The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-16

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Normal temperature for December. 40
Departure from normal temperature. OF
Precipitation during past "a hours. .01
LOCAL
Mild rebuke administered City Engi-
neering Department in meeting Of Com
mittee on Streets last night.
Members Of Water Committee and SUI
perintendent of Water Works will go on
tour of inspection of clearing plants.
Mr.. Armitage, who has city's gas con-
tract, complains OF the quality.
Hats off in theatres ordinance will be
offered In Council by Councilman Allen.
Senator LIE Cato goes home and 1t Is
feared that his sickness has taken
turn for the worse.
Weather man from Scranton. Pa. IS
on q visit to this city and is not pleased
with the weather that he meets in the
Sunny South
Four lads arrested on charge Of break
ing into a freight car.
Competitive contest will be method de-
cided on for selection of model for Stuart
monument. Good meeting held at Lee
Camp Hall asst night.
St. Louis appropriation bill passed by the
Senate.
Ministers preach on the dissertation OF
the Sabbath
VIRGINIA.
Cadet Willis, of Gordorsville, resolutely
refused to take part in the disorder at the
Institute.
Severe storm at Hampton Roads.
Norfolk and Western conductor shoots
negro who attacked him with a club
\ negro preacher at Petersburg refuses
to permit a deacon to be buried from the
church because the undertaken selected
is not a member of the church.
T. N. Bass. Of Danvillc, painfully in
jured.
Bishop is taken back to Charlotte. He
tells the story Of his wanderings since
the shooting Of Wilson.
Marriages announced in Loudoun
Buying up turkeys In Augusta.
Burglars failed at Wise.
The Ettrclss mill to resume operations
Pastor called at Clifton Forge.
Store burned in Pittsylvania.
An interesting marriage at BecryvilIe.
The run of the Keswck Hunt Club.
Furnaces al Goshen and Buena Vista
start up again.
Loudoun's bank has larger deposits than
any other country institution in the South.
Government protests against excessive
valuation of Norfolk property.
No street lights in Winchester.
First snow Of winter in Norfolk.
J. Roothrovd Tavior commits suicide
in writing-room of Hotel Carroll at Lynch
burg.
Large barge adrift at Norfolk.
Deaths: Mrs. William Riley at Lees
burg: Henry Hall at Lexincton: William
II. Stokes at Portsmouth; Spencer George
at Warsaw.
NORTH CAROLINA.
c. NJ. Hoyt. an advance theatrical agent.
a rretsed at Greensboro on the charge of
abducting the two young girls missing
from Asheville for several days.
The Baptist State Convention adjourns
at Durham.
Corporation Commissions report on tax
able values.
Adjutant- Generals report.
Several marriages Of interest are an
nourced.
Time limit of Amos Owens cherry tree
syndicate drawing to a close.
Bishop will be represented at Charlotte
by able counsel.
Visit of Mr. John H. Gould to Green's
boro.
GENERAL.
Venezuela calls upon England for
peaceful settlement of their troubles.
Rousing reception to President John
Mitchell in Illinois.
The miners close their testimony be-
fore the coal strike commission.
Colonel j. Hampton Hoge in Washing
n lying to secure an additional tern,
t.e Federal Court at Roanoke.
Major Glenn's court-martiaI trial began
ut Manila.
Hearing begun in the injunction pro-
ceedings against the railroads.
New Orleans and Memphis people enjoy
a bulldog fight.
New Yorl: mllionaires raises $4,000. GOO to
help Wall Street out
Peonle of Ecuador parade and shout
for Venezuela.
Several lives lost by fire in New
York.
Roof of Pennsylvania Railroad shops
collapse burning men and locomotives
under the debris.
Brief session of the United States Sem
ate and House of Representatives
a fortune.
Minority report submitted in favor of
the omnibus statehood bill
:. Only one favorite won in the Crescent
City races.
Railroads in Tennessee flooded as the
result OF freshAts.
One ban!. robber killed and another des-
nera telv wounded.
Missouri judge declines to hold newspa-
per man as fugitive from justice
Memorial tablet unveiled at Annapolis
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