The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-04
Little Manchester Girl Has Re
markable Escape from Death.
SALOON BUSINESS DYING OUT
Each Year Number in Manchester Has
Steadily Decreased; Only Sixteen
the Coming Twelve Months.
Fired on Electric Car.
Manchester Bureau. Richmond Times,
No. HOP Hull Street.

NO. HOP Hull street.
Taking statements from eye witnesses.
the escape from instant death Of Alma
Spain. five-year-old child. when caught
last night beneath the fender Of a NOV
ing street car. was truly miraculous.
The little tot was playing near the
street, when car bound for Richmond
approached. In attempting TO cross the
street, directly in front Of the moving
4 car, the notorman, Mr. Owen, was pow
erless to stop his car at once and the
fender struck the child, turning her
over and under the fender. She lodged
against tho life prescrvcr, a fat piece
of iron, just under the fender and next
TO the wheels. The momentum Of the
car carried it several steps before the
anotorman could stop 1t. Passengers
=ietanding on the front held their breath,
as 1t were. expecting every moment 10
feel the Jolt OF the wheels as they passed
over the body OF the little girl: They
i were amazed and delighted that the child
4 only received few bruises, which. pain
/ fui to one Of her age, is by no means Sc
rious.
l. DR.. Ruoker was called Immediately to
the scene and rendered the necessary
medical aid.
/ TO CALL PASTOR.
There will be meeting of the congre-
Kation of Oak Grove Baptist Church this
afternoon at o'clock, when steps will be
taken to call q pastor. Rev. E. L. K.
Tune has been the pastor. but resigned
recently.
Rev. Mr.. Smith. now pastor 0: College
View Church. In Richmond. is mentioned.
THE PELTIER CASE.
DR.. Joseph Peltier left Richmond
Fast night: Consul P. A. S. Brine
furnishing him with a ticket His
cf1.ld-wtfe, now with her parents in Man.
chester. refuses to leave the city with
him. She declares that she has never
loved him, and her marriage to him was
for what had been told her would happen
ST she did not consent to the marriage of
Peltier.
She will ask for divorce and DR. Pei
tier will oppose it. He says his wife is
eighteen years old and not fourteen. as
che says. Some stormy scenes have been
release from the city Jail. where he served
about sixty days.
GOOD WORK OF OFFICER.
Officer Roach. assisted by a newspaper
N an. landed behind prison bars at the
sta tion-house yesterday afternoon about
one o'clock Jim Brown tcolored), who is
well known to Manchesterians. he having
been once sent to the penitentiary from
this city on a charge OF the robbery of
the house OF Mr.. Edward BEDFORD. at
Twelfth and Perry Streets. which was
entered in broad daylight.
Mr.. r. T. Reasley. a well-known cIti-
zen of Manchester. who has resided with
his wife at her parents home on Hull
Street. between Seventh and Eighth, has
Since Monday been missing from his
home. causing naturally uneasiness to be
felt by his wife.
Mr.. Beaslev Is only twenty-tf7ree wears
old and has been married two years. Fer
some time he has been out of employ
ment. and on Monday morning he told
his wife he would go to Richmond in
an attempt to find something to do Since
his leaving there has been no tidings of
his whereabouts
DEATH IN oNANcoCK.
News was received in the city yes
terday Of the death in Onancock. Va.
on Yesterday afternoon of Mrs NJ T.
johnson. mother of Miss Mamie John
son, who was such a favorite here with
all who had the pleasure of knowing
her. Mrs. Johnson was known to many
in Manchester. and her death came as a
shock to them. For many months she
had been sick. but nothing serious was
thouEht until about month ago.
MORE TEMPERANCE.
With a third more inhabitants than Il,
ASS. Manchester has this year twenty-five
less saloons than then. This hut speaks
: dcr itself. and the citizens here are proud
of the fact. On the thirteenth of April,
fl,e Gay for the granting of liquor licenses.
there were only sixteen applicants-two
of colored people and fourteen for the
whites.
Commencing last year. there were
fwenty-one saloons in the city The city
rs larger now in population than it ever
WAS before. There are within the cor
pnrate limits 1900 citizens, with about
Blk thousand Just around the limits.
The sale Of liquor is seemingly decreas-
ing over here.
Before the court Of Mayor Maurice yes
terday there were exactly seventeen ne
Groes-witnesses included-all called in a
csse where some rocks had been thrown
by several negroes at one of their num-
Der.
After being in session for two hours.