The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-09
BOARD RAT|HES
LIGHT CONTRACT
Report OF Committee Recon-
mending Contract With Street
Railway Co. Adopted.
THEIR CONDUCT OFFENSIVE.
White People Complain Of Being
Crowded from Sidewalk by
Negroes.
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PETERSBURG, VA, July s.--Thc
Board OF Aldermen at meeting this
afternoon concurred in the Councils s.
adoption OF an ordinance creating q
Committee on Charter and Reform
to consist of one Alderman and two
Councilmen. who shall from time 70
time render reports on what they deem
advisable changes in the city charter
and ordinances. The members of the
committee are to be appointed by the
presidents Of tho Council and Board
of Aldermen The new ordinance was
presented at the last meeting of the
Council by c. w. Bland, chairman of
the Finance Committee. Tho Board
also concurred in the Councils adop-s
ton of the Gas and Light Committees
report, recommending that the city
make a contract with the Virginia Pas
senger and Power Company for three
years, with power of extension to
five, for street lights at the present
rate of s57 per light per year. The
Council resolution. offered by T. G.
Stratton, ordering monthly meeting
of the Lower Appomattox Board was
not approved by the Aldermen. A res.
olution, Offered by w. e. Poole, pro-
viding for $500 appropriation to I'M
prove the race-track at West End
Park, was heartily Endorsed by several
speakers. and was adopted.
Importing Creek Workmcn.
After unsuccessful efforts to secure
negro laborers in Petersburg for the
work of digging UP Bank Street, pre-
paratory to laying vitrified brick
pavement. Contractor Murphy, of Port
Huron. Mich. is importing Greek work
men from New York. Twenty four
Greeks started work this morning and
twenty six more are expected. Come
around Tomorrow" was the reply
given to fifteen negroes who applied
after the Greeks had started.
A fire in DR.. ]. G. Rennies stable in
the rear of his residence on Union
Street. yesterday morning, destroyed
driving horse SO severely that the
animal was shot a quantity Of feed
and two sets of harness were also de-
stroyed. a lighted cigar or cigarette
Is believed to be the origin of the
fire, which entails a loss of several
hundred dollars on the horse and other
stable property, except thu stable.
| which was insured.
Dnrlxcy With Pistol.
A young negro, who gave his name
as John Taylor. and claimed to be from
| Dnwiddie county. was fined $40 in the
Mayors Court this morning for carry
| Ing a concealed pistol, and in default
of payment went to jail, where lie
was subsequently identified by Chief OF
Police Ragland as John Rivers. who
was sentenced to four Years in the
penitentiary by the Hastings Court Of
this city in March, 1902, for breaking
into the store OF P. W. Smith The
j courf IN Eos
on account of his youth, but he es.
4 capped after few months and reappears
i here to-day q
Negroes Block Sidewalk.
c. Blankenship, the young white mar
charged with assaulting Walter Gates
| colored. on Grove Avenue last Frida,
the Mayor this morning, and was finet
i $40 and costs. When tho case came
4 before the Mayor Saturday morning
/ the negro identified Blankenship as one
of two men who had assaulted ant
| beaten him without any cause whateve,
i while he was walking along Groy,
/ Avenue with a little negro girl. Al
i Blankenship denied the charge, and tn,
\ testimony of other witnesses failed tt
4 prove the guilt OF any one suspected
the case was continued until this
morning, Wnen BlanKeQSnlp aCRnOWl
4 edged his guilt, saying that the negr
I gave offense by brushing against hin,
Because of the young mans frank &C
4 knowledge nent of his part In the figh
a jail sentence was not imposed. TIL
offensive conduct of negroes on tn
public streets Of this city in blocking
! sidewalks and otherwise interfering
with the passage Of white people l
generally SO hagrantly unprovoke
that the rarity Of resulting dif!icultie
is remarkable.
Death Of Mr.. Endailey.
Emmett Endailey, a young marie
man. who came to Petersburg fro1
Charlotte county eight years ago, die
Saturday night at his residence o
West High Street. after long III
-)ness. Mr.. Endailey was twenty-fiv
+ years old and is survived by his youn
Wife. his mother, Mrs. Mary z. Err
: daley. and one brother, w. l.. Er
, daley, Of Richmond. The funeral too
! place yesterday, the interment being I
Ettrick Cemetery.
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Mccklenburs Nominees.
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BOYDTON, VA, July S.--The pr
i, mary held here Saturday was one I