The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-28
CANDIDATES MUST
Ply UP BY JULY I
PErEae6URG CITY DEMoCR
COMMITTEES HOLDS IMPoRTAsT
BUSINESS MEETING
BURKE YET CHAIRMAN
GRAND jury CONTINUES TO DELvE
IN yoLUMIs0Us INDICTMENT
IN APP0MATrOx TRUST
CASES.
BURKE YET CHAIRMAN

Especial to The Richmond yirginian.i
PETERSBURG. VA. June ga
meeting OF the city Democratic COM
mittee was held Tuesday night in the
ofhces OF the chairman. DR.. J. NJ.
Burke. II was decide dat this meeting
that the seventh of July at LIZ O'Clock
noon be the last date for candidates
TO pay the assessm ent and announce
thar candidacy for Offices of State
senator, member Of the house of dele
gates and members OF the city Demo-
cratic committee. Candidates for the
senate and house will be assessed $40
each In the city and county. No as
sessment In made for candidates for
the Democratic committee. The pres
ent primary plan was adopted for
the use In September primary cleo
tion. There will be held q meeting
At the call of Chairman Burke before
the primary on September when
the judges OF the erection will be
selected.
The resignation OF Mr.. p. H, Drewry
as a member Of the Democratic com
nittes was received and accepted with
regrets. Mr.. Drewrys resignation was
due to the fact that he is a candidate
for the State senate.
DIR. Joseph NJ. Burke resigned as
chairman. but owing to the near ap-
proach o. the primary election he was
constrained to withhold his resigna
tion. certainly until after another
Democratic committee had been
hosen.
Or. Burke agreed but requested the
committee to elect vice-chairman.
This resulted In Mr.. ". s. McCance
being chosen. The meeting adjourn
cd At 10 O'Clock.
Train Over BELT Line.
The first train passed over the new
belt line Of the Norfolk and Western
railway Tuesday at noon. This line
IN nine miles in extent, from Addison
In Dinwiddie to poe IN Prince George.
On the line there are ten steel bridges.
These are either over county roads
or across intersections of the Atlantic
Coast Line or Seaboard Air Line rail-
ways.
Twenty months were taken TO con-
struct this line and is said to be prob
ably the best built line In the State,
Thursday the road will be ready to
accommodate freight trains as MOTH
Ing remains to be completed but fin
ishing work on two bridges. The pur-
poses for which the belt line was
constructed were to avoid heavy
through freights passing through Pc
tershuFG. the avoidance of a grade
in the eastern confines of the yard
ana to shorten distance.
The road has been constructed AT
considerable cost. IL IL said, by a parts
ia position to be informed, that the
line probably cost nearly million
dollars.
To Beauty Monument
Secretary Reid, OF the Survivors
Association OF the Forty eighth Penn
sylvauia regiment. in a letter to Cap
tain Carter r. Bishop, states that
nearly five hundred dollars has been
appropriated by the State legislature
to identifying Pennsylvania monu-
ment here.
Col. Daniel Naxei. Major Leie. and
Mr.. Dome, OF Pottsviiie. Penn. has
been appointed committee to see
that the work ss done. This com
mittee win visit Petersburg as early
as practicable.
Operate on Mr.. Webb.
Mr., Clifton Webb. a prominent citi-
rem OF Carson was operated upon
Tuesday at the Petersburg Hospital by
Drs. Hains. OF Petersburg, and Per-
kins OF Carson. MFR Webb received
injuries In Petersburg several years
AGo. fracturtn9 his leg. which necess'-
tatsd the operation. He Is getting
along we'll al the hospital.
Grand jury Stih pelves.
The grand jury IL yet at work In
vestigating the affairs Of the old An
pomattox Trust Company. The mat
tsre presented for their considera ton
by Commonwealth Attorney Mann are
voluminous and require the greatest
care. They are working diligently
however, and will report to the court It's
finding ~ soon as completed
Agent Acre Active.
Agent w. J. Acree. OF the Society
for this Prevention OF Cruelty to Ami
rnala. complains that boys are wash
Ing bottles, and fishermen are dipping
their neh In the watering trough al
the old market rendering the basin In
such condition that horses will moi
drink out OF II. These conditions have
been brought to the attention OF Mr.. ].
A. Puliy with request that some meas
ure be taken forbtddinE the use of the
fountain for purposes that will render
the water unit for the use Of animals
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