SUFFOLK 1 HIE GENERAL HOSPITAL , Private Iogtitatjontobe Pnrchared and Operated by the Town. SOFTER CAPE ROBBERS Police Losing for Men Who Rob bed the Busy Bee—Two FunbrflB. TSpeclal to The Richmond Virginian.) SUFFOLK, VA., March 4.—The committees appointed by the Connell aome days ago to further perfect plans for the establishment of a gen eral hospital for the town reported most favorably %t a meeting held yes terday In the offices of Attorney J. B. B. Holladay. The committees advise that Lake view Hospital, a prltnle Institution, owned by Drs. Hart and Kawles, be purchased for $10,000, and that the town make a yearly appropriation of $750 towards Its maintenance. The county board of supervisors will also be asked to contribute. After Cafe Burglars. The police are busy on the trail of the robbers who entered the "Busy Bee Cafe” early yesterday morning and secured several boxes of cigars, tobaibo. etc., as well as the cash In the cash register. The burglars gained entrance through a back window, an axe being used to break the “sasTT Funeral of Prominent Quaker. Mr. Joseph H. Hare, eighty-seven year of age, and for over a quarter of a century elder In the Friends' church, was burled from the church near Box Klder, this county, at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. A widow and seven children sur vive. Funeral of Mr. Hinton. The funeral, of Henry C. Hinton took plsce at 3 o’clock Thursday af ternoon from his late residence, In Holladay street. Rev. Joseph B. Dunn, Of the Episcopal church, officiating. A widow and five sons survive. Mr. Hinton was a native of North Carolina, but had lived in Suffolk for the past eleven years. He served throughout the Civil War with brav ery. BIG BUILDING 10 BE ERECTED ON Ml ST. Another Skyscraper of Huge Di mensions to be Added to the List. Permission w«i granted hy the Council Committee on Streets Thurs day night for. the connection of the proposed new fourteen-story sky scraper building on the north aide ! of Main, between Eleventh and j Twelfth streets. with the deep sewer tn Cary street by way of Eleventh street. Plans for the building are now be ing draw n, and it is stated that w "jrk on the structure will begin April 1. Application for the sewer connection was made by Mr. A. ltelrne Blair, representing the Richmond Building Corporation, which will erect the building as an investment for gen eral office purposes. s The new building, when completed, will overtop by two stories any other structure on Main street. Plans are being drawn by the ar chitect firm of ntmmock & I-ee, of Richmond. CITY ATTORNEY ASKED TO STRAIGHTEN TANGLE Seek Light on Alleged Agreement for Improvement of East End Streets. City Attorney Pollard and Mr. L. G. Miles will be asked to be present at the next meeting of the Council Com mittee on 8treeta. when further In julry is to be made Into the filing In the Chancery Court of what purport ad to be an agreement between L. (X Miles and others and the city for tha grading and opening of certain streets tn the East End. Investigation has shown that tha alleged agreement was never ap proved by the Committee on Street* or by the Council, nor has it been ascertained who actually put the document on record. The Committee on Streets looked Into this matter again Thursday night, but made practically no progress in l) Ita effort to solve me mystery. It wu finally decided to Invite th» city attorney and Mr. Miles to attend the next meeting. Mr. Pollard, it may be stated, denies that he had the paper filed and Mr. Miles also denies any knowledge of how the paper got on record. MANY HOME SEEKERS FLOCK TO ROCKBURY Business is Reported on the Boom in Little Chickahominy Town. (Special to The Richmond Virginian.) ROXBURY. VA.. March 4.—This little town Is ■ putting on new life, receiving with open arms the crowd of new home-seekers from the far West. Old. fields of broom sedge are being converted into productive farms. The town has a fine mercantile ■tore, a Mg postoffice, with eight mails daUjnteiejgj£h<-officej^ihT«e tele It Pays to Buy the Best UtribCaro&uWod aad Owl Co. •V Break* Are. A. S. OmhuMfc Mgr. RATS TO TAKE PLACE OF DOGS AS WOMAN’S PET, SHE PREDICTS Jersey Girl Who Tikes Squeaky Pair Out Walking is Optimia ~~ tie fwBedftnt Future. TRAINED AND FED BY HER, THEY SHOW INTELLIGENCE Miss Mahoney, of Hamilton Square Gives Dissertation on “Cun ning Pets” HAMILTON SQUARE. N. J., March 4.