The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-04
'AN EMbEzzLER
TAKES LONG TRIPS
The City of DanviIIe Improves
its Fire Department.
TIL. DAM ACROSS DAN RIVER
Twelve Hundred Horse Power Sacri-
feed to Adopt Lower LeveLMrs.
Mapes Regrets the Notoriety
She Secured-Other Items.
Especial Dispatch to The Times

: DANVILLE, VA May 3.-Jotham Os-
borne. arrested here some time ago asa
justice, who is wanted In Vest Summit
New Jersey, for the embezzlemeut OF
postal funds. During the period in which
Osborne has been lodging the authori-
ties ne made two trips to South Africa
He is represented as intelligent and quite
worn out with the pace he has been going
to avade the penalty for his misdeeds.
1t appears that the man admits his
guilt
IMPROVE FIRE DEPARTMENT
The City Council took steps early this
to the equipment of the fire department.
new engine to cost 5000. a. combina
ton chemical hose wagon and two or
three additional horses are the principal
items for which provision has been made.
Some disappointment IS felt by the more
progressive elements here at the decision
turing Company to make the new dam
which has been under practical consider
alton for few weeks only just % feet
favor of the lower dan, represents a sac
rlflce of twelve hundred horse power. it
is estimated. which might have. been
probably utilized in many ways In and
However. the 25-foot dam is certain
~ and it is the beginning of important
industrial developments. which are to
utilize the power it is designed to fur
niSh.
THE N1APEs NoToRIETY.
Mrs. E. E. Mapes. of New York. who
has been guest at Hotel Burton. in this
city. for several days, is much annoyed.
1t seems. by the publicity given to her
domestic trials. She declares that she
and her husband have buried the Ratchet
and mean to be nice to each other hence
forth She argues tina, the difficulty was
a family affair which should not have
gone out of the family and most people
Will agree with her. 1t is not other peo-
pies fault that it was made public. She
also alleges that the first account of the
affair given out was inaccurate in sew
eral particulars. The first version of
the affair was her husbands version He
represented that she left him several
times. had been forgiven several times
for doing SO and he finally concluded to
leave her. The fact that she followed him
mere and tried to get access to his room
in the hotel but was refused admission.
was the beginning of the notoriety- 1t
very unfortunate
| Judging from appearances. the husband
| especially is a man who is capable OF
duce.
Mr., .Mapes left here on Monday night
to journey together and keep it up. it
IS to De hG Efauo of.'i b III Saa
Wednesday was license day here as else
where. Sixteen liquor licenses were
granted and three refused. Applications.
owing to recent increase in the tax. were
| not so numerous as heretofore. With
| the higher license. however. the city will
| derive as much and even more from the
places licensed than it has heretofore re-
| ceived from a greater number.
! suit instituted against the city au-
! thorities by the saloon men has jus,
been concluded in the Corporation Court.
| Several ordinances of City Council were
complained OF by the liquor dealers. The
court sustained the validity of some of
the ordinances. but granted a perpetual
Injunction restraining the authorities
! from the enforcement of the ordinance
requiring the removal OF all screens and
| other Instructions.
! 1t also restraints the authorities from
enforcing the ordinance requiring the
saloons to be closed at P. NJ. and re-
main closed to A. NJ. This reinstates
the business hours existing prior to the
passage of that ordinance. which were
| from a. NJ. to 10 P. NJ. The restraining
order is issued on the ground that the
ordinances In question We're unreason.
able and not consonant with the policy
of the State in licensing such business.
/ The investigation OF some suspicious
movements on the part of the negro un-
deTtaker here. named Garrett. led to the
discovery that he had buried two negro
children in a yard. or lot near his abode
IL the Fourth Ward of the city and with
out using the caskets designed to contain
the remains. Garrett was arrested after
making a. stout resistance.
Three charges were preferred agains
him. burying bodies in a place other thar
a cemetery. the larceny of coffins and
resisting anofficer, and he was iniict-
ed on each charge and the fines and costs