The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-08
THE DEATH OF
MRS. CHAS. Wake
After a Severe Illness She Passed
Away Last Night,
STRANGE DlSAPPEARAN c {.
No Ordinance Governing Speed of
stree, Cars-Icarly Ciosin.-Scws,
Personal and Brief, of
Manchester.
STRANGE DISAPPEARING {.
MANCHESTER Bureau. Richmond Times,

Mrs Charles Make died last night at
7o:5o O'Clock al her late homo on Porter
street Mrs Wake had been critically III
for several days. and through the greater
0art OF Yesterday little or no hope of
her recovery was entertained. She was
tb,rty-eigft years OF age. and was sur
,-:ycd hy her husband and five children,
she Oldest 4 boy about eight years old.
and The youngest AN infant III arms
Mrs. Make was Miss Anna Walden, a
daughter OF Mrs. Laura a. Walden,
nkrter 10 air. Il. p. Walden, AND Il niece
Of Messrs Ben z, and u. w. NelsiSsr.
The funeral arrangements viii be an
12ounced later
BANQUET GIVEN
The banquet given last night by the
Manchester Lodge Knights Of Pyth.as.
AT The Masonic Temple, WAS one OF the
most delightful affairs ever held in that
[an,olls hall. There were present nearly
one hundred Pythians and their friends
Capt. A G. ADHESION presided at the
banquet table as POSTMASTER.
STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE.
The mysterious disappearance OF Mr.
and Mrs. Ny T. Hawkins from their home.
on Sixteenth and Hull Streets. has caused
much comment and many surnisos on the
part OF their former neighbors and friends
in that locality. That Mr.. and Mrs. Haw-
llins left town suddenly and Unexpectedly
IS quite evident from the circumstances
surrounding their departure
Mrs Hawkins was last seen in the meat
n arl.et kept by Mr.. a y. Gibbs. which
she entered to purchase a pound Of steak.
Ehe had made her wish known and placed
- cents on the block with which TO pay
for The meat. when she suddenly caught
sictIt of a stranger passing the door. She
became extremely nervous. says the gen
1leman VINO was waiting on Tier, and ran
Iy.l,
direction the stranger was going. For
moment she stood in the door closely
watching The man. and then departed.
going in the same direction. without once
thinking of or looking after the purchase
she was making or her change.
THEY DEPARTED.
II is said Mrs Hawkins went direct 10
her home over the store-room on Six
tcenth and Hull Streets. and. after brief
conversation with her husband. the TWO
departed through the back yard leaving
all their, belongings. including furniture,
clothing and box OF tools used by Mr..
Hawkins in his trade of matchmaking.
This occurred more than week age.
and nothing has been heard from them
since.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hawkins had been resid-
ing in Manchester about two months, and,
though ttley had been rather pleasant peo-
pic, they had been noticed - do and say
many strange things VIII = q degree,
caused at first the cur OF Their
reighhors and later some icion
Hawkins claimed to be + lew York,
and said he was drawing i pension from
the Government.
Mrs. Hawkins stated that she formerly
lived in Scottsvillc. It is thought they
are tramping through the country, as TWO
persons answering much the description
Of the missing Mr.. and Mrs hawkins
spent one night last week with Mr. A A.
Gibbs father, living in Chesterfield county
near Petersburg.
NO ORDINANCE.
Ii was discovered in the Police Court
Yesterday morning that there was no city
ordinance in existence governing the rate
OF speed at which street-cars should run
through the streets of Manchester. This
fact was brought tn light in the case
of the city against c. NJ. Dabney, motor
man on the I1ul-Street line, for ordinance
violation by fast running. The case was
the one in which the deliyery-wagon OF
Nr d. l.. Toney was slightly damaged
and his driver. Bud. badly hurt. Inc
case was called by the Mayor, all wit
uesse.s were present. and everything was
in readiness, when Cpatain Guigon, attor-
ney for the Passenger and Power Com
1lany asked that the case be dismissed
on the grounds that there was no ordi-
nance under which a penalty could be
49, rc,iioy,-d lnT Vas j, vain and +be
$50 WIS dismissed
lin, Rarrb ,coIored, charged with pettv
larceny. was discharged, there being no
.r,a ,r,o.sr,- business nj E,,nna1tv &.
1sro,bar which i,as hean conducted nv
Az AZ Sr,nnalIy an T7frhth and JuIl
Streets, has been bought ont, and Will
rrwe,f,h aud ann Streets
cross AT 6 O'CLOCK
gassrs II y BALDWIN ana II G Peat
$50 tyo of ;ba leading dry, Goods r7t.,,-
chants in tho civ Fave arref5 1Inon an
carly closing hoI,r In the future their
stories VIII close AT & p. A.. ey,ept on
,.s1,.raay and nsv-8ays of 1hc Southern
TaiIwoy
C-1ont,,-S,roe+ rs,t;s+ Church held a
regular mee1inr sunday and The report
of m, treasurer AIR r. n NIorrisscttc