Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-07-14
Virginia News.

A Today camp meeting of the South
ern Methodist churches of Loudoun and
adjoining counties will begin near Lin
coin today.
The Richmond branch of the Pabst
Brewing Company was partly burned
yesterday afternoon and the damage is
about 81, 900.
Mr.. Winston Bresee, 3S years old, Of
RaLidan, died very suddenly Tuesday
night in Baltimore. Mr.. Bresee was taken
suddenly i'll and expired without re-
gaining consciousness. Coroner Martin,
of the Western district, gave certih-
cate of death due to heart disease.
At West Point Tuesday night the
plant of the West Point Oyster Company
owned by United States Marshal Treat,
was burned to ground. There is every
reason to believe the fire was caused by
lightning entering by means OF tele-
phone wire. The loss on building was
SO, 900; no insurance.
A discussion of ways and means for
enforcing the laws regulating the sale OF
drugs was the principal matter of bust
ness before the Virginia Pharmaceutical
Association at yesterday session at Buck
re Beach. The association proposes to
have the laws enforced in such way as
to protect themselves and public against
inefficient men in the business.
Rev. Reginald H. Potts, of Suffolk,
and three brothers, all clergymen and
members of the Virginia Methodist Con-
ference, have inherited the bulk of a $3.50,
600 estate left by M. r. Harrell, who
died recently at Williamsburg. Fifty
thousand dollars is left in trust to two
sisters of the deceased, one the mother of
the clergymen; $4,000 to the two older
children of Rev. r. II. Potts and the re-
mainder to Revs. Thomas N, Edgar A.
and Eugene ]. Potts. Ninety thousand
dollars of the estate is in cash and bonds,
Rev. Eugene J. Potts is executor.
The commissioners apI ointed by Judge
Waddill, of the United States Court at
Norfolk to condemn 1913 acres Of land
at Old Point Comfort desired by the
federal government for the enlargement
of Fort Monroe, have filed their report
in the Office OF the clerk of the United
States Court, and the award will in all
probability be accepted by the govern
ment and property-owners. John X.
McGinnis, for 100 acres of land fronting
Chesapeake Bay, was awarded S27, 200,
and the Catholic Brothers were allowed
SO. 900 for a strip of land fronting 100
feet on Chesapeake Bay. The total
award was $50, 250, which will be paid
by the War Department if the report is
finally confirmed in cour. at the end OF
90 days.
Details from the storm of Tuesday
afternoon in the vicinity of Richmond
show that the damage was considerable.
on the farm of A. McElroy, about ten
miles from Richmond, there was a cloud
burst, which destroyed an acre of corn.
Ia the midst of the field hole was made
four feet deep, nine feet wide, and TWEEN
ty-fve feet long. The soil from this
excavation was distributed all over the
acre of corn, running the crop. A short
distance away the big barn OF II. l..
Chester was struck by lightning and
burned with its contents. Down the
river lies the wreck of the steamer Poca-
hontas, recently burned. The flagstaff,
projecting slightly above the water,
was struck and shattered :, while a man
on the bank was knocked down and
stunned.