Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-14
IT FELL ON RAINEY.
A PIECE orpLATiNo WEIGHING EIGHT
HUNDRED POUNDS.
MS Critical Conaitien-Activity I'm the
xasy-yard--The Cotton season Nearing
a Ciose-Hsbrews Arraigned.
rcorrcspundence Of tho Richmond Dispatch.l

rcosrcspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
NoaroLx. March fs.--This morning about
10 o'clock heavy piece OF steel plating
weighing about eight hundred POUNDS ieh On
Prank Rainey, iaboror employed on the mon,
ffor Amphitrite, and crushed him terribly spou
The hips. Ho was attended by DIR. harinion
sargcon Of mo yard, and then sent In theSovern-
ment ambulance 10 his home in Norfolk. Raineys
tr,ur,es arc severe and painful and his condition
Is considered very critical.
a..cuol Miller n truck-driver, had his right leg
,,nfen and crushed this afternoon by two-hun-
,:red-round block Of Ice falling on him ut Nash's
loe-house IN Portsmouth
NAyY-yARD WORK.
There are now nearly twelve hundred men ON
moved In the navy-yard, principally engaged on
he Texas. Cruiser No. 8, and the monitor AM
phitfttA A lot OF hands on the new ships were
tsken In this morning. In the yards and docks
uoparsnent about eoyenty-dve men are em-
ployed repairing buildings and constructing the
esys 20 launch the Texas 10 one OF the slips at
HE north end Of the yard.
nARkBLE-GNDERsoH.
Mr.. wniiam A. Marabie OF the Clyde Line, and
MIss Maria French Anderson, daughter OF Mr.. j.
a B. Anderson, wero united In marriage by Rev.
George ID. Armstrong at the First Presbyterian
rhurch yesterday afternoon and lett Tor tue
North.
Captain Thomas Kevil, chief Of the lre de-
partment, left last night for Washington 70 at
lend tho funeral OF his son, Rev. Father
William ]. Revill, Of Gonzaga College.
The elegant and costly Improvements 70 Oh
Mays Catholic church have been completed.
DECREASING.
Norfolk received fifteen hundred bales OF cot
ION Yesterday The receipts are gradually de-
pressing, but win doubtless run into the summer.
A Spanish steamship bound Tor baltimore IL
reported ashore at Point Lookout In Chesapeake
bay and wreckers have been sent 10 her ASSIST
ance. .,,o
fersburg today 20 bring n negro prisoner named
The pupils OF the Second district public
schools ia Portsmouth planted class tree Win
imposing ceremonies this afternoon
SOLDIER AND STATESMAN
Captain NJ. G. Keeling. commanding the Nor
solE fight Artillery Blues, was elected a mem-
Dor OF the Council In Berkeley last night
The Real Estate Exchange OF this city has for-
,nally petitiOned The United States senators OF
yirIfnia 90 support the Torrey bankrupt Dill
Tho busipee-men OF Norfolk are moving 10
get the American steel-Barge Company TO To-
cato their new slip-yard hero.
Fifty-seveu acres of land at SeweIs Point,
opposite the Rip Raps, were sold at auction yes
terday for S20,250.
BROKE HER sTETRISG-GEAR
Last night as the Daytime steamer Georgia
yas about 10 leave for Baltimore she broke her
steering gear aud was compelled 10 anchor on
Craney Island until this morning, when she was
accompanied 20 Baltimore by the tug Thomas
A. Rain.
W. j. wheatley, n Philadelphia drummer was
stricken with paralysis at the Mansion House To-
day.
THY oBsERVR SATURDAY.
number Of Hebrew merchants reported as
doing business on Sunday we're before the Police
Court to-day. few Of their cases we're con-
tinued and the remainder discharged upon eyi-
dence that they observed Saturday as their Sab
bath.