Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-04
NORFOLK NEWS.
A nAIN-srREEr rrRE-xIELED ON THE
RAIL.
The Cotton Business-Fsvy-Yard hattsrs-
The oyster fleet-contract
Given, Etc.
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NORFOLK, VA, DtptemDeI %, tooO.
At an early hour this morning q fire
broke out in the Globe House, on Main
street, kept by Mr.. James Harrison
The house was badly damaged through.
ont by fire and water together The
clothing house OF Wallace q Nichols,
adjoining, also caught fire and the stock
was ruined. The Monogram Saloon, the
next house, was also damaged. The
property was all insured in local agen-
cies. The loss was about $4,000, The
Globe House and the building OF Wal
lace & Nichols belong TO Mr.. Wilson
Pepper, of Baltimore. The fire was
accidental.
This morning about 2 o'clock we'll
known negro man OF the county, named
Washington Fisher, was run over and
killed on the suburbs Of Portsmouth by
an incoming freight train of the Sea
board and Roanoke railroad. Fisher
was sitting on the track asleep when the
engine struck him, and it was supposed
he was waiting near the upper depot to
take the early accommodation train for
Weldon. He was instantly killed and
the BODY badly mutilated. This Is the
third man in two weeks run over and
killed on the Seaboard road while lying
across the track asleep. Justice John
w. Rutter, of the county, held an IN
quest on the romans.
The secretary of the Norfolk Cotton
Exchange in his annual report says
"The movement of cotton to the deep
water ports of Virginia has shown ma
terial advance and the largest crop on
record; that over 1000, 900 bales, or
one seventh Of the entire crop, have
sought Norfolk, West Point, and New
port News"
Virginia Beach will be opened rs a
winter resort on the 18th Of December,
and is now closed to enclose the piazzas
in glass and build additions and erect
heating apparatus.
Rear-Admiral Stephen b. Luce is ex-
pected here this week TO inspect the re-
pairs to his flagship, the Pensacola.
Messrs. Ross d Sanford, OF Baltimore,
have received the contract for building
the bridges and trestles on the Chowan
and Southern road between Norfolk and
Tarboro', n. &.
No workmen will be called in the navy
ward after the 7th instant until the No
vember election is over, the law prohibit
ing the employment of workmen during
the sixty days just before election.
The oyster fleets all weighed anchor
this morning for the oyster-beds Of the
Chesapeake and its tributaries.
Mr. G. i. Thomas, the general secre-
tary Of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation of Richmond, conducted re-
lgious services in Portsmouth yester-
day.
Fine showers have been falling all
through this section since Saturday,
helping the fall paintings of the farmers
Mary Bracy (colored) was badly
burned late Saturday night in Ports
mouth by a kerosene lamp exploding in
her hands.
Captain A. Il. Yates, commanding the
flagship Pensacola, has gone to Ports
mouth, n. H.
The greater portion of the Richmond
excursionis;s yesterday spent the day IN
the city.
A good many Norfolk merchants and
lumber-men are securing the contracts
given out at the navy-yard.
Wbeelmen, six in number, represent
ing the Norfolk Bicycle Club, have gone
to Buffalo, n. Y, to attend the great
wheelmen's tournament
Quite large batch OF workmen went
into the navy-yard this morning, and
thirty will go in the yards and docks
department tomorrow to complete the
street railway of the yard. This railway
will DO worked with locomotives instead
of horses, as before the war. q.