Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 10

ITALIANS Except Thurtday 1 sums List IN FINAL CASE July Clearance Sale Open Dotty Until 6 PM Wash Goods: TheManufacturer Gives you the higheat gride of merchandiae at die lowest prices Smts WUch Sold at $18 $20 and $2250 Now $1000 We bought the goods last week and in the lots are not only some of the lowest priced but prettiest fabrics of the 'season Lawns KcgiiirlOcnlBeUd Cotton 12c Henrietta Yd Refilar 29c raise SmU atHalf Prices All Straw Hats at Half Prices Extra Trouiers at Reduced Prices Broken Loti of Underwear at Half Prices BrokenLoU of Half Prices And lots of tempting items-in hot weather clothes such es Serges Alpacas Silk Flannels and Linen Crashes BE S8S SO Inches wide light grounds with dots snd flowered effects fine sheer fsbrlcs that are Looks exactly like a wool goods except In price Cream grounds with black stripes and checks The price is just nbout half the real value priced at Just about half their value (Main Floor Centre) LIGHTNING BOLT STRIKES MERRY PARTY AT PICNIC 7 fu- POLICE WORK IN DARK ON CITY HOME MURDER hh i i Mrs Loving and Hooker Stunned Others Being Thrown Violently in Puddle ot Water -I 'Vv Follow Many flues but Find Evidence to Place the Guilt lTHROWSEARCHLIGHT TO-NIGHT lit' 1 rfPi-'v Committee to Make Rigid Inves- tigation Davis Back to Testify Following hard upon the Inquest Into the death of little Vaughan it the City Home last Mon-day morning in which the Jury con-demned the authorities of the instl-tution the Committee on Relief of 7 the Poor will begin a rigid examlna-tion Into the condition of the home and probe as far as possible into the eon- dltlons which made possible two at- tempts on a life to go un-- noticed and unreported either to the committee or to the police Two in- iV investigations into the conditions exist- VU slessJu already fng at the institution have been made but the third will "'r pass both the others in sensational disclosure! Farmer CsiTlrt a Helpea Whether because of neglest or be-mj cause of too small an appropriation for the work it Is a fact that Miss Ven-1 able had under her care charges too i Tumerous for any woman to properly Vi' handle that one of her helpers though apparently now a woman of kindly character and moral strength la one who was once addicted to the morphine habit and a pardoned convict that another is a negro girl seventeen or With 1 deafening crash a torrlfle bolt of lightning tall yesterday afternoon amid 600 members of the Weatherford Memorial Baptist Sunday-school Picnic party at Forest Hill Park stunning a dosen two of whom wer ren- acred unconscious Those suffering most were Mr! O- Loving and Hooker each of whom remained unconscious for some time Mra Loving was resuscitated after several minutes when eh was removed lo the home of her motlffir Mra Hsrnish where she was driven by her husband Dr Loving In his buggy Latest reports last night Indicated that Mra Loving -was resting more quietly although she had not been removed to her home and was still suffering from the Intense nervous shock Thcaght Hooker Wss Kilted Hooker who was prostrated by tbl bolt did not rovtvo for half an hour Many of hie half-blinded and bewildered friends looked upon him ss dead as he lay apparently lifeless In the tremendous fall of rain When he began to regain conselous-ness he gave evidence of much bodily suffering his face twitching 1 spasmodically In a few moments hie friends lifted him to hie feet and exercised him by walking him up and down His heart seemed affected and hie respiration wss tor a long time labored He was removed to his home oh an elactrte ear' Laat night Mr Hooker was suffering from a severe headache He had a mustard plaster applied to hie tem ples snd complained of numbness In nls limbs had undergone a tor- rifle shock and one from which he Is not likely soon to entirely recover Mrs Ben Loving of No 3 West Seventeenth Street Manchester' together with her ten-year-old son Rush was so badly stunned that she tall Eo tb ground or rather Into a 1 MOTOR BOUT Whll atone In th motor-boat Edith In tha Trigg Shipyard basin yesterday afternoon Mr Maher' of No 310 North Thirty-aecond' Street wss struck by lightning sustaining bad Injuries about tho body and eyes and narrowly escaping death At the time he was struck Mr Maher was sitting -in the rear of the boat- having Just completed some repairs The bolt hit some of the braes fixture! passing down the curtains and Into his body Ha was rendered unconscious 'When he recovered he struggled to a telephone and called up the eTty ambulance the doctors takln hint far as Eighteenth and Main where he wss put on a street-car for horn! The physician Informed Mr Maher that ho was