The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-07
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Hoodoo Doctor Charged With.
Burning His Child in
His House. IL
NORFOLK TROOPS. ..I!!NlI!s:!P,EcT ED.
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Little Child Drowned in a Tub
Of Water Syndicate Who
Bought Schooner Lose.
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@ NORFOLK. " October BIN the
Circuit Court OF Norfolk county to-day.
Judge Portlock. granted a new trial In
the $4,000 damage suit instituted By
John 4. steele. Berkeley correspondent
for the vlrgininn-Pl PILOT, galnst Noah II.
Palmer. a. salo2fnlnksseeper,t About a year
ago Palmer. ntered IS teele:s Office armed
with a beer bottle wrapped in a news
paper. He applied a vile eptthet to the
newspaper man in regard to IN article
the latter had written and as Steele
arose from his desk. Palmer dealt him
blow with the bottle, which has re-
suited In the partial paralysis Of steees
left arm. The assailant was indicted
for felonious assault, and his case Is
still pending. The damage suit which
grew out Of tho injuries Steele sus-
tanned in consequence Of the assault has
been tried once and a verdict was found
for Palmer. This YerSct Judge Port.
lock to-day set aside III ordering new
trial. NJ L is5S$
Mrs. Laura A, Lowery, wife Of Re-
publican City Chairman Thomas Low
cry, is dead, She is survived BY her
husband and six children. one OF whom,
John L. Lowery, principal of No, z,
Sixth Ward public school, Is critically III
of typhoid fever.
TROOPS INSPECTED.
Colonel 10 Lane Stern Inspected COM
panes "A 3 npd =, of Tho Seventy first
Regiment, and Battery r. Norfolk Light
Artillery Blues, in the Arlnory here to-
night, The Norfolk troops made fine
showing, especially The Blues, who had
practically every man In line. i
headed the syndicate which bought the
stranded sailing ship Henry B. Hyde,
with the intention OF floatins her. are
about $4,000 out Of pocket as a result
OF the vessel breaking in twain under
the heavy seas that have been pounding
the Virginia coast during the past few
days, The Hyde stranded last Fehr,,-
airy and repeated efforts to save her
were In vain. "a,
BURNED HIS CHILD.
The case Of the hoodoo doctor, Hay
WOOD! tanier, charged With setting fire
TO his house In Newtown. which caused
the death OF his ten-ycar-oll child, has
been pos tponfd till 40 O'Clock satur-
day. the case having been previously
set for hearing before Justice Peed at
10 O'clock this morning The concen-
sus Of opinion seems to be that the old
darkey is going to fare pretty badly
at tho hands Of the law, ms there arc
few who believe that his mind is un-
balanced. Most people think that the
5000 insurance on his chld's life was
the prime motive to tho alleged incen-
aarism and murder, Its understood
that tho negroes residing In the vicinity
OF the doctors former home arc very
much incensed AGAINST him, and that
many Of them have declared that In their
opinion, burning at the stake would not be
too good for him.
Death In "A tub Of water Is the sad
and distressing fate that met the hfteen-
months-old child Of Mr.. and Mrs, r. i,
Savage yesterday evening when tho In
fant was playing around Sin the yard Of
their residence, -in=P inner''s Point
child as soon as It was discovered by
Its mother, but without avail Mr.. Say,
age IL the chief billing clerk Of the South
ern Railway Office IN Pinner's Point,
The oyster inspectors Of Norfolk and
NorfiSk county are still at work inspect-
Ing tho packing houses, and yesterday