The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-24
NEGROES WILL RI
TRIED ON FRIDAY
Charged With Breaking Open
Trunks at S. a. l..
Station.
SUICIDE y 10: BY cARBoLIc ACID
To Recommend Appropriations.
for Street and Sewer
Work.
SUICIDE BY CARLO Lie ACID
Times-Dispatch Bureau.
100 North sycamore Street.

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Petersburg, Va, March %,
The cases OF tile two negroes, VIII
liam Cook and Elijah Cogbill. charged
with robbing trunks at the Seaboard
Air Line station on Dunlop Street,
were this morning continued. until
Friday for hearing In the Police
Court. 1t Is said that several trunks
belonging to travellers were broken
open and clothing. rings and other ar
ticles taken Some Of this property
has been recovered by the police-a
suit of clothing, pistol and two
rings. and the owners are expected 70
testify on Friday.
Suicide by Carbolic Acid.
Charles Wells, thirty-six years old.
and carpenter by trade. committed
suicide this afternoon at his home on
Commerce Street by swallowing car
boltc acid. He was found in his wood
shed about ESQ O'Clock, suffering from
the effects OF the poison. and though
physicians were summoned and
promptly administered. remedies, he
diedfin, great aEony in less than two
hours. Mr.. Wells had been out Of en-
ployment for some time, and became
respondent. This is assigned as the
reason for ending his life. Hesis sur
vived by his wife, and had many
friends in the community.
Good Roads in Dln,viddie.
"A meeting of the Road Board Of
sDlnwiddies county was held In this
city yesterday afternoon. a petition
from the Norfolk ana Western Rail-
way Company was presented through
counsel for the company, Messrs. Ber.
nard and Townsend. asking permission
for the companys belt line to be con-
structed around this city from Add
son on the west to Poe on the east.
to cross seven roads in the county.
The permission was granted on plans
guaranteeing no Inconvenience to pub
lie travel or expense to the, county.
The board discussed the matter OF
enlargtng the convict road force In
the county and putting on additional
teams on the work adjacent to Peters
burg, and 1t was decided to appeal to
Petersburg to}$co-operate with the
county in raising funds for the iln-
proyement ofgall the main roads for a |
distance OF ten miles out from the
city. rs
Richmond Again vanquishcd.
Another OF the championshi checker
games between Richmond and Peters
burg was played In this city recently,
and the Richmond team was again
The score iresulted as fol-
lows:
First table-W. II. N1ackasey, Pc
tersbure. SIS. o.. Mays, Richmond. 9.
Second table, ohm T.. Conner. Pc
tersburg, 9:}W. l. Prentiss. Richmond,
Third tablc-Peter 1uliano. Peters
burg. ~; g. Il. Pnageman. Richmond,
Totals-Pctersburg. al; Richmond,
10.
Personal and Other,ylsc.
Joseph r. Nenable. a5widely known
Ind popular young citizen, is Ill or
Uphold pneun1oniasa at the residence OF
lis parents. Mr. and Mrs. Vim. l..
venable. on Washington Street.
Chief Engineer Churchill, Of the
Norfolk and Western Railway, was In
he city to-day, and Inspected tho new
tation, which is now approaching
ompletion, The building Is a hand
ONE one. very conveniently arranged,
nd will be Very attractively finished
If inside. ri a3 si l8t
The&committee % receive at satur-
ay afternoons reception and hon. al +
he Riverside Club, will be; Mrs. G.
J. Lasslter. Mrs. Hamilton Saabury. II
lrs Ashton Gray, Mrs. .Alexand or (
Hamilton, Mrs. Horace Smith, Mrs.
rortlmer Williams \; Misses Donald :
Claiborne. Emma Jones. Elizabethl {