—"Why should anyone be afraid of rats?" declared Miss Pauline Mahoney to-day as she held two rodents, fully as large as kittens. In her anna The young woman had trained the rata and showed the same affection for them as a woman usually does for a dog or a cat Her friends have tried to persuade her to use a little poison to end the earthly careers of her unique pets, but she has Insisted upon keeping them. Miss Mahoney has trained and fed the rats for almost a year, and says she can train more of them as pets, and would do so save for the fact that there Is not room enough In her home. Her pets show Intelli gence. The two rats can perform as many tricks as the average dog or cat, and are "awfully cunning," as their mis tress expresses It. They follow her when she walks near her home, but she will not take them to town for fear they might get lost or meet with rudeness at the hands of ruge stran ger felines. When asked how It was she did not abhor rodents ns others do. Mias Ma honey replied: "Rats are not so awful as people suppose, after they are trained. Of course, when they are allowed to live in holes, cellars and walls, and eat garbage and the like, they are not de sirable for pets, but neither la a tramp dog or ‘everybody's cat.' If they are cared for like a pet kitten or a puppy, anyone will find they are even more desirable. I take ode of my pet rats out on a chain as readily as some women do their pet dogs. The only In rl/vlrt RALEIGH, K. C.. March 4.—The town authorities of Zebulon, a flour ishing little city on the Norfolk and Southern Railroad, in this county, has granted the Southern Bell Telephone Company n franchise for a locale* change that wiU, connect with a num ber of rural tinea extending Into the surrounding country, and will also connect with , the Raleigh exchange and with the general long distance Rnm pf 'its# MeU Onomnvtpv^ j , ^ MISS PAULINE MAHONET. Tonne girl who has trained rata as her pets and calls them “cunning. the rat cruelty before I could stop them." Mis* Mahoney aald she found the rats while they were young in her father’s stable. She predicts that some day the rodent will be a substi tute for the dog as a woman’s walking companion. MISSION OF THE NURSE II MOST IMPORTANT ONE Dr. Ames Impresses This Pact in Speaking on the Future of the Visiting Nurses. Dr. Joseph Ames, professor of phy sics at Johns Hopkins University, and president of the Instructive Visit in* Nurses' Association of Baltimore, Thursday night praised the work of the members of the Richmond In structive Visiting Nurses' Association, who held their eighth annual meeting at the Jefferson Hotel. ''The Future of the Visiting Nurse" was the sub ject of I>r. Ames. He referred to the history of the organisation in this country and pointed out Us objects and alms. He declared that a v‘*it tng nurse must be peculiarly gifted for the work. That the scope of their work has greatly enlarged was the opinion of the speaker. Many large business concerns now employ nurses that the health of their em ployes may not become impaired. The health of operatives in factories ^ especially guarded in this manner, according to Dr. Ames The meeting was presided over by Mr. George Bryan, who read a report of the officers of the association. Chief Health Officer K. C. Bevy also spoke, and touched upon the work of the Richmond association. He de clared that the health department will continue to aid the nurses In the work. The third annual "tag day" of tho association will be held April 4. HALE HT NINETY FIVE HOPES TO REACH CENTURY Mr. Eckert Perhaps Richmond’s Oldest Resident Celebrates His Birthday. With the hope of reaching the age of 100 years, Mr. Charles G. Eckert celebrated his ninety-fifth birthday in Richmond Thursday. He haa splen did control of his faculties, reads without glasses and walks about six miles each day. Though a native of Buckendorf, Saxony, Germany, where he was born March 8, 1815, Mr. Eckert has been a resident of Richmond since May 87. 1*52. In the Civil War he was a moulder in the ordinance department. By trade he waa a cabinet maker, but gave up work about eighteen years ago. He claims to be the oldest citlsen of Richmond. “Blessings, Ancient and Modern.” will be the subject of Dr. E. N. Ca lisch Friday night at the usual ser vices at Beth Ahabah synagogue. Sat urday morning he will talk on "An United Israel." Bridgeweteria President Resigns, (Special to The Richmond Virginia! ,nlan.) ft ARRISONBURG. VA„ Mar. 4.