Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-10-04
VIRGINIA NEWS.


dav unanimously reelected general
agent of the Peabody Educational Fund.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wynkoop, wife OF the
late Thos. Wynkoop, died at the home
of her son-iu. law, Mr.. Robert Wynkoop,
in Leesburg. on Tue day.
The Culpeper National Bank of Cul
pepper has been authorized TO begin
business, capital $25. 900. s. Russell
Smith ispresident and Thomas q Smith,
cashier.
Judge Woods, of the Corporation
Court of Roanoke, has decided that the
Mayor of that city has the right to re-
move or terminate the office OF police
men at will.
Mr.. Jefferson NJ. Levy is arranging
to open q sheep ranch, and Will soon
have a flock of one hundred south
downs grazing en- the hills around the
historic mansion of Monticello.
Stewart r. Gray, alias "Scotty," was
held in New YORK yesterday, by Magls-
trate Nj. tt to await papers from Virginia
Gray is waited for alleged completely
ia the $1,000 Massanutten bank rob-
berry, OF otrasburg.
The large income of the clerk OF the
courts OF Norfolk was yesterday about
doubled. Judge Prentis decided that
the law deprlviDg the clerk of fee Of
| 81 rs for each case tried 10 the police
court is unconstitutional.
Workmen commenced yesterday &c
pull down the old Exchange Hotel in
Richmond to make room for a man
moth wholesale dry goods establish
ment. The hotel ia one OF the most
famous In this country, having shelter
ed the Prince OF Wales and many die
linguished men.
Herbert A. Davis, twice convicted
OF well poisoning, was yesterday sen
fenced for a second time by Judge g
NJ. White of Fauquier county, to four
years in the peniIentiary. the former
sentence was five years. His counsel
will appeal to Judge Nichol, OF the Cir
| cult Court, for new trisl.
Lieut.. Province Mccormick, jr., son
Of Mr.. Marshall Mccormick, Of Clarke
county, and who recently passed al ex
| animation for promotion to q Lieutenant
10 the United States Marine Corps, has
been transferred from that branch Of
| the service into the regular army, aDo
commissioned second lieutenant.
Representative William Francis
Rhea, OF the ninth district, yesterday
complained to the Postotlice depart
| ment that his mail was being tampereC
with, as alleged, by certain postmaster
ia his district. General Bristow in
formed Mr.. Rhea that the department
could undertake DO investigation unit
ne filed charges, naming one or more
pOstmasters.
In Richmond yesterday Charles Good
Toe, charged with robbing station A o
the Richmond postoftice, Was sentenc
ed t. the penitentiary tor one year by
Judge Waddill of the United StateI
district court. Goodloe was superin
| te0dent of station A. He stood vel
and was popular, aud had wife anC
several chiIdren. He will be taken tC
the Moundsville, w. Va, prison.
Senator David B. Hill, of New York
spoke in the Sam Jones Tabernacle il
Danville yesterday to over 5000 PEG
ole. He was received with the great
| est enthusiasm. Mr.. Hill was do vi
on imperialism and trusts and stronl
for Bry IN and his platform. He at
tackled the republican full-dinner pal
argument, saying the pail was alway'
represented covered, so that one coulC
not tell whether it was full or empty.
Mrs. Amanda Wetzel, the young anC
pretty wife OF Frederick Wetzel, com
| mitted suicide tuesday night by taking
opium at her home, in Brambleton, {
surburb of Norfolk. She left two let.
tiers, one to her husband and the otbe
an open letter, stating that while sh'
mad determined to kill herself because
of family troubles, she desired to ex
onerate Der husband from all blame IL
the matter. When her condition wa
discovered every effort was made t
save her life, but without success. Sh'
Was but twenty years old.
| Miss Rebeca Holmes Lewis was mar
ried to Rev. Charles Noyes Tyndall, o
Fredericksburg, at Winchester yester
day afternoon 10 Christ Protestant Epis
copal Church. The ushers wer'
| Charles II. Gross, of New York; Viii
liam B. Sans, OF South Carolina; Georg'
Il. Knollmeyer, of Albany, N. Y, anC
Paca Kennedy, of Cbarlestown, w. Va.
all students at the Episcopal Tneologi
cal Seminary near Alexandria. Thu
rector, Rev. Nelson P. Dame, was as
sisted 10 the ceremonies by Rev. Ed
ward A. Temple, rector of Celyar!
Episcop, ii Cnurcb, Front Royal.