The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-14
.JAPAN COMING
II. jamestown
.(;eisha Girls, Jugglcrs and Other
Performers Com
ing.
MONEY ONE: ORDER SHORTAGE I III i:
Portsmouth Clerk Clerk; Will Pay All All.
file is Not Prose .
cuted.
IoNEY ORDER SHORTAGE :
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Especial to The Times. Dlspntch.)
NORFOLK, VA july 13--Yumeta
Kushiblki. Il Japanese commissioner to
the Portland Exposition and protector OF
i."Eair Japan at st. Louis and ut Port
land, will arrive in Norfolk next week
to look over tho ground with q view Of
arranging for concession ut the James
town Exposition. Mr.. kushbllsi wrote re-
Gently to y. j. Stokes, who Is IN charge
OF tho water and sewerage construction
at the exposition site. stating that he
would BIO here In ten days to SEQ him and
plans. Ills "Far Japan was regarded
as ono Of the most attractive exhibits at
ST. Louis. Mr.. Kushibikl controls all Of
the Gclsha girls, athletes, jugglers and
other Japanese performers who were
brought to this country for exhibition
purposes. 6 ss
JENkINs's /. SHORTAGE.
81 W.s,D. jenkins, the suspended money
order clerk Of the Portsmouth postoflce,f
paid part OF tho shortage fund In his ac-
counts to-day, and says he Will pay the
rest II not prosecuted The shortage is
& 81, sOO ana he has paid $500, leaving q
Balance as known now, Of s1,100 The
discovery occurred because Of putting a
woman at the money order desk as more
suitable work for her and placing Jen-
kins at another desk. So soon as hcs be-
g1l TO explain the work to the woman
clerk, the Irregularities We're revealed,
and jenkins admitted that tho accounts
we're in such condition that even he did
not understand them.
,1t,3sl tt1x5 ty,sf "a
determined that Jenkins had been using
the government money to forward his
own political ambitions. He wished to be-
como paymaster In the army and he stood
tho civil service examination for that
larger field of usefulness. The case Is
similar to that OF Samuel l.. Burroughs.
who was dismissed as postmaster OF
Portsmouth three years ago for using
$4,000 OF the government money. His
bondsmen paid the government for the
shortage and the case was dismissed at
ter several attempts to convict him In the
United States Court.
jenkins will be dismissed from the SER.
vice. He may not be indicted by the
grand jury. d rs Us
Amos Williams the colored carrier, who
was suspended at the same time, has
been guilty Of in flating his claims for
time since the PRODUCTION Of the eight
hour day rule. iistE
DEAD FROM WOUND
Wiimore Robb. il co!ored /, If VINO was
brought here on the9 steamboat from
Cape Charles. wounded in thee neck. died
at st. Yincent's Hospital this morning.
The wound caused paralysis from which
the negro died. He came on the steam
boat Pennsylvania yesterday, Furnishing
knives and thereby terrorlzing the pas
sengers and tho crew. II Q would not sub
nit to arrest till he was shot by the local
policeman. He fell and 1t was found that
he was wounded SO badly that he was
brought to St. Vincent's here, where he.
died. He was thrty-five years old and
unmarried. s=,5 i5 f5.
FERN GOES TO THE LAKES.
Commander Eaton. Of the naval militia
OF the State Of Minnesota, has arrived In
1 Norfolk and is experimenting tho flttp6
out OF the wooden gunboat Fern, which
II Is being made ready for a long trip from
this navy-yard to Duluth, Minnesota.
going via New York. thence up the Hua-
son River to the Erie Canal to the Great
Lakes, where she will beSused as q prnc-
5tice vessel for tho Minnesota naval re-
serves. The repairs to the Fern will be
completed in time for her to start next
week. &
DIR. sFRISTCE TO BALTIMORE.
Rev. DR.. A. j. Fristoe, pastor or the
Park Avenue Baptist Church, will leave
tomorrow for Baltimore, where he VIII
preach for month at the Brantley Bnl-
fist Church. His family will remain In
Norfolk. His pulpit here will,&in his alb
sence, DO supplied by Rev. George Green,
Of Toronto Canada, who is at present
4 n physician intern at st. Vincent's Hos
$pital, preparing for the work OF mis-
&sionary in foreign land.
ELEGANT WEDDING.