Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-07-15
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Cleveland

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Mr.. William V. II. Williams, one OF
Portsmouth's best citizens, died at his
home yesterday after an illness of sew
eral months.
Mrs. Annie r Kent, widow of the
late Matthew Kent, of Wytheville,
died on Wednesday at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Ann Radford, at Forest
Depot.
A deed of bargain and sale between
the Bergner & Engel Brewing Company
OF Philadelphia and the Pabst Brewing
Company OF Milwaukee was recorded in
the Chancery Court of Richmond yes.
terday.
The Ninth district republican con-
gressional convention which met at
Marion yesterday renominated General
James A. Walker for Congress The
resolutions are strongly anti-civil'ser
vice.
A meeting of the democratic party Of
Fredericksburg was held last night and
elected delegates to the congressional
convention at Urbana. Resolutions in
dorsng Hon. William A. Jones were
unanimously passed.
The plant of the Richmond Paper
| Manufacturing Company was damaged
by fire last night to Inc extent of about
$4,000. The fire started in the boiler
room aud was confined to that and the
finishing room. The main portion OF
, the factory was not damaged.
The Fifth district democratic con
vention, held at Stuart yesterday, was
short, being in session less than al
hour. Hon. Claude A. Swanson. the
present Representative in Congress,
was nominated by reclamation, and the
Chicago platform was reaffirmed
Mr.. J. S. billiard, for many years o
leading merchant OF Lynchburg, died
suddenly of heart disease at his home
yesterday evening. His wife left him
alone for moment, and when she re
turned he was lying on the floor dead.
Besides his wife, he is survived by
twelve children.
The beautiful property known as
Rock Spring Park, in the suburbs of
Leesburg, containing about sixty eight
acres, with old-time dwelling, has been
sold by Judge ]. B. McCabe to Mr. A.
5. Gillette, of Washington, for $4,000
cash. After Improvements to the
house have been made, it will be occu.
pied by Mr.. Harry Harrison.
Detectives Gibson and Wrenn, OF the
Richmond police force, are going to
make test case of o statute passed by
the last Legislature which declares that
police officials have no right to witness
fees. The law caused great indigna-
ton among the police when it was
passed, and they will strenuously en-
deavor to disprove its constitutionality.
Capt. John Lamb, the present Con-
gresham who represents the third dis
trct, in which Richmond is located,
will have no opposition for renomina-
ton. The time allowed Richmond as
pirants for this honor TO announce
themselves expired at noon yesterday,
and Captain Lamb was the only person
who signifed his intention Of running.
He put up his check for $500 to cover
the entire amount of the estimated ex-
ponses of the election.
Mr.. Alfred w. Thompson fell back
ward from a ladder while at work
in the barn on the farm of Henry Set
zsr, near Middletown, Frederick
county, Wednesday, and broke his
neck. Within short time of this &C.
cdent another occurred. John w.
Oates, prosperous farmer, was fatally
injured near Capon bridge, in the same
neighborhood, by the fall of q platform
on which he was standing while en-
gagged in putting hay in his barn.
The recent decision of the Court of
Appeals on the delinquent tax law
throws the field wide open to the land,
grabbers. The act provides that four
months be allowed the delinquents in
which to pay up and redeem their prop.
erty before the applicant can buy the
property. The SIS penalty must be paid
anyway, and this goes to the land
grabbers who have filed the applica-
tions There are five hundred such
cases in Richmond, and thousands OF
them in the State-at-large.
John Anderson, the young swede,
who last December, in the United
States Court, in Norfolk, was convicted
of the murder of Mate Saunders, of the
schooner Olive Pecker, on the high seas,
and sentenced to be hanged on March
18th, was carried before Judge Golf, in
the United States Court in Norfolk yes.
terdsy, for the reixing of the date of
execution, the Supreme Court having
denied him q new trial. Judge Golf
fixed Friday, August &c, as the date for
the execution of Anderson.
HIS FIGHT REsToRED.-Joh Martin, the
substitute for Charles Broadway Rouss can
now see. There is said to be no possibility of