The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-20
TORPEDO
F.LOTILLA
Injured Boats to Be Repaired
at Norfolk Maynard.
OYSTER co. CHARTERED
Postal Company Acquitted Of Doing
Business II Portsmouth Without a
License-A Ten Year-Old Bur.
gIar Makes Confession.
(special 10 The Times-D lspatch.)

Especial to The Times-Dispatch.)
NORFOLK, VA. August 19.-The tor
pedo boat flotllla pasted In the capes this
Afternoon, bound for the Norfolk Navy
Yard. with the notllla are the Injured
destroyers Decatur and Barry These
boats, which were In collision at Oyster
Bay during the manoeuvres, will be i'm
mediatcly repaired and placed In condl-
ton to rejoin the fleet when 1t reaches
Hampton Roads.
The York River oyster Company has
been chartered, with $4,000 capital. Geo.
w. Armstrong Is president.
Mr.. r. Vernon Moss, of Crittenden's,
Va, IB dead. His remains were brought
here to-day for internent
STEEL FROM COMMON IRON,
Mr.. George r. Pinkham, whose process
OF making steel has excited worldwide
interest, Is said to have formed COM
pany In the North to exploit his invention.
It Is said that Pinkham. who was en-
ployed at Lambert's Point, devised
method OF making tool steel from inferior
iron, and that he was called to confer
with the manager OF the steel trust, but
did not come to terms with him. and
therefore raised company himself
The Postal Telegraph Cable Company
has been acquitted OF doing business in
Portsmouth without license. The case
has excited great Interest because OF the
postal's avowal that 1t did not handle
local state business from its Portsmouth
office, and was not liable to local tnx.
A message from Lynchburg to Ports
mouth was in evidence. but the company
declared that 1t was transmitted IN v!o-
la ton of orders.
TEN-YoAR-oLD BURGLAR.
7a,eo proadp fan.yaar.Old burglar,
to-day confessed to Chief Of Police Ty-
nan, of Portsmouth. that he had entered
residences by street windows. a fash
ionablc residence in North Street. he
said, he entered with great din Guilty
through side window. He stole there,
from $40 In cash, with which ne htted
himself out In such gorgeous ralment as
WASHINGTON RESERVES.
The washington, D. c., naval reserves
are here aboard the old Fern. They are
having the time OF their lives, cruising
In tho lower Chesapeake and banging
away at floating targets with their. one
Founders, until the little fishing boats
fee for their very lives.
1t Is stated by the naval officers VINO
have taken note of the performance OF
the reserves that Lieutenant r. B. Bur-
dctts who Is in command, has reason to
be very proud indeed, of the records MS
men have established lat their g unnery
practice. "
Tariff Association are here, reassessinG
the city OF Norfolk for fire insurance. II
i5 probable that the recent notable I'M,
provement in the fire department VIII
result In lower rates for the entire city
portsmouth is also looking for the same
thing. x,1
Mr.. Park L. Poindexter has entered suit
against the Belt Line Railway for $7,6U
damages to his land. The suit is brought
for the etectment OF the defendant rail-
way from certain land owned by the Pom
dcxter estate, near Berkeley, which, It Is
alleged, has been seized and Is unlaWfully
held by the defendant.
The truckers are at loss to under
stand the reason for the rotting OF their
fall seed potatoes. They say that the
entire crop has decayed In the ground
ana that it will be necessary to replan'
IN order to have sufficient seed potatoes
to start next season with.
The potato crop being the money crop
81 this great trucking region, the sltua'
lion is rather more serious than appears
on the surface.