The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-10-24
|B|e INSURANCE CASE
IS SET FOR TRIAL
Total Amount Sued For by IAvcnstcin
RrothesD II Ninety Thou
sand Dollars.
TH1RrY-FrvE COMPANIES SUED
Petersburg shows Appreciation Of DR..
Maybee's Great Work by Holding
Tag Day For the Children's Homo
Eoctc4y's BENEFIT.

~ lug DOy rVF TIE NnIiufNnB HAOsSAN
\ Socicty's Benefit.
ss Petersburg. Va. Oct. 23.--At today
session of the Hastings Court. Jud &c
Mullen presiding, the civil locke was
called and cases set for trial.
The most important case to come
up at this term OF the court Is that
of IAvenstein Bros VS.. the Hartford
Fire Insurance Company and thirty
four other companies. in which the
plaintiffs carried insurance on their
stock OF goods, which was DESTROYED
BY are on November IS, 1913. The
{ total amount OF damages sued TOT
H u ut for trial on Tuesday. the 26th
4 instant and It will probably last
throughout the week.
The plaintiffs will be represented
~ United States District Attorney
Il Richard II. Mann, and the defendant
4 companies by Richard B. Davis. OF
this city. ana James Caskie. of Lynch
/ burg.
Al last evening session OF the court
dates were nxed for the trial of sew
& eral cases as follows:
William Hayden. colored murder
Tuesday. November 2.
John Williams. John Rice and
Thomas b. Moore. October 25.
Charles Ramsay, November 3. Tho
ball bond Of Ramsay's was increased
from $500 to $1,000. with an uncle as
surety.
The cases against Samuel Slower and
Z Harvey Williamson. charged with
pocket picking. were noIle pressed on
account OF Witnesses for the Common
wealth failing to appear.
w N1nrA alias IT Caldwell
who was indicted by the grand jury
Of the Hastings Court yesterday, Is
under arrest in Columbia, s. c., upon
the same charge as the one under
which he was indicted here-that OF
passing severa, forged Southern Ex-
press money orders. Moore Is said
to have passed some Of these money
.Sriers in Richmond also.
large Tobacco Sales.
The sales OF tobacco at the local
warehouses during the past week
we're the largest OF Tho season, and
prices obtained were much more sat
isfsctory.
Sales Of bright leaf for the week
aggregated tfs.fss pounds. increas
Ing the total for the season to date
to 2a2s50 pounds, at prices ranging
from IS 10 $40 per hundred.
The sales OF dark toha eco for the
werk were 1884 pounds. and to date
a.. sns pounds There Is n full corps
81 buyers on the n1arket. and prices
are steadily Advancing.
Tn1 nas For Cnildre,,'s Home Society.
Today was observed in Petersburg
A.. "Tar aey" sar the Children's Home
Src ety of Virginia, which is located
III Rfeamond under the direction oil
Eev Mr. Maytee. and In which nifty
nsnt chiliren from Petersburg are be-
inr cared for II was Impossible to
learn at = latg hour this evening what
Efhe receipts would total but It is gen
eraits believed that a neat sum was
realised.
Iammie--Syke>.
4 M'xs Heirna s. La:nslie and Mr.. VIII
linn 4, sykes. weil-kncwn young
Z rrsner Geor.a couple, were united In
marriage yesterday afternoon at the
rrs deaee ~ the officiating minister.
Re-. +. q. Ribhle. rector of the Good
Shepherd Memorial p E. Church.
Immediately after The ceremony Mr..
and Mrs. Sykes left ror Brooklyn. N.
-X.-tha former hense ef- the bride
Teal ESTATE Quiet.
The Petersburg real estate market
was more quiet this week than for
I several weeks past. only a few Trans
4Ars being recorded. The most I'm
Hortant Of these was that Of the STRAIT
ford Hotel property. which was trans
IoEred from J w. Seward and e. Fl.
Patterson to the ssratfcrd Hotel Com
pany, Inc. The following Is . COM
*p1etA list OF deals reported
Nh ArersoE and wife to Virginia
Dnal Estate Corporation, deed fer lot
- Doilinghrook Street.
Jullette Virginia Crowder 70 Her
1 - .. CrowAer decd for lot on Com
klnerco Street.
ida Dalton ct al. to George A.
y1ttH. deed for lot on D'Afton Avenue.
Petersburg Hotel Corporation to
0nAkfnrd Hotel Company. Inc. deed
- lot corner Boliingbrook and 6eo-
md Streets and two lots adjoining
ana personal property, S46 $50.
/ @ y. a. Quarles to Ernest !. Barhann,
AeSd for lot on West Pegram Street.
Il George q. Rodgers to r. NJ. VOL
3nrd deed for lot on Carter Street.
Ay wallace NJ. Rucker and wife to G.
~. Rucker. deed for lot on West
| Washington Street
Sarah NJ. williams executors TO
hEunice r. Harding, deed for lot on
{ Earshall Street. $1,000.
|F Benjamin s. Wells to Anna r.
4 nhcpherd. deed for lot on Pearl Street
Rally Day Exercises.
E& Rally Day exercises Will be held at
~ High-Street NJ. r. Church begin
ming with the Sunday school service
~ $40 O'Clock tomorrow morning and
continuing through the II o'clock
YroaEhing service. At the latter SER
vice m unique choral exercise will be
Rendered AMI an address viii be de-
liwered by Hon. John Garland Pollard.
Attorney OF Virginia.
DuPont's More String cnt.
A . protection against the admits.
MON to its grounds of unauthorized
persons. 1t is reported here that the
dupont Powder Company will short-
|s1y issued orders requiring oil of Its eya-
Eployes to carry photographs Of them
R&G1veS In addition to their regular
spFk check.