The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-21
WILL APPEAL TO
THE PRESIDENT
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Petersburg CoIored Voters Re-
sent Rule ofWhite Republicans.
COMMITTEE TO WASHINGTON
COMMITTEE TO WASHINGTON
Interesting Questions In the Case o
Officer Ruhin Against City-Mar-
rage Of MIR. Paul e. Williams to :.
Miss Mary Evelyn Parham.
Especial Dispatch to The Tines)

Especial Dispatch to The Iines)
PETERSBURG, VA, September 20
Some interesting questions of law have
come up in the case of ex-Poiice Ser
geant Ruffin in the suit against the city
OF Petersburg for $4,000 damages. The
city is represented by its attorney. Mr.
George Mason and Mr.. RufIin by Mr.. W.
3. McIlwaine.
President Roosevelt and the National
Committee will be appealed to by the col
ored voters of Petersburg. a large num-
Der Of colored voters Of this city attend
ed a meeting at the hall OF the colored
Young Mems Christian Association in this
city Last night for the purpose OF In
structng the colored voters in reGistra-
ton and for expressing their dissatisfac-
ton at the attitude of the white Repub-
licans toward the negro voters In falling
to give them proper instructions as to
registration.
TO SEE THE PRESIDENT.
A committee of five was appointed to
go to Washington to confer with the
President and the committee In their
resolutions the negroes say they will ap-
peal to the President for help in their
struggle and give an exact status of
Virginia politics: also the position taken
by Republican office-holders in trying to
eliminate the negroes in the interest of
the Lilly White Party" which viii
never exist.
The resolutions strongly affirm the dis
sa tisfaction of the colored voters. who
express their determination to appeal to
their Northern friends to aid them in
their struggle for manhood and their
rights" The committee viii go to
Washington next Tuesday. It is COM
posed of the following: Thomas II.
Brown. B. r. Powell, Rev. P. r. Berry,
John Cheshire and George E. Smith.
WILLIANIS-PARHAM
Mr.. Paul E Williams and Miss Mary
Evelyn yParham will be married Wednes-
day afternoon, October list, at half-past
5 o'clock, at the residence OF her bro
Their. Mr.. Walter C. Kevan, on Jefferson
Street
Miss: Kate Dunlop, of Baltimore. is Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. Spotswood, on High
Street.
There are fifteen or twenty suits pend
ing in Dinwidaie county against the Nor
folk and Western and Seaboard Air Line
Railways for damages alleged to have
been caused by fires. These cases will
be heard by Judge Hancock. Of the Cir
cult Court, next week.
[ The suit against the Seaboard AIR Line
will be continued to special term of the
court to be held in December. Some of
the cases against the NortfSk and West
ern will be tried next week.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. F. c. Baxter. who has been quite
sick with fever, is Improving.
Dr.. Preston Hoy. who has been Ill with
fever for six weeks, is convalescent
Rev. w. A. r. Goodwin has returned TO
thu city and will occupy his pulpit at
ST. Johns Episcopal Church tomorrow.
Miss Lucy A Connolly returned to her
home in Washington, D. c., after Il pleas
ant visit to her sister, Mrs. NJ. E. Pear
man.
Mrs. Lucy Lunsford and two daughters
and Mrs. John E. Townes will leave this
evening for New York, via the Old Do
r,inion Line.
Quong Wat. the Chinese laundryn1an
who was thought to be dying yesterday,
IS much better 1t is now thought that
he will recover.