The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-06
Norfolk and Portsmouth Men Oppose
Removal.
The MARINE GUARD SENTENCED.
The colored Child Who Drank Paris Gfeen Is
Dead -Shipwrecked Grew Of the sehosaer
Merwin Arrives at Norfolk Csm-
perdown Ashore and Aleak.
missing Girl who was
to be Married.
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NORFOLK. VA, March 5.-It Is stated
that Private Hasseiit. of the marine
guard at the Navy Yard. Norfolk. who
recently bayoneted Samuel Meads. has
been found guilty by the board who
tried him. and will probably be given
thirty days in the brig. the maximum
penalty for his ofrense. Young Meads,
who refused. the marine said. to move
on" when ordered. was slightly cut In
the neck by Hasselit's bayonet.
Laddie Fuller. the colored child who at
Portsmouth Sunday swallowed paris
green through mistake. is dead.
The crew of the schooner General s.. e.
Merwin. wrecked yesterday at Hatteras,
arrived here to-day.
SHIPS IN TROUBLE.
The American barkentine Stephen G..
Hart, bound from Turks Island for Prov
idence with salt, arrived here to-day
aleak and with several sails missing
She came near laundering in the late
Northwestern.
The 1Ierritts tonight despatched a tug
and barges for Point Lookout, near
Beaufort, n. c.. where the British steam
er Camperdown. bound from Havana for
probably New York. went ashore yes
terday
Advices tonight from Lookout state
that the Camperdown is not aleak and
probably will be hoated uniniured afte,
some of her cargo of sugar shall have
been ightered in barges.
The Merritt tug Co1ey. which sailed
this morning it is believed has reached
the Steamers side. She has. though. to
round Hatteras in order to reach her,
and may meet rough weather.
~ MISSING GIRL.
A young woman employed in the Cliff
ton hosiery mills at Lamberts Point
Miss Fannie Wick, who recently came
here from Scotland Neck. ~. c.. is niiss-
Ing, and her family cannot account fot
her absence. She was to have married
u Lambert's Point man. but disappeared
shortly before the wedding day. She
has been missing three weeks. but this
became public only to-day. when her
brother came from Scotland Neck to
search for her: he having learned of her
mysterious disappearance.
Norfolk and Portsmouth business bod
les are actively endeavoring to get the
Seaboard Air Line management to
change their plan to remove the general
offices of the system from Portsmouth
to Richmond. To-day the Cotton Ex-
change, and tonight the Business Mems
Association OF Norfolk, and the Ports
mouth Councils entered protest against
the removal.
A SERIOUS BODY.
"Town Topics sensational New York
paper. recently printed a table which
purported to show that Norfolk. for It's
size, is the wickedest city in the United
States. Norfolk Councils asked the Board
of Police Commissioners to investigates
the matter and report to them.
Mayor Johnston and the Board, all
though they worked diligently. could not
ascertain from Town Topics figures
how the conclusion that Norfolk was the
wickedest city was arrived at. They
found out that the number OF arrests per
capita was large and could not deduce
any other conclusion
Concluding. they said that the police
were vigilant. and submitted the matter
back to the Councils tonight in a long
communication full Of explanatory facts
and figures.
The public are merry over the fact that
the Councils took a. publication OF the
character of Town Topics. seriously
Snow began falling heavily here at
nightfail.