The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-24
THE POLICE UNDER
COUNCIL |. CONTROL |:
Petersburg Has Not Had g Police
Board Since Last &
Fall. tyIJ,
GRAN0LlTHIc OFFIC Err
Four Bodies Of Washington Artil-
leryi,lcn Reinforced and Placed
in the Proper Section. '.j
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(Specins 10 The Tmes.Dispatch.) ".
PETERSBURG. VA, March Tho
non-electton OF new police commission
by the Council and Board OF Aldermen
leaves the city still without that ir1l-
p0r1nt body, but such has been tho
case for several months, the resignation
OF the fofnier board hnving been hahded'
I'll last fall. The Police Committee Of
the Council Is now in active supervision;
OF that department -
At the request OF several Councilmen,
Mr.. Thomas d. Machcn withdrew his
resignation as chairman of the Relief
Committee at the special joint meeting
OF the Council and Board OF Aldermen
last night. After the adjournment of
the meeting. II. G. Stratton's suggestion
that the date for the caucus OF the two
bodies to nominate municipal officers be
changed from Wednesday,. April ih. to
Thursday. April 9Th, was agreed upon.
The jury were unable to agree, stand
Ing nine for acduittal and three for con-
victIon In the cnse OF MerTeil A1drdgc.
charged With selling liquor Sunday De-
cember 10, 1906. in the Hastings Court
to-day, and the case was continued until
the next term Aldridsc was q bartender
for w. f. Hitchcock at the time OF the
alleged offcnse. He is represented by
p. H. brewry Commonweaf1h'sA Attorney
r. II. Mann. conducting tie prosecu-
ton.
The Police Committee of4thc City coun-
eli has granted u four months leave OF
absence TO Policeman Coleman In order
that the Street Department MAY have
his services during the extensive amount
acf grAnollthic sidewalk paving soon -
be done fere by the Southern Paving and
CONSTRUCTION Company, or Norfolk. O:iiqGr
Coleman has had great experience In
granolltiiic WORK.
The bodies OF four members OF the
Washington Artillery. which had been
buried by mistake in a wrong pection
OF Blandford Cemetery were reinterred;
yesterday AFTERNOON In the section allotted
TO that organizations. The religious SER
vices were attended by a number OF mem.
bers of the Ladies. Memorial Association
and A P. Hill Camp, whose chaplain.
Rev. DR.. Pitcher. assisted Rev. j. B.
VIM. pastor-of Washington Street Meth
Sodst Church. The rcinterment was
brought about By the ladies' Memorial
Association. and the chairman OF the
ell according to the wishes OF
tevcral members OF The Washing
ION Artillery who recently visited
Petersburg. The soldiers whose bodies
were moved were: John McManus, Fourth
Company. killed October 9th. 1851: H. c.
Mcclellan. First Company. died Novem-
Der %. 1864; Morgan c. Harris, Killed July
9TH. 1854; Wilson Stuart Fourth Cam
rany. killed November nth. 1854 The
body OF Sergeant ]. A. covlngton, Of
Company G, Thirty-third South Caro-
Co.
section.
News of the death OF Colonel William
e. Peters, OF the University of Virginia,
was received here with the sincerest
sense of personal loss by the many local
nlumAi. who regarded him with aitec-
.tionate admiration as tIe highest type
OF Southern gentleman.
Mr.. Emmett a. Poarcii, who died yes
terday afternoon at the Memorial hos-
pltal In Richmond. was we'll known
( lumber dealer in this city. and highly
esteemed citizen. Mr.. Poarch was a ma
tive OF Dinwiudie county, and was sixty
three years old. He Is survived by his
wife. two sons. and two daughters.
Mr.. Charles NJ. Walsh, representing the
Petersburg Aerie., OF Eagles, and Mr.. c.
g. Peasants, State district deputy
worthy president. will attend meeting
o. representatives OF the various Aertes
OF the State in Norfolk next week to
for mplans for the meeting of THE State
Aerie in Ma3.o
Miss Mamie Spencer Wyatt. daughter.
OF Mr.. and Mrs. j. H Wyatt. was mar
rled at o'clock last evening to Mr.
q George E. DeWsoury. a telegraph opera
tor with the Norfolk and Western Rail
way Company in this city. The ceremony
took place at the home of the Rev.
r. w. Moore. pastor OF the Second Bap-
fist Church.
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