The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-02-04
Sent. FROM RICHMOND.
virginia News Hotad and Commented Upen
BY the Vlrslnlan's Correspondent.
SENATOR WlTAERS, OF DAAYIlLE, ILL.,.
'"nh"ed iii EieiIsnond with tsrip--a,,
ASsi%nnent - a .;lIm7,t El.c q
friess'" Enort 4" Prevent s.antrt.
hnit"ns Of Buttons Nv Cpnsregn.
''"n-Fraud and Esnry s:s,nruet,.

{, ,,enmond Va, Feb 3-(Special.y-,
senator Eugene Withers, or I DanV;l,r,
,ne ,t Ia thcr OF the constitutional conyen
,ha ~. stne'he, Is III at Musphy's Hotel IN
@ .nis clty lie CAME here on legal bust
ness ness and was taken down with Inc }rIiny
~. i'aulus y. Irving IS attending l,in,
me Hulie u sick man II Is nor believed
.i,at .iitthc thc senator's $ condition Is such o.;
~ ~ N'oeensloh an! niar1n among his friends
AN ASSIGNMENT.
ar. ltobert Weadenburg, one OF the
oineSt ,i,, Aeaiers IN LING, plaster cement
49,; IN tn!s city. made an assignment
to-day lie gives up all OF his property
which IT IS thought viii more than nav
OF the Indebtedness. Ills liabilities are
about $40. 900.
There was fire at the plant or the
!tlchmond Chem lea company this morn
ing "nlcn destroyed an annex recrntjv
DULY. By good work on the part or the
nreineh other property was saved 1t
- 'Housht me loss Will not exceed s., 600
EXPOSED EUTroN-GIVETs.
ror some time all sorts OF mutllated
hn ".,, ,s' r'u.tons' ana other such articles
nave been placed in the collection boxes
It It -. Alary,s Catholic church. Rev.
rather Willebald Baumgartner, the nas-
tor few Sundays ago announced that
me practice must stop or he would make
m exposure. The thhE kent IN. and
this week Father Willehald has haa ire
COINS and other articles exposed to view /.
IN order that all Of the par!shioners
might see what some members and al
tendnnts were contributing to thu
church. tI.l .l>t.
AN eSLD TOBACCO DEALER DEAD.
'Mr,.Archlbald Boiling, a retired tobac-
conist died here t0-C aged seventy
Years Before and since the war 10 w:ss},
= yell known 71rianS TO tnG trade. HI IA et3
leaves three sons, Ill OF whom are Iir6s..s {
porous young business men here. and
u daughter. s}Mf NJ 1SIE
FRAUD AND USU13Y CHARGED.
some time in the early part OF January
o. ,this year Judge ll G. Minor, of IN.
Law and Equity Court, granted an IN
junction restraining c. A. Crawford
trustee. from selling u farm OF Miss IIe-
iia >. l!raXton In the county Of Hanover
me blll filed in Hanover Circuit Cour.
alleged usury aud fraud for money Dor
roWed from NIeSsrs. George t. Crawford
q Co, and secured by n deed OF trust on
ne farm An applicable was made by
alcSsls. George r.. Crawford & Co, he
lcre .)ndSe W. S. Barlow, in vacation
yesterday IN Frederick sburg to dissolve
the injunction fLw ardcd by Judge Minor
but this Judge Barlow declined to do.
y GETS THE MAIL CONTRA CTS.
1t is officially announced now that the
James River Navigation steamboat com
pany mas gotten the contract for carry
ing the mails between this city and
Nortoik. ] was stated some days ago
that ms contract would probably be
awarded 20 a Petersburg man, who pro-
posed 10 put the steamer Sylvester on
the line. @
NJ Nt'fAl, COMP ANY CHARTE.RHD
Judge Wexford, in the Circuit Court,
thls morning granted a charter to the
Gordon Metal company. The company
proposes 10 transact a metal and grind
stone business in all its branches and
10 manufacture, buy and sell iron, steel
copper and other metals, ana to repre-
Sent other concerns engaged III IL similar
business. The capital stock Is TO nc. not
less than $4,000 nor more than S25,C00, to
be divided into shares Of $780, The COM
plny shall not hold more than five acres
OF land. The following are the officers
for he iirst wear: President and Treas ,
lrer Frank ". Brown; Secretary, How
ara Gordon. The directors are the above
and Stanhope Boiling ana r Lancaster
Williams.
WHAT WILL JUDGE sGOFFa no?
Many newspaper people and others
nave tried 10 learn from Judge Hoff.
since ne has been In the city, whether or
not he will enter HIcKinley's Ctabinet.
but all have failed. The impression one
gathers from what he says is that il G
tender Of = portfolio has been made he
has not made UP his mind whether o..
not he will accept It. i.
Mr.. John ". Richardson's who. il is
said, will succeed afr. Sidney T. E;Das
has always been Il great a d mircr or Gov
ernor OFcrrall. During the contest four
wears ago for the Ciubcrnatorial nonina-
ton most or the party leaders in Snlyth.
county were opposed 10 O'irerrall. MI
Richardson champoned The cause Of the