Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-25
in Washington the last year of the cleve-
land administration.
NEWPORT NEWS sLOT-MACHINEs.
The Warrants Observation-Disclosures
Grnnted-Brfefs.

| NEWPORT NEWS. October A-OSpe.
ciaL)-In the Police Court this morning
j. j. Herzogg, Charles Belknap. and A.
| b. Kitcmiller, Of Norfolk, were charged
with operating cash slot machines in
Newport News, thereby promoting gam
bling devices. and Justice j. u. Il. Brown
went into the hearing as soon as court
opened for the day.
Commissioner-of-Re NJ. p. Jones
testified as to the licenses that had been
Issued to the defendants.
Chef-of-Poiice Harwood testified that
ne had postponed taking any action
against the siOt-machine men pending the
rendering OF a decision on the same mat
ter by Judge Witt, OF Richmond
The slot men then explained their posi-
tons, claiming that they were entitled 10
the right Of notice TO leave before a
seizure shorrsl be authorized The war
rants were dismissed on that ground.
1t is probable that most of the forty or
fifty machines that have been coming
money mere Will be taken to Norfolk. Mr..
Herzogg stated TO your correspondent this
morning that he had consulted the police
ana revenue authorities in Norfolk and
learned that the machines will be allowed
to operate in that city until the Licenses
expire and then no more licenses would
be issued.
The Christine Bradley Young Woman's
Temperance Union of Newport News was
to-day granted charter by Judge Bar
ham in the Corporation Court. The char
ter states that the new union is organized
tor the purpose OF promoting Christian
and temperance work and for suppression
OF vice in all Of its phases. Mrs. Il. T.
Ivy is the president OF the union. The
capital stock shall be not more than So,
COO, ana the union IS authorized 10 hold
real estate not exceeding ten acres. Mr..
IL. I. Ivy has presented the union with a
desirable lot at the corner of Chestnut
avenue ana IwenJyhfth street, in East
End, and it will build on this property at
once.
City-Clerk j. A. Massie to-day received
from the engravers the eighty bonds for
the overhead bridge issue OF $4,000, in
which the Chesapeake and Ohio railway is
interested. this company having agreed
TO Day FOR half the cost OF the bridges
over its road inside the city limits.
Mayor Alan a. Moss, who has been alb
sent from the city for the past three
weeks, returned this morning, and at once
resumed his duties Mrs. Moss remained |
in Columbus. where she will visit rela-
iiyes. The Mayor, while absent, attended |
he Knights Templar conclave in Pitts |
burg and visited his old home, in Can |
ton O.
Quite number OF Pythians from this |
,ity will attend the district convention in |
tomorrow evening. Mr. Ed. |
~ Eubank will deliver one or the princi-
pal addresses.
The Democrats living in North End |
held a largely-attended meeting tonight |
N McLaughoins Hall and organized the
William A. Young Democratic Assocla-
ton.
Police-Sergeant j. w. Reynolds and his
ride nee Goodloe. OF Nelson county have
arrived in the city from Gordonsvlle.
Since the drowning Of the Sergeants sis
er, Miss Bessie Watkins, near Alton,
Mrs Reynolds has been quite Ill, but she
$ now improving.
The members OF Newport News Lodge,
so. 3l5, b. r. O. Elks, are arranging tor
heir annual lodge of sorrow" which
vii be held at JohnsOn's Opera-House
sunday afternoon, December 4th.