The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-27
MEDALS or HONOR
TO BRAVE ] ! MEN.
Went Into Clustering Steam
to Repair and Save
Vessel.
.cAuGH {: HIMSELF! |! VI E: TO DEATH.
TO Turn Virginia Swamp
Reeds Into Tooth
picks.
.CAUGHED HIMSELF TO DEATH.

Especial to The Times Dlsnatch)
NORFOLK, VA, May 26 Clarence z.
jackson and i. Lieubrcct, Of Portsmouth,,
are to be honored.by the Navy Depart-
5ment for personal bravery. Last win
ter during the voyage of the torpedo boat
destroyer Whipple from Charleston, S.
c.. some OF the delicate machinery OF the
vessel became submerged, and deranged
during a storm. The fire-room filled
with steam and the vessel was in danger
fof an explosion which would have killed
or drowned the crew. The two men
went.into the blistcrng steam below and
made the repairs at the risk OF their
lives and enabled the vessel to outlive
4 the storm and arrive here safely.
COUGHED TO DEATH
- Sines Reed, n negro farm hand, b en-
ploSed by Richard Bunting In the coun-
try, near Portsmouth, died yesterday
from coughing. He was In usual health
yesterday TIL he began to cough The
attack grew violent and continued till!
the vctim,9a strong man. was dead from
stranglllatlon. Si
Morris 1senstot and Henry Bord, pawn
brokers, OF Portsmouth, were arraigned
before Commissioner George L. Bowden
to-day and held for Indictment by the
grand jury. Both off$the pawn brokers
are charged with receiving revolvers,
worth SIS each. which we're stolen from
the navy. The penalty Is a fine OF $1,000
to 5000. Both Of the accused were re-
leased on bond for appearance at tho
next term. .s!: al
FACTORY FOR ToOTIPICKS.
II. s. Hopper. of Detroit, Mich. has In
vented and constructed the machinery
here for manufacturing toothpicks from
the reeds which grow wild in the marshes
and wastealnnd In this vicinity and In
North Carolina. The wood of the seeds
Is tough. and pliable and therefore will
mot break, and leave slivers between the
teeth as do the toothhchs u the cut
wood which are on the market now, Tie
toothpcks will be manufactured by the
millions, and sold to the wholesale JOBS
bers for distribution. The difficulty was
to invent the machinery which would
do the work of cutting the toothpicks from
the reeds accurate and cheaply enough
| TO make marketable product. Mr.. Hop
per has accomplished that work and the
manufacture VIII begin as soon as q suit
able site Is found. #
MANY $VOTERS DISQUALIFIED.
Five hundred and fifty names arc in
.cludcd in the lists of persons convicted
linsthe Police Court between October 1907,
and May, 1906. of offenses which. unde,
the provision of section % Of the Con.
stltution would disfranchise them. The
lists, which were made out at the direc-
/ ton OF Clerk OF the \ Courts james v.
iTrehy, have been mailed to all the regis
| trars In the city.
SAM BEyNDIT. *
zone OF the first official acts of Marshal
Treat will be to reinstate Sam Bendit as
| his deputy marshal for the Richmond end
| OF the district" United States Assistant
District Attorney Robert H. Talley made
)sthis statement this morning, relative TO
jsthe reappolntm Of Mr. Treat as mar ma r.
4 shall for the Eastern Districtgof Virginia.
There is, universal satisfaction among
Ithc Republican circles In Richmond. = said
Mr. Talley, that Mr.. Treat has been
reinstated as narshal. AS for MI Senalt'
there is no doubt he will give up his posi-
ton in the mailing service to accept the
position held by him before he resigned
after Mr. Stuart became marshal