The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-23
lEL.EP HO NJ: WIRE
STOLEN OFF; POLES
Seven Miles Of the Line to Peters
burg Has Been Taken.
s4voRY WAS DISCHARGED.
Marriage in swaasboro To.Nisht--Prepsra>
ton for Great Tent Meeting News.
Personal. and Brief items
from Manchester.
.sAVoRY WAS DISCHARGED,
Manchester Bureau. Richmond Times, I
No. lloo Hall Street.

;iloRcs company OF Virginia "SS'S
Manchester and Petersburg has been sto-
len. The statement may need some eN-
PLANTATION. but is certainly true, as WIZ
be borne out by the testimony oil oelee-
tires who have been working on the uu-
usual case. a few days ago teiephotie
connection between this city ana refers
burg was cut of Al first il was thought
thar there was some minor trouble on
The lines and upon this suppositlon the
line force was dispatched TO locate titS
cause OF the disconneclon. Their iHNes
5is-ation led to the discovery that about
seven miles of the copper wire h2h Deer.
taken from the poles and carried away,
In many places the poles We're cut
fl.wn and burned. The wire is missing
between C-iopfon Station. a. short distance
below Manchester. and Centralia4 The
ya,ue Of the wire taken. to say nothing
Of the poles destroyed, is between $40
and s755. and cannot be replaced for any
thing like that amounts
Detective Alex 70 nlliason has been
working OF the case fer the last lev
DAYS. and reports that he has cue
which will. in his opinion. lead to the
arrest of the guilty parties. Inc wire -
said 10 have been sold in Petersburg.
SAyORY DISCHARGED.
Marshall Savory the young man who Was
,r;ea IN the Hastings Court yesterday be-
fore Judge Witt was honorably oiscilarseu'
the Jury being out only about twenty-five
rrinutes lie was charged vita breahilis
;nto ;he store of H. L. Kidd at -Four
tenth and McDonough Streets. The case
was heard by the Mayor and c>@rnlssea'
the evidence not being saific!-a<r 10 con
yict him. Afterwards 1t was lloushe
more evidence had been 1ounc, anu nc
was indicted before the grand jury. MI.
Sayorv was put on the stand and cross
-l.o S.eJ1- "a
SON. but always adhered tc the single
statement The case consumed the whole
CAV. the court taking recess from l 70
4 o'clock Ii was claimed by Mrs. hloa
that she had asked Mr.. SaNorv TO clean
The transom and that he le:t 1t open
when he finished and entered by that way
at night. Marshall Beyel, very si'laii
boy. was the chief witness Tor the de-
tense He said he remembered seeing
MIR Sayory fasten the transon' when ne
finished cleaning it. Mr. Charles l.. rage
represented Mr.. Savory, whose 1riehos re
;oice that the stigma has been lifted from
his name.
ARE YET MISSING.
Mr. NJ s. Adams has not been heard
from since he so mysteriously disappeared
last Saturday morning, telling his 1rlenos
he was going to Richmond.
on the same morning Mrs. ADAMS d
6s,shter-in-law OF Mr.. NJ S. Adams.
very suddenly disappeared from her home
in COMPANY with Mrs. BaSent, OF swans
boro. 1t was thought that they went 10
Norfolk but it was learned from good
authority yesterday that they We're not
in. Norfolk, but very probapiy III bal'i-
more
Mr.. Adams family positively refuses to
say ANYTHING of the matter, and when
asked if il was probable that Mr. ADAMS
accompanied his daughter-in-law, they
said 1t was more likely that he was III
tho canal in Richmond.
TENT NOW READY.
Or \. w. Tracy pitched his tent in
the vacant lot at Fifteenth and Hun
Streets Yesterday and everything Is peihs
nut in readiness for Thursday night.
when the meetings begin. The tent is
a very large one and has a seating ca
pacity of about fifteen hundred. Dr.
Tracy has lust closed a series of lectures
in Richmond. where he has done much
good and had large audiences all the
time.
IT is understood that committee OF
citizens living on Seventh Street near
the Free Bride will ask the City Couhch
at their next meeting TO proVloe soiiie
way to keep the dust down on seventh
Street. When a car passes that point
now the dust is sitting and very injurious
to the curtains, and, in fact, everything
In a from. room. The patrons OIL the
road are very much interested In TINS
movement.
MANY prominen. men are discussing the
proposed plan for a Young Mems Chris
tan Association in the city. me pas
TORS are very much interested in the mat
ter and want TO make it a joint Associi-
ton with Swansboro. AT present me
Young men of the city have no place 70
go and read and enjoy themselves II
fifty good men will join, with ilieIip
ship fee of ten dollars per year, the sue
&, i,p
The Board OF Health for the city met
Monday night at the cttice Of Or. William
Il. Mathews and recommended to the CITY
Council certain laws to he enforced IN o.
der to get the city in 2 thoroughly clean
condition.
lnry also recommende5 that the County
t.oa,a i,,. instructed 10 move all hog-pens
and stagnaat pools OF water near Inc CITY
In its. Residents oil the suburbs are con
slaut,v u.ak!ng complaints on account OF
people who live near the city limits ana
raise hogs. The Board has had the mat
Ter under consideration for some ti'iie'
and believe the city viii be sredIs peoS
lifted II such is the case.
\ case at dipnrnerla was reported some
time ago, and the Board ordered tite piato
auarantined, which they ind mas peeii W. VIZ
lated The matter was reported 10 ihe
Mayor last night, but no action mas peG Ii
taken yet. Inc case 10 tiieht VI - .
q'haw. on West Cowardin Avenue.
The death record so far this month ior
the entire city is only three. for whieh
the people have TO thank the Board OF
Health. Mr. Morrissette, the well-known
undertaker. was seen and said that Tor tae
rast fifteen years he had never seen Sc
little sickness or death.
Adam Lowry, the young man charged
witt. running a wheel Of fo.tune on the
streets. was discharged yesterday be-
fore Judge Witt, of the Hastings Court.
Tho Judge said that Officer Wright was
10 be commended for breaking UP the
game as it was unlawful and should not
he tolerated in the city. lie cautioned
Lowry not TO again run the game in tie
city.
CLAIM TRANSFERS ARE GOon.
The people of the city are Very much
stirred up over what the City Council
says has been denied them in the past.
1t IS claimed by the Council that a
transfer gotten from the Huii-Street line
TO any line in Richmond can be used any
time In the day. and not onlS for the
current tdn as has been thc case in the
past. This will un6oubtediy be great
saving and cenve fli.nce for the working