The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-02
IN GENERAL
Succlnct Statement Of News Events, Strip
ped Of Much Of the Details.
YESTERDAYS NEWS BRIEFLY RECORDED
Short Paragraphs Personal ana
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF Events In.
terestinE to Every Reader-TopiGs
discussed Ole tho Streets anu In
Onicca and H1omcx.

July came in warm and oppressive.
The city employees will be paid to-day.
There will be plenty OF meetings next
week
There were no courts in session yes
terday.
There will be several excursions on
next Monday.
Grimes Battery goes to Soldiers
Home to-day.
There will be q meeting Of the School
Board tonight. :.
The July term Of the Hastings Court
begins next Monday.
The Democratic convention will meet
III Roanoke August 18th.
Everybody was complaining Yesterday
about the heat Of Wednesday night
Mt. j. W. S. Butt is confined to his
nome. on Crawford street, by sickness.
A colored man who was driving a
truck yesterday was overcome with the
Heat.
Mr.. Wainwright and his son, Clifford,
left yesterday for York county to spend
g. few days;
The South Street Baptist Sunday
school carried quite q crowd on their
Grice Lodge, I. o. Q. F.. installed om-
GERS last night. There was a little
spread afterwards
Miss Mary Prtchard, who has been
visiting friends In this city, left for
her home, in Baltimore, last night
Frank Harris, colored, was before the
Mayor yesterday for disorderly conduct
He was fined SIS.
MIR. and Mrs. J. D. Garner, Of West
Norfolk. lost by death yesterday their
15-months-oId child.
George Boyd. colored. was sent to the
county jail yesterday for thirty days for
stealing q, shirt from a waSherwoman.
The burned Steamship Clintonia which
mas been lying on the Swimming Point
fats for some time, has been towed to
Newport News
TO meet the dull times W. e. Virnel-
son & Co. will offer their entire line Of
children's headwear at just half price
for Saturday only.
Justice AinSwol-th had his first case
Yesterday afternoon. Two well known
white men, both residents or the coun-
ty. were up for fighting.
+ The Board of Supervisors will hold
their first meeting in the new year on
the fourth Monday in this month. At
this meeting chairman will be elected.
MIR. Charles II. Bland, inner guard Of
the Grand Lodge, *. of P. went to New
port News yesterday afternoon and In
etalled the newly elected officers OF the
PythTan Lodge In that city.
Mr. Edward baltimore and wife, Of
Atlantic City, N. j., are In the city. MI S.
baltimore came here to attend the fune-
raj OF her brother. 1t is her first visit
to her old home III fifteen years.
Mr. John G. Manning, while at work
at the Seaboard shops Wednesday after
noon met with a painful accident A
bolt dropped from the roof of the car
penter shop and struck him in the mou tn
and loosened two Of his teeth to an
extent that a dentist had to extract
them.
The negro man Squire, who was ar
rested for praoticlng fraud on an old col
ored woman, had n hearing before jus
tice Rutter yesterday and was dis
missed by payment OF costs. There was
not sufficient testimony. outside the
woman's. to send him on to the United
States Court.
There seems to be considerable inter-
est manifested in regard to whether
Portsmouth will be represented in the
Atlantic League or not. The Virginian
representative has made diligent In
Quries In regard to the same and failed
to find any one who can state anything
definite about the matter. Every one Is