Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-05-25
Virginia News.

gates.
A Montague club with $50 members
was organized In Nottaway county
Monday.
Carroll county elected 10 delegates
with half vote each, and instructed
them for Swanson.
Tazewell's thirteen delegates were
INSTRUCTED for Montague, with
Echols as second choice.
Robert Neville, of Loudoun county
recently sold several horses in New
York, seven of which netted $1,000.
Smythe county Democrats elected
IS delegates to the State convention,
instructing them to vote solidly for
Montague.
The insurance on the Jefferson
Hotel, which was destroyed by fire
March 30, has been adjusted. 1t is
understood that the basis of settle
ment is about $505, 900.
| A committee representing the l.. K.
Mumford Banking Company decided
Saturday to open bank at Glouces-
ter G. H., as soon as suitable brick
building coul d be erected.
A portrait of the late Gen. Daniel
Ruggles, of fredericksburg, will be
| presented to the State by the family
of the deceased and will be assigned
position in the State Library.
The Women's Christian Temper
ance Union of Norfolk has addressed |
communication to Mayor Beaman
calling upon him to enforce the law |
relative to the sale Of liquor on Sun
day.
The Women's Home Mission So
ciety of the Virginia Conference,
Methodist Episcopal Church, is in
session in Petersburg, Delegates are
in attendance from all parts of the
State.
The Trigg shipyards at Richmond
are to be greatly enlarged. The capt.
tai stock is to be increased from ST.
900, 900 to $4,000, 900 and the number
of operatives will be increased to
about 2,700.
Attorney General Montague has
advised the Auditor of Public Ac>
counts that the shares of stock of
railroad corporations chartered by
Virginia, belonging to resident share
holders, are not taxable.
DIR. Charles A. Gitchell, of Wash>
ington, ID. c., has purchased the
Rhinelander farm in Louisa county,
and will build three ponds for Guilt
waiting goldfish and will also raise
peafowls on an extensive scale.
The Luray College property, be-
longing to Rev. H. NJ. Wharton, has
been sold at public auction to the
Shenandoah County Building and {
Loan Association, of Woodstock, Va, 1
for $4,S00,a little more than one-third
of its cost.
The Democratic county committee
of Fsuquier has ordered a primary ,
election to be held June 8 for the ,
election of Gubernatorial delegates. T,
Fauquier will have 26 delegates. All ;
candidates FOR the Governor will be :
voted for. q
Almost $4,000 of the fund of $780,
900 to be raised as an endowment for
the chair of economics and political
science at Washington and Lee Uni
versity in memory of the late presi,
dent, William l.. Wilson, has been l
I
The Democrats of Bristol elected o
delegates to the Gubernatorial con- 2
vention and instructed them for b
Swanson, and for Ellyson as State n
chairman. r. Tate Irvine, of Wise il
was Endorsed for Lieutenant p
Governor. 81
Belle Grove, the birthplace of Pres Il
dent James Madison,in King George W
ounty, has been thoroughly modern; n
zed and is now occupied by the q,
wner, Mr.. j. Taylor Thornton, with m
lis family. The house is a splendid
olonial mansion.
The board of education was at
york Tuesday on the school superin- F.
endent contests. Some forty or more -
Tere decided, and there are about
wenty yet to be disposed of. The
GARD will not give out the appoints
tents until the work is completed.
H. L. Thomas and other Boston
capitalists, have bought one hundred
cres of land at Gloucester Point, on
ork River, at good price. 1t is not
nown what they will do with the
roperty, but it is thought likely a
lilroad will be built to that point,
nd that land is wanted for terminal
ses.
The result in Henrico county con-
nues to attract the attention of pol
icians. The application to the coun
committee of the four SwansonII
'legates from Shumaker's, to have
primary for the choice of a dele
ltion, may not result in the desired
der from the committee. The sup
'rters of MIR. Montague say they
i'll take to the Norfolk convention
q statement of the four Swanson
legates, admitting an unfair cleo
IN, and upon that, they will make
fight, which should give them seats
the convention.
A correspondence for some time
st has been carrying on between
rs. Mary A. Jackson, wife of Stone
vi Jackson, and the Mary Gusts
Q Chapter, Daughters of the Con-
ieracy, relative to the purchase of
3 former residence of Gen. Jackson
Lexington, and which is now owned
Mrs. Jackson. The chapter pro-
SEES, if purchased, to use the resi-
nee as a hospital for Lexington
Rockbridge counties. The
cunt necessary to purchase the
,perty will have to be raised by
Ifpurchased the name
| be 1.-THE jackson Memorial Hos
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Ittorney-General Montague We'd Fk
day gave out reply to Congress 80
n Swanson's challenge of Tuesday
Joint discussion throughout the