The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-10
FRANK ]. COULD
ON HUNTING I2lP.
Unexpected Repairs to die
Arkansas Delays North At
lantic Fleet.
DROWNED in PORTO RICO
Father, Who Could Not Swim,
Nearly Lost Life to Save
Child.
DROWNED IN PORTO RICO
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fsnecial to Tho Times Dispa{ch.)
NORFOLK, VA. November s.--Frank
Gould and a party including Marion
storey. of New York. are to arrive here
Tomorrow to board the yacht Reta,
owned by Mr.. storey, for cunning trip
10 the North Carolina sounds.
Unexpected repairs developed as nee
essary aboard tho monitor Arkansas, of
the United States Coast Defense squad
ron, of the North Atlantic fleet, now at
at the navy yard here that Will hold UP
the squadron SO that it will not arrive
In Charleston harbor, South Carolina.
before the first of December, when the
winter evolutons in the South Will begin.
DROWNED IN PORTO RICO.
Joseph. the son Of Rev y. p. and Mrs
Eva Q. Barrett, missionaries Of the
Christian denomination in Porto Rico.
from Norfolk, was drowned In tho Por-
tuguesc River, Porto Rico, October 18th
last. The following account has been re-
celvcd here:
It was hot day and as the father
had just gotten home from n mission
airy tour he went to the river to bathc
and the boy went with him. The little
child ran along the shore for a short
distance and into the water at a point
where there was n deep hole. The father
saw him at that Instant and rushed to
his rescue. Though the parent could
not swim, he plunged into the dangerous
hole and went down In hope of rcscuing
tho boy. but failed. The effort was re-
peatcd four times, and the distressed
father narrowly escaped the fate OF his
Snlf ba Ia IA.
By coming TO the surface near enough
to the short to be able to get a hold on
u support and walt until a rope was
thrown to him The boy was five years
old. @ N
WOMAN BEATEN AND KICKED.
S Lillian May fcolored) was assaulted on
the corner OF Godfin and County Streets,
Portsmouth,, this morning by two negro
men William Brown and another, who,
4 goes under the alias OF "Booscy Ace"
After the Woman had been knocked
down she was kicked by one Of the men,
and she Is now in the county Jail, not
expected to live. Brown was captured
md .'Boosey Acc" escaped. The former
was committed to jail by Justice Pecd-
The trouble among the three was caused
BY dispute over money.
MIR. CROMWELL BETTER.
II lis announced from st. Christopher's
Hospital that NJ. 3. eCro%c1l, genera
agent for Old Dominion Steamship Com
pany, who is now III there, was slightly
improved to-day. though still in a pre-
carious condition. He was deirlous all
: day yesterday.
The schooner Matilda Brooks. Nor
folk New York lumber trader. lies on
the Berkeley flats. with four feet Of water
in her hold. She loaded lumber up the
James River for New York and after
going out sprang n leak, put back here
and run on the flats to save her from
sinking lower In the water. An effort
will be made to locate the leak and stop
II so the vessel may proceed without dis
charging cargo
Cpatain Colin W. Scarborough, engineer
OF the tug Pocahontas whose feet were
cut OFF by a Norfolk and Western engine
AIIosnitai. where the wounded man Is 5ly-
Ing with his legs amputated above the
ankle