The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-08
COUNCIL HOLDS
JOINT SESSION
Resignation Of Mr.. George
Cameron, IT,, Chairman OF
Finance Commute.
ARTHUR DAVIS TO HANG
Man Who Killed Syrian Peddler
Taken Back to Surry TO Be
Executed.
fspecial 10 rhe rimes. plspatci,.

Special TO The Tirnes- Dispatch
pEyrEKsBuHG. VA. March Tho
joint meeting This evening accepted the
resignation of George CanieAon. Jr. AZ
chairman Of the Finance Committee. to
take effect July LIST, and elected Charles
w. Bland to succeed him as chairman
OF that committee; Mr. Bland has , rep :, /
for many years. and is one OF the most |
influential members of the Finance
Committee. The tive bodies s, passed p,a,saroi,
for his able services and expressing
their regret at his resignation. The
resignation OF ~. w. Gil, as city phy
to Chicago to take special course IN
treatment OF the eye. ear and throat
inspe .ot.n. general OF coniederate Camps
a. Z. Hill Camp here this evening, and
was warmly greeted BY many seterains'
Colonel Morton said that though the
death rate among Confederate Setero
ans was higher now than ever rscn, re.
the Grand Camp was hu'i'eiiesnS
stronger than ever before
Odd-Fellows Lodges.
The Odd Fellows Lodges OF this city
viii hold a big meeting at their hasl To-
morrow evening at o'clock TO receive
an official visit from NJ h ,.aa,,, ~ ~
Chase. grand master Of the ln i,'
Order of Odd Fellows of Virginia.
MI Chase who is a lawyer Of clint
wood, Va. was made n member OF the
Grand Lodge of Virginia In this city IN
1895. and was elected grand master IN
Richmond in May 1906. The three lodges
of Odd Fellows in this city.viz q Mon on,
roo. No. S; Appomattox, NO, 40, anu
Petersburg, No, 76---have total mem
bership of from 800 to 400, not inciua,ng
the cncampmcnt branch of the order,
Glazier, No. I and Charity Rebekah
Lodge. No. 49,. j,
Rebekah Assembly OF Virginia, will vi.i,
Charity Rebekah Lodge tomorrow even.
ing. accompanying the. grand master VIII
delegation from Richmond.
Hang Davis To-Day.
Arthur Davis, colored, was taken Iros
county courthouse. where he VIII l., n p,
hanged tomorrow morning for tak,'l:
part in the murder Of III, 5os 81 % Sareeus
beaten to death by three negroes nea
Dendron, In surry county, j, during Christ ns
mas week Robbery was the evident M n.
sailants were frightened off by the ap
proach of negro woman who lived nea
the scene of the attack, In q write
condemned prisoner asserts his own III
nocence, and says that his compan'oi
Willie WilbeTt + the Rnraerfr Wilb e
third negro implicated. Is now serving
long term In the peniten-iary.
Davis left here IN Rooc. spirits, ar
remarked that he was ready to die. Coy
ernor Swanson refused yesterday to II
terfere in the case
Virgin Heavily Fined.
Tho case of Wyatt Wright coore
charged with selling liquor on sund.
and without a llcenEe, was tried to,,dt
In the Mayors Court for the third tin,
and Wright was fined 500 and sent
jail for ninety days His attorney
Messrs. Wilcox & WILCOX, took an a
peal and the case was certified 10 t
Hastings Court At the first trial of I
case last November. Wright was fin
$3.50, hut received no jail sentence,
has been arrested three times on ii
same charge, and was twice released
the Hastings Court because of technie
errors on the part OF the prosecute
once because proceedings were instttut
under the wrong statute, and once l
cause Of a wrong date in the warrant
which ground the prisoner was releas
by Judge Mullen on n writ Of hahe
corpus. only to be Immediately rearrest
on q corrected warrant.
Lassiter Delegate,
State Senator Charles n. Lassiter !
been elected delegate to the State G,
Vention of the Fraternal Order of Eagl
which meets In Stnunton next May
Petersburg Aerie OF Eagles. Mayor
h. Moody has been elected alternate,