suffering frum a bilious attack When another physician was called In however he stated that the patient had been Injured by lightning At a ifi late hour he was vesting comfortably Mr Maher does got know how long ho remained In the boat though was probably unconncloua for an hour or more Except for the fact that the lightning was dlvldnj by hitting an It Mr Ms her believes he would Iron bol have been instantly killed viV' eighteen years of age of limited men-' -tal capacity though of kindly dlspo- LESTER PROPERTY Commission Declares It' Will Co6t $127400 to Pptect' Fulton from Overflow FINAL REPORT SUBMITTED Bill of Exceptions Likely to Be Filed by Full Valu- 1 ationXist y-T AftCL consuming more than three montha In considering the matter the commission appointed by Judge Witt of the Huatlnim Court to aasesa the dam-agis to property-owners along Lester Street resulting from the proposed work of raising tha street so es to protect Fulton from "high water submitted Its' report to the clerk of tho Hustings Court yesterday All of tho pioperty to be used by the city has been listed and valued together with that which would bo damaged by the general plan Tha aggregate amount of damage assessed Is 818740081 Messrs A Catlln Cabell Joseph Fsherty James Crenshaw and Wallersteln composed ttys commission Citterns Seek Protection Ever since the town of Fulton sprang existence its cltixens have been urging Council to take etepa to protect tltem from the high water which as a rule inundates a good part of tho town aovoral times each year At those times when 1 tho town Is made to look llko a miniature Venice the people are practically isolated and their property suffers untold damage Besides the street oars must be stopped at Twenty-first Street or thereabouts and sent back to the sheds It is sometimes several days before they can make the trip around the Fulton Although the Council eeems to recognise the Importance of this improvement and to know that tho raising of Lester Street would practically give all the relief needed it baa been slow to take any definltis action It la expected however that the aetlon of th commission will bo an incentive and that it will not he Very long before something will be done Another phase of the question la the fact that some of the property-owners whose land has bean assessed may not be satisfied with the valuation placed upon their holdings and will enter a protest In fact it la understood that Mr Sloan who owna thirteen of tho lots to be confiscated has already sal'I tnat he would file exception! Jn the event that other owners take the same action as Mr Sloan tha matter may Indefinitely delayed even before It comes again Into tho hands of th City Council What Commission Fonnd Following Is the list of property-owners and th valuations named by the commission: Robert Parer Lsster Street Littleton ntssereld Lsster fftreet Bowe 8 lots Lester Strrst Ells Homer Jennie Homer Lilly Lillis sad Laura Lynch Lester BtMft 0000 eeCeoBf as 0 Executors estate Tylir Lester Street mh set LTM 8400 0 1 317 88 tioe to Sti 7 817 83 37 1 lit 4 418 34 S7 77 4 It St 141 It 1111 44 A Lawsha Hafne Street 8 loan Looter Street Sloen Lester Street Taliaferro Lester Street Sloan Lester Htraet Sloan Lester fftreet ffloaa Lester Street Sloan Lester fftreet' 3 Sloan Looter Street Bloan Lester Street Heirs of Catherine Los-' Street Sloan Lester Street 8 Turpin Looter Street lease and Moses Schwarts Lester Street Cheatweod Lester Street Ve'k1 A and Green Lester Street a Portions Robinson Lester Street Drucllla Sharp Lester Street 341 34 134 14 1414 54 444 44 144 44 48 44 484 44 444 44 350 04 BurgwynJ Loetor Street Heirs at law of Patrick Grace Lntcr Street Julia Hogan Looter Street and GUllo'n Creek William and Maurice Powers Leetur Struut Heirs of John Smith Lester Street Nannie O'Keefe Lester Street Hairs of Chari White Elm Strrst Rosa Scott Elm Btrset William and Maurice Power! Elm Street Amelia Bottlnghalmer Lester -Street Heirs of Isham Praam no Lester gtreet Helm of Jamas Neasle Lsster Street Mra McMahan Looter Street -Mra Amalie Bottlnghalmer Lee- -ter Street Ann Daly Leater Street Nannie McCoy and Robert McCoy Loetor Street Old Dominion Steamship Com- pany Looter Street Ann Daly Poplsr Street Julia Andrews and Dsn- lay Lester Street Mason Luster Street Charles Trart! Leriar Street Carrie Vaughan Leater Street Brandt Wharf Street Brandt Lester Btreet Sloan Lester Street Margaret Gogan Leriar Street Richard Crouch Lester Street -Heirs of Ersnoes Newman Looter Street Heirs of Catherine Lester Street ff Slosn Lester Street 8loan Lsster Street Gates and Joseph Hubbard Lester Street- XL Oates and Joseph Huh- bard Lester Street Gate! Luster Street Hein of Ilham