Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-11-17
VIRGINIA NEWS.


States revenue agent for Virginia, died
in Lynchburg on Sunday night, aged o.
years. He was born in Loudoun county.
Governor Montague will leave Rich
mond this evening for Kansas City, No.,
where, on Thursday evening, his excel
lency will be the principal speaker at
the annual dinner of the Commercial
Club.
]. III. Downing, the missing cashier OF
the Dime Savings Bank of Portsmouth,
and who is SIS, 900 short in his accounts,
is said TO have spent $50, 600 in bucket
shops. The bank will be continued and
depositors will be paid in full.
The stockholders of the Orange Tele-
phone Company, at meeting held at
Fredericksburg yesterday declared q di-
vidend of six per cent. and reelected
State Senator Geo. S. Shackelford presi-
dent. t
w. Y. Abrahams, aged So years, OF
Richmond, died suddenly in Poythress'
drug store there yesterday. Mr.. Abra-
hams was at one time Baptist minister,
but had to give up the work on account
of almost total deafness.
Mai. Charles o. Saville has resigned
as major of the Seventeen Regiment be-
cause he finds his duties as clerk of the
Chancery Court, of Richmond, too ex-
acting to permit him to give the neces-
sary attention to military affairs.
Abram Smith, who lives on the west
side of the Shenandoah river, four miles
from Luray, was found dead in the
woods near his home late Saturday even
ing. His death is mystery, though
it is thought to have been due to heart
disease.
In its report to the Virginia Confer
ence of the Southern Methodist Church
South, in Charlottesville, yesterday, the
temperance committee declares that So
cial clubs are more dangerous than the
saloons. The report Of the board ofedu-
cation showed marked increase in at
tendance everywhere.
T. w. Berrey, who ran as an indepen.
dent against G. w. Wallace, present
Commonwealth attorney of Stafford
county, in the recent election, has mott
fed the latter that he will contest the
election. Mr.. Berrey charges fraud,
corruption, bribery, intimidation, and
coercion on the part of Mr.. Wallace and
his friends in every precinct in the
county.
Humphrey Potts, Of Hillsboro, charged
with the fatal stabbing of John Virts,
in that town, on Saturday night, was
taken to Leesburg on Sunday night and
applied for bail before Judge Tebbs. The
application was refused. Potts was then
committed to Jail. The coroner's in
quest held yesterday at HilIsboro, JUS
tice James E. Graham, presiding,
brought in verdict holding Potts re-
sponsible for the death of Virts.
In the House of Representatives yes
terday during the debate on the Cuban
bill Mr. Swanson discussed the perils
which he said threaten our foreign COM
MERGE by the new tariffs passed in other
countries in retaliation for the Dingley
act. He insisted that unless concessions
are made from the present tariff before
long all of Europe would be combined
in commercial warfare against this coun-
try. He discussed Chamberlain's pol
icy, saying that 55 per cent. of our for
eign trade was with ths- United King
dom and her colonies, all of which, he
said, was jeopardized by this policy.
The Baptist General Association in
session at Stanton, adjourned yesterday
to meet at Petersburg November 10,
1904. DIR. J. NJ. Jones, in the course
of speech, said that while he considered
the seminary under discussion the minis
terial school of Virginians, he had moth
ing to say against the other theological
schools of the country with one excep-
ton, that of Chicago, endowed by John
d. Rockefeller. Rather than have
founded that infdel institution, said
the doctor, with much emphasis, Rookie
Teller would have done more for religion
had he thrown his millions into the waters
of Lake Michigan. Its teachings OF
new ideas and new religious discoveries
are blight upon the country.