Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-09-01
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The car repair shopo of the Norfolk
and WesterN, at Shenandoah, Page
county, were shutdown today. The
shops employ about fifteen men, a num-
Der OF whom OWE homes at Shenan-
doeh.
Dorsey Mckee, a leading citizen of
Capon Bridge, died yesterday, aged
seventy.three years He was three
times married, and he will be .uritd by
the side of his three wives. He is sur
vived by four children.
The board of supervisors of Caroline
county have determined to bridge the
Msttapoui river at the point where the
public road crosses it, near Milford, and
10 build an elevated road for q distance
of 500 yards on the west side of the
river leading from the bridge.
Grifith's store at Hague, Westmore-
| lard county,, was broken into Monday
| night and two hundred dollars was
taken from the cash drawer. jim
Thompson, q negro youth, was arrest
ed, and after acknowledgment OF the
| robbery, was lodged in jail Wednes'
day. One hundred and ninety dollars
were recovered.
The Southern Railway Company has
| leased the Atlantic and Danville road,
and in future it will be operated by that
| line. The lease was confirmed at a
| meeting of the stockholders OF the
! Southern held in Richmond yesterday.
| One effect of the lease of the Atlantic
and Danville to the Southern will be to
/! shut off entirely railway competition to
Danville.
A deal involving the purchase OF the
| Basic City Car Works was consummat-
| ed in SGaunton yesterday, the plant be
ing purchased by the Warwick Manu-
featuring Company. The price paid
| was $22, 500, q large portion OF 1t cash.
The plant will be started at an early
date and will employ a considerable
| force. 1t will manufacture all kinds OF
| agricultural implements.
The Allegheny Hotel, at Goshen, has
been sold by commissioners for $751;
600, the purchasers being J. S. Craig
| and J. B. Wood, OF Goshen. This Is i
"boomn hotel, and was built at a cost
| of over 800, 900. The same gentlemen
were purchasers Of the property last
November, when it was sold at public
auction. The price then was $4,000,
| and the creditors refused to confirm
the sale.
Commissioner of Agriculture Koiner,
| who recently sent to the Department OF
| Agriculture specimens of the worm
which is doing such damage in Henri
! co. Yesterday received a letter from F.
H. Chittenden, acting eatomologist, in
which he says, 1.-The insect which
| you send, and which you state is de-
. stroying corn and millet near Richmond
is the so.called army worm, or south
| ern grass worm."
David Krone, of Winchester, was
! overcome by the heat while attempt
| ing to walk from Martipsburg, w. Va,
to Winchester yesterday. MIR. Krone
is over ninety years of age. He was
visiting in Martinsburg, and was go
ing home on the train. He got tired OF
! waiting for the train and concluded to
galk the distance. After travelling
thirteen miles he was overcome at a
village named "Rest."
Governor Tyler has recommended to
Secretary Root the following colored
officials for commissions in the volun
teer force: Captains-Wm. a. Hank
ms, Benjamin A. Graves, Pleasant
Webb. First Lieutenants-John K.
Riel, Charles II. Robinson. Second
Lieutepant-James NJ. Collins. All OF
these men sew service in the two CON
| mands of their race from this State
during the recent Spanish war.
David Biddle, an aged man, was
found in an unconscious condition early
yesterday morning. lying in a stable,
near Winchester. He was apparently
dying from heart disease, s%uperiDduced
by exposure and lack Of food. He was
partially revived, but physicians say he
may die at any time. Biddle was an
inmate of the Soldiers Home at Hamp-
ton, and left there the day before yellow
| fever broke out in the Home. During
the civil war be served in a Pennsyl-
yania regiment. His home is in Car
isle, Pa, where he is said to be highly
connected.