Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-12
VIRGINIA NEWS.

sity of Virginia baseball team OF 1900.
The report that the Vanderbilts are
negotiating for the Albemarle and Ches'
apeake and Dismal Swamp canals ID de-
cided
Mr.. Jesse Newton, of King George
county, has killed the largest hog OF
the season so far. 1t weighed 40
pounds.
The twenty fourth annual communi-
cation OF the Grand Lodge of Masons
of Virginia (colored) will convene in
Richmond this evening.
1t is proposed to amend the constitu-
ton so as to provide for the meeting OF
the legislature only once in four years,
instead of biennially, as at present.
Invitations are out for the marriage
| of Miss Berthe Tolson, formerly of Stat.
ford county, but now of Washington,
D. c., and Mr.. Spindle, of Remington,
Fauauier county.
Mr.. Paul M. Penick, receiver of the
Commercial Bank, of Glasgow, filed a
motion in the Circuit Court of Rich
mond yesterday in a suit for 81 800
against Fitzhugh Lee, subject to cred
it of $535.21. The motion was con-
tested.
Interest In the Mckay scandal con-
| tinues undated in Newport News. 1t
is reported that the Second Baptist
Church will bring suit against the par
| ties who have been circulating the re-
ports rejecting upon the clergyman's
good name,
The chapter of Daughters of the
Confederacy, of Washington, Kappa
hammock county, is raising funds to
! erect monument to the soldiers OF the
Confederacy from Rappahannock coun.
ty. They hope to erect the monument
next spring.
There may still be hope for Alexan-
| der Tate, the condemned murderer,
| awaiting execution Friday in the Ports
| mouth Jail. Governor Tyler advised
Sheriff Cromwall, of Norfolk county,
that he had best postpone preparations
for the hanging for few days.
Mrs. Mary A. Titus, widow OF Tunis
Titus, of WOODBURY., Loudoun county,
| died suddenly Sunday morning as she
entered her dining room for break
fast. She was eighty-fve years old,
| and leaves six children, thirty grand
children and several great grandchild-
rem.
Mrs. Mary Gertrude Lipscomb died
at her home, in Rich mond, on Sunday.
Upon returning from church, she took
some medicine for headache, and ex-
PRED in few moments. 1t was feared
she had been poisoned. The coroner,
! however, Is of the opinion that death
resulted from apoplexy.
The Richmond Locomotive Works
yesterday received 40 order from the
I Chesapeake and Ohio Railway for twen-
ty-fve consolidated locomotives. The
contract requires delivery beginning
next August This order makes a to.
tai OF sixty-six engines received at the
locomotive works within the past week.
A.. J. Simpson, 81. A. Thompson and
others, of Loudoun county, are prepar-
ing to erect telephone line from
Round Hill to Leesburg via Hamilton.
The line will be an extension of the
Round Hill and Snickersville line and
in the spring it will be extended from
Snickersvile to the Mountain House
on the Blue Ridge,
Representatives of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company have been
summoned to appear before Railroad
| Commissioner Hill at his Office in Rich
mond on December 10 to show cause
why their road should not connect with
Southern Railway trains at Strasburg
and Harrisonburg, the Southern operst.
| ing link between the two places.
A telegram was received by Cover
nor Tyler last night from Governor
MCMILLAN, of Tennessee, stating that he
and Attorney General Pickle, OF that
State, would like to meet him and At
torney General Montague in WASHING
ton on the 18th instant to discuss the
Virginia Tennessee boundry line case,
soon to be heard In the United States
Supreme Court.
Mr.. Henry T. Garnett, member of
the legislature from Stafford and King
George counties, and Mr.. T. Jesse
Gouldman, member OF the Legislature
from Westmoreland, are in conference
with the Representatives from St.
Mary's and Charles counties, Mary
land, In reference to the interests of
Mary land and Virginia oystermen.
They are laboring to have beneficial
concurrent legislation passed.
Mr.. Whitehead, of Lee county, pro-
poses to endeavor to break up by law
the customIof carrying concealed weap-
ons. He will present bill in the legis=
lature which will authorize magistrates
to search all suspected persons. Should
pistol be found upon the person, the
accused is to be fined $50 and imprison-
ed in Jail for thirty days. If this Of
fence is committed on election day, the
punishment is to be fine of $50 and
two years imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary.
The twenty-third annual report of
the railroad commissioner shows the
total miles of new railroad for the year
is 33.4O miles. The number of persons
killed by trains during the year was
l39; the injured numbered 1,463, be-
ing composed principally Of trespassers
and employees. Only six passengers
we're killed and seventy-ive injured.
The gross earnings and income for the
year show large increase over last
year. The average gross earnings per
mile were 1857; average expenses per
mile. 81, 026; average interest per mile,
S1,1S2.
The official board of volunteer officers