The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-01
MILITARY in
PETERSBURG.
Officers of New CompdnyPass
Satisfactory Examinations.
SOON TO BE MUSTERED IN
Tailor Boisseau, Of Dinwiddie, Acquit-
ted Of Charge Of Negligence in Al
lowing Prisoners to Escape.
New Pastor Arrives.
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PETERSBURG, VA, September 3d.
CAPTAIN Ashleigh r. Moody has received
from the adjutant- general OF the stare
n letter informing him that he FIRST
Lieutenant Harry V. Parham, ana Sc
cond- Lieutenant Benjamin Harrison,
passed satisfactory examinations at
Richmond on September 23d before a
board of officers consisting OF w. Maize.
adiutant-general and president OF the
board: l.. l.. Cheatwood. major of Blues
Battalion and +. NJ. Hobson, first-lleu-
tenant Company B. OF Blues Battalion,
ms TO their qualifications to perform inc
duties of the positions to whlch tney
were elected July II 1908.
Tho company will assemble at Library
Hall tomorrow night at O'CLOCK LOT
their regular weekly drill at when tilne
those members who have not peen pelots
the examining surgeon Will be eSalhileu
and the oath of enlistment administered;
The mastering in of the company WIZ
take place ut the earliest possible mo
n,ent II ,s urged that every member at
tend Thursday nights drill as orders ~
reference to the mastering IN VIII De
issued.
The company is entitled under the Ia"
to thirty contributing members who are
exempted from all jury service rms lis'
has nearly been completed. Several i'lorc
contributing members are necessary, now
ever. and applications can DO made to any
Of teh commissioned officers.
A. P. HILL VETERANS.
A. p Hill Camp of Confederate Vet
Grams will hold an important meetins To-
morrow evening, and during the meeti1ls
will elect delegates to the Grand camp
~ Virginia. and also to the reunion OF
tho I-nited Confederate Veterans which
meets at Newport News the latter part OF
October.
A. the request of the Confederate vet
Grams and the Daughters OF the Con
federacy Of Newport News. General SUN
Boiling will go to that city III le"
DAYS to advise the veterans and ladies' as
to making arrangements for the Ap-
preaching Confederate reunion.
General, Boiling has had considerable
experience along this line ana notnlEs
could better tell of his qualifications ~
this direction than the splenoio SUCCESSES
Of the reunion in this city two years
ago.
General stith Boiling, brigadier, COM
manding First Virginia Brigade. United
ronfederate Veterans. has requested all
camps composing the First Brlsaae OF
the Virginia Division of the United Con
federate Veterans to seEd delegates 10
the reunion to be held at Newport News,
Va. on the 2Sth Of October next. me
delegates will be proportloned one "
every twenty members, and one Tor every
additional fraction exceeding ten lhehi-
hers. and alternates In the same proper
lion He has also requested the adju-
tants of camps to forward to brigade
headquarters at the earliest possible date
a list Of all delegates and alternates.
JAILER ENUMERATED.
Tba maristerial court Of Dinwiddie
county has acquitted Jailer Boisseau Of
the charge of negligence in allowing Rob-
ert Vaughan, John Diner and Claiborne
Walker to escape from the jail at DIN
widdie Courthouse in May last. Mr.. Bols-
seau, in his evidence before the mas,s-
trates, stated that Robert Vaughan the
man charged with murder, was placed IN
the most secure cage in the jail, and ne
was thoroughly searched before being
committed. Mr.. Boisseau contends that
Vaughan and Diner had outside assist
ance. and that those who aided them in
escaping furnished them with material
with which to make false keys to unlock
their cages. Walker returned to the jail
after his escape and surrendered himself.
NEW PASTOR.
Rev. w. c. Taylor, the new pastor at
First Baptist Church, arrived In Peters
burg yesterday and conducted the prayer
meeting at the church tonight. Mr. Tay-
lor and family arc stopping at the Shirley
Hotel.
wills 1.-TWO Old Cronies" will come to
the Academy of Music in this city to-
morrow night. Sweet Sixteen" also
under the management of John B. Wills,
Will be the attraction at matinee to-
morrow afternoon at the Academy.
Miss Ida Traylor and Miss May Jones
hoya ret,,ruad hOn1a n fter a fOur-WeekS'
visit to Washington, D. c., Potomac City,
Fredericksburg and Richmond. They
were accompanied by Miss Lottie Faul-
coner and Miss Maude Tignor.
PYTHI4AN APPOINTMENT.
Mr.. W. J. Wherry, popular member of
Petersburg Company, No. 16, Uniform
Rank. knights of Pythias, has been APP
pointed on the staff OF Major Parks. of
Portsmouth with the rank Of lieutenant.
Miss Elizabeth Kennedy. who gained
quite reputation In Captain links of