The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-18
'I4Il0R UNION
PETER BuRC!||
Negro Boy Puts Out Negro Girls
Eyes With Con- entr'atJod Lye.
5ToNEY HARylLl / HE CROOK OK.
He chalked HIS Good bye On the End
Of the Courthouse Porch-Grand
Jury Finds True Bills for Felon-
les Blue and the Gray.
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(specla! Dispatch to The TimeA)
PETERsBURG. va. April 1.-THE
Stailors OF Petersburg organized union
today. The union has not yet received
its charter from the national body, but
will in few days It has not yet deter
mined the question Of wages. The Of
icers are President, Robert Stewart:
Weep President, Samuel Wells: Financial
Secretary, John McEwen; Treasurer.
James Pearman; Corresponding Score.
tayy, frank Cain.
Henry Nichols, colored, threw box
OF concentrated I've in the face Of a col
ored girl, Mamie Parham, yesterday af-
tefnoon on Harrison Street. The girls
face and eyes are badly burned, but it
is not thought that the sight will be-
lost Both of the negroes are young In
a previous difficulty the girl struck
Nichols on the head with a brick. Later
in the afternoon. when Nichols saw the
( girl on tho street, he ran toward her
and threw the box of I'VE in her face. A
warrant has been issued for the arrest
Of Nichols.
TONEY'S FAREWELL
A warrant for the arrest Of Waverly
alias Toney Harvill was issued last De-
cember, charging Harvill with robbing a
countryman living near this city. Har-
Will left the city Immediately after the
robbery had been committed and had
not been heard from until last night.
when the police learned that he was in
Petersburg. They failed to find him.. and
this morning, written with chalk on the
end Of the courthouse porch, was the
following note:
II am bound for New Y ork. thought
I would come and see you. Goodbye.
(Signed ."TONEY HARV1LL.
'"The Crook
The grand jury to-day brought true
bills of indictment against Harvill.
The High-Street Church gave an an
tertainment tonight for the benefit Of
the building fund.
THE BLUE. AND THE GRAZ.
For the Blue and the Gray" three
act drama, will be given at the Academy
of Music tomorrow night by the pupils
of st. Joseph's School
The funeral Of Mrs. Gertrude M Chap
pell, wife Of Mr.. John A. Chappell, who
died in this city last night, will take
place from the residence tomorrow at
IL o'clock
The efforts Of those interested to raise
money for the building of the macadam
road from this city to the county club
house in Dinwiddie county will be sue
cessful. Every Indication is that the
money will be raised in very short
liIAle. 1aUOuI 2l,lVV HIS dlIeStuy DeeIl Gull
tributed and the young men Of the city
are to take up the matter and raise TIE
rest Of the money needed.
Tomorrow night Commander John 7.
Parham, ]. E. NIoy1er, Homer L. Akin
son, Of Petersburg, and w. B. Ritchie
of Dinwiddie county, members OF the a..
p. Hill Camp of Confederate Veterans
will 1eaye here for Dallas, Texas, to at
tend the grand reunion of Confederate
Veterans. Comrades, j. Colin Neal. and
=. S. Beckwith may also go. All are dele
gates from the local camp to the re-
union.
TOBACCO PLANTS SCARCE.
A scarcity Of tobacco plants is reported
by farmers in some of the adjoining
counties. The cause Of this scarcity cam
not be accounted for.
The funeral Of Mrs. Annie NJ. Stewart,
wife of David j. Stewart, took place from
West-End Baptist Church yesterday af-
ternoon.
The grand Jury to-day found true bills
of indictment for felony against Emma
Harrison (colored), charged with house
brea king; Moses Taylor (colored), charged
with feloniously cutting Willis Gillian;
John Rivers (colored), for burglary; Geo.
Wright (colored), for attempting to burn
the house in which his wife and children
were asleep, and Waverly Harvill (white),
for robbing a count1yman.
Miss Myrtle Robertson Is critically i'll
at the home of her mother, on Dunlop
Street