Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-08-24
FROM NEWPORT NEWS
. xovEL SUIT INSTITUTED AGAINST
AN UNDERTAKEn.
OTHER IMPORTANT LITIGATION.
manages Claimed for the Death OF
Sebastian Colizzo, an Itnhan--'e$'
r,I Pretty weddinEs--Ncw Money
order Forms.


NEWPORT NEWS. August 25.-(spe-
clal.-Messrs. c. c. Mitchell and O. t.
Martin. attorneys. to-day filed a declara-
ton with the Clerk Of Courts In dam
age suit for $4,000, instituted by u. W.
NIilstead. executor for the estate OF Sc
basdan Coizzo. against the Delaware
County safe-Deposit. Trust and Title-in-
surance Company. Of Chester, Pa, which
has the contract 20 finish the sewer sys-
TEN FOR the Honans. Of Chester.
The plaintiffs decedent was fatally in
iured May 9Th last while at work IN one
OF the sewer bitches. and died eighteen
hours after removal to Dixie Hospital
Hampton. His wife and children live in
Italy, and it is for their benefit that the
suit is instituted. Colizzo was working at
the bottom of ditch % feet deep. The
"doad man." or log, which supports one
end of the cable as il runs over me
stanchion, broke on the day in question.
and the big. heavy iron bucket, liied
with earth. dropped into the ditch. strlk-
ing Colzzo and MASKING his body.
CUPID GETS NO VACATION
Mr.. NJ. M Morris. Of the Sci0to Grocery
Company. and Mrs. Mary T.. Whitley.
who Is well known in Newport News So
ciety were married this morning at 1880
o'clock at 1.-THE Gloucester" the brides
home, on West avenue. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. J. Francis Ribble,
rector Of ST. Pauls Episcopal church,
in the presence of a number of friends.
The wedding was a quiet affair, beautiful
IN its simplicity. The parlors OF THE
Gloucester were handsomely decorated
for the occasion. The bride was escorted
to the parlor by her son, Mr.. j. w. Whit
ley. Jr, and her daughter, Miss julie
Whitley. acted as maid Of honor. The
groom was attended by Mr.. +. l.. Gregory,
who is associated with him In business.
Immediately after tho ceremony Mr..
and Mrs. Morris were driven 20 the Ches-
apeake and Ohio depot. where they board
cd the s:l5 O'Clock train for Yellow Sui
phur Springs They will spend two weeks
there, and on their return will make this
city their home. Among those VINO wit
messed the ceremony were Mrs. William
b. Clark. of Surry county; Miss Pattie
Langhorne. Of Smithheld; Miss Annie
Norheet. Of Suffolk and Or. and Mrs.
Land, OF Princess Anne.
Mr.. J. L. Christian and Miss Pearl
Smith were married this afternoon by
Rev c. c. Cox. pastor of the First Bar
fist church. The ceremony took place at
the home Of the brides parents, on La
fayette avenue. The young couple left
this afternoon over the Chesapeake and
Ohio TO spend their honeymoon in the
North. They will make their home here.
Mr.. George W. Johnson. Jr., and Miss
Ellie Lee Ennis were married last night
at the MISUNDERSTANDING Methodist
church parsonage by Rev. Bernard f..
Lpscomb, the pastor.
Mr. f. T. Moseey, of this city, and
Miss Allie Bishop Of Surry county, were
married Monday at the home of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Moseley. This will make their home in
East End.
A NOVEL SUIT, INDEED.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hobbs, of Macon. w.
Va. has entered suit in the Corporation
Court against j. II. Caffee Son, the
undertakers to recover 5000 damages for
alleged improper embalming Of the body
OF her son. Holly Hobbs, who, on August
H. 1898 was instantly killed on the Ches-
apeake and Ohio railway.
The declaration says that on the after
noon Of the second day after the corpse
WIS prepared the most distressing re-
suits followed, and IT was only by per-
suasion Of a friend of deceased that the
body was allowed to remain aboard the
cars until Huntington was reached. AT
that place the health authorities were
notified Of the existing conditions and
ordered the remains TO be taken out Oh
the city. After great trouble and incon-
venience an undertaken was tOund ana
material assistance rendered. The 1e'
mains had TO be privately Inferred, now
ever without the presence OF friends aho
relatives of deceased.
NEW MONEY-ORDER FORMS.
Postmaster Fred Read to-day received
from Washington an advance p'ahh
monev-order form, similar 10 the uesIsl
which has been adopted Tor use alIe'
September 4th by the Post-Olhce Depart
ment. The money order Is Ike o', ,,,o
check i'm appearance ana SIZE, anu en'
NOW, u,av of making ii out, with the car
Non nrocess. relieves the postal men o.
a oreat deal of trouble, and saves a lo
postmaster Read has redistricted the
o,t,, an routes. and after September IS
al, of the CITY west Of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway and south or forly
sixth street will have the dement, o.
three mail deliveries every day.
Two 13-inch guns arrived at the snip
ward to-day from the washington gun
Soundrv for the battleship Kentucky
lNhis ebin,s main battery, consisting o.
four 18-inch and four S-inch guns, Is now
complete at the yard, and the lihes VII
be put aboard at once. -. :.
The Kearsarge has all of her guns II
nosition. except the two forward S-lhcl
The work of coaling the Kearsarge foi
her trial trip was commenced To-Day