Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-09-02
RUN OVER & KILLED.
yv<G SAD FATE OF A vRAlN.AANp ON
THE SEABoARp ROAD.
IN - d. HHdgiss's Dsash--rhs Edo.
sado % Discharge Cargo-0oed
Tsmplars In ssssien.

fCcG1e1po0dence OF the Richmond Diepatcn.t
Nonposx, September Last night on
che Tar-River division OF the Seaboard and
Roanoke railroad . train-hand named
Jsmes White. Of Portsmouth. was thrown
from flAt-car attached 10 wood train
and run over and killed almost instantly.
About the Same time section OF the train
broke loose and . negro boy about eigh-
teen years Of age. who was on the road
md didn't zee or hear the cars backing
down on him, was run over and killed.
The remains OF White were brought TO
Portsmouth this morning and conveyed TO
his home on the suburbs. The negro boy
lived near whore he was killed. Both will
be buried ct the expense OF the company
ANcrHxR COURT or INQUIRY.
II Il stated at the navy-ysrd that court
OF inquiry has been ordered IN the case OF
Passed Engineer Robert W. Gait.
IN charge of steam-engineering stores at the
yard, the department in which the late
metal robbery took place. Lieutenant
George d. Benson, judge-advocate. arrived
from Washington to-day to arrange the
prsliminar,es. Mr.. Gait Is charged with
neglect of duty.
The detail for the court IL Commodore
Stanton, Captain Sicard, Chief-Engineer
Green, Commander Stirling, Commander
Barclay, Chief Engineer Magee, Lieu
tenant Commander Ide, Lieutenant Com
msnder Walker. Passed-Assistant-ED
neer TAYLOR, and First-laeutenant Benson.
United States Marine Corps. judge-advo-
cate.
Passed Assistant Engineer Robert W..
Calf wss placed under arrest by Comma.
dors Weaver this afternoon. The court Of
inquiry convenes on Thursday, and Com
~ L. dant
Mrs. Van Vranken and her father. Mr..
J. H. Hammond. left for Washington to-
day to have @ conference with Secretary
Tracy in regard TO Pay Clerk Van vranken's
case. 80,
#. The Portsmouth Baptist Association will
meet In its centennial session IN the Court
Street Baptist church on Sac 15th-two
weeks hence.
DIED IRON HIS INJURIES.
q. w. Smother, the employee of the Nor
folk Southern railroad who fell from q car
In Berkley yesterday afternoon, died last
night from his injuries ct his home In Nor
folk. Deceased WAS fifty years of age and
came here from Elmira, N. u. about
twenty-five years ago.
Mr. b. W. Wales, the lumber-man who
was drowned at the mouth of the Pamlico
river was on his way 10 join his family
summering at Ocracoke. He was knocked
OveIUO8Iu by tut ulhluDOOuu VI thO 'cSSS''
RID. BUDaINs's DEATH.
The sad intelligence of the death OF
Robert ID. Hudgins. son of Captain X. H.
Hudgins. Of this city, reached here this
morning. When the news of his serious
condition reached here on Saturday his
brother. L. X. Hudgins, accompanied by
his sister, Mrs. Lizzie Wingfeld. LETT I'M
mediately for his bedside and they were
with him until he died. HIS remains
reached here this evening over the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railway IN charge OF his
brother and were conveyed to the iatters
residence. Only three weeks ago he ac-
companied the remains of his mother TO
the tomb and now he is the next to follow
her.
ROBBED IN DIVE"
Ernest Armstrong. of Tennessee. was
robbed of fifty dollars in lower Church
street dive last night.
The steamship Eldorado, sunk at the
Bahama Islands. will come to Norfolk to
discharge her cargo before going in the
d-y-dock at Newport News.
Officer Alonzo Troumonger, for fifteen
years on the force in Portsmouth, was dis
missed by the commissioners last night for
dereliction of duty.
DIED IN THE ALMsHousE.
Richard Drummond. who was picked up
on the Atlantic and Danville railroad in On
insensible condition on Sunday, died in
the Portsmouth almshouse Yesterday. He
was from Lawrenceville, Brunswick
county.
The Junior Grand Lodge of Virginia, In
dependent Order of Good Templars. CON-
menced the thirteenth annual session in
Webster Hall, Portsmouth, to-day.
A large fleet of coal schooners Is moored
at Lambert's Point awaiting cargoes.
MARRIED IN NORTH CAROLINA
Mr. Tavie Lawson and Miss Bette Rich
srdson, of Newport News, were married at
Elizabeth City. N. c., yesterday, and Mr..
William Helms, of Newport News. and
Miss Annie McNichols. of Chester, Del.
were married at the same place the day
before.
William j. II. Campbell. agent of the
Furness Steamship Line at Newport News,
diod at st. Vincent's Hospital to-day. from
heart-failure. resulting from diphtheria.
Ho was from Glasgow. Scotland.