Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-23
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

DlSuODS III NCOhNh.
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
The annual meeting of the Grand
Camp of Confederate Veterans of Vir-
ginia was held in the opera house al
Wytheville Yesterday. The attendance
was large and the convention promises
to be an unusually interesting one.
At daybreak an old cannon used dur
ing the Civil War was fred to announce
the opening of the day. General Smith,
of Suffolk, called the body TO order and
Mayor Terry, of Wytheville, welcomed
the visitors. Addresses were made by
Judges Fulton, Of Lee, and George
Christian, of Richmond city.
The feature of the morning session was
the call on the sponsors to rise in the
convention, which they did. Ex-United
States Senator Robert E. Withers, OF
Wytheville, responded on behalf of the
sponsors. Ex-Governor Withers, in
speaking, said that he had daughters.
The grand camp adjourned to meet
this morning and the report of the his
tory committee, the most important
business which will come before the
body, will be presented by Chairman
George l.. Christian today.
Yesterday afternoon Senator Dan
iel spoke in tent to a large audience.
His speech was highly eloquent, and was
roundly appIauded. Other speakers
were Congressman Lamb and DR.. Jones,
of Richmond, and Col. Miles, Of Pulaski.
A reception was rendered to the sponsors
and maids of honor by the widow OF
Gen. William Terry, who commanded
the Stonewall Brigade after the death Of
Jackson.
At night at the opera house the grand
camp of Sons of Veterans met. The
speech of welcome was by f. Lee Trim
kle, the response to the presentation OF
the sponsors by Robert w. Blair, and the
speech of the evening was made by Judge
Robert c. Jackson.
Among the prominent ex-C onfederates
present besides those mentioned above
are Gen. VIM. II. Payne, of Warrenton.
JUNIOR ORDER MECHANICS. After
selecting Newport News as the next
place of meeting and electing officers,
the State Council of the Junior Order
United Mechanics which had been in
session in Norfolk, adjourned yesterday.
The following officers were chosen ::
Councillor, Z. w. Miner, of Richmond;
vice-councilor, Charles W. Todd, OF
Norfolk; treasurer, G. w. Kinsey, OF
Richmond; conductor, T. VI. Bunch, of
Lynchburg; warden, d. Z. Mann, OF
Richmond; inside sentinel, r. A.
Smith, of Ridge Church; outside SEN
tinel, j. 0. Wigs, of Beikley;
trustees, S. s. HUFF, Roanoke; W. X.
Butcher, Norfolk, and G.. ii. Pettyjohn,
Portsmouth.
A committee was appointed to ascer-
tain the cost of State orphanage, the
feasibility of establishing such institu-
ton and whether it is best for the or
der to establish one or combine with the
Odd Fellows and secure the orphans OF
members of the Jr o. u. A. NJ. quarters
with them or establish a separate or
phanage. The order has Il national
orphanage at Tifiin, Ohio, but is con-
sidering the establishment of one in
Virginia under control of the State
council
MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING. - DIR. Ellis
S. Duncan, superintendent Of the City
Hospital of Louisville, KY, was sent to
Jail in. Pittsburg, Pa, yesterday on the
charge of feloniously shooting Bruce
Head, a bOokkeeper in the employ OF
the Wabash Railroad contractors, Kene-
fec & Co., to await the result of his in
iuries. DIR. Duncan shot Head Tues
day night near the railroad construction,
about five miles from Pittsburg. Both
men refuse to discuss the shooting.
About midnight Duncan walked up to
a policeman in Pittsburg, told him he
had shot a man, and asked to be locked |
up. He was taken to the central police
station. He carried horsewhip in his
hand and in his pocket revolver with |
one chamber empty. DR.. Duncan told |
acting Police Sergeant Henry Merritt
hat he was from Louisville. but he in
tercepted letter sent by Bruce Head,
shom he had shot. The letter was adj
dressed to Mrs. Duncan, whom he had
married. but recently. Duncan said he
alked to his wife, and then felt justified
n coming to pittsburg TO see Head.
Dr.. Duncan and HeaH belong to promi-
lent Kentucky families.
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