The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-12
SPLENDID WORK OF
STEAMER SIBERIA
Her Boilers the Largest Ever In
stalled in Merchant Ship Here.
PREACHER GOT BEST FIREMAN
The Justice Dismissed the Case Agains
Fireman, and the Preacher Ad-
journed to Marry a Couple.
May Be Further Action.
Especial Dispatch to The Timeso

Especial DiSpatch to The Times.)
NEWPORT NEWS. VA, Sept I-The
Pacific mail steamer Siberia came ur
from Old Point this morning and tied VI
once more at the shipyard. Her splen-
did performance on the trial trip is the
talk Of the yard. The ships ayera ge
under normal conditions was 1885 for the
trip. under forced draft she made be.
tween 1925 1850 and q knots The dis
lance of $50 miles between the Capes and
Nantucket was made at an average OF
1sS5, nearly half n knot over the re-
CURED speed, in spite of fierce weather.
The boilers and engines OF the Siberia
and her sister ship. Korea. are the larg-
est ever Installed in Il merchant ship
ou'it in this country. but the Siberia
showed absolutely no vibration, some
thing very unusual even In craft of
smaller proportion Of horsepower 70
bulk.
PREAci4ER-FIREM FIGHT.
The Nr5ght-Bragg incident was
ciosed-tor the time being at any rate
fn the Police Court this morning when
Justice J. u. g. Brown dismissed the
charge against Bragg
James i:ragg is engineer at the North
End fire engine house. His wife gave q
dance Monday night. Rev. Lundy R.
Wright is pastor of Lafayette Avenue
baptist Church. His wife has been Ill
E1neer are neighbors. a couple of vacant
lots separating their residences.
The preacher says he went to the
Bragg home Monday night and told Mrs.
Bragg that his wife was critically i'll
md asked her politely to stop the dance.
which she refused to do. He says he
thought no more of the matter until
yesterday afternoon when Bragg called
him and began to curse him, finally
I'm in ha far yD6prp1Ipnr 1 he
preacher ,etaliatcd. giving Bragg as good
ss he could send or a little better
A CONTRADICTION.
Bragg claims that the preacher was
rot so polite and reasonable as he makes
out he was but went to the house and
spoke In a very abrupt and domineering
way to his wife. telling her she had 10
stop the dance; Mrs. Bragg telling him
that he was entirely too officious in at
tending to other peoples business in that
setcion OF the city. anyway.
Justice Brown evidently took the
ground that Bragg would not have gone
to the extreme of striking a preacher
and of jeopardizing his position with the
City unless there was some provocation.
He therefore dismissed the charge OF as
sault. which Bragg had caused to put
against him when he gave himself up.
QUITE a SENSATION.
The affair created a great sensation,
especially in the northern part Of the
city. Mr.. Wright has large congrega-
ton and most of its members are de-
voted to him. Whether there will be
further developments, remains TO be
seer.
lille the Rev. Mr.. Wright was on the
witness stand giving his version of the
affair he was called upon TO marry Geo.
Juhap. the negro whom Sergeant Mil
stead recently brought back from
BRUNSWICK, Ga, for the betrayal of a
negro girl named Ella Carter. Court
was summmarly adjourned while the
Rev Mr. Wright repaired to the office of
the city engineer, where i'll the presence
of vast throng of curious spectators
he married the dusky couple.