Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-15
UP GO The CARfAR[S,
NORFOLK FOLKS MUST CONTRIB
UTE FOR THE courANY,s COAL.
cost OF RUNNING INCREASED.
", Olive Cent. straight, Now Tor
vousd-Be Rider. Christian
Scientists and Their Hea,er.-Se-
sroe' Suspected of murder,ns
Charlie. Hunter.
COST OF RUNNING INCREASED.
lcs drive Cent. straisht,, Now Tor

NORFOLK. VA. January 14-(Specia,.
As result Of the high price of coal.
street rates go up. The Norfolk PORTS
mouth and Newport News COMPANY
claims it is spending $500 more a month
Tor coal than formerly. It does not wish
TO Increase the cost to consumers OF gas
snd electricity. and SO has decided to in
crease the rate Of street care fare in Nor
folk. by Withholding the sale OF tickets
II the present rate
On and after next Sunday. the fare will.
Be FIVE cents straight. thus calling of
the six for quarter" rate, which the
people have been having for many years
The increase Will only apply to the Nor
eols division Of their system of roads.
The coal dealers and the City Council Of
Portsmouth will cooperate in an effort to
relieve the suffering entafled by the pres
ent fuel famine. The Council will pur-
chase coal by the train load and sell It
Et cost. The dealers will unload and dis
tribute 1t free. Norfolk may take similar
action.
THE SCIENTISTS" DISGRUNTLED.
The Christian Scientists are watching.
closely the bill to compel their ..healers''
10 stand medical examinations. They re-
gard his as q death blow, and protest
against any DILL such as the one which
comes before the Legisla ture. which they
claim tantamount to prohibition of their
pra ctice In the State
Their contention is that such meas
ure would be an Invasion of their con-
etitutional rights under which unmolest-
ed religious worship is guaranteed. AS is
known, they hold that their healing is
through prayer and spiritual means. and
tor that reason should not be interfered
With by the laws Of the State.
ARE CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Samuel Walters and Mamie Harris. both
coiored. accuse each other of the murder
Of Charles Hunter, In Kings Lane. Mon
day night. They were examined in the
Police Court this evening. Walters. who
said to the detectives last-night that If he
inflicted the fatal blow upon Hunters
head. It was while he was striking at the
Harris woman changed his statement
when called to the witness stand. He
protested his innocence. when asked by
the court for statement and declared
that 1t was the Harris woman who struck
Hunter with the piece OF galvanized pipe.
which produced
The Harris woman contradicted this.
and accused Walters. declaring that the
prisoner first struck her with the pipe
and then struck the man Hunter.
Walters was renarka bly, cool during the
examina ton, but the woman was very
much excited.
The verdict of the coroner's jury was as
follows:
THAT the said Charles r, Hunter or ].
T Allen came to his death from frac-
tIIre of the skull. or cerebral hemorrhage,
due to a blow received from a n instrument
IN the hand or hands of some person to
the Jury unknown. But we. the jury.
reeomm end that Sam Walters and Mamie
Harris be held for the grand Jury
Justice Taylor sent Walters and the
Harris woman on to the February grand
iury and required. $500 bonds in the cases
of each of the Kings Lane witnesses.
The Norfolk and Southern railway has
completed plans for the connection OF its
tracks 10 Eastern North Carolina and
Virginia Beach. and will shortly come into
Norfolk over its own rails.
WINDOW BLINDS FOR FUEL.
William Lassiter. coiored. out of work
and destitute who was arrested by his
landlord, John Kelly. white. for burning
the window blinds to his house to keep
warm. when nable to get wood OF coal,
was fined $40 in the police court here to-
Gay upon the charge Of destroying pri-
vate property" Being unable to pay the
tne 1.assiter went TO Jail
Preparations are now being made at the
Norfolk Naval hospital for the reception
OF a large etachmeni of fever-Strtcken
sramen from Dewey's feet In the south.
When these arrive. the hospital! will nave
more patients than at any one time since
the Spanish-Am erioan war. when the
wounded were brought here from San
tiapo.
William Hudson. the sixteen-year-old
son of Captain William Hudson. OF Nor
colk county shot his right hand off while
-rafc IoSt nue