The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27
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Death in Richmond Yesterday Of
Former Resident of
Manchester.
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oEsLAGER is HEAVILY FINED
Question Of Electric Plant for the
City-Personals and
Briefs.
oEsLAGER is HEAVILY FINED
Manchester Bureau. Times Dispatch.
No. 1l02 Hull street

Manchester Bureau, Times- Dispatch.
No. 1102 Hull street.
Mr.. w. w. Collins, who was formerly
q resident of Manchester, but who OF
late had lived at No. 31a North Twenty
sixth Street, Richmond, died yesterday
morning at s o'clock at his homa. He
was hfty-three years Of age and Is sur
vived by his wife and eight children.
Mr.. Collins was born In Keysville and
moved to Manchester several years ago.
He resided here for some time, when he
went to Richmond to live. He was n
member OF Liberty Council, No. 10, Jr.
o. u. A. NJ, OF Swansboro. and a dele
cation from this council Will attend the
funeral which will take place in Keys
vile, Va.
He Made Amends.
was charged with cutting William Dud-
ley. -employe. was yesterday
fined 800 in the Corporation Court,
ordered to jail for ten days and re-
quired to pay the PHYSICIANS bill OF the
injured man.
MT. f.. H. Wells defended the pris-
oner, and showed to the court that there
was no felonous intent The man who
did the cutting had been for long time
a friend of the wounded man, and after
he had inflicted the wounds had i'm
mcdiately done what he could to make
amends for his deed. The extenuatlng
circumstances saved Oeslager from
possibly long term In jail. or perhaps
a shor. sentence in the penitentiary.
Electric Light Plant.
Free electric lights for Manchester VIII
soon be thing OF the past. and the ques,
ton of building a plant for municipal al
lighting IS one that is greatly asitated
at this time. The Virginia Passenger
and Power Company five years ago offered
the city seventy arc lights free OF cost.
At that time strong competition was
In progress and whatever the motive OF
the S.reet railway company was. IT saved
Manchester something morn nor, than se'o w.
But this arrangement VIII not last al
ways. and the Ccuncilmen are up against
the proposition of either building an
electric light plant or giving contract
for the supplying of the city "itn hen n,.,:
will can its own plant; that II Will buy
all the poles of the Passenger and Power
Company, and that 1t will furnish cleo
Engines at the new filter plant being
erected BY the city will supply the neces-
sary power for the electric plant Work
ing in conjunction, and operated by the
cit. the water and the electric plant WILL
it Is thought. save the city several hum
dreds of dollars each year-
Personals and Briefs.
Messrs b. aI. Nunnally. j. T. SHELL
inss, ]. n. Snellings and j. W. Robert
son. won first and second prizes at the
chicken show In Richmond this Week.
bridge street Baptist Church this morn
ing and tonight The choir has arr
ranged a splendid program for the SER
vices.
The Rev g o .rvceaEard 1,,,n3 asStor Of Of
ore of the most beloved ministers OF
the city. is quite i'll at his home with
Richmond will fill the pulpit of the
church at both services to-day.
The funeral of Miss Carrie White,
who died at the home of her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. White: of East Tenth
Street. Yesterday morning. will take
place this afternoon. and interment Will
be made in Maury Cemetery
The remains of Mr.. Henry q Blng,
who died at his home; No. li2a Hull
be taken to his old home, at Basker-
VILE, Va, this morning. where the in
terment will be. The. Young man had
been i'll with pneumonia for two weeks
Miss Lillian f. Nunnally is visiting
friends in Crewe, Va.
The regular meeting Of the Olympia
The Almshouse and Poor Committees
will meet in the Council chamber to-
In the Corporation Court divorces
have been granted to Bessie Lee Nance
from Richard Nance; to Estelle NJ. Ian
dreth from George w. Landreth. AID
to Minnie Harris from George Harris.