— Walter Yount, president of Bridgewat er College since 18*2, resigned yester day. Dr J. S. Flory, of the college, was chosen sucessor. gggsi. Typewriters Hh| Given Away! ;V At the prices we are offering every ygiggjg"1 make of factory Rebuilt Typewriters * we are practically giving them away. Mfct&JQl SnikPnaierNaZ.$31 <*«n87A Dtom,$3S All other makes at correspondingly low prices. American Writing Machine Co. RICHMOND SALES OFFICE, 605 E. Mai Stmt, Ha*5256IMb» E. J. SULLIVAN, Manager. x RUE CONTRACTOR; CENSURE INSPECTOR Report of Engineer Bolling on Trouble Over the Broad Street Sewer. To a subcommittee, consisting of Messrs. Lynch, Davis and Zlmmer mann, has been referred the report of City Engineer Bolling on the trou bles of the new deep sewer on the south side of Broad street. The re port places the blame on I. J. Smith & Co., the contractor, for failing to till in the tunnels after th#* pipe was laid. It was filed Thursday night with the Council Committee on Streets, which in tarn referred It to the subcommittee. The report carries the endorsement of Assistant City Engineer Jackson Bolton, who had direct charge of the work, and censures City Inspector At kinson for falling to report the al leged negligence of the contractor. The City Engineer was authorized to advertise for bids for the construc tion of the main sewer designed to drain the whole section of the an nexed territory west of the Boule vard. lying between Cars' and Broad streets. The bids are to be returned March 16. Cost of the sewer Is esti mated at $113,080. PRESCRIBES RULES FOR TROPHY CONTEST National Guard Order States De tails for Annual Shoot for Loving Cup. RALEIGH. N. C., March 4.—Gen eral order No. 6, from headquarters of the North Carolina national guard, just Issued, prescribes the rules un der which the companies of the guard shall compete for the Dupon loving cup trophy for the best record each year in gallery rifle practice. The or der prescribes that each company shall offer a team to compete, com prising five officers and nine men. each man to have seven shots stand ing and seven prone. Two of the shots standing can be sighted, but none sighted while prone. Contests will be held annually prior to May 1. and the team making the highest aggregate score will be award ed the cup. The first competitive practice Is to be held In the home armories April lie under the super vision of the company commander. Praises Revenue Department. (Special to The Richmond Virginian.) RALEIGH. N. C., March 4.—In spector R- W. Blair, of the Internal Revenue Department at Washington Is here making a regular inspection of the Internal revenue collector'! office for the Eastern District. H« pays Collector Wheeler Martin and his clerical foroe the high compliment of pronouncing this office one of th« best conducted la the country MoeasMacru are Caught. Revenue Collector Chapman wltti headquarters here, has just received word from Deputies Downing and Holland, operating In North Carolina that an Illicit distillery has ben cap tured and confiscated In Columbus county. Two at«a were arrested: L T. Ward and R. B. Lee. Local Pastor Says Scotch Poet’a Chief Qualification, is Broad Accent. AUDITOR’S DISAPPROVE Views of Speakers Arc Later Mod- j ified—Other News of Ashland. ASHLAND, VA„ March 4.—Dr. McGIaughlln, of the first Christian ohurch, of Richmond, In a lecture given here on Robert Hums lust night, | declared the great Scotch poet's one I qualification for his are to be the ; tact that he spoke a broad Scotch, dialed. The eritlctsm did not find! : favor with the audience, but In other] respects the lecture was generally considered exceptionally brilliant. Dr. McGIaughlln rea dsevcral of, the poet's lyrics In charming style. The preliminary contest to the Rlch j mond College debate In April will be held here Saturday night. Three men from each hall will contest for the honor before the faculty and com petent judges. The contestants from Wash hall are: E. Barrett Pretty* man, Cyrus W. Beale, R. V. Stone burner. Those from Frank Hall: 'W. H. Oast, J. T. Oelette, G. M. New bory. The question for debate Is:] Resolved, That State-wide prohibition Is preferable to the present local option law In Virginia. Mrs. Frank Leighton Day left for Washington to-day to visit friends there and later In Baltimore. Miss Grayson Hoofnagle, a student at Kandolph-Macon Woman's College, in Lynchburg, is at home on a visit. Mrs. Hoofnagle Is out again, after quite a severe spell. The little daughter of Mr. Law.] renoe Fox. who lc so ill, is reported slightly better to-day. Rehearsals for the Holy City con* tlnues and give promise of a rare musical ifeat on the thirty-first of March. All the solo parts will be B U115 UJ UUU1C MiCUV “BUnd Tiger” Chanced. (Special to The Richmond Virginian.) RALEIGH, N. C., March 4.