The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-10
STEAMER RUNS AGROUND
NEAR ARN0LD'S WHARF
Competitive Examination for West
Point Cndetship-Power Company
Elects Officers.
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fredericksburg, Va, December o.
The steamer Lancaster, q the Mary.
Company, on It's way here from Bal
timore yesterday, went aground about
sixteen miles below this city, near
Arnold's Wharf, on the Rappahannock
River. 1t being impossible to move
the steamer, the agent here, w. d.
Scott, was notified. and he telegraphed
the company at Baltimore to send a
tug to pull the steamer off.
Congressman w. a. Jones, who will
Military Academy at West Point, N.
Y, has decided to hold a competitive
examination. This examination will be
held by a board of examiners COM
posed of three professors from VII
liam and Mary College, and will take
young man who stand the best ex-
animation will be nominated by Con-
gresham Jones as principal, n the
two next highest will be nominated
be under seventeen years of age and
not more thar twenty-five years old.
and must be residents of the First
Congressional District of Virginia.
AT a meeting of the directors of
the Fredericksburg Power Company,
held here, william Northrop. of Rich
mond. was elected president of the
company. instead of w. c. Whitner,
who is chief engineer of the company.
and III. G.. Northrop was elected sec
Alvin T. Embrey. who occupies the
position of local counsel for the COM
! pany. II. G. Northrop is also general
manager of the Richmond and Ches-
apeake Railway Company. and will
divide his time between Fredericks-
burg and Richmond, but will make
fredericksburg his home, and move
his family here. II. G. Northrop was
also elected secretary and treasurer
of the Electric Generating Company.
and of the Frederick sburg Electric
Company, both of which are affiliated
with the fredericksburg Power Com
pany. These companies are all con-
nected here with what is known as
the Gould interests. n a number of
| enterprises are now under way which,
it is expected, will lead to much bust
ness development.
Rev. S. P. DeYault, of Richmond
20 has resign nst,ss as pastor Of
Churches, in thai county. INT has &C
! cepted a position as State evangelist
| for the State of Indiana. He will take
up his duties the first of the coming
year.
Harry Fitzhugh Lee. son of Captain
Dan NJ. Lee. of Stafford county. near
this city, who recently returned from
the Virginia Military Institute, at Lex
| ington, which was closed on account
OIL an eplueIulC, has ueNtlOpco lSpuOlu
| fever. lie is In charge of DR.. G. Mason
| Smith, of this city, and a trained nurse
from Washington.
w. r. Holloway was tried in the
! court of Justice II. A.. Garner at Spot
| sylvania Courthouse. on the charge of
cursing and abusing Lucian r.. Colbert
over the Spotsylvania Telephone line,
| and fined $40 and costs, There is a
| State law against using profanity over
telephones.
Leonard S. Jones has been appointed
by the Circuit Court of Spotsylvania
| county constable for Courtland Dis
trict, in Spotsylrania county, to fill a
vacancy. The same power has APP
pointed former Judge Robert E. Waller
| d member of the school electoral board
of Spotsylvania county, to succeed
Captain NJ. B. Rowe, who resigned.
The heirs of w. #. Liebenow have
sold to O. Fl. Redman a farm in Spot
| sylvanfa, a part of the Lansdown
property of 100 acres. Mr.. Redman will
occupy the property as his home.