The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-04
SMALLPOX SCARE
on IN PETERSBURG.
,0NE CASE BREAKS OFT AND Nun
BIER OF PERSONS ARE Ex-
POSED TO DISEASE
ARE HOT AFTER ADJ Err
FETERSBURG POLICE ARE VERY
ANXIOUS To SEE An OILY
ToNGuED GENTLEMAN OF
FOREIGN EXTRACTION.
ARE HOT AFTER ADJ Err


health department of the city to- day
issued warning that smallpox has
been .iiscoN cred in the city and that
vaccination should be resorted To by
those who have not already been
inoeuiated. AT this Time there is
but one case, bat that has been in
existence fer ,erai DAYS and the
house In which the case Was found
Was not placed under quarantine
nniI yesterday
The case was discovered Sunday
afternoon at the home cf Mir. Tudor
al The corner of Pearl and puniop
streets by pr. j. k. beckwith Mrs.
Tudor Is the patient. The family CON
kIsts OF seven persons. and of these
4'ut TWO or three have been Naccinat-
ed. AS several of the neighbors have
been exposed 10 the disease. Dr. Mar
TN. the health officer. to-day instruct
ed general vaccination IN the block
IN the hope of preventing the spread
Of the disease
MRS. Tudor has been Ill for several
days, bat her physician had been
treating her for chickeupox
Hungry Thief" Gets on
i ~ ob@t III fiS SAisteUce, as the
police know 1t. John BLOW, colored,
the hungry thief" got off In police
court when arraignesi this morning
en- the charge of raiding the refrig-
orator OF J, Knox Pannill and others
" no lately have been missing their
sunday dinners because some one,
unknown. got To ii first-always dur
ing Saturday night, The police be
lieFe Bio@ Is the man or one Of them,
who got the dinners but MIR. Pannill
could not positively identify him as
the man who he saw on his back
porch with the provisions for Sunday
IN his arms on the morning of sun
day. two weeks ago Five negro crap
shooters and several DRINKS were also
ON the police court docket.
Getting Money on had Paper.
Petersburg police are seeking H.
Adler. An advertising solicitor. who
nag been working Tor some weeks
past in this city, par; OF the time for
a. A. Slagie In the interest of the
Emporia fair. Adler has been get
ting advertising for the Emporia fair
book. and incidentally. according to
charges now made. against him. get
ting money on forged checks and
clothing on promises to pay. Several
af the merchant taiiors of Peters
burg report they have been victimiz-
cd, and a number OF checks. drawn
upon Mr. Siagle and which Mr..
Slagie declares forgeries. have turned
up. Adler Is believed TO have gone
10 Norfolk from this city, He Is
man of about IS years, Is of Jewish
parentage. was born in Germany, and
has lived In this country about 20
Years. He is pleasing taiker and
easily gains confidence. He is of dark
skin. has black hair and gray eyes,
ears spectacles. and sandy mus
tache. He weighs about 100 pounds.
Young Coleman Confesses.
II @. Coleman, young white man.
detained at police headquarters to-
day confessed to the robbery OF
money. teweiry and clothing from the
Berry boarding house on Bank street.
J. A. LeIdy, one Of the boarders, Is
the principal loser, $40 having been
taken from his clothes he alleges.
while he slept Two stick pins and
es was taken from the room of an
other boarder.
Coleman was arrested early this
morning on the steamer Blanche Just
before II sailed for Richmond, by
.Sanxsans. Pasnasand. ltnaar. Hntehtns.
Coleman declares he ia homeless and
frtepd,ess and that he took the money
i,s,.s,,s,s h.. had basn running in hard
incE IL win Sc seut on 10 ines
yrana ,ury
Heavy Infant Morality.
-rha rnor,alttv among children un-
A., ovs years az age IN Petersburg
during tho ,mopth of June was heavier