Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-02-27
VIRGINIA NEWS

VIRGINIA NEWS.
The two democratic factions of Shen-
andoah county have harmonized.
Virginia Grand Lodge, Knights of
Pythlas, will meet in annual session at
Portsmouth to morrow.
Mayor John J. Williams, of Winches.
fer, on Saturday received check for
81 900 from Charles Broadway Rouss,
to be used in relieving the poor OF that
city.
The new hotel at Willoughby Beach,
| which is now under construction, will
De an elegant and comfortable struc-
ture when completed The house will
be finished in time for the summer sea-
son.
Mr.. Michael Glennan, for many
years owner of the Norfolk Virginian
and one of the best known newspaper
men in the South, tainted yesterday at
the Church Of the Sacred Heart in that
city. His condition causes apprehen-
/ sion.
The Fort Wayne Company, with
which the corporation of Fredericks-
burg has made contract for construc-
ing the electric light plant there, in
case the voters ratify the scheme, has
lately failed and passed into the hands
of receiver.
Mr.. Alexander NJ. Paxton, of Vicks-
burg, Miss, who graduated from the
Virginia Military Institute in the class
of 1877, has presented the library OF
the institute with about 400 volumes,
which are part of the library of his
father, Msj. A. NJ. Paxton, of Vlcks-
burg.
Willie Epps and Sam Dodson, the
two negroes arrested in Richmond Fri
day morning for the murder OF Mrs
Mary Lawler, in Philadelphia, on the
night of January so, were taken back
to that city on Saturday. Before being
taken away Dodson confessed to the
part he had taken in the crime.
The Senate committee on privileges
and elections on Saturday authorized a
favorable report on the claim for pay
ment of $1,000 to the heirs of the late
Leonard J. Bowden, who died while
serving as a Senator from Virginia In
1864, this sum being the amount OF his
salary for one year.
N1rs.EE. ]. Stuart, widow of the Con-
federate cavalryman, has rendered her
resignation of the position of principal
OF the Virginia Female Institute, at
StauDton. the diocesan school OF the
two Virginia dioceses. Mrs. Stuart
has occupied the position for many
years. She will conduct the school for
the remainder of the session.
| a week ago four nurses and two pa
Iirnts at the Retreat for the Sick in
Richmond became suddenly i'll from
some remarkable malady. Some OF the
nurses became deirious and had to be
put 10 strai ght jackets. They imagined
that hot lead was being poured down
! their backs. All have recovered ex-
cept one who is still quite sick. The
doctors say that this strange attack
was due to grip.
The storehouse and stock of gen.
eral merchandise of p. d. Meetze
ut Meetze, small station three
miles east of Warrenton, were
destroyed by fire about s o'clock
Saturday night. postoilice and ex-
press office were in the same building
and are total loss. Mr.. Meetze, III
company with several friends, had just
left the building when they discovered
the fire. The building YVES partially
insured.
Major Camilus S. Hart formerly Of
Winchester, died on Friday at the res
idence OF his daughter, Mrs. William
Mann Irving, at Mercersberg, Pa. He
was native of Kentucky. During the
war he served in the Confederate army
on the stalls of Major-General l.. L.
Lomax and General Jubal A. Early.
After the war he was engaged in the
wholesale tobacco and cotton business
at New Orleans. Later he conducted
the Hart Hotel in Winchester. He
was Is years of age.
While rumors have been numerous
enough, and in the main accurate, it
was not definitely known in Danville
until Saturday that the new Union To.
bacco Company and the older corpora
ton, the American Tobacco Company,
had actually consolidated and formed a
gigantic trust, with $100,000.000 capital.
The combined companies will control
the situation, including prices paid to
the producers of tobacco, which has
fallen in value since the report of the
consolidation get out. Antitrust leg
islation is to be asked for.