Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-26
Reform School Indicted.

t1rginii, Whel ne VIII De idoDeu.
Reform School Indicted.
The Virginia Industrial Home and School
for Girls, located near Bon Air. has been
indicted by the grand jury of Chesterfield
county as a general nuisance The mat
ter is tile outcome of the outbreaks
| which created such sensation some time
ago. when tire inmates of the home re-
belled and did many strange things.
among them the ousting Of white man
who was sent to the Institution as farm
manager and the installation OF negro.
who had been for some time the farm
manager. The negro Dossed the girls
and made them saw wood, pillow. till the
fields and cut bitches.
The. inmates OF the home are incor-
rigibie girls. many of whom We're picked
up from the cutters and worse places.
| some of them not more than ten years
old when they we're apprehended and com
mitted to the home. The case Will be
called for trial in November. 1t Is ex-
pected that the home will be removed
from It's present location to some point
where 1t will be far less accessible, and
where the inmates will not be able to
get into communication with the persons
with whom they formerly associated
Revenue officers in southwest Virginia
are causing all sorts Of trouble to the
festive and pestiferous moonshiners. The
men have been In that section for more
than ten days. and they have so far made
two arrests and have captured several
distilleries The reports show that since
so much OF the state has gone dry, and
with the drought I'm Tennessee and
North Carolina. the makers OF the ardent
are kept busy quenchins the public thirst.
fuckers Status in Doubt.
| Just what the exact status of John
Randolph Tucker is at this time is hard
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state senate and was named by Presi-
dent Wilson as judge of the federal court
| in Alaska He sent his resignation to
Gov. Mann as a member of the senate
and then sent q telegram withdrawing
it. 1t was then announced that he would
not be able to get to his post this year,
| the last steamer having departed before
| he could make his arrangements to so
| to Alaska The question at this time is
whether he is a member OF the senate
or a member of the federal judiciary
| Under the laws of the United States he
/ is not a judge till he reaches the Jur!s-
| diction over which he is to preside, and
| tor or Judge Tucker the senate will be
up in the air. Until his resignation is
| sent In and accepted there can be no
| election of successor. and so this year
| the senate will probably consist OF thirty
nine members. or course. if the resigna-
/ ton is received in the course OF the next
4 thirty days 1t will be possible for Gov.
| Mann to order an election of successor
to Senator Tucker. but It may De that
| q member Of the senate till such time as
| he can get to Alaska
/ In the United States district court here
Claude Profit. a brakeman on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railway, was given a YER
| diet of $1,000 for the loss of an arm
Profit was engaged in coupling cars at
| the time of the accident which cost him
| his arm. and 1t was shown that the CON-
pany was at fault and that the coup
4 lings did not work accurately. his arm
| being taken Off at the elbow. He brought
| suit for $1,000 and the jury reported in
| favor of Profit and gave him the sum
named
Polk Miller's Death.
| No man in private life in Virginia ac-
Toured the fame that belonged to the
late Polk Miller, who died here few
days ago. Mr.. Miller for several years
toured the country, giving readings and
delineations Of the negro OF ante-bellum
days. He visited every section of the
country. and in every instance he was
received by the notable men of the states
where he went. He is declared to have
lbeen the best negro delineator that ap-
|peared in public. He was able to portray
the negroes because of the fact that he
studied them, was reared with them
played with them and spent much OF his
time In hunting and fishing with them.
The negroes OF his fathers estate We're
devoted to him and they trusted him
Implicitly at all times. They declared
he was the best friend the negro had in
the world, one Of the old-ume darkies
asserting that IL there were more Polk
Millers and fewer negro colleges the
negro would be better off, Mr.. Miller
was Confederate soldier, serving dur
ling the last years of the war. He came
to Richmond and entered the drug bust
mess and succeeded from the very start.
lie was at the head of a big firm here.
but for the last few years he has paid
little attention to business. devoting his
time to visiting his old friends. fishing
and hunting and isSing his services for
the benefit of the churches and old sol
ldiers He was a man of liberal DISPOSE
ton and gave freely of his means for the
relief of the poor and suffering.
4 Virginia will do something for the re-
Iuef.o the cripples OF the state. the an
bounced plan being to provide fund for
1.-THE benefit Of the children, SO that they