The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-19
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Lieutenant Shaw and the Minis
tets Of Norfolk Op-
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STUART NAMES NJ 4 4! A DEPUTY D {: ! i y
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" Especial TO Tho Times Dlspatc ll) III ii5
NolaFO I.S, " A,,s 1yeb. is. Lieutenant g.
n. shrlW,3 Of tho navy With a luinbcl OF
the. preachers Of Norfolk assisting HIM,
has determined that tho 1--we bird shoot o'1t
Ing shall mot occur ut Lafayette Field aSe1!l
hero orSS1rebruai'y e2d. III s1ys It Is q
direct violation or Tho law, and no tNslS
tho law officers to- forbid the shooting.
Lieutenant Shaw says:
,tt'r ann opposed II TO this kind of sport,
because 1t la lii direct violation OF the
5laW,&nld because r regard that the pro
motors or this part lcular ovcnt propose
to. desecratc tho birthdnysof George wash
ington ny liayIhg birds unnecessarily
,b,ltchered Oil The soil$lof Virginia by Il, g
woman and IL little boy too young to
stealzo what ho is doing, as well as
others Al g A
3s5yG MAN HALLS DEAD.
John G. Page ttopped dead last night
alone In lonely room over n small store
in Church Street, where he lived lio
came from q digt1nglisle family IN Rlch-
mond, and WIS rich at ono time, but ne
mad been living In poverty here for sew.
eral months Ho Old tho kindly persons
who assisted him recently, that he went ~
to- llforniug With the gold fever and
returned hero with 100000 10 settled
near Portstlout where Tho owned 4 fine
farm. He ran through his money and
had domestic troubles; his wife nrld
36ttqghtcr left him and are living In WASH.
sngton. Eo never blamed his fnnll y TOR
his domestic troubles; + said II was all MS
own fault; y IIog led u to- communicate with WITT,
mis- family In later years, but the letters
calno back unopened. III x i sS
The State oyster gun boat chesapeake
commanded by Captain w. Il. Hludgins,
commodore Or tho Virginia oyster navy
as icebound sin& thea upper part OF Mach
odoc River, b ttrEb utary Of the Potomac,
III King George county,
Fl 4 ST ItAI1rt 81 NANlI1S DEPUTY. E33s}3
h United States Marshal j, u. B. Stuart
to-day appointed II Harry w. Miller. the
brother OF Hugh Gordon Miller, recently
assistant district attorney here now in
New York, ito be assistant deputy mar
Shall. Marshal Stuart went to Richmond
to-day In toncctionN4With the selection OF
a successor 10 q Deputy Marshal Bendlt,
who res gncd there. III
Charles Dillon, sfWho y was SO terribly
mangled by being caught in a. cog wheel
|5machine at. tho Il Fuckers supply Manu-
Thursday died Nat8 the Kings Daughters
Hospital in Pors t,1louth4t this morning.
Il 5 NJ ~ III "a COAL FAMINE.
Thereiis q coal famine in Portsmouth,,
and no end Of tin sight. With less than
ono hundred tons in the city, and that not
purchascnble by the general public, the
situation is serious Ono OF. two dca lers
have coal loaded on barges at Northern
ports, but these q have been frozen UP
for q month, a nd m ustg walt for: warmer
weather. There Is no suffering there, as
there Isl enoNg b Woo(l 1t 9 rlast,untIl spring.
Mrs. Annie, NJ, sslqrls widow Of q gorge
| W. Scurls,s led itbtsn morning at thc$ home
Chapel Street aged II fty-slx years. She
leaves three children--.Irs Matthias ISri-
der, o r Grand RAPIDS, Mich; William y.
seurls, or N export n ews, nd Mrs. James
| II, Holland, Of Norfolk.
Miss Dug enia 81 Walker VI led NJ suddenly
lFlast night at tho residence or her SIS tor,
Mrs. Emily Foster, in DUNCAN Avenue,
LACED slxty-two years. She wa II takcr,
sick iii the night and died In. q ! short
while. " ss @ Ri VI