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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1895
Page
5
A jumble of Portsmouth items reports heat, a complimentary hay ride for Miss Kate Burgess, sewers power-house plans, grand jury activity, court actions, and local incidents. Subjects include arrests, property wills, a street repair push, fireman trip, and a ball game rain delay in Norfolk.
Hey BH N Quisenberry leaves for Baltimore to attend the B Y P A convention. His pulpit will be filled tonight by Rey and H Boudin. Misses Moan and Mary Etheredge return from Hampton VA with Mr and Mrs Ligon Hogerson. Hope Fire Company travels to Harrisonburg VA for the State Firemen’s Association. Mrs George G Martin ill at Berkley Ave residence. Martha Berkley confined to Chestout Street home by illness. Mrs A H Martin and children go to the mountains for the heated term. One hundred rolls new matting arrive. Carpets and rugs on sale at J S Crawford’s Furniture House. Lieslanz & Anthony 114 High Street. Navy blue and black wool serges 26 per yard. A J Pinwarps Under Oxford Hall. Don’t miss seashore or mountains with a covert overcoat from Nichons & Wannace 169 Main Street. W J Nelson in Kingville MO stocks Cheanberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy with money-back guarantee. Also Johnnson’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil advertised.
The Hudson River country near Irvington is eyed for a lavish club for the rich led by prominent financiers. Plans span a casino hotel with golf, polo, yachting, and winter amusements, to be built on Nevis at the Hamilton homestead overlooking the river. The project includes a large pier, a covered passage from the railroad, and a governors–run schedule of luncheons, musicales, dances, and tournaments. Notable backers include Amzi Loreeno Barker, famed for a million-dollar income and the yacht Supplehire.
Special dispatch notes actions in Crewe appointments and salaries, testino ny on a suit in Norfolk, and criminal cases in Prince George and Chesterfield counties. It mentions a postmaster appointment, a trial for jail breaking, a murder case, and a poison verdict in La Prata. Several local names appear, including McKenny Watts Carroll and Farrall, with dates and locations.
New York Herald reports comptroller Eckols findings on women's roles in banking. National banks hold 97,090,413 shares valued at 5,042,576 dollars with women owning 1,738,772 shares worth 180,861,402 dollars. State banks show 8,018,504 shares valued at 7,161,716 dollars with women owning 461,008 shares worth 50,674,712 dollars. Women employees total 883 in national and 584 in state banks. Annual compensation totals 185,797 dollars from national banks and 203,847 from state banks. Estimated average dividends imply over 10 million dollars yearly for women investors.
George Benjamin Weat Barrett, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Barrett, died Monday night at 11:50. She decensul was 11 months old and was nephew of Mr. George B. Woot, president of Citizens and Marion Bank. Interment at Greenlawn Cemetery yesterday at 5 p.m. Mr. John D. Cooper of Henderson, N C, notable Old North State figure, visiting Hygeia Hotel ten days. He leaves for Norfolk to remain a few days, accompanied by Miah Burwell and Henry Burwell. A. L. Hopkins left for Troy, N. Y., to recuperate from illness. Charles Walker, wife of the Chesapeake and Ohio agwiatool superintendent, will leave Old Point for a mountain sojourn in the Rappahannock region. Miss Lindsau Lomax, daughter of Gen. L. J. Lomas, is at Ud Point.
A Cincinnati family story of hypnotic influence spreads through doctors and hypnotists. A father’s deep affection appears to unknowingly hypnotize his child, with the mother showing similar changes. Walter Marwell notes the case and experiments suggest reflex effects in the wife. The father self-conquers, and the child and wife improve.
Reported from Huntington West Virginia a murder trial drew a densely packed audience. Disorder rose as deputies used blackjacks and knives flashed. The judge ordered the court cleared and the session adjourned to the next morning amid street uproar. Also notes on Texas corn and oats harvests and wage increases in Ohio blast furnaces. Governor Morton’s health reportedly stable after sunstroke.
A San Francisco Post item describes a police court case where counsel seeks a new trial on insanity grounds, admitting attorney incompetence. It then shifts to a Wall Street anecdote about a forged note from a typist and a threat at a meeting, involving a stockbroking family.
A New York World item recounts a con artist brother paid $600 for a mock dinner to appease a smitten man. James Logue, aged 60, jailed at Sing Sing for burglary, is said to be incurably ill, prompting counsel to seek governor’s relief. A mother’s letter claims a lifetime of crime is inherited from a father’s drinking and theft. Cincinnati Enquirer notes a farmer losing eight cows to bull snakes, with a bizarre image of a bull snake milking a cow before being killed. Topeka Dispatch reports nut pickers being abolished at the table, the cracker serving as substitute.
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