Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-12-15
Virginia News.

iugton on Thursday night. The inter
ment took place OF his home in Londoun
county today.
Another hotel, with 800 rooms, will
be built near Old Point, overlooking
Hampton Roads, in preparation for the
jamestown exposition rush.
It's. Vance has purchased from Jas.
P. .Jefries 400 acres OF the Rhode Island
tract of land In Fauquicr county, which
has been owned by the Jefries family
for generations.
The Episcopalians as denomination
have Withdrawn from the proposed inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL evaugelistic campaign to
be conducted 10 Norfolk and thereabouts
during the Jamestown exposicn period
next year.
Rev. j. II. Newbill has resigned as
pastor of Potomac Baptist Church, In
King George county, and Rev. J. III.
Connolly has resigned as pastor Of Mon
iague chapel, another Baptist church in
the same county.
The interstate commerce commission
has called on the Virginia corporation
commission for q copy Of its findings in
the Southern Railway wreck case, indi-
eating that the Federal body may take
come action on the subject itself.
A colored brakeman on the train which
ran into a freight train at Danyille has
made a statement, in which he says that
the cab window of the engine driven by
Engineer Kinney was closed with q
sheet of tin, which replafel broken
glass, and the engineer could see nothing
OF the track.
The contract for the building to be
erected at he jamestown exposition by
the Daughters OF the Confederacy all
over the country, has been awarded to
C. Il. Moore ut $1,000. The building
will be reproduction Of "Beauvoir,"
the home of Jefferson Davis, president
of the Conftderacy, at Gulfport, Miss.
In boiler explosion Thursday even
ing, at the quarry of The Allegheny Iron,
Coal and Coke Company, Augusta
county, Floyd Zimbro, fourteen years
old, was killed. and Boyd Agnor was
seriously injured. He will lose one leg
and probably will die. james Vest,
Morgan Phillips. and a man named
Thompson we're also badly injured.
Farmers conventions were held at
Leesbnrg Thursday and st PurcellVille
yesterday, under the direction of VIM.
II. Eggborn. member OF the Virginia
Board of agriculture from the Eighth
congressional district. Alfalfa growing
and the cultivation Of corn we're the sub
iects discussed by Professor p. 0. Van
after, OF the Virginia Experimental
Station.
The stable adjoining the Hotel Alton,
at Occoquan, was destroyed By fire at q
late hour Thursday night. IL ia said
that the men and women Of that place
formed bucket brigade, and through
their efforts the hotel was saved The
women, it IL said, proved their ability to
eight fires in time Of need, and their
work received favorable commentator.
Mrs. I.eadmen, OF Occoquan, IL the
owner of the hotel and stable.
The investigation OF the causes OF the
wreck on the Southern Railway at Law
yers, on November 90, in which Presi-
dent Spencer lost his life, will be resumed
Monday The work since the wreck has
been piling up or General Manager e.
II. Ackert and General Counsel Alfred P.
Thorn, who have been conduc log the
investigation, and it was necessary to
postpone the hearings unit! they catch
up, which they expect will be by Mon
day
Col. John NJ. Brooke, emeritus
professor Of physics and astronomy at
the Virginia Military Institute, died at
his home, in Lexington, Yesterday after
noon, lacking but few days OF teing
fourscore years old. Col. Brooke was gen
orally regarded a. the originator OF the
use of metals in the construction OF
ships, he having designed the Confederate
ironclad Virginia. lie was also the in
veutor of deep.sea sounding apparatus.
which has enabled scientists to ascertain
the nature of the oceans bed.