Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-08-04
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mrs. Luke E Wood ward, wife OF
prominent citizen OF Winchester. dice
yesterday OF typhoid pueumonis.
a new building will be erected at
the Virginia Military institute TO the
memory OF General Francis 4. Smith.
The third annual meeting of the Cul-
pepper Col; and Horse Club will be held
at the old fair grounds, on August .
and q
Dr.. William W. Parker died at Rich
mond yesterday, ag-d IS years. he
served gall4ntly during the civil war
in the artillery service.
Elder David 5. Storer, an eminent
divine OF the regular Baptist Church,
died Wednesday night at the old Sto-
yer homestead, near Lursy.
The cornerstone of the new Southern
Methodist Church in Luray was laid
yesterday with imposing Masonic cere'
monies, conducted by Grand Master
Hon. K. T. W. Duke.
The sale OF the Richmond Railway
ard Electric Company's street car lines
10 what is known as the Boyd-Newton
syndicate, composed exclusively OF local
capitalists, wac yesterday announced.
Mai ia. Johnston, one OF Petersburg's
best-known citizens, who has been IN
feeble health for the past three years,
died very suddenly yesterday. During
the civil war he served in the quarter
masters department OF the Confederate
army and Tor Il years was sheriff OF
Petersburg.
Major Darst, ex.member OF the leg.
islature and prominent merchant OF
Dublin, was held up by negro with q
revolver, while on MS way home Wed.
nesday night from his store and robbed
of mis- watch, money and papers. The
negro was subsequently arrested and
the money and papers recovered.
4 letter from Charlottesville says ::
Mr.. john Gardner, while ploughing re-
Gently at Arrowhead farm, near Red
Hill, turned up q nest Of snakes eggs,
eight in nun Der, ali white, hard.shell-
ed, and joined together ia cluster.
Snakes usually lay soft shelled eggs,
and they are found separated. These
look like a pyramid of partridge eggs.
a storm OF almost unprecedented
violence swept over Westmoreland
Stafford and King George countie :
Wednesday night. Crops were dam
aged, trees blown down, several houses
were unroofed, and horses and cattle
we're killed by lightning No details
are available as yet, and no loss OF hu'
nan life is reported. a heavy fall OF
nail is reported from some points.
The development OF the iron ore
mines st Big Stone Gap is proving sal
is!actory to the Virginia Coal, Iron and
, Coke Company. which has already
shipped several thousand tons OF ore
20 It's Middlesboro, Ky., furnaces. The
company mas leased for term OF years
the Looney Creek coal mines, near the
Gap, and it is reported will build be-
tween 200 and 500 coke ovens.
Ii now looks as if the city OF Win
chester will not be able to accept the
Gift of $4,000 which Mr.. Charles B.
Rouss made for the erection OF public
building, owing to certain conditions
upon which the gift is made. At a
meeting OF the board, held yesterday,
no satisfactory adjustment Of the diff
ierences was made, and postpone
ment was had until next Monday
when committee of the City Council
will confer with them. Mr.. Rouss
wanted the county to relinquish their
rights in the Market Square, upon
which the building was to have been
erected and which square is now the
subjec. of a suit between the two COM
nunities for ownership.
Miss Bette Ray Anderson. daughter OF
Robert z. L. Anderson. Of Winchester, died
yesterday afternoon.