The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-25
VERY COMP [|CA7.ED
BANKRUPTCY CASE.
Besrman Receiyership SuitHeard
BY Judge Wad5i|l.
The ATTORNEY CRITICISED.
The Award for Land Which the Gov
eminent Desires forslts Addition to
the Navy Yard is $4,000.
Other Items Of Interest.
(snecial Dispatch to The Times. !

fSnecia1 Dispatch to The Times.)
NORFOLK. VA, November PA
complicated bankruptcy case came up
before Judge Waddill In the United
States District Court this morning r.
Beerman, clothing merchant. filed
plea of bankruptcy last Saturday. and g
receiver vas appointed. Subsequently
several creditors Of Baltimore filed
petition asking for an additional receiver
on the ground that $1,000 worth of goods
belonging to the bankrupt stock had been
discovered in the possession of T. Jacobs.
a pawnbroker. The liabilities. as stated
in the originai#petition. were $1,000. and
the assets $1,000 If the $1,000 in the
possession of T. Jacobs can be added to
the stock in the store the dividend viii.
he greater. The referee issued an order
for an inventory of the stock of Beer
mans good insthe store of Jacobs, and
Jacobs came into court this morning to
complain that he is practically enjoined
from doing business because the ilseen-
tory covers all of the goods on which he
has advanced money whether it be the
Beerman or other goods. Judge Waddill.
postponed the hearing Of the case till to-
morrow.
In the case of w. D. southall. against
Mrs Sarah Finnegan. in the Police Court
this morning, Justice TAYLOR spoke
sha,E3ly in criticism of a letter written
TO NJ D. Soutllall by S. A. N1cNea1. the
attorney for Mrs. Flanagan. Mrs Fan
negan had gone out of a housesin Clai-
borne Avenue bought by Mr.. Southall on
the receipt of $780, and then returned TO
occupy it again because she claimed $50
more Mrs. Flanagan was ..ned So. When
Mr.. Southall showed the letter that At q
stornev AicNeal had written. Justice Tay-#
ioF said il Was not a letter that he should
i1aTc answered. He advised Mr.. Sontfall.
the plaintiff. when he protested against
fining her, because he merely wished
possession of the house, that il il were
not done that attorney Will sue for
$1,000 dana ges at once. The Justice said
that the fine was itnposed partly for Mr.
Suuthallis protection.
PROPERTY RETURNED
a deed filed in the clerks office this 4
morning transfers the property of Louis
F7uerstien t. the southern end of Com
merce Street to the original owner This
IS the rronerty that was transferred Il q
the Norfolk RefTigerating. Storage and
Ice Comnany, usually called the Ice
Trust The document5is very long. and
reeites the first deeds of transfer. and
states that the entire pro1erty is return
ed al a nominal consideration The ice
comnany Went into oankrnntcy after a
number of suits had heens flied AGAINST Il
and then dissolved. 50 that .saeia member
OF the so-caile5 trust is now dome. biisi-sI
ness 5siHearately OF these the prnuertr 8 r /
louis F,.erstein was one OF the co,1sti-ai
tuent parts that has heen returned Il,
its original owners. .St#Iaast that seems /.
to be 1he8intrrt os& the t.a.s>,,lsctftea s;Id /
lengthy deed filed t1l.:s morning.
The award for leland the government
wishes TO add to the na7:y-vard is S5ss2-.
The renortof the commissioners was
read In court this morning. and sisi1if; slyl
tone. accented by the #awnarsl Ii cl...-fsts /
ofs272 al res of vacant land know, rs the
AImistead tract atlioinin- he navy-vard
on the southwest, and hasiag A great
water frontage Of say. 2.Se-9 feet On he
south branch Of the Elizabeth River
The rate Is over 21Go an acre. ana is i
considered merely a fair valilatior1s
for the land and the water front The |
award must be referred 10 the secretar,v
of the Treasury at1Tashincton for ar
prnFal. even if it should be acca.itatle !
to the owners. who arerenr Tesertaa hero
b. j. p 4sn1r. MottI AGENT IT is to
he used TO hliildsa great drv-ffoclS and to
enlarge the raTrv-vsffi in other respects
BERNI.EY- OBJECTS.
4 The Electoral Board of Rerl5ley did not |
IKE advantage of the speeial act Of the
seaerai Assemhlr#at its extra session TO !
afovide for the registra ton of8votars This
si5ecial act VAST necessary. bscause the |
Constitutional Convention did not make
PROVISION forathe registra ton of the voters /
\, the towns OF the state under which |
Justification Berkeley comes. Hence the
'itzens of Rerlsiev will apneals to the I
TO hear their grievance against
he ALLEGED negligence of the Electoral |
Soald Of their town in failing to give
hem an opportunity to register under the 7
seW Constitution. Senator Cromwell is Il
member Of the Electoral Board but the
cnlplaint may be sent 10 Delegate Owens
IT to one of the delegates Of Norfolk OF,
a jury in the Court of Law and Chan
cry brought ina verdict for the plaintiff
.3r $3.50 in the case of Mrs Anne f Powell
.:.ainst the city of y orfolk Mrs Powell i
ell and injured herself as a result of
he narrow pavement on Wide Street
She sued for $500.
Bids have been opened at the office of
he United States engineer for dredging
he bar of the North River. There We're
VIC hidders-the Albemarle ard Chesa-
cake Canal Company. the bid of which |.
vas eighty-seven. cents per cubic yard.
nc Fred f. Jones. Washington. D.
Z, whose bid was sseventy-thr cents per
uhic yard. 1t was recommended that the 4
ontract which Will amount to $1,000. 1
. to Fred Z. Jones.
THE BODY OF FELDsMITH.
Coroner f. P. Oden hal has received no
ce from Mrs. Margaret Bechlor,5o of Wash
on. tina she will send for the body of
n. Feldsmith She declares that she i
the sister-n-!aw of the man who was
Tiled here late Saturday afternoon on the
.ambert's Point branch of the Norfolk
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