Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-03
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. B. M. Grcenlaw, wellknown
citizen of the Murtleville neighborhood,
in Stafford, died yesterday.
The Wlloughby Spit Railway has
been sold to the Ocean View Company
for about $4,000.
Advices from Samoa state that the
instructions from the powers to ceass
hostilities have been obeyed, but the
situation remains critical.
During a thunder storm yesterday
evening at Marshall, Fauquier county,
the Methodist church was struck by
lightning and burned down.
The important Siamese port of Chan.
| taboon has been coded to France,
| which has also been given other conces.
! sions in the same country.
Aguinaldo, in cablegram to the
Filipino junta in London, says his gov
eminent has nothing to do with the
! present peace negotiations at Manila.
The large planning mill Of Eanes Il
Hargrave, at the head of Fleet street,
; opposite Campbell's bridge, and on the
Chesterfield side of the river, at Peters
burg, was burned last night; loss
$4,000
BY the close score of to the Uni
versity of Virginia baseball nine was
defeated by Georgetown yesterday, for
the second time this year. With the
victory goes the college championship
OF the South.
a monument was dedicated on
| charlottesville battlefield today to
the memory OF the members Of the One
Hundred and Fourteenth PenDsyl-
vania regiment who lost their lives in
that battle.
President Newgass, of the Atlantic
and DsnVille Railroad. returned TO
Norfolk yesterday and stated most en-
phatcally that his line had not sold out
to the Southern Railway, nor had it
any Intention of selling at present.
Luther II. Snead, teller of the Peo
Piles National Bank of Charlottesville,
was tnken i'll ut that bank at noon yes
terday and died in few hours. He had
since his boyhood been connected with
various banking institutions Of Char
lottesville.
Two small girls, children OF George
Coilman and Charles F. Hamrick, liv
ing on Stony creek, few miles west OF
Edinburg, were bitten by pet pig on
last Thursday, which had been bitten
by rabid dog. On Friday the pig
showed signs OF rabies, and was killed,
Io fol-nn n Ra ltI.
| more for treatment.
The famous Orkney Springs Hotel,
together with dozen cottages, narrow
ly escaped destruction by forest fires on
Sunday. The flames came within fol-
ty feet of the building, but were stop
ed by the fre-fghters. Two hundred
men fought the flames Saturday night,
Sunday and Sunday night. The build
! iugs are thought 10 be safe now.
In the Richmond police court yester-
day the case of Lee Todd, charged with
circulating the paper known as High
Life" was dismissed. 1t appears that
| Todd was made the victim OF others in
| terested in the scheme and they at
tempted to leave him with the bag to
hold. The others did not appear in
court The paper has suspended.
The old home at Fredericksburg OF
the late Judge w. S. Barton, of the
Tenth Virginia judicial circuit, was
sold at auction yesterday in three par
GELS, bringing q sum aggregatin
$3.50. Mrs. Seth Barton, Captain c.
w. Wallace and Judge a. W. Wallace
| were the purchasers, respectively, of
the home, office and vacant lot, the
! prices being $500. 81, 700 and $500.
Henry Carver, aged seyenty-eight
years, who lived several miles east of
Edinburg, Shenandoah county, died on
Friday of last week. Back as far as
1915 Mr.. Carver was driver of stage
on the valley turnpike, between Win
chester and Staunton, and was driver
of the stage which ran away near
Woodstock early in the forties, in
which several persons were injured and
out of which the far-tame "Ragel case"
grew.
Miss Lucy Mccain and John SAINT
myers, of Edinburg, were married on
sunday at Mount Clifton, Rev. Mr..
Smiley officiating. The couple drove
over the southern END of the county,
distance of forty miles, before
they could find the parson. The bride
narrowly escaped death from a pistol
ball fired by a jealous suitor two years
ago, in Woodstock. The young man
who did the shooting shot himself in
the stomach. bnt recovered