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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1897
Page
6
Disintegrated calculus fragments show granular white porous material. Composition includes Urate of Ammonia mainly with small amounts of Carbonate of Ammonia and Mapnesia.
Richmond reports debate over appointing a university president with General Mitz Lee a leading candidate. Other possible contenders include Colonel Archer Anderson and Captain W Gordon McCabe. Senator John W Daniel visits to deliver Oakwood Memorial oration and reaffirms silver stance. Tucker expected as law professor at Washington and Lee University. Richmond weighs delegation for state Democratic convention. Oakwood Memorial Day parade and a Princeton incident death timer noted. Postal Congress delegates expected to visit Richmond next weekend.
Parts of the body identified as Lewis P. Wade of Richmond were found along the Chesapeake and Ohio line from Providence Forge to Newport News after a train crushed him. Fragments were located at Providence Forge Williamsburg and Newport News and sent to Richmond in boxes.
Wade a 35 year old man from this area was killed while riding No 4 passenger train from the Chesapeake and Ohio depot. Papers in his pockets identified him. A country magistrate served as coroner and held an inquest. The body was later brought to Richmond for the relatives.
Judge J M Mujien in Petersburg heard argument on a motion for a new trial in the Dinwiddie county case of W T Crawford v Richard A Harrison. The jury awarded $10,000 damages to the defendant. Judge Harrison overruled the motion and the matter may go to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
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