Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-06-15
Virginia News.

Henry Mills, well-known citlZeh, OF
Richmond, died on Wednesday, aged
ffty-seven years.
Mrs. J. Chester Lee, formerly of
Middlesex county, died few days ago
at her home in Leesburg, Fla, aged
thirty years.
Tn the town election ct Fredericksburg
Yesterday Maj. ThomaS P. Wallace was
elected over Judge John T. Goodrich BY
81 majority.
Alta meeting of the Virginia-Caro-
lima Chemical Company held in Rich
mond yesterday a dividend of 2 per cent.
was declared, payable July 10.
Mrs. Amelia G. Glare, widow of
Hampton Glare, died few days ago at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. r. III.
Humphreys, in Niddlesex county, aged
seventy-fve years.
Senator Daniel will be chairman of the
delegation from Virginia to st. Louis.
This will carry with IL the honor of be-
ing a member of the committee upon
platform at the national convention.
The Matoaca Cotton Manufacturing
Company at Petersburg yesterday even
ing made reduction OF 10 per cent. IN
the wages of all the employees in their
factory, which gives employment to be-
tween 300 and 400 operators.
1t is said that as a result Of negotia-
tons Just concluded between Norfolk
and Western interests and the promoters
of the Tidewater Railroad Company, the
proposed line from the PocahOntas coal
fields to tidewater will not be built.
All of the Virginia cities held elections
for city officers under the new constilu'
ton yesterday, and the result was favor
able to the democrats in practically all
places except Christiansburg, where X.
M. Gardner (dem.) was defeated by w.
c. Flag (rep.). A light vote was polled.
The properties of the New River
Mineral Company, of Wytheville, in
Guiding a pig-iron furnace located at
Ivanhoe, were sold publicly Yesterday
by the receiver, at Ivanhoe. The pur-
chasers were Edwin Einstine and Jordan
L. Motto, of New York, the price paid
being sos, 900.
Fire in Richmond last night in the
big oil house of John w. Atkinson x
Co., at 1924 East Main street, did
damage to the amount OF $40, 600. A
big stock of paints and oils made the
fire in the center of the business district
very dangerous, and it was hours before
il was under control.
Thinking the town scavenger, W. ii.
Carter, was a burglar, Mrs. W. a. Hay
slett, at Lexington, shot him Wednesday
night while he was engaged in cleaning
her premises. The matter was inyesti-
gated by Mayor Walker, and Mrs.
Hayslett was sent on to the grand jury.
She gave bond in the sum Of $3.50.
The dedication of the engineer
ing hall at Washington and Lee
University occupied the morning hours
of the second day of the commencement
exercises. Prot. Alexander LOckhart
Nelson this year completes his fiftieth
year of continual service as professor of
mathematics at Washington and Lee
University.
Senator Daniel, OF Virginia, who spent
several hours in Washington Monday
evening, said before going to New York
that Virginia is strongly for Judge
Parker, who, he believed, will be nomi-
mated at st. Louis. His colleague, SEN
ator Martin, who is in Washington at
tending to departmental matters, spoke
to the same effect.
Yesterday in the commencementcalen
dar at the University of Virginia was
known as Alumni Day, the exercises
being in charge of the General Alumni
Association. At noon large audience
gathered in the public hall to hear the
annual address before the alumni by
DR.. Henry Louis Smith, president of
Davidson College, North Carolina. A
large number Of students received their
degrees. At the meetings Of the Gen.
eral Alumni Association a movement
was inaugurated by the Washington
Association of Alumni to raise a suit
able endowment for the University.