Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-27
NORFOLK.
THROWN UNDER A RAILROAD TRAIN
AND KILLED.
Robbed His Employer and Escaped-Hish'
way ROBBERY; The Victim Badly
Hurt-Bishop Keane.

foorrespondenoe 9th Richmond Dispatch.I
NORFOLK, July 20, 1886.
Yesterday morning early Eli Will
lams (colored), who Was run over on
Saturday night by an excursion train
on the Seaboard and Roanoke railroad,
died of his injuries. He was on his
way from Portsmouth home, and when
the train reached Bowers's Hill be
Jumped off before the train stopped
and was thrown under the wheels, his
head being crushed, one eye knocked
out, and his body cut and bruised.
williams was nearly seventy years old,
and, having been employed in. Suffolk,
had not been home for agar. Heleaves
q family.
A Young man named Lewis Brown,
in the employ Of John O'Neil, q brick
maker in Portsmouth, living on Court
street, broke into his employers room
yesterday while the family were at
church and robbed . trunk Of $500.
He escaped notwithstanding the COM
bined efforts of the police of Norfolk
and Portsmouth to apprehend him.
Brown only took the money in the top
tray of the trunk, which was specie !;
in the bottom of the trunk was over
s400 in paper.
Yesterday morning before daybresk,
while on his way from the bay fishing
shore with load, Mr.. Abram Myers.
of this city. a fish-desler, was knocked
from his cart near the Jewish cemete-
nv. on The Princess Anne road, by four
white men and robbed Of s75. The
hichwaymen disappeared as soon as
they got the money, leaving Mr.. Myers
living 10 the road considerably hurt.
The British steamship City of York,
from Maryport, England, to New Or
leans, which put in here Saturday al
te,noon in distress, having been caught
in a Cyclone on the passage over, is
dischsreing> her cargo in Portsmouth
to- day for the purpose Of repairing
damages.
Bishop Keane, of Richmond, con-
firmed a class of over seventy candi-
dates at St. Paul's Catholic church
early Yesterday morning, and at III
o'clock preached a very able sermon to
the Young on the duty of forming good
characters and living godly, Christian
lives. An immense congregation, re-
presenting all the denominations, heard
the Bishop. The Bishop left in the
afternoon by the Merchants and Mi.
ners' Line for Boston in the interest Of
the Catholic University.
Rev. DR.. Smeeds, Of Raleigh, N. c.,
and Rev. Mr.. Lawrence, of Maryland,
held an attractive service at the old
Eastern. Shore chapel, Lynnhaven
parish, in Princess Anne county,
yesterday. A special train from
Virginia Beach carried the guests
to the chapel. Mr.. and Mrs. Bof, of
Richmond, and Mr.. and Mrs. Warren
Elliott, of this city, rendered delightful
music on the occasion.
Professor w. w. Smith, president of
Randolph.Macon College, delivered
lay sermon at Monumental Methodist
Episcopal church, Portsmouth, last
night on Temple-Building."
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company propose putting up at once a
lot Of dwellings at Lambert's Point for
the use Of the families Of the workmen
employed there.
Another large ocean-going tug just
built for the freight route between this
city and Cape Charles, on the New
York, Philadelphia and Norfolk rail-
road, arrived here to-day. She is
named Portsmouth, and is the most
powerful tug in the harbor. q.