Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-07
THE BANK CASES.
ANOTHER TRIAL or BAH TO COMMENCE
TO-DAY.
Very Much Mixed Up-Training-ship Dam
aged Want to DO annexed
Personal.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Disr atch !
NORFOLK. VA, March 6. 1898.


NORFOLK, Va, March 6, 1898.
Judge II. J.. Bond arrived from Balii-
more this morning to preside in the
United States Circuit Court during the
trial of the officers OF the Exchange Ma
tional Bank on indictments for false
entry, misappropriation of the funds of
the bank, etc. All the officers OF the
court arrived last evening. as well as
Judge w. W. Crump, OF Richmond, aud
Captain p. W. Mckinney, OF Farmville,
of the counsel for the defence. The
trials will occupy the court all the week.
/ The records show that there have been
sixty-two indictments Major l.. Il.
Page has Withdrawn from the case.
The trials commence tomorrow morn
ing. when tho case of Mr.. George NJ.
Balm will be the first taken up on the in
dietment for false entry 10 making quar-
terly reports to the Comptroller, Mr..
Balm has already been tried on wilful
misrepresentation of the funds OF the
bank and acquitted.
The court is engaged to-day in trying
the case of the National Bank OF Balti-
more against the receiver of the late
Exchange National Bank Of this city-a
civil matter in regard to some transac-
ton between the banks.
Judge Hughes's decision in the ferry
collision cases and against the ferry seems
to mix up the litigation badly. The
Norfolk County Circuit Court allowed
damages TO the parties injured amount
ing to IS, 900, and said the ferry and rail.
road company should each pay half Of it.
The United States steamboat inspectors
decided that the railroad tug was to
blame for the collision and revoked the
license of the captain of the tug.
The United States training-ship James.
town was damaged on Sunday by run
ming into schooner in the lower bay,
and will be ordered to return to the navy
yard for repairs.
The citizens of Atlantic City, the west
end suburb of Norfolk, are again moving
to get into the city limits, and held a
large town meeting last night and ap'
pointed committee to wait on the City
Council with a proposition. The suburbs
all around are anxious for annexation.
All the workmen and laborers in the
thirteen shops of the construction de-
partment of the navy-yard except the
foremen and apprentices were dis
charged last night There is no work
at the yard just now except in the
steam-engineering department.
Rev. DIR. j. l.. Burrows, Of Freema-
son-Street Baptist church, has gone to
Augusta, Ga, to assist his son in re-
vival in that city.
There is considerable excitement in
cotton circles over the decline in values,
and the exchange is thronged with cot
ton men during business hours.
Norfolk is to have first-class ice-fac'
tory, and one of the large warehouses on
Roanoke dock is now being fitted with
machinery for that purpose.
Major d. b. Dunbar was elected last
night delegate to the international Typo
graphical Union, which meets in Kansas
City in June.
Commodore D. B. Harmony, chief Of
the Bureau of Yards and Docks, was al
tie navy-yard yesterday inspecting the
work on the new dry-dock and new ma
chine. shops. G.