Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-09-10
VIRGINIA NEWS.

At Bowling Green yesterday addresses
in favor of higher education were &c,
liyered by Governor Montague anu
others.
Henry w. Grady, jr., son OF the
noted Georgia orator, has disappeared
from hotel in Norfolk, and his friends
have searched for him in vain.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie's agent has ac-
cepted the lot offered by the Selden
heirs for library site and Norfolk Is
now assured of the gift of fifty thousand
dollars for library.
Miss Elsie Bell Smith, daughter OF
Rev. DIR. and Mrs. James p. Smith, and
Mr.. Charles Franklin Meyers were mar
ried at the Union Theological Seminary,
Richmond, last night.
Mrs. Agnes Palmer Ford, wife of Col.
ii. c. Ford, commandant of cadets at
the Virginia Military Institute at Lex
ington, died yesterday Of typhoid fever
after a lingering illness, aged 81 years.
Captain Lewis II. Strother, Twenty
second Infantry, has been detailed as
professor of military science and tactics
at the Virginia Military Institute, Lex
ington. Captain Strother is native OF
Virginia, aud has been in the army
since 1879. =
A valuable tract of land, known as
the Littleton estate, situated near
Unison. Loudoun county, consisting OF
2S3 acres. was sold in Leesburg yester-
dav to William F. Lynn, of Bloomfield,
Loudoun county. The farm, though
well improved, sold for only si9'2' per
Icre.
George W. Watson, sixty-two years
Did. died at the Union Mission at Nor
folk yesterday, having predicted eight
laws ago that he would die there. One
hour before death he predicted the exact
inc at which he weuld breathe his last.
He came from Baltimore where he
leaves a widow and three children.
The Wilson endowment fund OF
800. 600 for Washington and Lee Uni
versitv. Virginia, being made up, Her
bert Welsh. of Philadelphia, who was
largely instrumental in raising IL, rec
ommends that a fund of $500, 900 be
raised to endow scientific and technical
school to be associated with the uniyer-
sity.
Among the guests assembled in the
parlors of Hotel Clermont in Chariot
iesvile on Monday were former Cover
nor Fitzhugh Lee, former Governor
William L. Cameron, Lieutenant
Colonel 10 Lane Stern, inspector-gen-
.ral of Virginia State forces; Hon.
Roger A. Pryor, Of New York; Judge
Daniel A. Grimsley, of the circuit
.ourt. and several other prominent Vir-
ginians.
Policemen Hulcher and Pcndleton,
who recently had difficulty in Rich
mond in which their clubs and pistols
we're used, were dea.. with by the board
of police commissioners Monday night,
Hulcher. who caused the trouble by
throwing a cantaleupe at Pendleton and
then when abused by the latter broke
his club over his fellow officers head,
vas fined $3.50 and reprimanded.
Pendleton was fined only go.
At meeting held some days ago al
"Antrim," the country place of DIR.
James Kerr, just outside of Warrenton,
4 number of horsemen of Virginia or.
ranized the Virginia Breeders Associa'
ion. The object of the association is
advancement in the breeding and rails
ing of thoroughbreds in Virginia.
Those interested in the movement
are DR.. James Kerr, Gen. Il. V. Spill
man, Col. Robert Neville, Senator Henry
Fairfax, Edward Spilman, Jim Hall,
James X. Maddux, Henry Harrison, o.
Leesburg; II. Rozier Dulany, f. Asst
y-Cooper, John ID. Hooe, and several
,thers. A committee was appointed t
lraw up a charter of another to look into
he question of the purchase OF land up
N which the race track is to be laid out
| SUMNER COMPLAINT GERM.-Charle:
". Duval Of Annapolis, a student of the
medical school ofthe University of Penn
svlvania, and Victor II. Bassett Of Aledo
ILL.,. student of the Johns Hopkins
medical school of Baltimore, have recently
conducted an investigation at th'
Thomas Wilson Sanatoriim at Noun
Wilson, Baltimore county, that medica
men contend will result in a great bene
ct to humanity.
Messrs. Duval and Bassett succeeded il
finding the germ that produces infantil'
diarrhea and other Summer com
plants" The organism found is The
same that causes acute dysentery in
adults. and it is thought a practical
method can hereafter be employed iol
preventing these diseases.
The investigation was i'll line with
the work attempted by students of the
Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research,
which was established two years ago by
John ID. Rockefeller, the multi-mil-
lionaire, who selected as president OF the
board of directors Dr. William II.
Welch, the noted Johns Hopkins pathol-
ogist.
Nearly fifty cases were investigated by
the two young students and the result
was entirely satisfactory. The Wilson
Sanatorium was considered an excellent
place for such test, as nearly four hun
dred children suffering from intestinal
trouble are treated there each summer. DR..
Welch said yesterday that he considered
the discovery a most important one and
thought practical results would follow.
No cases of cholera infantum were in
cluded in the examinations made by
Messrs. Bassett and Dual, but the in
vestigations extended to all other varie-
ties of summer diarrhea in children.
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