The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-03
REFORM in
NORFOLK
The Liquor Crusade Has MOI o.
Abolished Drunkenness.
I'm THE POLICE ICE: COURT
Tits Said Sunday Was Very Dry Sun sun
sA daY--one Saloon Was Open Tor
Drinking in Main Street Dis
ss#5asa trict and Possibly Others.
. fsnec,nl to The Times. Dispatch.

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ii NORFOLK, VA. March 3.-The LIQUOR
i crusade has not abolished drunkenness.
\ It may not have been expected or IN
tended to abolish that evil, as 1t may
mot have been expected to I'LL the
Y churches and the Sunday-schools. How
ever that may be. there were seventeen
Il cases OF plain DRINKS in the Police
4 Court this morning, beside the whole
i repetoire Of petty crimes that usually
\ follow any holiday and that always fol-
q Iow Sunday despite the energy OF the
Y crusade that has been waged against
!; the Sunday liquor sellers. 1t IS SAID
4 that yesterday was dry Sunday One
4 saloon was open for drinking III the
n-Street district, and there may
i heve been others Hence, It Isl evident
h that the energy and activity OF the police
VI are still not great enough 70 suppress
4 drunkenness evon If they do promote
y sobriety. .
&'9 Chief of Police vellines has received
~ two letters from parents whose sons
are missing One letter Is from Jas.
Meg owan, Of New York. who says his
4 son !, Willie, about thirteen years Of age.
|, small In stature, with brown hair ana
hazel colored eyes. has been missing
several months. lie sends picture
taken Of the boy when he was eight
wears Of age, to have 1t compared with
z Earl Montcastle the boy who IS held
4 here awaiting the orders of his father.
+, Che picture is not like the boy here, the
4 boy here Is known and Is IN the. care Of
q Samuel c. Borum, a friend of the fam
~. The father OF the lad was en-
lioyed here at one time by the con-
& tractors, Degnon & Mclean, and Mr..
& Mclean knows the father quite we'll. 1t
suspected that he does not send fol
Il lis SON because he has not the steady
n habits to care for the son properly. Tie
llso Of Now York. She says her son,
4 samuel twelve and a hal years Of age,
& ioft home in. November and she has no
knowledge Of his whereabouts now. I'M
iii the news that the boy here IS identl-
aed reaches all those whose boys are
missing there will be letters coming mere
In the hope OF reclaiming lost boys.
There are many Of them travelling about.
5S5 MURDERED MAN NOT KNOWN,
33s5S "a ntain Morgan, OF the schooner Ea gle
Wing was here to-day to see the pouy
that was found in the water SATURDAY.
e He said 1t was not that OF the Mate
i lanes Longstreet, who has been missing
n s;nna last Wedne sday. The body tailed
.sin,'size. age, hair and In some other par.
NJ tic1Ilnrs, but Captain Morgan said tne
III rlothing was not such as Longstreet Wolte
4 and the nose Of the corpse had no rese ,l
II blance to the brokne nose OF me 11i,ss i
( mate. He said that Longstreet lelt we
schooner Eagle Wing, which IS undergo
ing repairs at Newport News, pu! cut.,t
hack to the shipyard about 10 Q clock a.
N night. passed the guards and mas not
VI bean seen since. He came from Jersey
i; CITY, and is a sober, discreet man.
Meantime nothing Is known 81 tne
identity OF the body horribly ih ara -
which was found in the river mere, ano
rhich, the physicians say, IS OF man, W. VINO
could not have died from drowning. rms
x Ia the second murder mystery 10 Occur
4 within a month"; The other was that q
Charles r. Hunter, murdered IN nes'e
dive, but still undermined except Ny =
name which Is fictitious. -.
n. Charles Traynor. a negro from TINS
c,ty. was accidentally drowned IN SUI
folk this morning. Traynor was GU y.
Moved by the Old Dominion Steamship
4 Company at Suffolk, and was engaEeu
s al work with pile driver on the per Pier
a there. ,t, 80 oot.,a
two horses, two mules. stationary en-.
Y zine and q thousand dollars worth 4 OF
y farming implements on the darm: OF
4 1rhomas NJ Dey. on the Ocean View
KS Road, burned this morning the loss
IL will probably aggregate $1,000. 1hor 8
was little insurance on the properly.
AS this is the fourth time within two
weeks that his barn has caught ilre.
< with no apparent cause. the pene1 rs
tost II was started by an incendiary.
Z. THE FIRST SHAD.
Tho first shad fish of the season caught
h, Virginia waters were displayed on the
4 Norfolk markets to-day and sold from
4 seventy-five cents to ono dollar nno
&thlrty-ive cents each. Ihese were
y eau ght at Ocean View.
North Carolina shad In the Norfolk
market Saturday brought from forty
cents to one dollar and twenty-five cents
4 each.
Y There will be n meeting OF the Board
LOT Directors of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway system. held at the general Of
fees OF the system in Portsmouth to-
" morrow. 1t will be the first meeting
OF the board that has been held In years
Tho meetings have been held during
he interim In New York and other
places.
l The members of tho board are resi-
dents of six or more States.
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