—Henry Wilder, a young white man. was brought here from Youngsvllle to-day and given a hearing before Colonel John Nichols on the charge of con ducting a "blind tiger" In Youngs vtlle. The commissioner put him un der a 1100 bond for his appearance at the next term of the Federal Court. Secretary Wafers la Mecklenburg. Mr. J. H. Blnford. executive secre tary of the Co-operative Educational Association Is at South Hill, Va., in attendance upon a meeting of the Mecklenburg County Teachers Asso ciation In connection with a movement to complete and enlarge the high school of that place. Mr. Blnford will deliver an address In behalf of the movement. Brill of Company B. To be in readiness for the Inspec tion by the War Department next Thursday night. Company C. Rich mond Light Infantry Blues, Thursday night were drilled by Captain Mon tague for two hours. Another drill will be held next Tuesday night TAFT’S REPUDIATION PEEVES WADE ELLIS Threatens to Resign Chairmanship of Republican Executive Committee of Ohio. CLEVELAND, O., March 4.—Presi dent Taft's repudiation of Wade ElUs as dean of the school of repub lican politics in Ohio Is the sole sub ject of gossip In the Buckeye State to-day. The president's letter addressed to Henry D. Davis, United States mar shal for the Northern District of Ohio, repudiates all responsibility for the selection of the rormer attorney general of the State as representative of the administration In the coming gubernatorial campaign. According to Columbus dispatches Wade ElUs Is decidedly peevish and withheld his resignation as chair man of the republican State execu tive committee only at the most earnest pleading of his friends. It Is reported he will go to Wash ington to-day to ascertain his exact status In republican politics. LOCATION OF DEPOT CAUSE OF ARGUMENT Railroad Holds Station Must Be Situated Outside Corporate Limits. (Special to The Richmond Virginian.) RALEIGH, N. C.. March 4.—The answer to the Winston-Salem South bound Railroad Company to the peti tion of citizens of 'Ahsonvffle for the railroad to be required to locate its depot within the corporate limits In sieau ui on a, suuuroan Mie me miur pany has cho3en. has just been filed with the corporation compilssion by President H. E. Fries. The petition insists that grade conditions and the lands required lor depot yards facul ties require the selection of the loca tion without the corporate limits. J. A. Lockhart Is making the fight for the dtiaens In favor of the petition. There will be a hearing at an early date. All parties at interest want the contest settled before the railroad company is ready to proceed with the erection of the depot. NEWS OF CHASE CITY. Heavy Rains Make Bad Roads— Guards to Entertain. (8peclafto The Richmond Virginian.) CHASE CITY. VA.. March 4.—The heavy rains of the past four days have made country travel laborious for both man and beast, and the swollen creeks and rivers make very dangerous crossing. Mrs. Frank R. Roberts, wife of Hon. F. R. Roberts, from this dis trict, has returned from a ten days' sojourn at the capital city. The officers and men of the Meck lenburg Guards will entertain the company and Its ladles at a very elab orate oyster supper at the Masonic Hall neat Tuesday evening. The en tertainment committee has arranged a delightful program of music and selected readings by the best talent of the home field, and no pains will he spared to make the event a credit and measure. Mrs. Bam Morton, of South Boston. I* the gfiest for the week end of Mra T. H. Edmunds. Mr. George Endley and wife left yesterday for Richmond, where Mr. Endley will continue treatment by which ha has received so much ‘ %t§f™ i OF COURSE When in a quandary as what disposition to make - your soiled outer garments;’ %la Pyle will freshea them up in wonderful manner, making the look like new in many respet and at a moment s noti Dainty Waists and lingerie: Iaundred to a snowy whiten* Men’s Vests of flannel pt| or silk are made to look 1 new. Dyer and Cleaner. The best Dry Cleaning Plant in town. KEEPS MR MIL IS HOTLY SCORED Roanoke Saloon Keeper Refuses to Close His Place Before Midnight LAWS CONFLICTING “Wets” and “Drys” Both Join in Strong Condemnation of Procedure. (Special to The Richmond Virglnlaik) ROANOKE, VJW March -4.