The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-12-30
MR. GQOD|NG WAS
SAVED BY NEGRO.
Fell Into the River and Would
Have Drowned Butifor
His Aid.
THE LEBANON I'm DRY DOCK
----------------
Mr.. Holland Practically Restored
to Speech Captain Atkins's
Body Found
THE LEBANON I'm DRY DOCK
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NORFOLK, VA, December 70. ID. u.
EGooding, superintendent Of the scaboar.d
Warehouse Company, u Portsmouth,
was rescued while drowning this morning Y ! 9
Mr.. Goodng fell INTO tile Wutei. y. Tile
stepping from the wlrtrs TO a barge,
which was unloading guano. IIas AZ tempt
ed to swim to the barge, hut WIS & I,
chilled by tho water I'm. he sippped any q
sank. Davis plunged In and caus ~
Goodng as he was sinling fur y lc second
time and brought him Ia Ills wilari,
where he was revived. Mr.Sy inoGi''e $
body struck the :iit,bnrs in fall!''E ~
was severely bruised.
COLLIER LEBANON y.
The United States NAVAL cnll Her Leha-
non arrived at the navy artiE ller 'e g
day for extensive repairs. Tie q .ci.tilon
4 has been in continuous service for q year,
fuelng the fleets, and she Will u be put
+ In condition while here to continue as q
tender to the North Atlantic feet and
the coaling stations along the coo st. she
has just returned from s olomon's Island,
where she coaled the floating dry dock
Dewey.
s. Holland. OF Windsor, Va. the
prominent attorney and former candi date
for Congress, who was stricken with
paralysis while und ergoing an operation
/ in a dentists chair here six weeks ago
has recovered "A his speech to a partial
degree. Flo can talk 81 ovly. His friends
hone that he will be restored entirely
The paralysis attacked the muscles of his
throat chiefly TIL to-day he could not
captain ATKINS BODY FOUND.
The decompose led body Soft Captain Levi
sAtkins was found floating in thsg river .,, J.
this morning. Az He was drowned q month
ago when utten1pti Ing, with seyera sofl;er
schooner D Myrtle Leaf, Of which he was
the master III a small launch. The d OLD lt1
Dominion 81 amb rat M jack bar ID 8ir.to;
the launch and thre ws the mec into ne
wa Ter. fas The others We're rescued ,s but
Captain Atkins was not sean aga nj
{ his body was found this snlorl,l! the
body Will be sburie q here, unless there
are orders to the ortrarys from his WI g.
and family, IN N ovn Scotia There " ere re
$50 d II, money and O gold watch Il 4 n the
pockets Of the clio thes OF G. plain tkins.s
There were two other Gales or. he
Same coroner's Jury to day p met
&Hermett died In the jail 4hospit1 l8s..l en-
Ely. He8was taken from the streets h ss;5
the police I'm a helpless cond' tlc;1l fro.n
sickness and died Of Bright s disease Is g
was not known he s33 85 9 ~
fight with other negroes ut South I. y or-i
$foll<9 four DAYS ago. die I'd at the Protestant
Hospital from a yyo und in he neck. 81.
Dr. ] {, Stephenson Of FRANKLIN, AZ a., IS
IN the ST. Vincent Hospital here, 81 ffer-s
Ing from a brok leg. He fell on t he !,
sidewalk In Portsmouth last nigh NJ q an az
broke both bones g bove the ann ~ 3, z,
Cant ali, I,ane, OF the steamer Ia bans,
which arrived here to-day from Ba W
more, reports having passed OF P e Id
+ ,,oo,kolit. lust north Of the Pot mac
River ana about twenty I've miles south ".
Of solomon's Island at ~ OF clock a. ?
morning y$ the floating dry-d ok eWey.
which started from Solomon Is Island Il at
Kos Q, clock yesterday afternoon on her ne,
long y voyage In tow for the philippine
Islands. 81 ~ BE
According ito Captain Ian IS report the Ea'
Dewey had travelled twenty I've " miles
IN eleven hours. sho mas fourteen thou
sand miles to travel. and at the rate 5of
two miles an hour It will take ~ her
nine months to make the voyage. Should
severe weather encounter her at sea
there would 10 long delays by the Dewey
being blown out Of her course.
The Dewey, Il when passed by the Ala
bamn, was about eighty miles north Of
the Virginia Capes, and providing she
does b not stop In Hampton Roads or.
lower Chesapeake Bay she will pass out
to sea Sunday morning ne.
COLONEL DAY HERE, 8Si
a Colonel G.. Fenton Day, Of Smithtteld,
chairman Of the Second District Demo-
cratic Congressional Committee, arrived
here this morning from his home in 4 Isle
OF Wight. and after spending the day In
Norfolk returned to- smithtield this af-s
ternoon. Colonel Day said he had heard
OF no prospective candidates for Congress
next fall except Congressman Harry II
Maynard, who will be q candidate to sue
coed himself, and Colonel Cabell.