The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-05
ALL THREE THERE
But DID NOT SPEAK
Second District Candidates Differ
as to Terms.
WANTED HALF HOUR TO CLOSE
kr. Maynard Insisted on This. While
Messrs. Lawiess ard Bryant Would
Only Give Him Fifteen Minutes,
News from Norfolk.
tspecial Dispatch to The Times

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NORFOLK. VA, August 4.-There was
no Joint debate among the candidates for
CONGRESS at Princess Anne Courthouse
to-day but diSa greenent. Hon. Harry
Z. Maynard being the challenged party.
offered to speak thirty minutes end give
1ioIl. Joseph T. Lawless and Or. J. F.
Bryant an hour each he to close the de-
bate with half an hour. They offered to
give him but fifteen minutes to- close. MIR.
Maynard declined this on the ground that
81 would allow two hours of attack on his
record with but fifteen minutes of reply.
Iha; closed the correspondence, and there
vas no speaking at all. There were 300
people present, who were disappointed be-
cause no speaking took place.
Mr. Maynard. who has returned to his
home in Portsmouth, says he offered
fair division of time and that the onus
Of the refusal of joint debate IS on ms
opponents. He says ne made friends be-
case of their refusal TO accept tie prop
iCsition.
MAY BEL REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE.
John Kimberly, of Old Point Comfort,
was in Norfolk to-day. Speaking TO The
Times correspondent. he said he is not
6 candidate for Congress. But one OF the
group of men who were engaged IN the
conversation declared that the prominent
Republican politicians were trying to in
fluce Mr. Kimberly to promise to accept
the nomination. There were several
prominent politicians in the group, and
they agreed that SIr. kimEerly would be
the man to win. if any Republican can
win in the Second District. Mr. Kimberly
IS the postmaster at Old Point Comfort,
s.as q large store there, and besides those
THE STRIKE SETTLED.
An agreement was reached between the
IAcadeny of Music employees, members
lof the union and Thomas G. Leath, les
see, today here had been a strike
against the theatre for months because
of the employment OF Fantone, a stage
carpenter and non-union man He has
been forced 10 join the union, which set
Ties the strike.
Three pretty girls were tried in the
Corporation Court to-day on the charge
of stealing s51 from II. c. Parkinson in
the Biiou Theatre a week ago The girls
were Dora Joyce, Florence Leroy and
blanche Dowley They We're acquitted.
MORE DlSBARMENT PROCEEDINGS.
A rule has been issued in the Corpora
Sion Court against Peter Morris. He was
disbarred from practice as an attorney
In the Court of Law and Chancery last
month on the petition Of the Bar Asso
citation It was proved and he admitted
that he had delivered a bogus decree of
divorce to a woman client The rule II
the Corporation Court requires Morris
TO show cause why he should not be
tlisharred from practice there on the
charges The rule is returnable on the
nth and ATTORNEY w w Old and Robt
Hughes are 10 represent the Bar Asso-
citation.
OIL. SOLDIERS EXCHANGE GREET
lNGS. W.
After a period of thirty-seven years Col
William Lamb. Of this city. and Major
9lunmer. of Benton Harbor Mich, have
exchanged pleasantries Colonel Lamb
vas the hero OF Fort Fisher, S. G, in the
Civil War. and commanded the Confed-
crate forces fighting against great odds
md finally being captured byg3,he led
erals Major Piurnmer was in comma nd
Of the federal forces that stormed the
fort Both he and the colonel were wound
cd and both were in the same hospital.
Ieniamin Richardson. of this CITY. was
recently in Benton Harbor and called on
Major Plummer. The major asked OF
Colonel Lamb and was informed that he
vas still alive. He sent the colonel a
message giving his regards. Colonel Lamp
has sent the following reply:
II tried my best TO whip you. but had
10 abide by the inevitable. l am now just
as good Yankee as You.
Mr. Richardson. the bearer of the mes
sage left for Benton Harbor to-day.
BRIEF ITEMS.
Mrs David Davidson. formerly of Lynch
burg hut for the past six years a resi-
dent of Shanghai. China, where her hus
land is the manager of the American To-
l,acco Company. arrived to-day on a visit
70 her father NJ. Joo, hotel keeper at
Norfolk on-the- Roads. Two children that
were born at Shanghai accompany their
mother. The little ones speak Chinese
duenty.
The carpenters having lost their strike.
have forwarded a communication to the
builders asking that they give them en-
ployment. They agree to work nine hours
provided that they are paid for the extra
hour Since the strike non-unon men
have been employed.
Mrs Mamie II. Wingtield, one of the
most beautiful young women in Norfolk,
t7ico at Virginia Beach yesterday morn
ing after a weeks illness of typhoid fever.
She was the daughter of Colonel Henry
l. Turner.
Coal dealers have advanced the price
OF anthracite TO eight dollars a ton.
A terrific thunder and rain storm oc-
CURED here at o'clock this evening.
There were fearful flashes of lightning,
accompanied by the greatest rainfall that
has occurred this summer.