The evening times., 1901-05-04
IN THE OLD DoMINIoN.


b. Y White has been nominated for
( Mayor Of Leesburs.
The new cotton mill at Roanoke will be
III operation by July L
Work on the electric railway between
Norfolk and Cape Henry has begun
Charlottesville was lighted Wednesday
night by electric lights for the first time
The Democrats Of Petersburg will elect
delegates TO the Gubernatorial Convention
May To-
The Democrats OF GTayson county nomI-
mated T L Gwyn, a farmer, for the Con
stitutonal Convention.
The Democrats Of Orange county have
nominated Hon. c c. TalidfeTrO for the
Constitutional Convention.
All the differences between the officers
of the Seventeen Virginia Regiment
Richmond. have been adjusted
The Methodist Orphausge has purchased
SeFenty-five acres of land north Of Rich
mond on which TO erect buildings
Ex-Judse II. O. Mullins has been nomi-
mated BY the Democrats Of Henry county
for the Constitutional Convention
At Norfolk John White, coIored, fell
from the roof OF house and broke his
neck His death was instantaneous
The Empire Coal Mining Company has
Sled application for d S5,0G0 csc chaTteS at
Wheeling It VIII develop %, 90 acres Of
coal.
Hundreds of acres Of valuable timber
land have been DESTROYED in the moan
taIrs around Piedmont, W. Va, by forest
fires
Dr. John T. Harrison. OF Madison eoun-
t.. fell while alighting. from a train at
Charlottesville and sustained serious in
juries-
Rev. Dr William y Scott. Of Galveston.
Tex. will probably be called to the pasto-
ts.te of the Third Presbyterian Church of
Richmond.
The Pittsburg and Western Coal Com
pany yesterday paid farmers in Brooke
county $175,0oo for 100 acres g coal near
West Liberty.
II c. Roper. OF Petersburg, has been ap-
pointed to represent the Grand Camp Of
Virginia at the Confederate reunion in
Memphis, Tenn
The handsome residence on J. B. An
dTews' Oak Grove" stock farm IN Abe
marie county has been destroyed by fire,
with its contents
The Board Of Health of Taylor county.
West Virginia. am ounces that there is not
q case of smallpox that county, and
that ali quarantines have ended
The exports from Norfolk for the month
of April amounted 10 about 81. .615. coo.
April Of last year they were SI.0f9,5{2,
which showed an increase Of $3.50. .s5S.
The Democratic Executive Committee Of
Fredericksburg has decided TO hold a
mass meeting on Tuesday night. May :.
10 elect delegates 10 the CIubernatorial
Convention.
4 verdict at Norfolk in faxor Of the de-
fendant was yesterday. rendered in the
suit Of Addie r. Whitehurst who sued the
city for $1,000 dana ges on account CT the
death of her husband.
James P Turnkey, of SpottsyIvania
county. has filed notice of his candidacy
as an independent PopuIist for the Consti-
tutional Convention from Fredericksburg
and SpOttsylvania county.
The walls of the new electric light build
ings for Fredericksburg are about COM
pIeted. The roofing is progressing and
the entire plan viii be in operation, light
ing the streets. before July L
Manager COckard. of the Riverside plant
Of the National Tube Company at Wheel
ins. announced that the 10 per cent ad-
vance granted to 500 strikers would be
extended TO the 1900 employees
The Democrats of AIbemarle county
have nominated J. II. Lindsay. editor of
the Daily Progress, Charlottesville, for
the Constitutional Convention in place OF
Hon John E. Massey, deceased.
Rev Snowden Scott. who died in Grant
county, West Virginia, Wednesday, aged
seventy years, is said to have married
more couples than any minister in the
Eastern Panhandle Of West Virginia.
Northern capitalists have purchased the
plant Of the BerkeIy Water Company.
which viii hereafter be known as the
Norfolk County Water Company. of
which J. w. Hawley, of Media. Pa. was
elected president
The Virginia State Baptist Convention
of Colored People viii meet in Bedford
City next week The object Is to raise
money for mission work in Africa and
pay off the Indebtedness Of the Virginia
College and Theological Seminary at
IynchburS-
james McDermott, of Omaha. Neb.
who was recently in the Northern Neck
of Virginia. writes as follows Of that sec
tion: i have Travelled over the entire
tidewater section of Maryland and Eir-
giaia and [ consider the Northern Neck
of Virginia the garden spot"