The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-27
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Miss Fannie Legunl and Her.
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I Charles r Cole Charged With
Using Finds Of Telephone
Company.
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II NORFOLK, VA, September 36.--Miss
Fannie Legum, is years old and her
brother, Joseph Legum, "a years old. Of
Berkeley, were severely burned this
morning In escaping from their burning
rooms at Liberty and Ninth Streeta
They went down ladder from the sec
3ond story III their night Clothes, after
the stairway had been Burned.
H The are started at four o'clock this
morning III the cooks shop OF some
negroes, who overturned d kerosene lamp
while 1uarrelirg. The FIRE spread from
there to saloon and a dry goods store
adjoining. 1t burned two brick buildings
and part Of the third belonging to ~
Legum ertnillng a. loss Of $4,000. One
OF the engines of Norfolk was sent to
Berkeley, when the hose OF the Berkeley
department Burst.
CHARGED WITH ENLIGHTENMENT.
Il Charles p. Cole, thirty years Of age
was arrested to-day and is held In Jail
on charge Of enbczzllng $1,000 from the
Southern Bel Telephone Company. The,
statement IS that the enbezzlement was
discovered three months ago. while the
accused was cashier Of the company. He
was discharged and the money was paid
by the bonding company. He has not
restored the money to the bonding COM
pany. and hence his arrest now. He Is
alleged to have failed to report the
money collected. n. i. H H \.
D PROBABLY JUMPED ovERBoARD.
j. H. Clarke. OF Berkeley, formerly
employed bySStha Virginia Life Insur-
ance Company, Is missing and It Is be-
loved that he Is drowned. His coat
and hat were found on the Berkeley fer.
ry7boat this morning, hut he could not
! be found. He Is IS years of age and has
wife and family. He had a, quarrel
with A. A. Morse, superintendent Of
the insurance company.a week ago and
that confirms the susH cion that he
jumned overheard this morning 6& &.
TWO sCHoONERs WRECKED.
The three mnsted schooner Job H. Jack
son was struck and sunk in the lower
this morning by the Lake steamer. Bay
View. Soon afterward the schooner An
uie ~. Trainer. Captain Derrickson, was
run into and straped BY the same steam
err. The crew Of the Bay View rescued
the crew y OF theagJob H. Jackson and
proceeded on her way to Newport News
The schooner Trainer was badly dam,
aged !. Her fore rigging sails and stem
were torn away. and one side Of the yes
sol was rekcd the entire length, and
everything In her was wrecked. Both
vessels were from New York, and con-
signed to Nichol So Brothers, for piles.
BRIDF, NORFOLK ITEMS. II
President F. B. Tucker. Of the Memo
rial TUniverslty of Mason City, Iowa,
visited the Jamestown Exposition GROUNDS
yesterday. and to-day he declares that
the site is ideal considered as to its
typographical. geographic and historic
conditions. He suggests that among the
exhibits there should be ono of crop
growing. in which the five crops which
are grown on the fields about Norfolk
all the year round ,shotad be illustrated.
81 John D. Moore. chairman Of the Re-;
publican Executive Committee Of Nor
folk county, denies the report that his
of E.. W. Owens and William G. Parker.
the Democratic nominees for the House
of Delegates. 5i
A death certificate, presented at the
health office this morning In the case
OF an old colored woman named Mary
Thomas, who died at No. eos Smith Street
Sunday, gives the age Of the deceased
as ll3 years. e q
J Mrs. Minty, wife, of Or. u. T. Alnty. OF
Cincinnati. was rescued from drowning
at Virginia Beach yesterday afternoon by
Detective Sam Cotton, OF the Norfolk POI
lice department. Mrs. N1inty was bathing
at the time. and both her husband and
Detective Cotton went to the rescue, but
the latter, being the best swimmer,
reached the woman first and brought her
ashore unconscious.
Bishop a. Coke Smith. Of the Metho-
dist Church. upon the advice OF the ply
sicians, has determined to remain in
Asheyllle. N. G., on account Of his health
this winter. His residence here has been
rented to Mr.. Ration, and his family
will move to Asheville to spend the
winter there where Bishop Smith en-
joys better health,