Freoman Lsster Street Heirs of A Hutcheson Looter Street J- Bryant Wharf Street Berkeley Wharf Street Burgwyn Leater Btreet Olrad Trust Company looter 847 14 1444 44 484 143 10 804 04 444 04 1300 40 424 36 ljd44 44 144 44 841 44 3844 44 8444 44 1444 44 44 04 404 44 04 44 711 44 740 13 344 04 443 85 LIU 44 4484 84 844 44 341 44 1147 44 1(1 84 847 48 848 44 121 84 114 04 111 44 154 44 344 84 118 07 148 14 2444 44 7744 81 BecbageOg Bias! Wharf Btreet Berkeley Wharf fftreet Warwick Transportation Cem- paay Wharf fftreet Dl Brandt Wharf fftreet 81451 14 8175 44 8171 44 Til 44 1 OOtl 44 111 15 '414 1584 04 1484 44 7444 44 Roper Lsster fftreet Hrira of James Goldsn Lector fftreet a a a a Ana 8 Rutherford Lister fftreet Memmlnsor Lester fftreet Kettle Ouador Leeter fftreet Aggregate amount ef compensation allowed property- $187444 08 Fur white me! JD Grinder King Thomas ffmrthe and John Retd wire sent Jail yesterday by Lewis ta default of a small One for basting their way her a freight tram They claim to he from Washington C- and tell many tales of hardships through which they have aaasd rise they strayed eg from home several msntha age for the purpoee af looking ever tha country Mr It A Hobeen formerly ef this city 'but for the past eighteen monlha su a a Uatl VAnlii Company at' NM-frik ha been transferred to Attests and placed ta cherge of a reeponel- bla Doeltlon Just created by the eompany InthSt rityT Itte endantood that Mr Hob-tea's saw pteeajkymriten compared with tha Henrico Jury Decides in Favor of Powhatan Furnace Owners MAY GO TO SUPREME COURT Vaughan Title Set Aside Defend ant Not Being Able to Prove Claim Tedious and wearisome the suit for possession of the Powhatan Furnace property brought by the Reading Iron Company of Pennsylvania against Wellington Vaughan which occupied the session of the Heartoo Circuit Court Wednesday afternoon and which was taken up again yesterday morning at 10 o'clock was concluded at 7:45 last night wben the Jury brought in a verdict for the plaintiff The erfae was long drawn out involving many technical complications and a gopd many contentions based on facta which were excavated from the depths of recollections of times many many years gone by The evidence was threshed over many 'times and after each threshing the Jury was as much entangled as ever There were two deeds to the disputed property Introduced In the trial one made to the Reading Iron Company by the Pennsylvania Railway and Iron Company in which the consideration named was- fi the other deed was the one which was made last May to Capltola Shaw by her sister the wife of Wellington Vaughan and In this deed the consideration was $5 The latter however was recognised as a mere subterfuge and figured in the trial only as an object of amusement The defense all the way along had uphill work It was not attempting to prove a title to the property but directed all of its energies and legal light to show that by virtue of the facts that these people had been in possession of the property for such long period and although they had been paying rents for a number of years prior to the beginning of the present dispute in the lease which was signed in the fall of ISOS' there was no limitation placed upon the duration of the contract the action of legai detainer was not valid They also contended that while there was certainly no title to the land there was a clear right of possession resulting from the fact that for all those years the property had been in the hands of these people and at no time lad they recognised any landlord Complicated with this suit there 1 another the latter being instituted against Mra Welllngon Vaughan separately In the present case the contested right is that of Wellington Vaughan himself coming through his wife from her father who it was proved began living on the land in 1851 and continued to reside there until his death in 1890 The suit against Mra Vaughan involves the right which descended upon her from her father at his -death This suit however will not be heard until the next term of court After learning that the decision of the jury was agsinst them the attorneys for the defendant moved that the court set the verdict aside on the ground that it was contrary to the law and evidence anb by misdirection of the court The motion wss overruled the defendants excepted and leave was given to prepsre and tender bills of exception It was intimated that the case will be taken to the Supreme Court for final decision heinous of crimes and the statute prescribes a penalty even for an attempt at poisoning of from three to eighteen years In the penitentiary the maximum penalty helng equal to that for homicide It is a penal offense even maliciously to poison