Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-04
VIRGINIA NEWS

-nlc' II Stul6 -t4J GLE I>SltH4CI, ol-
Of the Oldest and most prominent ladies
of Richmond, died yesterday.
Mr.. Franklin Stearns, sr., Of l. ea.
mond, died in Baltimore, Nd, Yesterday
evening, where he had gone for special
medical treatment.
Rev. E. A. Temple. rector OF Trinity
Episcopal Church, Front Roya. con.
tinues dangerously i'll with typaoH
fever. One of the physician OF that
town has had forty cases already til.
year.
The residence OF the late venerable
DR.. D. B. Winfree. g celebrated B4pust
divine, in Chesterfield county, Was de.
stroyed by FIRE Saturday night The
house was valued at $1,000, and WIS
partially insured.
W. r. Triggs and associates. Bao
have the contract tor building torpedo.
boats and destroyers, have iea-e6 ire
the Talbot Machine Works, in tca-
mond, and will establish Their s4.n-
yards there. Work is expected 10 ae.
gin very soon.
Judge Christian. of the Corporation
Court, of Lynchburg, YESTERDAY over
ruled the motion for new tral IN tae
case of John Hammock, the negro rt-
Gently convicted OF criminally a,-a..t-
ing two little girls, and he was -ea-
fenced to be executed on December
Miss Jones, a niece OF Rev. Alfred
Jones, of Eastern Shore, died very sud-
denly last night on the train from ae
West. She had been visiting friend n
Dinwiddie county, near Ford depot,
on the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
and was on her return to the home @.
her uncle.
Robert Morton, negro, who was
convicted at the July term of the Hu-,-
ing Court of Petersburg for shooting
and killing George Westmorelald a
young man of that place, and who was
sentenced to be hanged next Friday,
was yesterday respited by Gov. Tyler
for thirty days.
Mrs. Phoebe McClung died esr'y
Sunday morning at the residence O. Ter
nephew, Judge William P. Houston 10
Lexington. She was the relict Of D-.
J. W. McClung, 3 former well.knoWn
physician OF Lexington, and also SISTER
of tie late Col. James Paxon. She was
aged eighty-four years.
D. c. O'FIaherty, gold democrat. ha
announced himself candidate 'or
Congress against Hon. James Hay. %.
Madison, and is making an active csr-
vass OF Warren and the adjoining com.
ties. The Republican County C0m-
mittee has formally indorsed him. sni
as a result party lines will probably be
tightly drawn.
On Friday night last Robert Saipe q
private in Company a, Second Virginia
Regiment, and his brother Charles, aged
about seventeen, were handling -e-
volver, at Woodstock, and the we4a5a
was accidentally discharged ard sa0,tle
younger brother in the left side. a-,
over the hip, and pierced his eaare
body. Young Shipe was not considered
to be in dangerous condition, aa.
although every attention was giyea a,u,
he died on Saturday.
On Naked Creek, in the southern
end Of Page county, there is q seroa-
epidemic of diptheria Thirty case o..
the disease and eleven deaths CHIEFLY
among children have been repos -i.
Wesley Lamb, OF that section, bas
FIVE children, with several NOR a.
James Meadows has lost tnree. aal
a number OF others have died. 10 '1e
same neighborhood there is an epidemic
of typhoid fever, from which num5-E
OF deaths have resulted
Smallpox is alarmingly preya.-ar
among the colored population OF Ho.-
folk. To-day colored man, hToseH
out with smallpox, who had .e., IFS
home uptown in search of medica
sistance, made his appearance 81 i.e
city dispeusary in City Hall S4a..e
and remained there an hour when
he was sent to the pest hoa-r.
In the meantime several police OH r.-
were stationed around to keep pee
from going near the man. Thl7 maN'-
seven or eight cases of smallpox .ts.
are now at the city pest housr a
special meeting of the Board o! Hea q"
was held yesterday and genera vac
cination was ordered.