Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-16
VIRGINIA NEWS

A plot to murder General Jiminfz
has been discovered in Santo Domingo.
Mrs. E. G. Edmonds has sold her
| farm in Fauquier county to e. @.
Groom, of Philadelphia. for $4,000.
Daniel Lockliet executed deed 10
Newport News, on Saturday, transfer.
ring his little daughter to Mr., and Mrs.
A. W. Watson.
The signal Corps of the army will
| make series of experiments at Fort
Myer with the Marconi system of wire
less telegrapby.
The jary on Saturday at Powhatan
Courthouse brought in verdict scquit-
ting w. G. Piikinton of the murder OF
State Senator w. NJ. Flanagan.
President Mckinley, in his speeches
| in the west, sought to create the I'M
preston that the administration Is en-
titled TO large share of the glory OF
| Dewey's victory at Manila.
Mrs. Elizabeth Glover, widow OF the
late Lewis Glover, OF Clarke county,
died on Saturday at the home OF her
daug hter-in-law, Mrs. Engeuia Glover,
in Bsrry vile, aged so years.
The action of the government 10 Of
| fering to Anticipate interest payments
on account of monetary stringepcy has
again directed the attention of currency
| reformers to the need of more elastic
currency system.
Captain John McQuaide, who was
born in Richmond fifty-three years ago,
died at his residence 10 Staunton, on
Saturday, where he bad almost con.
| tinuously resided sioce he was six
teen-year- old Confederate soldier.
Albert E S. Green, of Loudoun, was
| Instantly killed near Irene on Satur-
day afternoon. He had been out hunt
ing, and while getting through 8 wire
fence, the hammer of the gun caught,
and the gun was discharged, the load
entering his head and causing death.
The Fifteenth annual session of the
State Council OF Virginia, Junior Order
| United American Mechanics, will con-
vene in Cape Charles City tomorrow.
The session will extend through two
or three days, and promises to be one
OF special interest. A large attendance
is anticipated.
The Warrenton Horse Show. which
comes off on Wednesday and Thurs
day of this week, has every prospect of
becoming a great success. A grand.
stand has been erected and everything
for the comfort of the spectators and
the fine exhibition of horses is beiI 6
done by the managers. The are $50
entries.
At the approaching convention of the
United Daughters OF the Confederacy
in November, the delegates from the
General Division and from the Alexan.
dria Chapter. 18th Virginia and the
Mary Curtis Lee Chapter will be the
guests of the Richmond Chapter and
Confederate Memorial and Literary
Society.
Hugh Scott Doggett died at his home
in Fredericksburg on Saturday. For
two terms he served the city as Mayor,
aud for number of years was mem
Der of the City Council. During the
civil war he commanded Company B,
Toirtieth Virginia Regiment, and was
severely wounded at the first battle OF
Manassas. He was in the Seth year of
his age.
Rev. ]. B. Taylor, -of Richmond, has
accepted the supsrintendeucy of the
Georgia Baptist Orphans Home. He
has been pastor successfully at Gull
pepper, Lexington and Salem, and has
for years held the presidency of the
Virginia Baptist Historical Society, and
been q trustee of the Southern Baptist
theological Seminary and of Hollins'
Institute.
The headless remains of David
Scroggins, a colored carpenter, who
lived near Gainesville, was found at an
early hour Saturday morning on the
railroad track about two and quarter
miles east of Haymarket. a coroner's
Jury rendered a verdict generating
the railroad company. It is supposed
that Scroggins sat down on the rail-
road, and falling asleep, was struck by
a passenger train. He was known to
be in All intoxicated state when last
seen alive.
DEATH OF CAPT. J. ]. WILLIAMS.
John ]. Williams, mayor of Winches-
ter, aud one of the best known men in