animals Final Sleep for Mnggtns Little Muggins was laid to rest In the pauper section of Oakwood Cemetery at 8:80 o'clock yesterday afternoon There was no ceremony no one to mourn his sudden loss Dr John Moncure conducted the services and then the plain little coffli was carried out to the cemetery and placed in an unmarked grave Vaughan had endured more than the common lot and his last sleep will he more restful than any he ever had on earth The City Home again went about Its business The Inmates whia pered It over among themselves but only as ar Incident somewhat out of the ordinary routine of their lives A few those who had known the child were a little distressed but the matter will soon be forgotten except by those who may be made to suffer a little of the agony through which Muggins arrived at bis last resting place COUNTRY CLUB GETS CHARTER Promoters Ready Now to Proceed With Purchase of West-hampton Site Plans for the establishment of a large country club to be built near Richmond culminated yeaterday In what seems to be an assurance of the ultimate success of the promoters when the Corporation Commission granted a charter to the Country Club of Vlr glnla Incorporated with the following Incorporators: John A Coke Jr president CL Kirk vlca-presldent John Or gain secretary and treasurer John Walker William Habllston and Charles Borden all of Richmond The maximum stock Is $80000 and minimum $10000 For a long time It has been the desire of these and other prominent Richmond men to Consolidate the three clubs new existing near the city Into ono large Institution which from the numerical strength of its membership oould be run on a much more extensive plan Repeated efforts were made toward thla end but there was always some hitch many members of th pres ent clubs not desiring the conaollda tlon and the merger was never made A0 a final solution of tha problem tho promoters secured a charter for the club and by fees snd subscriptions bops to raise a sufficient amount to be able to purchase the beautiful West-hampton property upon which they new have an option and to build hand' soma clubhouse It Is th purpose of the Incorporators to provide for every possible form of outdoor amusement such so tennis court golf courses host-houses snd even a well equipped kennel for those who hunt Every attraction will bs provided for tho who prefer outdoor Uf Claim That Virginia Liquor Laws Discriminate Against Their Race GOVERNOR a SENDS RECORD State- Department at Request' Writes for Facts Case Responding to a protest fllid by sertaln Italian-Amertcans resident' in this city the Italian Ambassador at Washington has asked the Secretary of Bute to intercede for him with a view of aseerUinlng whether or not recent city ordinances and SUte laws concerning the sale of liquor discriminate against his people The ambassador upon hearing the complaint laid the matter before the SUte Department and Acting Secretary Bacon forwarded the correspond-end e1 to Governor Swanson yesUrday with the request that he InvestigaU the subject and furnish the department all possible information raUtlvo thereto The Governor at once secured copies of the Byrd liquor law and the recent city ordinances adopted hero restricting the number of saloons to 160 and making other rigid regulations These fi were forwarded to Acting Becreury Bacon after being properly sealed and attested by the Secretary of the Com monwealth Says Treaty Is VloUted The ambassador contends that recent acts of the Legislature and the Richmond City Council are in violation of a treaty entered into between the United StaUs and IUly In 1S71W which provides that Italians resident In this country shall be on the same footing with American-born dtlsens concerning the right to conduct any line of business He gives the impression through his letters to the State Department that he considers the aforesaid laws and ordinances as his peo ple and appeals to the Federal government through the Department of 8tate at Washington for relief Copies of the Byrd law and the city ordinances bearing on the subject of the sale of liquor having been forwarded to the ambassador through the State Department further action on the subject Is awaited with some interest This much may be said however In explanation: The liquor laws of the State and city are applicable to all persons alike whether American-born oitlsens or of whatever nationality They are like the suffrage provisions of the new Constitution They apply to all who undertake to avail themselves of their provisions without reference to race or color The American-born citisen must comply with certain provisions and restrictions In order to secure a license to sell liquor or to be allowed to