Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-07-19
VIRGINIA NEWS.

A dispatch from the White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va, says Rev. DR.. Moses
D. Hoge's condition is unchanged. He
is very feeble and dangerously sick.
The Richmond branch of A. Saks &
Co., clothers, has sold its entire estab-
lishment, goodwill, &C., to o. 81. Berry
& Co., rival in this line of business.
The consideration for the entire trans
action was Sl4S,O00.
The remains of Mr.. D. N. Wigfeld,
Of Stafford county, who died on Sun
day at the Virginia Hospital, Rich
mond, from the effects of an operation,
were brought to Fredericksburg yester-
day and taken to his home for inter-
ment.
M. T. Rider, who has been conduct
ing the harness, saddlery and hardware
business in Richmond, assigned yester-
day. The liabilities amount to 81, 100.
l.. Fl. JORGE * Co., who have been con-
Quoting q printers supply house in
Richmond, have also assigned.
The board of education has about
finished hearing the agents Of publish
ing houses with reference to school
books, and their attention will now be
directed to the reports that have been
prepared by committees of representa-.
tive educators discussing the merits oil
the various publications.
Mrs. Mary Boone Walker, wife
of the Rev. Albert Rhett Walker,
died at The Hague, Westmoreland
county, on Sunday after an illness OF
ten days. Mrs. Walker was the daugh-
ter Of Right Rev. William Boone, the
first missionary Bishop of China of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, and waa
born in China.
In the Campbell County Court yes
terday the warrant against Rev. @. B.
Wilmer, by which he was fined in the
Magistrates Court for making an as
sault on DR.. A. Jaeger, was brought up
on al appeal and writ of nolle prose-
qui was entered. The civil suit against
DR.. Jaeger's Colored Asylum were ami
cably adjusted before trial.
While at work on q car on side
track at the G. & o. shops, on Seven
teenth street, in Richmond Sunday,
Mr.. George w. Carter was walking be
tween two cars, when, through appar
ent oversight OF some one, an engine
went down on the side track through
an open switch and pitched the two
cars together, crushing MIR. Carter's
breast severely.
The cases instituted against the
Southern Express Company by the
Lynchburg Board of Trade will prob
ably be settled out of the courts. One
case was for an alleged misdemeanor in
raising charges TO cover the cost Of the
war stamp without giving ten days. no.
iice. The other case was civil suit
for 81, 900, brought under section Il
the code imposing a penalty on express
companies for charging over % cent;
for packages of five pounds or less.
A storm passed over the Lynchburg
section Sunday night, doing consider
able damage. Crops were seriously in.
jured and outhouses blown down in o
part of Amherst county. Lightning
destroyed the wheat crop of James
Lazenberry. near Rustburg. Roanoke
was swept Sunday night by terrific
rain and wind storm, which resulted in
great damage to buildings, trees and
telegraph ebd telephone wires.
Churches suffered most. A big colored
Methodist church was struck by light
ming and almost completely wrecked;
the roof was blown of the Mount Zion
Colored Baptist Church and the Law
renee Snead Tabernacle was blown
down. The Baptist Church in Salem
Was badly damaged, and the tent in
which Evangelist Smith was holding
his meetings was torn into shreds and
completely destroyed. The new first
ward school building, under construc
tioo, was badly damaged. A number
Of buildings were unroofed. Farmers
from the surrounding country report
that the fruit and corn crops were
badly damaged.