The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-28
HE TRIED TO ESCAPE.
JANIS DTChEHsON GfJEs THE PO-
LICE q omar DEAF or TROUBLE.
10y Bitten by a Dog Revival of Business.
Talk About the Southern Railway
shops Personal.
MANCHESTER BUREAU IIcHNoND IiMEs,
No. 1921 Hull SrKEsr. BIsITiE BLork

James Dickorson. the negro whose ar
rest on the charge OF steaIng lot OF
tools from Il. DOnaiO q SON. OF chester
Held county, was noted ~ yesterday
Times. came very near making MS escape
yesterday.
Poncoman Avis 1ad "a zen tie II an 10
the Manchester JaN. md while waiting
about a minute Tor Sergeant fitzseia'd
TO unlock the gates TO the yard, Decker
son attacked the onicer and tried 10 make
hts escape. 4 tusslc ensued, assistance
was soon rendered. and the negro was
finally placed behind the bars In the
statiOn-nouse Wednesday morning the ne
gro had made several threats that ne
would escape and annoyed the police
very considerably. lie was sent on TO the
County Court yesterday morning
BITTEN BY a DOG.
A young son Of Mr. L. o. Andrews.
while playing with dog yesterday atter-
noon. was rather painfully bitten. IA the
Police Court yesterday morning Mayor
Maurice ordered the dog to be taken out
and killed, which was done.
Several young white men were Delort
the Mayor yesterday morning, chaIe,u
with creating disturbance on the streets
about $50 o'clock Wednesday morning.
They were each fined 81 ana costs
BUSINESS RENlNlNG.
One Of Manchestcr's prominent business
men said Yesterday morning that ne was
surprised 20 nnd the large amount or
building that was going on ABOUT lhc
suburbs OF the city. In one section south
OF the city. there are six or seven houses
going up Some merchants report mat
Sradc is improving pawnbrOker sno,
was opened in Manchester about q month
or six weeks ago. and 10 was sald times
were certainly getting harder II The PEI
pie were patrOnizlng a pawnbfoker ssiaO-
lishment
Judge y. A. Hancock was engaged yes
ierday i'm holding the Circuit Court OF
Chesterfield. The court viii prObo3 he
in Iar
The Bel Telephone Company. which
has been ia operation IN thus lily loi "a
long time, had "a inrcc IF hands at work
Yesterday distributing .'ol"s, when. u is
said. will be substituted :Or the cd Cncs
now in use.
BRIEF MENTION.
The Ladies' Auxiliary Of The Old Do
minion Hospital Will meet at Bainbridge-
Street Baptist church this afternoon NJ
o'clock 10 make nnal ARRANGEMENTS LOT
"A sociable next Tuesday night. me pun
dc are cordially invited to attend the
meeting.
Fred Black. who was arrested ia Ches-
rcrfield county several Jays lgO as a
suspicious character. lIs engaged MT.
Ernest H. Wells. of this city. as counsel.
The case will come up AT me next term
of the County Court ,.,
~ serious accident last week IS in'proN-
Mrs. f. f. Fitzgerald. OF slate Fiyer
MiUS, BucklnAndm SNuHiAf - ''''''"e
Mrs II. 4. Maurice
Miss Goldie Clements. Of Nasn'ngion'
d c.. Is visiting her cousin, Miss KUN
Fitzgerald. No. 800 Hull street.
Mr.. r. II. Betty is on a business trip TO
Judge French was out yesterday morn.
ing Tor the nrst time since his recent
THE SOUTHERN SHOPS.
4 special from Salisbury. y. -. GATED
"Wednesday. says: "Nice-President Bald
14n. chief Engineer Hudson, and several
Other officials OF the southern rahWay.
w3re here to-day. and positively decluet
10 locate the central shops OF the System
near here on the lands recently bought.
Plans and specifications for the shops
were shown. and. II is said, contracts nave
been let for several hundred dwelling
houses 10 be built on the land for opera
tors. which means that one OF the largest
shops of the system viii be- BUST mere.
.everal saw-mils will soon start NJ 10
supply lumber for the shops.
The above telegram was the chei topic
of COM crsation I'm Manchester yesterday,
a. n was feared that the mammoth SHOPS
in this 81 would be moved Mr. W; -.
Owens master mechanic OF the Mancnes-
ter shops when asked about the matter,
said that ne did not know anything about
the proposed shops at Salisbury.
. Several officials In Richmond were also
seen. but they knew nothing WhaieNtI'
though they were of the opinion that tns
shops 10 be located in salisbury Woulu
nor have any effect on the Manchester
shops. They thought that the shops TO
be located at Salisbury would be a re-
moVal of the plant now at central. :, y
Miss Bessie Reid, of Perry street VINO
was quite sick Wednesday, was reported
better yesterday. a.
Miss Sue Porter has returned TO the
city after a long stay with her slstei' al
Hallsboro. ,..e. 40
Mrs. Mary Baldwin. OF Manchester, ac-
companied by her granddaughter, MISS
Pearl Brewer Is visiting Mrs. j. W.
Phillips, in Petersburg.