dispense It as a bartender and these are the only requirements that are made of others In the same line Though every courtesy hss been shown by the Governor and city offl-clals In the matter of furnishing information to the State DeMrtment on the subject it Is believed here that upon a fair Investigation the Italian Ambassador will find no objection to Virginia regulations of the liquor traffic FOUND HOMES FOR THEM Associated Charities Secure Hare far Vl-- Itlsg TUaMUea Thnmsh the effort of th Associated Charities Mrs Nannie Atkins and hsr sister Mrs Martha Walker with thslr disbi children who earn her from Danville laat Sunday night have been temporarily locatsd A house has been rented for the two on Church Street They have not obtained permanent employment but are working each day for tho Asm elated Charities In return for which they are given groceries and such other necessities as they may need Mrs eon snd elder daughter have positions In tho city Two children of each family have been turned over to the Children's Aid Society and will be placed In reputable private families as soon as possible 1 Exceeded Speed Limit Aron' Williams colored was fined $50 and put $100 security In Police Court yesterday morning on a charge of recklessly speeding an automobile on the street Aaron was out with a party of friends and they went at full steam until- overhauled bj Blcycleman Thurman ACssult Cam fas Henries James Robinson Anderson Ford and Dcuslae Taliaferro were arrested and taken to the county Jail yesterday by Constable Burch on the charxeof felonious assanlt upon Henry Hobson All am negroes There are also three negroes In the City Jail who will be turned over to th county authorities to-day it ferine altered that they were implicated In the aseault upon Hobson MEETS NEXT WEEK Electin of Secretary Creates Much Interest Solomon and Peters Lead After many months of delay It is expected that tho now State Board of Charities will bo organised next week Dr Paulus A Irving the toni-ry chairman having called a meet-to be held at the Capitol at 3 porary chairman having Ing to be held at the o'clock next Thursday Dr Irving is now In tha Middle West gatk erlng information con earning the workings of State Departments of Charities In Ohio and Indiana He will probably return hero In a taw days Th election of a secretary la perhaps the moat Important matter 'to be transacted at the opening meeting and It looks as If th fight hw narrowed down to a contest between Rev Sidney Peters of Petersburg and former Sheriff Simon Solomon of Hen-rlcoL There are about SflL applicants for tho position of assistant secretary Dr Irving will almost certainly bs made permanent chairman of -tho board qnd aa such will its executive offloer The members Dr Paulue A Irving RlcnmoquT Hon James Alston Cabell Richmond Rev a Hatcher FarmvUte Hon I Btearnes Newport Nows and Dr George Denny Lenlnffton Much Interest Is bolng manifested In the result of th light for secretary as both tho leading candidates hays many warm friends nnd supporters In th city Moyer ta Get Cod Ib-Dsy The building soda computed yesterday aftemoea win to to the Mayer this morning It I of longest snd carefully prepared documents submitted In Soma tlma Tha Indications are that the Mayor will return the paper er proved In its entirety One tic twee I Wed A marrlsye license was tasued In tbs Husttns Court yesterday moraine 0 Mr John A Taylor of Buckingham county and Mim Annie siddona Louies neunty now residents st Richmond Reduced Prices are Standing the Lou 20d2Sc rakes Yd Light grounds with flowered effects of roses lilies and morn Jng glories in pink lavender and blue 30 inches wide and as pretty an Organdie as one will see anywhere te ward with Mra Gaylord She was awake when they -entered and when they departed but they saw nothing unusual in her manner One of them noticed that she was sitting up in bed on the aide as they left the room She paid no attention to them and they gave her as little heed Mary Johnson a woman who is nearly totally blind and Lucy Bowles the negro servant girl slept In the room with the baby They went out between and 7 in the morning to prepare for breakfast and 'saw no more of the little child He was quiet when they left It was only a little over an hour later that the second attempt on His life was made It seems that no one was sitting at the end of the gallery' from where inf one entering the operating room could have been seen st the time of the last poisoning and this makes it all the harder to probe into the mystery Then there Is not qlhy great amount of intelligence to be found on that side of the home and much of the talk of the inmates there would have to be discounted Grand Jary Hay Art