The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-24
JUMP FROM TRAIN
RESULTS IN DEATH
Baltimore Negro, Stealing Ride,
Fatally Injured i'll Leaving
the Train.
BIG FIGHT ON SALOONS
Churches Take Action and Citi-
zens' Petition to Be Acted
Upon Tonight.
BIG FIGHT ON SALOONS
Especial 70 The Times plspatch.l

John Thomas, q Baltimore negr
tramp was run over and fatally In
tured while attempting to juml
from freight train on the Seaboart
Air Line Railway near tho watel
tank in the western suburbs OF
the city this morning. and died soon
after reaching the Petersburg Hospital
where he was taken for treatment by
DIR. John Mann, the Seaboard Air Line
surgeon. The unfortunate man reach
cd the city on the freight. and fell
under the wheels when he attempted
TO jump from the moving train.
Tnrtf Is Heavily Fined.
Eli Tart, the negro preacher,
formerly pastor of the Harrison Street
BAPTIST Church coored, was fined 500
in the Hastings Court to-day on the
charge of assaulting j. III. Mason. a
member of the congregation with a
pistol the alleged assault having &C.
CURED in the office of Thomas c. john
son. colored lawyer, on oak street.
Mamie Watkins. a member of Tariffs
household, pleaded guilty TO a charge
OF perjury in the case, and was fined
IS and sent to jail for five minutes.
The case originally came up on an APP
peal from the Mayors Court where
Tart was fined s25 and sent to Jail
Eas thirty days, but at the first trial
II the Hastings Court the jury rem
dered verdict OF guilty with six
months imprisonment, which Judge
Mullen set aside.
For the Liquor Restrictions.
The congregation of the High street
Methodist Church by rising vote at
the Sunday morning service adopted
the following resoutions: Resolved.
by High Street Methodist Episcopal
Church. First. That we respectfully and
earnestly request the City Council and
Board OF Aldermen to grant us the re-
strictions and regulations of the liquor
business recommended by the recent
public mass meeting at the Academy
of Music. Second. That copy of these
resolutions be sent to Chairman r. 2.
Davis, with the request that he pre-
sent same to Council and Board of
Aldermen at their next ensuing ses-
sion"
The West End Baptict Church adopt
ed similar resolutions a week ago, and
1t is understood that all the Methodist
and Baptist churches in the city will
very probably take the same action.
Chairman Richard B. Davis, to whom
the resolutions refer, is the head of
the committee of two citizens from
each of the six wards of the city,
which was appointed about two months
go at a temperance mass meeting at
the hall of the Chamber of Commerce
90 draft plan for the regulation and
restriction of the liquor traffic in the
city.
AS frequently stated in The Times
Dispatch, this committees report, en-
bodying the proposed restrictions, was
unanimously adopted at another mass
meeting, recently held at the Academy
of Music, and was subsequently, pre-
scented TO the City Council by Chairman
Davis. Councilman from the Second
Ward. and was referred to the Finance
Committee, within will probably con-
slider the proposed restrictions at a
meeting Tomorrow evening, when 1t is
hearing Will be given
to the opposing sides.
Want New High School.
A request from a committee of the
Board of Public School Commissioners |
for an appropriation of 100000 for |
improved educational facilities, includ- |
ing new high school building. is an
other matter of especial public interest
that will come before the Finance |
Committee tomorrow evening or at |
some meeting in the near future. The
board has decided to increase the |
100000, and has appointed Messrs. Nc
Gill, Seward. and WI. thinner. Jr.. a
committee of three to present the prop
osition to the Finance Committee of thu
Council.
Fight Against Wires.
Argument in the long CONTINUED fight
by number of residents of High Street
for an injunction restraining the
Telephone Company from
stringing wires on poles now in place
on that street was made before Judge
Mullen, of the Hastings Court Saturday
evening by Messrs. Wilcox & Wilcox |
and Richard 3. Davis for the High
Street residents, and by William B.
counsel for the telephone
Certain property owners on
that street are making a strenuous
fight against the Disagreement of the
by the stringng Of tele-
phone wires, and, 1t is said. will appeal
from Judge Mullen's decision in the
event Of refusal of the desired in
junction.