The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-03
A TUMBLE
IN POTATOES
The Largest Shipment and
the Smallest Prices.
SHIP OWNERS ARE FINED
They Ran Tug Boats With Only One
Crew-Test Case Where One Bar
Is Run for Whites and Another
for Negroes.
SHIP OWNERS ARE FINED
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(Special to Tho T1mes-Dispatch)
NORFOLK, VA. July Prices Tor
potatoes have fallen here thirty per cent.
since Monday. There were $500 barrels
shipped from here yesterday and 10000
from Cape Charles. The prices are for
Baltimore, 81; New York. s2.ce; Boston, 50.
Those are the largest shipments and the
lowest prices FOR the season
TUG OWNERS FINED.
Three tug boat owners. the Old Domin-
Ion Steamship Company, Merchants and
Miners. Transportation Company and the
Southern Railway have been fined s25o
each for running tugs since the strike
began with but one crow. The govern
ment requires two crews.
Information was filed against tho
Steamer owners by J. K Cotton. secre-
barry OF tho marine engineers. who are
striking. Tho fines were imposed by
the Secretary OF the Treasury in Wash
lnEton. The informer gets halt the fine
In such cases.
TWO BARS: ONE LICENSE,
In test case here under the city or
ninances Charles Richter was fined for
running two bars, ono for whites and ono
Tor negroes, under the same licenses.
II convicted under the new Mann State
law ne would have forfeited tho license.
There are n number OF such bars here
and elsewhere In the State.
Colonel A. III. Higgins. OF tho Seventy
FIRST Regiment, says fresh troops will be
tent to Richmond II the strike lasts be-
Rond this week. Only six companies OF
The regiment are there now.
STRENUOUS POL1T1CA
At meeting Of Norfolk county DEM
ocrats. classed as "fusionists." in Ports
mouth this afternoon. there was unani-
NOUS decision to resist the ruling OF the
State Central Committee, which decided
that the straightouts compose the regu-
lar organization of Norfolk county. The
"fusionists" declare that their conten-
Mons were not heard by the committee in
Richmond; that they can carry the coun-
~ for the Democrats; that the straight
outs have usurped authority; that they,
the "fusonists." will put up Demo
cratic ticket which will win for the legis-
iatiwe candidates.
This presages a strenuous contest In tho
county this fall.
SHIPMENT OF POTATOES.
There were great shipments Of potatoes
from here last night. The Old Domin-
don line sent out two steamers carrying.
besides other truck and freight. over
5000 barrels OF potatoes. The Boston
ship carried 1880 barrels and the Penn
sylvania line carried 1000. In addition TO
that large quantity. there were 10000
barrels sent from Cape Charles. They
came there by schooner and small boats
and were shipped thence by the Penn
sylvania Railway. The prices have fall
len to 1926 and s. in New York and 50
in Boston.
POLICE COURT.
Colonel George c. Cabell, Jr.. WAS in
the Police Court again this morning
with the cider-vinegar case. Fl. l.. Fow-
Ter was arrested, charged with retaining
s521o from money he collected from the
sale OF vinegar for the account of j. l..
White. He accounted for the money,
and said he had used it to pay for dia-
mond ring, and would allow 1t to be do
Quoted from his salary of SIS month.
The case was holly contested, and there
was an effort to sil ow that the defendant
had been failing to make proper returns
pf collections and had also been selling
pider-vinegar for a rival firm. Colonel
Cabell's tactics and eloQuence won In
the case and Justice Taylor held Fowler
pn the charge OF embezzlement for tho
Corporation Court under bond of $3.50,
Moula BakhsA the Hindoo palmist, WAS
charge Of retaining the tools and goods
OF Charles Simpson. The evidence was
10 the effect that Mrs, Simpson was In
distress and; restitution. and that the
defendant, gave her.h refuge and took nor
household goods to keep till she pawned
or sold them for support or TIL her
brother from North Carolina could ar
i've to take her homo. Justice Taylor
dismissed the case. and Mr.. Simpson
went out OF the courtroom with the bat
tered and broken gasoline lamp which
he had brought In to show how badly
ne had been treated.