The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-19
SUMMARY OF TO-DAY,S NEWS

SUMMARY. or TO-DAY.S NEWS
O7ECAST.
Friday and Saturday fair: light YVES.
Winds becoming variable.
Highest temperature yesterday. ~
Lowest loves eenpeEnture yestsrday....... 81
Normal temperature for December, 40
Departure from normal Temperatures. 90
Precipitation during past u houzs.... 90
LOCAL
Board OF Aldermen authorizes transfer
OF ST. to payroll account OF Health De-
spartnlent, overriding recommendation OF
Finance COMMITTEES. despite vehement pro-
test. OF Chairman ]. w. Gordon.
. Committee Of House on Privileges and
Elections will make report unsoating
Delegate Mclean. OF Mecklenburg.
rs Bo h9q5sa 1og 5spos ga ot s Of as
Journr1ent and January 9th as day FOR
reassembling.
Resolution introduced in House to
record names Of absentees.
Alderman NJ Fill Seay sells his drug
store and will stand for reelection to
the Board.
Mrs Mary Brewster stricken with para
lysis while en- route to spend Christmas
In this city.
Police Board TO meet this afternoon and
look into charges against Officers Wyatt
and Baker.
White youth wanted to go to jail, but
was sent to Reformatory.
Candy vendor and frIit-stand proprietor
fight In front Of Academy Of Music.
VIRGINIA..
Interest in the fights for postoTice and
collector Of the port at Norfolk.
Shooting ARRAY at Roanoke.
A number Of marriages OF interest IN
different parts OF Virginia.
Honor system adopted at Roanoke Col
lege.
Several discharges in bankruptcy at
Norfolk.
P. ]. Morris may bring suit against
those who have prosecuted him IN Nor
folk.
Young Miles. son Of George W. Miles.
missing from the University Of Virginia,
turns up IN st. Louis.
Philadelphia visitors inspect Roanoke
plants with view to purchasing
Local option wins In Louisa and West
moreland.
New gas mains laid in Fredericksburg
Essex canning factories sold.
Culpeper and Orange counties will re-
move an island In the Rap!dan at Rae
coon ford.
Railroad survey OF the Blackstone and
Southern is completed.
No confirmation of report that Dr.. Far
WOOQ was SnOC III heCkleNDuTS.
CONGRESSMAN Lamb to speak at VIII
liamsburg on General Magruder.
Petersburg tobacco market closes for
the holidays.
Southern AIantel and Granite Com
pany moves to Newport News.
Giles county's litigation twenty-five
years Old
Deaths: Robert NJ Cartmell at Ninches-
ter: Thomas yancev at C1arksvilrs; Gideon
c. Payne at Roanoke.
NORTH CAROLINA.
First steamer to Fayetteville on the
Cape Fear.
New electric liel,t plant at Fayetteville.
Raleigh
The marriage Of Mr.. J. S. Carr. Jr.. to
Miss Margaret Cannon at Concord.
Supreme Court opinions handed down
ut Raleigh.
Flour mill burned for the third time in
three years at Winston-Sa1em.
Three women arrested at Asheville for
aha rdoning child.
Ashevlle girls who have been missing
for ten days are BROUGHT home.
Greensboro co-nplains Of unfair dis
crimination In freight rates.
Another Greensboro cotton mill reduces
hours to sixty week.
Report fro-r Wilmington Of q bank rob-
berry at Mullins. S. G.
Forecast OF the auditors report.
Woman r7oonsriner sent to prison.
Judges not liable for income tax.
GENERAL.
Minister Bowen authorized to act for
Venezuela in the settlement OF her
troubles with foreign Powers.
Mr. Carnegie will not burden his daugh-
FER with wealth.
President Rosse~eIt gives reception IN
the re-nodeled White House.
Philinnine tariff bin in the House
Hearing of the contest of Cowden
AGAINST Class.
North Carolina representative married
m WASHINGTON.
Franchren prove themselves better
s--nrdsr~en than Italians.
New President Of Hayti goes into Of
fee.
New currency bill offered in the House.
Further hearing OF the New York
gambling cases.
General Moorman's body laid to rest
C:rTesome gift to congressman.
Fifty women In battle to secure coal.
Death of General Wager s. Swain.
Necro man lvnched In Alabama.
Prasldant talks in Dutch to his visitors.
The business outlook Is good. accord
ing to Manufacturers Record.
Kentucky man. carving heavy tnsur-
auce. dies in mysterious manner.
Dewey's fleet to remain close to Vene-
-uela
Eirht-hour bill discussed In United
States Snnate.
Iol,n Peters wins a gain at New Orleans.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is a very Ill man.
John S. Wise addresses the New York
bankers.
Richmonders want rebate on the to-
hacco tax.