Whether the matter will be presented for- investigation by the grand Jury to-day has not yet been decided though It Is probable that the case will be brought to the attention of that body Coroner Taylor Major Werner Com mon Attorney Koikes and Detectives Gibson and Bailey held an Informal meeting yesterday and discussed the situation If they arrived at any definite conclusion it was not made public It Is hardly probable however that they know any more than has already been printed in The Tlmes-Dlspatch for it is yet impossible to secure information from what appears now to be the only other available source Within two or three days on the outside surer ground may be secured and then probably will 1 come the arrest Mrs Gaylord was reported to be very feverish yesterday but her condition is not regarded as serious She appears to be a woman of high temper hut able to preserve her equanimity when necessary She was awake when the Jury visited the ward in which she was lying on Tuesday She paid no attention to the strangers though she must have known that her name had often passed their lips There Is much yet to be explained byt many things are expected to rome to light at the meeting to-night Witnesses be examined rapidly an expert stenographer having already been engaged to report the proceeding 'Superintendent Davis who is visiting his daughter wife of the Rev Samuel Halts of Sherwood Va Is expected to-day but Dr Treveltan can hardly arrive In time to be present at the meeting The committee is called to meet at It may he interesting to know that the law deals very severely with cases of poisoning or attempted poisoning It Is regarded as one of the most FEDER1L COURT TO HIKE I Clerk Authorized to Purchase New Books for Appeal Court Judges For the trial of important cases heretofore heard in and appealed from the lower courts of the circuit an order was entered In the United State Circuit Court of Appeals at Asheville yesterday' designating the following district judges to hold the November term of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in this city beginning on November 3d: Judges Tho Morris of Baltimore William Brawley of Charleston and Thos Purnell of Raleigh The oourt also entered an order making requisition for 81000 worth nf late books under a recent act of Congress appropriating that sum for the Library of the Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond Mr Claude Dean the librarian will now send out a list of the book to he purchased under thla appropriation to the various law book publishing eo eompaniee for bids Although it Is not known how many esses are on the docket for the November term It la expected that It wilt he an extended one and that man Important decisions will be hande down Judge Jeter C- Pritchard of Asheville will preside FELL DEAD IN OFFICE George Hudaoo Victim of Heat aui Heart Disease Mr George Hudson of Fulton Hill dropped dead yesterday in the offices of Kelson A Ladd where he was employed Hit death was due to the best and to heart disease with which he had been suffering for some time He leaves one son and three daughters He was on of the oldest and moist respected citlsens of his community having been one of the first to settle there Arrangements for the funeral bad not been made last night a sltlon and that the others are volun-teers from among the inmates hardly fit for such duties as may be imposed on them This state of affairs will also be investigated A Nothing new of material consequence was developed yesterday There were many rumors probable and improbable 'of men and women who might be suspected of the deed and i many theories as to the guilty party and his or her motive were advanced if seems to be settled that the gqllty person Is an Inmate of the home but evidence against that person is still ti: tangible and clrcumsUntial Many believe that John Tate a man i pbout six feel Ull dark clean-shaven V-' apparently a countryman who visited 'Jh'z Mrs Ethel Gaylord three times the JAv' ntt RundiV A occasionbelngon Sunday after- Jr Pcl of rain wator where ah remained stupefied for some moment! A Bau of Bwansboro was among those shocked by the bolt He standing under a larga trea lighting a cigar "All of a says J1' a ball of fire danced before me It next exploded with a deafening kured feet from my Mr Base was badly stunned and tall heavily against th tree On' reach lng his left arm was almost power- Among those slightly sbocksd were Mr Rock- Ylsltlrg Bwansboro Mrs Bernice Clqy whose left ankl Is badly swollen Miss Archer and several small boya Tho bolt fell during tho hardest downpour of rain In the storm which passed over Richmond early yeaterday afternoon The entire picnic party was driven to shelter