Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-03-20
CAUGHT WlTHSTAM PS
ARRESTED on THE CHARGE oF
RoBBIxG A PosT-OFFICE.
The Atlantic and Dnn'iiic hni'r"""
Terminus Question-A Benutifu'
Church window Destroyed-serious
Loss.

NORFOLK, VA, March l9.-(Speciai.)-
Constable Anderson this morning arrested
william Pender (coloreO, charged Win
robbing the post-office at Port NOTION
last week Pender was trying to dispose
Of postage-stamps, and when ne was
searched a number were found IN MS
possession. He said that a negro he ola
not know gave them to him to SELL an"
that the man had gone 10 Suffolk. Coh-
stable Anderson is now after the oth-r
man thought 10 be implicated.
The officers Of the Atlantic and DanViie
Railroad Company had notices served on
them to-day that the Supreme Court vi
Appeals would be asked on the "a gay
OF April In Richmond for peremptory
mandamus requiring the railroad 10 re-
turn to Portsmouth, make the city the
terminus. and TO carry out its contract
with the city The signers OF the notice
are G. s. Sherwood, j. J. King, j. Davis
Reed. Z. c. Brooks. A. L. Etheridge'
Joseph +. Weaver, George NJ. Turner
Virginius Butt J. S. Crawford, DR.. V. u
Culpepper. and II. L. Watts.
TAKEN TO THE PENITENTIARY.
BENJAMIN Brock who killed George Han
near Virginia Beach about nine months
ago. and who has been in Princess Anne
county jail for eight months, was taken
10 the State Penitentiary to-day, 10 serve
n ten-year sentence. While In jail mere
he was visited by many of his friends
who have promised to do everything in
their power TO secure his pardon. lie
stated that he felt very sorry for having
committed the crime. and that whiskey
had n good deal 20 DO with II. lie also
expressed sorrow for his wife and aged
father.
DAMAGE TO y CHURCH
The new Epwor,h Methodist Epis-
copal church was badly damaged this
afternoon. when the handsome l6-foot
stone mulliOned-rose window, when
adorned and beautifed the front OF what
Is considered one Of the finest church
edifces in the South. fell in with crash
and wae almost totally destroyed. Inc
window, which was demolished, was COM
poscd Of stone and cathedral-gias5'
Twentv-seven Of the forty-two SAND
stone blocks composing the l6-foot circie
of muliious for the central and OUTSIDE
divisions lay on the inside Of the church,
amid an array OF splintered wood ana
shattered stained glass. SeNeral OF ulo
stones, Weighing from 500 to coo pounds
each. had lcaped clear OF the gallery
into which the greater mass Of the wreck
age fell, and had crashed through the
news on the lower floor. damaging them
badly. The handsome brass galery-rail
was twisted and broken by the hying
debris. The damage to the building IS
estimated az between 5000 and NVD'
The wreck IS thought TO be due to me
effects OF the elements upon the cement
with which the blocks were fastened. Inc
stone was not Govetailed or locked, ana
owing 10 this fact the structure had con
siderab,y weakened and the high "ihd
prevailing at the time did the rest
THE REPUBLICAN ROW.
The Lowery faction OF the Republican
party held precinct meetings tonight ana
elected delegates to the city convention
which will be held tomorrow night. Inc
attendance at these meetings was not
very large, and In several OF them ioi-
lowers of Colonel Lamb unsucces5tui.Y
attempted TO stampede the meeting. Juds-
ing from the size Of the crowds now
ever. Mr. LOwery's faction Is about as
large as Colonel Lambs.