The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-13
SuRFMEN SAVE A
SCHOONER CREW [: v
/ Mammoth Steamship Dakota
Sails for New
York.
Dakota
NEGRO STABBED '' % TO 10 . DEATH y !, |!
Police Detectives Can Find No
Trace Of Senator Beasley's
Missing Son.
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Especial TO The Times. D ispatcl,)
" NORFOLK, VA, April l2.-TIhe crew
OF the three-rn asted schooner Blanche
Hopkins, Captain ]. 81 Harvey. Of Pfiila-
delphia, was saved this morning. me
vessel was discovered stranded by the
life-savers Of Chicamiconico and Gull
shoal Lifc-savng stations at midnight,
and the surf boats of both stations went
to- tie rescue and saved the nine men OF
the crew and brought them to the shore,
where they were provided for.
Is rhc statement OF Captain Harvey Is
that the schooner was bound from New
\ York to Savannah, with a cargo OF &C.
ment, and was stranded by coming TOO
near the beach. The schooner les IN
eight feet OF water, with Blk feet OF
water IN her hold three miles north Of
& Gun Shoal Station and thirty miles north
OF uattcras. The Merritt and Chapman
yprecking Company Will send tug from
here tonight 10 be ready to ftssist the
stranded schooner at daybreak5 IN me
morning. She could not have arrived O.
day In time TO be of any service TO the
vessel and the cargo. .
r. william s.. Ireland, OF Philadelphia, is
the owner OF the schooner and she was
built at Camden. n. j., in 1880
.5sf NEGRO MAN MURDERED. tsf,
Thomas Spencer, q negro farm hand. wa
am hbed 10 the heart and died while ut
x work In the field on Il. E.. Simpson . farm.
II to-day. He was running a cultivalor IN
= field three miles from the city Whe n ia "a
ward Morris. another negro. who works on
I INC arm casIonally, approached with q
Knife, stabbed the man. nd escaped pc
Il fore the men working In the adjoining
i Aeld could come to the :-escue. A POSSE
1,,a : formed and n search was started for
The fleeing assassin Spencer Wa e
gently married and bore a g GOD cha t, q, !,
ter. The surmiDc Is that the men nag nag
Ii had a previous qua rrel. w .83 8ia$ Ri
James Griffin, j. hnS negro who was sh '1
IN the abdomen yesterday nlorning is
still alive at the Protestant Hospital y
Y q preca rious condition. He mace an
ar,te-mortern statement eSonerat1ng mos s
II Beard colored, who shot him. aging tt'at
the pistol went off while they were. play pa
& tin., Beard was bailed In the Police
T.n,,rt Ills morning for ten days, to await
40 result n the wound His employer.
s. al. Davidson. n saloon keeper, became
4 s Z M BIG STEAMER.
q, The new steamship Dakota. Of the
N Great Northern Steamship Line, intendel
for service between San Francisco ana 1'
s :Iananese and Chinese ports, finished tax
Inc <. 600 tons OF bunker coal to-day. and
\ sailed for New York. where she VIII TAI
], aboard "a general cargo bound Tor san =
Francisco BY way OF Cape Horn:
II The cruiser3 # opek a4arrived. IN hampton
Roads to-day, having sailed 3 from Key
West on the sth. sixteen sick men were
Il Wrought 10 the naval hospital from the
cruiser to-day. She is anchored. await
g ing orders.
Police Detectives Rose and Cotton re-
turned this afternoon from Rocky Mount,
n. c., where they went yesterday t 70
search for Kenneth Bea sley, the eight
year-old son Of State Senator Beasley'
OF Poplar Branch, Currituck county y, 80, y.
a. who mysteriously d!sn ppeared In Feb
ruary last. The detectives found no trae e
OF the boy. sSgf II a ~ 5