Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-09-06
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The Winchester Gas Company was
forced to close its plant last night for
lack of coal to carry on the manulac-
ture of gas.
Next Tuesday the Great Council OF
Red Men will convene in Norfolk for
their annual session, which will be 4
very important one. They will be
royalIy entertained by the big chiefs OF
that city, Portsmouth and Berkeley.
The annual meeting of the Virginia
Grand Division Of the Daughters Of the
Confederacy will be held in Lexington
on October as the guests of the local
chapter, the Mary Gusts Lee Chapter.
Some 40 chapters constitute the Nir-
ginia division.
Mrs. Van X. Uzzell, Of Newport
News. who eloped with her husbands
half brother has been taken by her sis
ter back to Newport News. The de
serted husband recovered his child.
Van X. UzzelI wiz institute divorce
proceedings against his wife.
Judge Prentiss, of the Second Circuit,
presiding for Judge Harrison, in the
Clarke county Circuit Court, yesterday
gave Mr. Thomas ID. Gold, general re-
ceiyer for the Berryyile Land and I'm
provement Company, a judgment against
Reed & Mccormick, who were large
stockholders in the company before it
went down. An appeal has been taken.
Results of recent registration in Vir-
ginia under the new constitution show
that the negroes are qualifying to vote
in larger numbers than they were expect
ed to do. The white voters are not
showing interest in the registration, and
the colOred vote is large in some places.
All over the State there has been a remark
able apathy, and the registration is in no
case hardly more than half Of the old
registration.
It is thought that a division of the
Presbyterian Synod of Virginia will in
all probability be effected at the one hun
dred and fifteenth annual session of that
body, which is to be held in Norfolk
next month. As the organization is at
present constituted, the synod is made up
of the two States Of Virginia and West
Virginia, the District of Columbia, and
a portion of Maryland. 1t is thought
that the territory is too large to be in
cluded in one organization, as 1t makes
it rather expensive to some OF the
churches to send their delegates to the
meetings. The meeting at Norfolk will
serve as an instance of this, the members
of West Virginia having to travel several
hundred miles in order to secure repre-
sentation. 1t is proposed to divide the
territory at some point in the Blue Ridge.
THE WAR IN HAITI.-The troops Of
Gem Alexis Nord, war minister of the
provisional government of Haiti, were
defeated Thursday and the day before
near Limbo. The opposing forces are
said to have lost heavily. Gen. Esman-
gard, who actually commanded the gov
eminent force engaged, was captured by
the reyolutionists, and a portion of the
government artillery fell into the hands
of the Artibonite forces. After the de-
feat of his troops. Gen. Nord returned
to Cape Haitien with his staff. The
general had an interview Thursday with
the French minister, NJ. Desprez, ON the
subject Of the threatening attitude as
sumed by certain classes of the inhabi-
tants against foreigners. The troops of
the provisional government are de-
moralized. The German gunboat Pan
ther has arrived at Port au Prince.
The Pennsylvania capitol commission to-
day opened bids for the new capitol building.
ranged from s.. 13S, $50 to $, $4,000.