The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-18
NEWS OF MANCHESTER.
FOOT-PADs GETrTN0 TO BE A VERY
sERIOUs PROBLEM.
A Case Of Betrayal 10 he fnvestisated-im-
provementso n Meade Memorial Chutch' q.
Personal and other Items.
MAxcussrrn BUREAU. Rrcnmoxp TINES,

man Of previous good character. All par
ties interested are cOlored. Booker was
| locked up. and will have a hearing be-
fore Mayor Maurice this morning.
Booker said TO police officer that he
| understood the whole matter had been
settled but yesterday he went UP to Pow
| hatan. and was married while there. RE
| brought his wife back with him and they
concluded 20 set up Housekeeping in
| Patchs row.
When the officer served the warrant on
! him hc was getting in new furniture and
putting 10 iu position. He formerly board
| ed with Spraegins i'm Tan Yard Bottom.
| BE SIS employed ia the guanO mill below
~ TIE STREET COMMITTEES.
The street Committee met 81 Seventh
| and Hull streets yesterday afternoon at
| 500 O'Clock. There were present Messrs.
q II Sims chairman and Matthew Nor
| ton NJ a Campbell. w. Il. Hart and W
| H. Owens. They were called to inspect
! the work done by the city Engineer In
be ginning the paving Of Hull street They
| adjourned 10 meet on Wednesday after
REMODELLING THE CHURCH
1 Mr. Harry Tennele. the contractor, has
a force Of hands az work remodelling the
| interior OF Meade Memorial church. when
the work is completed. 10 will be great
| Improvement i'm the looks and also in
| convenience. the pews have hl been
| taken out and they win be replaced so
| that there viii be q centre aisle Winch
/ VIII be quite wide. The work viii possibly
! be completed by ncxt Sunday.
WANTED IN MANCHESTER, TOO.
Squire 4. b. Tyson issued a warrant
/ yesterday against VIM Thomas, alias
/ Tucker ana Nathan Powell. the two ne
! crors who broke into the store Of Walden
! g. Company Friday night end robbed them
! of q lot OF ne-,h9ndise.
] These are The two negroes who we're
| arrested by the Richmond police and are
| now in their custody. Tucker is the one
| who shot Policeman Minor
! Mcsers. Naden * Company lost by these
! thieves one conductors punch. Of the
/ value n fifty cents. eight razors no $40,
! twenty-five pocket knN g. valued 40 s.,
| two pair scissors, at 81 Ed; eleven boxes
| Of cartridges at S.; four pistols, AZ 81;
| two hair clippers at $3.50. and seventy
| five cents i'm United States coin. the whole
! amounting TO 1915.
Powell will possibly be turned over 10
| the Manchester authorities. but Tucker
| viii have His hearing ana trial in Rich
| mond. and after he serves his sentence
! there. viii De turned over TO the police Of
! This ciiv
ROBBED or MAYO's BRIDGE.
| Two young white men OF this city hfd
! = MhflN fitr' tNNfl 10 Ni.rAN ''t-.
| night. but they caught him and turned
! him over to Sergeant Matthews. OF the
| First station in Richmond. where DE
| was locked up.
The attention Of these young men was
| attracted Saturday NIGHT hy cries Of
| "Uolp, Murder Help" which came
| from the direction of MayOs Bridge.
! When they arrived on The scene they dis
| covered that a negro mark tmnn from
! Hanover had been held up by two other
! negroes and robbed Of an IBIS money. TO
| secure this they Knocked him In the be td
| with q brick and then helped themselves
! 10 what DE hal
The young mon saw the negroes. One
| ran up HUI street and the other made
| FOR Richmond. They gave chase after
! the one that made FOR Richmond and
| caught him near Main and Eighteenth
streets. where they turned him over 10
! tho police.
The truckman said he ia not know
| how much was stolen from him. but 'hcy
! had taken AN the money he had. and De
| had iust finished selling out his produce
HELD Up ~ sWANsBORO.
| While 4r Emmett Davis. resident or
! Swansb0ro. was on his way home SUNDAY
! nf1ht an attempt was made 20 hold iim
UP in an alley near HIS home.
| I happened between and o'clock.
and when he arrived opposite the alley
! man approached him and said. with
ana oath. "You are the man I want. ]
have been looking FOR you, and now j
| have you-liait.'
Mr. Davis was unarmcd and the man s.
words frightened him. and he made for
| home I'm short order ne got his pistol
| and went after nciehhor by the name
OF Vauehqu they returned TO the place.
| but could not see anything Of the man.
Roth DIED.
1fie-ce Alice end iva Joter returned %
| their rcmos in Manchester yesterday
! morning from Eeh0lOth.
! These young ladies were calico, n lt"
| days ago. TO Heh0b0th. Lunennurg coun-
! o. TO Dr. az the bed de OF % sick brother
! and sick sister, S.nre then they have
! both died and were buried iH the family
! burving ground lost Friday
Tho lrotla- Mr Eddie Jcior died last
Tuesday, and the sister, Mrs. Firaie
! Wallace. Died last Thurs
The funeral Of both took place FROM
/ the residence. Rrv. 4r Berry of the
| cool SPRING Christian church. cdciatcd.
BEFORE MAYOR MAURICE.
| Nafo. t.lff0. .e...d 49, the Mayor 81
/ Court yesterday morning
/ Toaley Baugh. COlOrct. was charged
with interfering with an officer in the
! discharge OF his duty and ln aiding and
! abetting q prisoner to escape.
Policeman Wright went 90 the woman s.
| house l1st Saturday nislt with warrant
| Cor her SON.. who was charged with "a
! mi.demcanor. The officer saw The goor
partially open. but before DE coul enter
! tll house tle woman closed and fastened
| 80 and would not let him enter. no gain
| au entrance De bad FOB break open the
door bot by that time the son had made
! good his escape. She vas med s. ana
! costs, which she paid.
VISITING his FATHER
! Rev. j. q. Bahcolk. pastor of Fifth
! Street Methodist church left yesterday on
! 90 risil 10 his father home. JOB Appomat-
! iox county. lie viii also spend IL Few
days with friends in Lynchbure. where
Dee was pastor of the Madison Methodist
| church before coming % Manchester
The Ffth-Street pulpit viii De hlled
! next Sunday morning hy Rev W. I. VIII
/ Iams ~ West-End and 90 night hy Rev.
A. G.. Brown. D. d.. Presiding Elder Of
! the Richmond district
Mr.. Babcock win De absent from the
city about three weeks. Ills family Will
T, accompany him.
WORK COMMENCED.
Work has commenced ON Hull street
| Yesterday morning early City Engineer
! Iinscomb had the alignmcnts and "a short
| umc afterwards Messrs. Ambrect AZ Nit
| teudorf had their hands az work. COM
| monclng between Seventh and Eighth
| streets.
Tha contractors will BE allowed i27
WORKING days in which TO complete The