The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-11
SUMMARY OF T0-DAY'S NEWS
FORECAST,

| Fo1SCAS
Cloudy probably rain IN tho
| tons. Friday fair; variable winds.
Hlgest tcmperaturc-4 p. M::........ =,
Lowest tcmpera teure-5 a. M......... q
Normal temperature for December. ~
Departure from normal temperature. %
Precipitation during past "a hours.... w
LOCAL.
| Assurance given that the D1arshall-Strest
viaduct Will be built within q year TO
complete street car system from Brook
Avenue to Fulton.
Bowman bill appropriating SO .0o0 Tor o
Virginia exhibit at the st. Louis EXPOSE
ton passed House by good majority
| fee Of Examiner of Records and to- COM
bine duties with those OF Commissioners
| Of the Revenue.
Norfolk contests were argued before
committee yesterday. but not concluded.
January fourteenth set as day 1oi tns
Cam investigation.
Cold snap sends prices OF coal up.
| Weather man promises warmer weather;
Sentiment for the popular election OF
| Commissioners of Revenue on increase,
and it looks as II that method would be
| adopted.
Negro Lawyer Hayes will fle suits
| against members of the Constitutional
! Convention in United States Court at 3
| O'Clock this morning.
~
! Mundy Waller, Of Baltimore.
| Negro man shot In neck by another OF
his own race in bar-room row last night
| General Fitzhugh Lee meets another
Grant in Portsmouth.
| Legislature has no authority to have the
| Lee Monument moved from Its present
| site.
| chester Jail thought to be one wanted
! for horse stealing and various other mis-
! demeanors in neighborhood OF Granite.
VIRGINIA.
| Reports at annual meeting OF the East
| e-n Shore Produce Exchange tell OF a
| most prosperous year
makes no defense in Bay Shore accident
| suits.
The battleship Texas and the cruiser
Topeka have sailed from Hampton ROADS
| for the Culebra manoeuvres
| Serious fire at Bristol.
! Lively meeting of Farmville Town
| Council
| The Prince Edward bear reported to
! have been belled.
! Mr.. John R. Porter's condition at Char
I lottesviile is critical as the result of an
| accident.
Piedmont farmers have fine bank &C
| counts at Lynchburg.
! Head-on collision Of Chesapeake and
| Ohio engines at Charlottesville.
/ Arthur l.. Bishop, who killed Thomas
! Wilson at Charlotte, a citizen OF Peters
/ burg.
| Some diphtheria in Hampton, but no
| smallpox in Newport News.
| Bristol reports that catastrophe IS
predicted for Saturday next.
| Mr.. Churchill Jones drowned In the
! Rapdan River.
| Local option campaign in caroline
| county.
Arthur Wilton convicted of murder in
| Danv;lle.
HaEdley, who shot Griffith in Pittsyl-
vania, is lodged in jail
| Many marriages in Virginia:
Mr. Charles l. Williams and Miss
Catharine Mary Corbin at Spring Garden
Mr.. William J. Harper and Miss Ida
| May Currier at Design.
MIR. Samuel D. Martin. OF Halifax. and
Mrs. Virginia Godsey. Of AppoRm1asttosSI 49,,
Mr.: James D. Crawley and Miss Mary
| w. Irbv at Blackstone.
MI. William a. Drinkard and Miss
Mary Virginia Scruggs at Hebron,
Mr.. William Carter and Mrs. George
| Anna Jones' both of Caroline.
Mr.. H. L, Saunders and Mrs Maggie
| wilkins in NaIsemOrd
Mr.. Kenneth G. Hall and Miss Anna
| Daily at Norfolk.
! Mr. H O. Hail. of Richmond. and Miss
| Julia E. Saunders: of Riveryiew..
NIr Thomas W. Meels and Miss Sallie
2 Cha mbers at Charlottesville.
Mr.. Georee w. Morton. Jr.. and Miss
| Matte c. Coleman. both of Orange.
Mr.. John S: Martin. Of Norfolk. and
Miss Nellie w. BRYAN. of Stafford:
| Mr.. Ivy Little, Of Norfolk. aid MISS
| Nellie Hilton, in Memphis.
| Mr.. William 7. Patrick and Miss Sallie
| N Y. West at Hamilton.
| MARRIAGES announced i'll Virginia:
| Mi John l.. Y. Bonnev and Miss Marie
f! Masters al the University OF Virginia on
| December Goth.
| Deaths reported in Virginia:
! Mrs. joseph D. Lewis near Hea thsville
Miss Burton Newton in Stafford.
| Mr.. Horace L. Gill in Norfolk.
| MI w II Warren, of ChinCOted que.
NORTH CAROLINA.
| North Carolina Baptists gather in an
| nual convention at Durham. Reports to
| be made are of a very gratifying char
| acter.
Marriages of interest at Raleigh: Mr.,
| Ward and Miss Grimes: Mr.. Thorpe and
Miss Young, and Mr.. Peddie and Miss
| Adams
Seven departments OF summer school
| instruction for teachers.
| Two children with negro blood cause
| commoton in Durham schools.
/ Central Hospital improvements at
/ Raleigh.
Gulford county is voting for increased
local taxes for schools.
Compulsory vaccination in schools stirs
up Fayetteville and the Aldermen back
I down.
Marric>a of Mr. Lynch and Miss Whit
tineton at Winston.
Sheriff of rutherford spends fifteen
| cents to collect one cent Of taxes.
Engagement announced Of W. j. An
d 1os Of o Kn'slgh. and MISS Augusta
| Bishop y. Coke Smith leaves Whining
ton to hold conference in Alabama.
| Marriage Of Mr.. Brewer and Miss Arm
| field at Mt. Airy.
Marriage of Mr. Stephens and Miss
| Myers at Charlotte.
| GENERAL.
British and German ships ready to land
! marines in Venezuela The situation there
is critical. President Castro is defiant.
! Crowds parade tlfe streets Of Caracas and
| cry Death to the Foreigners
| It is charged before the coal strike COM
mission that there was an attempt at
! bribery to have the strike called off.
| Rockefeller and other milionaires to
contribute millions for education in the
| South.
District-Attorney Jerome to break up
/ gambling in New York.
The late Tom Reed said to have made
| $4,000 in Wall Street.
| Large attendance upon the sessions Of
| the National Civic Federation.