The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-05
IS DELv|NC FOR
A LOST TREASURE
Colored Woman Near Peters
burg Thinks Money is Buried
Beneath Her Home.
PROSPECTS FOR THE YEAR
Many Improvements Are to Be
Made By City and
Citizens.
PROSPECTS FOR THE YEAR

Especial to The Times-Dispatch)
PETERSBURG. VA, January 4.-W!th
the completion of the many new build
progress. and Icing prepared for the new
year, Petersburg will present a largely
new appearance by the time 1906 grows
old. In this renewal the city government
for paving streets and Sidewalks, and
building new watermains and sewers con-
tracts for the last mentioned work nav
ing been awarded at the Councils meet
ing on Tuesday. The new telephone eX-
change on Union Street Is going right
ahead. and the telegraph and telephone
companies have been authorized to put
their wires underground. Bids for the
rev National Bank building are being
invited, the completion of which, with
the new Virginia National Bank, and the
fine home OF the Petersburg Savings and
Insurance Company. all of which are
neighboring buildings. will give the local
Wall Street a handsome appearance The
recent completion of the new heating
plant for the Courthouse" Jail, clerks
office and municipal offices ION tho hill,
and the new Council chamber have tho
roughly equipped the city governments
residence, and may be followed by adj
ditlonal improvements.
If the work for u handsome, thorough
ly up-to-date hotel succeeds. the new
year will being an Overlooking cup of
material improvement and advance.
BY the accidental discharge of his own
gun young son of Daniel Wilson.
colored, was almost instantly killed In
Dlnwiddie county a few days ago while
hunting with some companions. Wilson
was standing on the stump OF tree
when the gun went off. the whole load
entering his breast. His father lives
near Pools Siding, on the Norfolk and
Western Railway.
Search for an old treasure box sup
posed to be buried under a house in
Blandford. built oyer the spot by an old
negro. now dead. is being conducted by
the mans widow vino says that she re-
Gently found an iron box buried under
the house. but was unable to raise 1t to
the surface. The woman to-day en-
ployed well digger, who is delving for
the buried treasure. For the purpose of
preventing search by other people the
house on the place was built by her hus-
band, who claimed that he had found
beneath the site brick vault containing
eiit mn N.'SSt' NHSh iic epuiu NV ii'oo
because of water and quicksand.
The annual banquet and election of
officers of the Petersburg Benevolent
Mechanic Association will be held on the
evening Of January Sth.
The Petersburg Club viii hold It's SIM
liar annual meeting January 11th.
Miss Philippine Dirsbah and Mr..
Maurice Berberich, both of Chesterfield
county. We're quietly married at ST. Jo-
sephs Catholic Church at o'clock this
morning by Rev. Father O'Farrell, in
the presence of number of friends and
relatives of the bride and groom.
John Nj. Hanrahan, proprietor OF the
Chesterfield Hotel, Is attending the meet
ing OF the Virginia Hotel Association,
in Norfolk. Mr.. Hnnratan has been elect
ed a member of the Executive Committee
OF the organization.