The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-10
WIDOW ONLY
THREE DAYS
Mrs. Gertrude Pope Twice
Married in Twelve Days.
HUSBAND KILLED HIMSELF
LEFT Letter Saying His Wife Did No
Lows Him, and His Statement
Seems u Have Been Borne
Out by Developments
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NORFOLK, VA. Oct. 0.Mr1 Caldwell
Hardy. president OF the American Bank
ers' Association. left hore tonight on
the private car OF President John Skel-
ton williams, of the Seaboard Air Line.
Railroad for San francisco, to attend
the meeting OF the association.
After three days of widowhood, Mrs.
Maude Gertrude Pope, of Portsmouth,
to-day welded William NJ. King. Of
Portsmouth. Her first husband, Sergeant
jefferson Pope, United States Marine
Corps, committed suicide last Monday
because he believed his wife did not
love him. She had left him after a week
OF married life and his last letter TO her
mentioned Kings name as that OF the
/ man she loved. He is divorced. The
ceremony making Mrs. Pope a bride for
the second time in twelve days was
performed by Rev. Il. Il. Garrett, pastor
of Court Street Church. Portsmouth.
Hugh Nelson Page, Jr, the ten-year-
old son OF Mrs. Holt w. Page, died to-
day. He fell from third story window
on his head four months ago, and whlie
he had apparently made marvellous
recovery, his death Is the result OF the
fall.
DAYS In dry dock. Her badly denied bot
tom IS beng repaired, the plates for
distance Of ninety feet being cracked
and broken and are being taken out and
replaced by others.
After placing the great ship In dry
dock 1t was also seen that she mad sus-
tanned structural damage more serious
than was ut arst thoue NJ 10 DC TUG
case.
Several OF her frames were found to
have been broken in the grounding OF the
ship on the rocks at Portland, and tacse
will have to be taken out and new
frames substituted for them.
BIG PAY ROLL.
There has been a notable Increase In
the number Of men employed at the navy
yard in the past two weeks. The large
amount of new work that has been sent
10 the yard, has necessitated the i!s-
crease. The pay roll has, Of course. kept
pace with the increased force OF skilled
mechanics.
The figures for the second half Of Sep
tembe. show a part OF the increase, al
though those for the first half OF Octo-
Der Will be still more striking. During
the time between September 18th and oOth
there were on the rolls OF the yard. IN
round numbers, 1900 men and they re-
ceiyed In wages the sum of $4,000.
These figures do not include disburse-
1nents made at the yards Tor the pay OF
the officers and men o fteh navy and OF
tho marine corps.
It IS stated that tho force will be
steadily increases from now on, until.
there ara sufficient men on tho rolls TO
meet any emergency The repairs to'the
two monitors, the Nevada and Arkansas,
and the completion OF the Galveston.
alone have furnished employment for
rpost NJ Tho force.
CHARGE CONSPIRACY.
Receiver Percy s. Stephenson to-day
stated that the expenses OF the receiver
ship proper, of the Oliver Refining Com
pany, would be less than 5000 The $4,000
given yesterday as the expenses OF the
receivership. he stated, included also the
operation Of the plant and the purchase
of oil which was sold at profit.
The community of interests between
the Baltimore and OHIO. the Chesapeake
and Ohio, the Norfolk and Western and
the Pennsylvania Railway systems WAS
attacked before Commissioner James W..
E1fer, OF the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to-day. The plaintiff IN the action
is the City Gas Company. Of Norfolk IT
charges that teh four roads mentioned are
In a conspiracy to divide the mining ter
ritory and maintain the price as well as
the freight on coal. The Gas Company,
claims that 1t has to use common coal
from the Norfolk and Westerns mines.
whereas, It should be able to get better
coal cheaper from Baltimore and Ohio
points, but for the arrangement between
the roads. The investigation will BIO re-
sumed Friday,
Almeda Brown, little colored girl was
almost decaptated by Cape Henry car
tonight She ran out in front of an epress
and stumbling fell with her neck across
the track.