The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-26
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GENERAL DRAPER'S
LAW SCHOLARSHIP
Mr.. Tucker Acting President at Wash
ington and Lee.
MR.. WILSON GOES TO ARlzoN A
Corporals for the Institute Negroes
Mr.. WILSON GOES TO ARIZONA
Corporals for the Institute Negroes
Refuse to Touch the Coffin OF a
Iscturncd Colorcd Soldier
from Santiago dc Cuba.

LEXINGTON, VA, Jan. 25.-Special.-
General William Draper, Of HoDedale,
Mass. ambassador from the United States
to Rome, has established scholarship OF
international law and diplomacy in the
school Of law at Washington and Lee
University. General Draper served in
Congress with the Hon. H ST. George
Tucker, dean of the law faculty and acting
president Of the University in the absence
, of President William L. Wilson, who has
gone to Arizona by advice Of his physi-
clan.
Through personal friendship for Mr.
Tucker and for the interest taken in edu-
cation, General Draper established the
scholarship.
DIED FROM HIS WOUNDS.
Mr.. William Z. Davidson, who shot him
self Tuesday morning with suicidal in
tent, while mentally irresponsible, died
early Wednesday morning. From the
time of the shooting until his death lie
was unconscious. He was the son of tie
late John Davidson, Of South river, and
was about forty years Of age. He was
held in high esteem by his friends and
neighbors. He is survived by his wife
who was a Miss Brown, and three chill
dl ell. The funeral took place at his
mc1hcr's home to-day att o'clock. and the
remains We're buried in the Lexington
cemetery
V NJ. I. CoRPORAI-S.
Examinations will begin at the Virginia
Military Institute on Thursday, February
Sth, and conclude Wednesday, the 14th.
The following corporals have been Sc
lected at THE Virginia Military Institute:
!. I. e. Johnston, Norfolk, Va; 2, ]. c.
] Wise, New York. N. Y; 8, P. A. Tillery,
Edenton, N. c.; 4, N. Turpin, Carrollton
Mo-; 5, M I. FORBES, Warrenton, Va; g.
7 Ca.ir n
Bierne. Ashland, Va; s, p. r. de Steiger,
San Marcos, Tex.a 9, N. T. Luning, Oak
land, CAL; 10, G3. NJ. August, Richmond,
Va: II. e. D. Jackson. Front Royal, Va;
u. r. a. Riser, Calvert, Tex; 13. W. p.
Tpshur, Richmond, Va; II, II. A, Ward
Norfolk, Va; Is, A. A. Adams, Lynch
burg, Va; 16. II. C. Garland. Lynchburs,
Va: II, r. b. Downing, sharps Wharf,
Va; 49, NJ. T. NJ. Werth. Richmond, Va;
10. NJ. Q. Kelly, Lynchburg, Va; 20, II. L.
Flowerree, vicksburS. Miss.
NONE TODD HIM HONOR.
Cameron Hughes, a colored soldier OF
the Twenty fourth Infantry, who served
in the Spanish-Amerlcan war in Cuba and
died of yellow fever at Santiago in August.
1898, was q native OF Lexington. His body
arrived in New York Monday on ene
transport Mcclellan and was forwarded to
this place for burial, arriving here Tues
day night The white expressmen had TO
bury the remains, as not "a negro could De
induced to touch the box containing the
body.
A small stone house on Main street just
| below the Virginia Military Institute was
destroyed yesterday by a falling tree
which stood near. In attempting to cut
dcwn the tree, which was old and decay
ed and leaned towards the honse,Slt leu :!
on the building and crashed IN the roof
and fore out one corner of the house. The
family had left the house before the tree
foil go -