Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-09
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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There is movement on foot to or
ganize another fruit company at New
port News.
The battleship Texas is coaling at
Lambert's Point and will sail for Hav-
ana in a few days to bring home the
bodies of the sailors killed on the Maine.
1t is stated in Norfolk that the Van
derbilts are negotiating for the purchase
of both the ALTERNATE and Chesapeake
Canal and the recently opened Dismal
Swamp Canal.
Crazed by grief, Nathanial DENLY, a
Portsmouth mechanic, attempted sui
eide on the grave of his little daughter,
who was buried yesterday Afternoon.
He repaired to the little mound in PORT :
lock Cemetery, where he swallowed u
quantity of laudanum.
A committee of Colonial Danes OF
Richmond will wait on President Nc
Kinley and Secretary Long next week,
to impress upon them reasons why q
new battleship should be named Vir.
ginia. Governor Tyler may accompany
them.
A bill has been introduced in the
State Senate making it unlawful to
manufacture, sell or offer to sell any
| article, compound, or preparation to be
used in the preparation in which article
or preparation there is any arsenic, cal.
| omel, bismuth, ammonia, &c.
Hazing at the State Agricultural and
| Mechanical College at Blacksburg, it is
alleged, is responsible for the physical
wreck of Steven c. Pace, the seven
teen year-old son of Captain Julian j.
Pace, of the Portsmouth fire depart
| ment. The boy is going about on
crutches.
The largest order for engines ever
placed by the Southern road was re-
ceived yesterday by the Richmond Lo'
| connective and Machine Works from the
Southern Railway. The order is for
forty-one locomotives, thirty Of which
are to be heavy freight engines and the
rest passenger engines.
A strange and fatal malsdy has been
| playing havoc with the horses in Pow
ell's Fort, eight miles from Luray, and
| many have died, in some instances
farmers losing all their teams. The
horse, in most cases, dies in short time
after being stricken. All remedies
known have so far failed to check the
disease.
Letita Tyler, the oldest inhabitant Of
Virginia, died at her home 10 Richmond
yesterday. Her relations say she ga
l26 years old, having been born in New
Kent county, 1773. she had great-greai
grandchildren. She went to Richmond
fifty years ago with the family OF MIR.
Joshua Williams and was nurse fol
J many generations in the Williams fami.
| ". Her mother was q half-5reed In.
dian.
State Railroad Commissioner Hill has
issued an order prohibiting the South
ern Railway officials from changing 8
schedule on their valley branch, as in.
tended for next Sunday, on the ground
that to do 30 would break the railroad
connection between the upper and low
or valley, and 80 prove extremely in
furious to the business interests of Win
chester and other towns in the lower
valley.
Yesterday evening Charles M. Har'
per, a prominent real estate agent o.
Pinner's Point, suburb of Portsmouth
shot and killed David Ross. of Norfolk
Ross entered Harper's Office, cursed and
advanced, while the latter retreated tC
the rear wall, where he fred, Harper
surrendered to Justice Rustic, who
balled him in q small amount for per
llmiuary trial today. The shooting is
believed to be justiGable.
Jacobs Keys, residing near Stormont
became enraged because of something
his brother did, and Selling an old mus
ket fred at point blank range, infictlng
wound in his brothers abdomen which
caused almost instant death. Rushing
from the house, the fratricide headed
for mill pond nearby, with the evil
dent intention of drowning himself
His father, Carter Keys, interferred
after hot chase, and taking the boy
back to the house, where lay the muir
dured brother, he bound his surviving
son and carried him to constable, into
| whose hands he delivered him.