The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-03
KILLED WITH
SINGLE BLOW
A Fireman on a Tug Breaks
the Skull Of Another.
BODY FELL OVERHEARD
More Goats Start Running and the
Traffic Situation is Not so Serl-
ous-The Plan for aiLine from
Fredericksburg to Norfolk
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taoA (special to The Times Dispatch.)
NORFOLK. VA, June with heavy
vheel lack. Isaac Parry, fireman on
the tug Fannie NJ. Gilbert. was murdered
this afternoon on Tayior's wharf.
The skull was crushed, and the dying
man .oppled over into the water and dis-
appeared. AS the bastard deed was done
In plain view, the horrifled people lusneo
to save the man from waterS grave,
and so let the murderer escape. men
the dead body was recovered the man
with the stick had disappeared.
parrv had rotten a Job on the tug this
morning. t.
not known there was war OF WORDS.
According to an eye witness. there Was
but one blow. and that caught the uhioi-
tunate man in the head. blottins out the
snarl OF life. 1t was all over in MIN
ute. but the body lay In the sip nearly
twenty minutes before II was hsneo OUT
and taken to the rnorgue,
Detectives hurried rapidly to the scene
to get any fresh clue. His slayer was
named Willis, a fireman on the tug Con-
uueror. The dead man was ANU. '"e'
- MORE BOATS STARTED.
The ferryboat Twin City started To-Day.
Il, was not running between Berkeley ana
Portsmouth yesterday because OF the us
agreement between the marine ens'hee.s
Nel,se and the Ocracoke. on the Aloemarie
sound had started At the postottice there
was no delay in any of the mails us
matched from here except in the cases OF
The SIathews county and Gloucester
routes. a..,s.a
rot 70 make the usual trips. and the mails
arc dispatched by West Point, thereby
causing a little delay. No other ooats
are reported as off or on that were hot
reported yesterday. and the sltuatlon Is
not seriously affecting mails or freigh US
The Cape Charles route IS open haa 10 d ,te
mails as usual, and they have been dls-
matched, despite the fact that nothing
.defnite was given out yesterday, ana the
officials resented questions. ccE
DIVIDEND IN MILLER CASE:
The first tangible return from the Mich
eIsohn seres Of bankruptcies mas CONE
from the B. Miller estate D. Lawrence
cronerg tho referee, announces that there
Is a dividend of five per cent or ABOUT oG,
e mn gross. in5the B. Miller case. Inc
debts are over $4,000 in that case, hence
the returns are not large to those VINO
had real losses. The Mighesohn case is
still pending In the courts, WIN d to 80
attempt to find assets which az 9 nv -
gibe ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
STEAMERs TO FREDER1CkSBORI
meeting Of the Board of Trade VIII
he held next Saturday afternoon 10 re-
ceive James T. Payne OF FreoerlcS ,s,. 3:
Va. who proposes to establish me OF
steamers between this city and points on
the Rappahannock River, IN me even wen,
this line is started 1t will bring IN COM
munication large territory with this
city. i-1s's5li-'t q. -, .eropArr
Dr.. w. F. Fisher. for six years pastor
+. Of Fourth-street Baptist Church, Ports
mouth, during which time the churcn mas
nrosnnred more than at any time IN It's
history. has closed his pastoratcr Or.
Fisher expects to begin work as state
evangelist in Southwest Virginia: Rev.
Dr Fristoe. who succeeds Dr. Fisher at
Fourth street Church. will arrive from
Chattanooga, Tenn, this week.