Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-10-02
FELL DEAD ON BOARD
CAPTAIN WILLIAM DlGGS DIES SUD-
DENLY OF HEART DISEASE.
Accidents 10 workmcn on tho Battie-ship
Tcxas-Tbe Tcutonic Used Pocahontas
Coal-A Jnii.I,re akcr Drowned.

correspondence Of the Richmond Dspatcb.l
NORFOLK. October 1.-Captain William
Diggs, well-knOwn steamboat-man of this
section. fell dead this morning on board
the tug Keystone. which he commanded.
while lying at tho Norfolk and Western
piers. The doctors pronounced death the
result of heart-discnse. The deceased was
a native OF Mathews county and leaves "a
wife and three children in Portsmouth.
where he resided. He was about fifty 1.-Two
years Of age.
Mr.. X. q. Crump. O well-known young
businessman and hoal of the firm OF X. q.
Crump q Co., OF Portsmouth, died at the resi-
denco OF his mother in that city this morning
aitcr a lingering Illness from consumption
SEVERE ACCIDENTS.
There were three severe accidents to workmen
on the batte-ship Texas yesterday, Messrs. Bar
ney kutfer, C. c. Walker, and Thomas Flynn
bong tho Injured. and were carried 10 their
homes IN Portsmouth in the yard ambulance.
Rev. Dr. James Y. Fair. OF Richmond, will
preach a. the second Presbyterian church TO-
night aud Rev. DR.. n. d. Hoge NJ the First Pres
lytorian church tomorrow night.
A committee was appointed by the Chamber
OF Commerce yesterday tO arrange for the pro
per accommodation of delegates to the Worlds
Columbian Fair Convention, adjourned from
Pulaski City in July to assemble IN Norfolk on
lac 2lst.
TIE EEsT COAL
colonel Walter II. TaTlor received n telegram
yesterday stating that by tho use OF Poci,hOn-
| tas coal the steamship Toutonic on her recent
trip eastward beat all previous speed records by
| ono hour and twenty minutes, which is big
score Tor tho Virginia product.
| Rev. j. J.. Darsic, ~ this city, VIII move Win
his family to Chase City, Mccklcnburg county, to
| reside.
Tho Fifth Maryland rccimcnt will stop In Nor
( fox en- roVe p the Raleigh Exposition.
| NAstcrlMachius &. W. Walker, OF the son
! board Air-Line. and wife returned from their
wedding trip yesterday.
HEAVY HAY cRor.
Tho hay crop in the county ia the largeet ever
| known. Some of the farmers will not be able TO
| cat all their crop.
Hls MANY OFFICES.
Mr. 3. Elwarl Eruonn, formerly Of New
Orleans Las been elected president Of the Ports
mouth street-Railway and Eioctrlc-Lisht and
| cato a. presiden; q the Seab0ard Compress
Company AMI yco-I pres dent oi the Con 5olidatcd
| Compress Association Il Norfolk.
A charter was granted in tho Corporation
! Court yesterday 10 the Oh Dominion Lumber
Company, authorizing the concern TO hold n
| capital of 100000 aud 10000 acres Of land II
| desired.
| 4 charter was granted tho North Carolina
| lifr1iil l.llii'f 'NliIiiFf WIN ~ 'NliAhi VI
| s2OO.O and 5000 acres of land If desired.
| DROWNED.
| Information was received from Smithnell
| t1i- morning stating TIA the negro J0o iiooAer
| VINO broke jail in Portsmouth on the 2oth In
| stant, was drowned in Pagan crecx yesterlay,
| and the telegram asked tnat hls family be no
! tiled.
DEATH OF MAJOR JOHN MULLES.
| Major John Mullen, who was stricken Will
paralysis died ~ 81. Nincent's Hospital tonight
| H. WAS formerly Of the United States army and
| Confederate army, and was prominent farmer
| q Norfolk county