The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-31
EASILY DEFEAT
PETERSBURG LADS
Richmond Grays Win From
Cockadc Soldier Boys by Score
OF 1So to $50.
ONE FRICTION EXISTS
Reported That There Is Trouble
Between n. & w. Officials
and Enginemen.
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PETERSBURG. VA, January 3o.--Tlle
Richmond Grays defeated the Petersburg
Grays in a target match at the armory
here tonight by score. of $50 to loo.
After the match between teams Corporal
Aobey. of Richmond, and Corporal
Myers of Petersburg, were pitted against
each other, Mobley winning by score of
II to 16 The Richmond team included
Captain Hardy and Sergeants Lazaronc,
Tosh. Walker and several privates.
Among those on the Petersburg team
were Captain Harrison, Lieutenant Jones
and Sergeants Kidd, Rogers end Myers.
May Be Trouble.
1t is rumored that there may be some
trouble between the Norfolk and Western
Railroad Company and the enginemcn
and fremen employed on the road.
Trouble is anticipated. but the officials
OF the road In this city know nothing
of the causes OF friction.
Health Ofrer Martins report for the
month ending January 10th shows total
of fifty deaths in the city-seventeen
whites and thirty-three colored. or the
total number, nine were under one year
of age. and three more than eighty
years. Two white and five colored per-
sons died OF consumption, and four white
and three colored persons died or iopar
pneumonia. Fifteen bodies were brought
to the city for interment during the
month.
Twenty-one cases OF disease, as fol-
lows, were reported during the month;
Typhoid fever. 2. dphtherla, Z; tubcr-
culosis, g; measles, 8.
Rate of mortality, based on population
OF $1,000 inhabitants-white. 1897; col
ored, 3o46: whole population, 22.22
Fifty-seven births were reported during
the month--wiite, q; colored, %.
Arrested for housekeeping.
Ed. Durfy. alias Ed. Smith, negro. was
arrested In this city this afternoon,
charged with housebreaking in Sussex
county. Saturday night the store of 6.
b. Partridge, at Yale, was broken into
and shotgun and several other articles
taken. The Petersburg police Were
asked to be on the lookout for the thief,
and this afternoon Chief Ragland and
Officer John Keelan arrested Durfy. in
whose possession the gun was found.
Humphrey. the alleged short-change
man. under arrest in Richmond, was
convicted of a similar charge in the
Mayors Court Monday morning and fired
$50 His pal. who gave the name of Tay-
Tor. was also fined $50 They paid the
fines and left the city. Chief of Police
Ragland Informed the Richmond detec-
tives of Humphreys whereabouts in
Richmond.
Dismiss Porter.
Wingfield w. Lanier has been elected
engineer in the Petersburg Fire Depart
ment. Several weeks ago Engineer Allie
Porter was fined $50 for being off duty
without leave of absence. and upon the
boards refusal to remit the fine Mr..
Porter rendered his resignation. The
board. however, refused to accept the
resignation, dismissed Mr.. Porter from
the service and elected Mr.. Lanier to the
vacancy.
Charles Thomas, Richmond negro.
was sent to Jail for fifteen days by the
MAYOR this morning for the theft of two
bottles of whiskey.
James Payne, coored. also of Richmond,
was fined $40 for striking woman, in
default of which he went to Jail.
Mr.. Thomas J. Minetree is quite sick
with grip at his residence on Liberty
Street. Mr. Minetree was taken sick in
Washington While attending the funeral
of his brother. the late Colonel Joseph p.
Minctree.