The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-07
COUNCIL ADOPTS
ANNUAL BUDGET
AND VOTES TO AUTHORIZE SALE OF
LAND TO british AMERICAN
TOBACCO COMPANY.
MAY HEALTH STATISTICS
SAM CROKER, FOUND GUILTY OF
MURDER OF HIS WIFE, Is
GIVEN FIFTEEN YEAR
TERM.

TG 1EflSBJhd, VA, June The
City Council met Tuesday evening
Wilcox. Patterson, Hall, Nelms, Bland,
Price, Walsh, Mattox, Chandler. Nc.
Cuiock. Mulcaha. Wells. Williamson,
Bowie. Barksdale. Tucker, Wood and
Gray The chief business transacted
was the adoption Of the budget ror
the coming year. There was but one
dissenting voice to the recommends
ton of the finance committee.
The salaries OF the. city engineer.
the health officer. the lieutenant OF
police and Keepers OF the city parks
We're raised.
The council decided unanimously to
sell about twenty acres of the aims
house property to the British Amer
can Tobacco Com pany as had been
agreed upon in the caucus of the
Council and Board Of Aldermen. The
price TO be pad for the property will
be $4,2I2, upon which the company
viii erect large warehouses.
The reports OF the city auditor and
treasurer were presented for the
month OF May. showing the receipts
TO have been $40. and the ex-
penditures to have been s41.300f3.
reports weer also made by other
city officers and disposed Of
The upper floors OF the old Peters
burg High School were rented to Pro
fessor Nathaniel Starke to be used by
inc ePtersburg Military Academy. the
rental to he $500 per annum.
Mr.. Patterson. chairman of the
hhance committee, presented the bud
ger Tor the year. which amounted to
$685. $3.50.
The salary Of DIR. n. A. Martin,
nea ofhcer. was increased from 81
1"o to sl.4oe per year. the city's en-
siheeT salary was increased from sl,-
so TO $4,000. the salary Of ijenfe,,.
ant Donahoe was increased to 900
Keepers of the parks were raised IS
month
Ihere was one negative vote to this
adoption of the annual budget.
Mr.. Patterson presented the tax or
nihahce. which is the same as last
year and 1t was adopted.
me ordinance relative To the GRE
atlnE OF board of public safety yas
iaid on the table until the next meet
ing.
a communication was received from
the Battlefield Park Association ana
tee.
nam Croker Found Guilty.
Inc musings Court. Judge Mullen
presiding vas engaged Tuesday in
nearing the trial of Samuel Croker
negro charged with wife murder
ne man fatally shot his wife Gn the
~Vth OF February last at their homo
on Gressst street. The woman VS.
TAKEN shortly after the shooting 10
me petersburg hospital where she
fingered some time. dying of the
mouhh. several OF the witnesses tes-
eih"u tnat the shooting was without
guilty Of murder in the first degree
and his punishment fixed At eftaar
years In the penitentiary. Mr. n
n. Mann represented the Common
"eath and Mr. Samuel thinner tha
accused
Captured second Time.
r. +. Daniels, wanted by the Rtcn
moha ponce and captured for them
oN Inc petersburg force. was arrested
mere for the second time Monday
night and Tuesday was returned n
hichfnond- After the first capture
ol pahlels and surrender to the Rich
mono force Daniels escaped from
.he hichmond police station and re-
turned to this city. Still wanted hv
the Richmond force. he was arrested
a Second time ..,-',.' '4hss-s>sff
Health Report.
The report of the health denart-
m"nt Of Petersburg has lust been
issued for the month or Ma. r4.r
ing the month there was no, a dean,
due to tuberculosis. In seven months
there has been no death from tvnho,s
fever. Whooping cough and measles
are prevalent there being many
cases of both diseases. During the
month there we're forty-one deaths
seventeen white and twenty-four col
ored,
john r. Pace Dies.
MIR. John r, Pace, one Of peters-
burg's best known merchants and
tho manager OF the New York Cloth
ing COMPANY, died early "Wednesday
morning after a long Illness He IL
survived by his wife and two soma
MT race had just completed for his
company handsome building hav-
ing been burned ont in hte fire of
last fail. The death of Mr.. Pace
liz loss To the community. "a he
was not only strong business man.
but was beloved by the entire city.
observation-disclosures
Thursday evening at O'Clock AIR
Clement Douglass Barksdala and Miss
Nellie Florence Young will he mar
ried at the First Baptist church. The
bride IL charming young lady OF
this city and the groom is the eldest
son of Councilman Clement Barks-
dale, of Petersburg
Mr.. Rufiin General Manager.
Mr., James Mel Ruffin has been
chosen general manager or the Pc
tersburg Agricultural Fair Assocja-
ton. Mr.. Ruffin is we'll qualified for
the position to which he has been
chosen. Plans for the fair are be-
ing considered and work is being done
at the grounds. Mr. RufYin states
that the exhibit to he held this fan
will doubtless he the best ever held
In. Southside Virginia. ..,. ..a.-, ...m... 1.