the large majority seeking cover under tree! Children Paale-fftrickes About thirty children had crowded Into a long covered wagon when tb rain began falling moat heavily and at the crash of lightning the tittle onos screamed so loudly that many thought tha wagon had been bit By 'the advice of wiser heads all left 'the shelter of Uio trees after tha first bolt and stood under the pelting rain during tha remainder of the storm Dr Loving rendered valuable service in attending and removing the injured many of whom be continued to visit lets in tb afternoon It Is estimated that upwards of 1090 persons were at the picnic Beside the Memorial Baptist Church of Bwansboro with upwards of 500 pleasure-seekers on the groqnd there wes a second picnic from the Stockton Btreet Baptist Church of Manchester asd a third which had come over from Petersburg BULLET GUINCED' Wreaking th vengeac he had sworn several days before a negro known to th victim only as Rolagd yesterday afternoon twice shot Samuel Minor one of th balls taking effect in his rlglit arm Tha first ball struck him In the middle of the back but glanced downward end cam out of his trousers at his ankle Th shooting occurred at the corner nf Prentice and Pulliam Street! Roland waa riding along In a fish cart with another man and noticed Minor passing He whipped out his platol a 33-caIibr! and began firing as ha Jumped from tho vehicle The first glancing shot in hie back gave Minor tho alarm and he began to run with Roland in full pursuit As he passed through the gate of nearby house Samuel received the bullet In hie arm Ha got Inside and soma girl shut the door In the other negro's far! Still holding the revolver In hie hand the latter went down the street whll Minor watched him from a back window Roland escaped Placed ea Mr Kelly formerly flrst eergecaC of Company gtesatleth Regiment was st hi own roqnest yesterday placed on the retired list with rank of Hint sorgsant TNI BUT B3B0 HOB IN TNI WORLD FOR MIN ALL BTYLU BIZIS AND WIDTHS hagagaa ifnvTvwriVN lira AAouglM 1 are within your 1 last I Boon at 3 tWlodk' may be able to throw I Vi some light on the1 mystery Mrs Gey i lord had been taken downstairs from V' the maternity ward on Sunday mow log a change that she bitterly ob- Jected to and was In a room 0lLu Bsd walked into the room where she jV- 1 Was lying with her new-born baby Two other women in the room with her passed out as he entered but they heard her exclaim: John so 1 glad to see She said something about being moved downstairs because aha was suspected of having poisoned the baby and loudly asserted her inno-eence Tate stayed until after 6 i but It Is not known what else passed between them 1L DOUGLAS '7: sV He had visited Mrs Gaylord before and as they always addressed each other by the Christian name it seems that they were friends Intimate and of long standing I was eognlsant 1 of the attempted murder but the police are endeavoring to find I him in case he should be able to en- lighten them in regard to the mystery to Thompson who came her with Mrs Frances Vaughan when she brought the baby the police know his -prohibited by order of Dr Hoskins an i Interne It is doubtful if he a': 'K- reel name nnd his present whereabouts but do not seem to believe that he Is fh any way connected with the mur- der The Norfolk police still maintain that they have not been communicated with In any way but declare that they have the name of the man referred to and that he can be brought forth at any time desired The Norfolk sleuths do Hot believe that then is anything tangible against him though they stand ready to give the Richmond depart- inent any help' It may desire it Is ot thought here however that the pretence of the man Is necessary at 1 least not yet which doee not lend color to the theory advanced by come that money was the Incentive for the kill-tag of little Res After Cheater Cine Little countenance Is given to the statement that a man answering to the description of Thompson wss seen at Chester last Bunday a few hour after tha baby had died for It la recognised that mysterious men and women will seen at every eorger from now until IR affair Is cleared up or forgotten Farther Inquiry at the City Home peaterda developed the fact that on fteturday night preceding the eecond attempt on the life Nettle Brown a young girl: Geneva Cox woman of small Intelligence and Llstie Carlton a young woman slept la the WL Douglas makes and sells more 350 shoes than any other manufacturer because tbejr hold their shape fit better and wear longer than any other $350 shoe DOUGLAS 8U4GILT EDGE SHOES JUSSiS WUDomgtmm Shorn $17B taeUCfiMM Entail MuhK BONUS BROCKTON UH JJJIOUfUS SIDE STORE IN RIGHUORD: 623 Bml Stmt i tfc-.