Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-12-05
PETERSBURG ITEMS.
Memorial Services by the Eiks-Arrest of
an Alleged Horse-Thief.


PETERSBURG, VA, December A.
(SpeciaD. D.-Impresslve memorial services
I'm respect to the dead of the order were
held Sunday afternoon at .he Academy
OF Music by the Petersburg Lodge OF
Elks. The Academy was hlled on the
occasion. and the music was furnished
| by the excellent chorus OF the Market
Street Methodist Episcopal church. with
Dr Talley as organist The Elks OF
Petersburg are liberal In all things,
and the hall was profusely decorated,
and llkenesses of the dead of the order
were hung in conspicuous positions be-
| fore the assemblage, draped In mourn
| ing. Only three members Of the local
| lodge have died i'm Petersburg since its
organizatlon-viz.: City-Sergeant George
w. Eanes. Chief-of-P Police w. II. Eanes
and Waller S. Phillips. a prominent mer-
| chant--all within the past twelve or M
| teen months. The eulogy was delivered
| By William II. Jones, Esq, in an address
of great beauty and eloquence, In which
| the faults Of the dead brothers were
| written in sand, and their virtues pic-
tureCD upon the tablets of love and MEM
| ory."
| on TO RICHMOND.
| Senator W. B. McIlwaine and Dele
| gates John y. Evans and W. Z. Nc
| Rae. of this city, will leave tomorrow
| for Richmond. and will all be in their
seats In the General Assembly on We'd
nesday. They have engaged rooms for
| the season al the Exchange Hotel While
| nothing definite can be stated as TO their
| preferences for United States senator, II
| is believed that both Lee and Martin
have friends in the delegation.
AN ALLEGED HORSE THIEF.
A white man named Benjamin Bailey
| has been lodged in the Jail of Chester
| field county on the charge of stealing a
horse belonging to Mr.. Henry Walden.
| near the Glover Hill mines. The prisoner
was taken before a magistrate for pre-
liminary examination, and was COM
mltted for the action of the grand jury.
The horse was recovered.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES
Mr.. a. G.. McIlwaine. a native Of
| Petersburg, and one of the most success
| ful insurance men in the South, has been
appointed general agent in the United
States Of the London and Lancashire
! Company at a large salary. Mr. Me-
| Ilwaines headquarters will be in New
| York.
| A strenuous effort was made to-day to
secure a meeting of the Joint committees
OF the Citizens Protective Association and
the Chamber OF Commerce, TO receive and
act upon letter from President William
G.. Elliott OF the Petersburg Railroad
| Company, relative TO certain complaints
made about the company but the effort
was futile. Considering all the noise and
clamor that have been made against
the railroad. and not without Just reasons
and considering further the fact that a
letter was addressed to Mr.. Elliott by the
committee with request for an early
reply, IL seems little strange that a
meeting OF the committee could not be
secured to receive Mr.. Elliott's reply.
Senator Watson, OF Nottoway, was In
the city yesterday. He is confident that
Mr.. Thomas Martin will be elected sena'
tor.
In this connection II may be said that
there was n meeting yesterday of num-
ber of local politicians, at which the sena,
torship and judgeship were discussed.
Mr.. William Ryan. Collector OF Internal
Revenue. was in the city yesterday, visit
ing friends
The regular meeting OF the Episcopal
Sunday School Union OF this city was
held Sunday afternoon at st. Pauls
church. The exercises were of a most in
! te-esting character and the reports FOL
the several schools were very gratifying
A heavy rain. followed quickly by 9
marked fall in temperature, fell here las
night. accompanied by high wind.
IN BEHALF OF THE POOR
A meeting Of the Citizens Relief Com
mittee, composed OF the clergymen OF th'
city and one lay member from each con
gregation, met to-day for work. Resolu
tions were adopted recommending the es
tablishment OF one or more soup-houses
under the charge OF seven discreet gen
tlemen: that the town be districted will
committees TO ascertain the needy poor
and that the Common Council be asket
to prosecute work on the streets as rapid,
as possible, in order to give worthy peo
pie employment.