—John M. Hanna, saloon proprietor and member of Council from Kim ball i ward, la having all aorta cl trouble | in connection with hie determination to keep hla bar open until midnight. For the past ten months saloons have been closing at 10 F. M. A few days ago It wae discovered that the 10 i o’clock ordinance waa repealed through an oversight of the Council In the adoption of a general ordi nance bearing on the subject. Mr. Hanna haa been the only saloon pro prietor to take advantage of this over sight. Since he adopted the plan of remaining open until IS o’clock he haa been th observed of all observers and a subject of general conversation. ' Several fights which have occurred In the vicinity of hla place have been laid to his door, the trouble In each Instance being charged to hla Insist ence in remaining open until mid night. Mr. Hanna says he kept hla saloon open until 13 on the first night for the purpose of testing the law, but that because of the criticism of both the “wets" and "dry” be has determined, aa a matter of pride, to continue his policy until the Council acts on the matter. The authorities are ottering no ob jection to his procedure. Returns From West. Mr. W. A. B. Wright has returned to his old home on the Catawba. In 1852 he left his home there and went I to Iowa, and for many years assisted In the upbuilding of that country. He helped fight the Indians, removed vir gin forests and led the life of a pio neer. A few days ago he came back to Virginia, secured possession of his old home on Catawba mountain, and will devote himself to selling vegetables In Roanoke and Salem. He save that he has always lived a life 6? quiet dig nity, has never frequented a saloon, and has never in all hla experience had a difficulty with a human being. He has a comfortable fortune. Early May he will be baptised, and says he is going to make a speech on that oc casion. The roll of honor of the Highland Springe High School for February la as follows: . 1 B_Mabel Blnns, Estelle Scherer, Arthur Berchard. Davidge Douden. John Varro, Clarence Isbell, Claude Jones. Gr&ndVtlle Rudd, Fran*Rich ardson, Cheater Smith, Carton Winn, Ernest Applewhite. Edward Algner, Walter Cridlln, Willie Drumheller, Sherman Rosenberg. James Prince, Mary Carter. Margaret Marshall. 2 b—Larenoe Benedict, Wilton Bryan. Archil Ruth. Viola Beadles, Wilma Burdette, Esther Hawks, Lu clle Jones. Oladys Lotsey, Virginia Sherer. Charles Davidson, Jama* Wood. Clara Chenault. Mary Ed wards, Louis Deltrlch, Elma Ham mons. Mary Pollard, Lacy Sarenson, Aura Smith. Virginia Tiller, Mary Pleasant. 3 B—Frank Hunter, Selden Spang ler, Fred Sarenson, Bessie Beadles, Thelma Coplln, Fannie Jones, Janie Lythgree. Susie Varn. 4 b—Dudley Collins, Drury Olllle. Stuart Jackson, Fred Knakel, Ger harel Larsen, Howard Quinn, Milton Rayhorn. Harry Ruth, Villa Collins, Lillian Davidson, Ruth Dean, Mary Oresham, Margaret Fry. 5 b—Raymond Applewhite. Oladys Blnns. « B—A Ik an an Rosenberg, Alfred Fry, Bruce Alexander. HIGH SCHOOL. 1 B—Eddie Wood Taylor, Laura Koch. 1 B—Sarah Deane, Mary Dererhol, Nannie Thornton. S B—Marguerite Douden, Ruth Lord. Mr. Frank Reed Is building several very pretty houses In the village. . Miss Hester Allen, who has been very sick with pneumonia. Is oonva lesotng and' now able to go out. Miss Ladd, of Lakeside, % visit ing her brother this week. Mrs. Reltlebach, who has been lick, tar improving. Gets State Appointment, f Special to The Richmond Virginian.) RALEIGH. N. C.. March 4—-State B. R. Lacy has and the tatter trill assume his artr' ties March 11. Colonel Arrington held a similar altloa in the-State treasury1 srkenl was appointed by Governor (Alena his private secretary to succeed Governor’s brother. General OH At the close of Governor Glenn*# ministration Colonel Arrlngton cepted a position with the R. J. X nolds Tobocco Company, WlttM Salem, and spent quite a while Hi A few months ago hs returnedjiul lelgh and accepted a position t the Merchants National Bank. - DANVILLE. VA, Mar. «—AH Si br&kemen, numbering ten, and extra men on the Danville andJ9 em Railway, a branch line of Southern, running between DM and Stuart, a distance of 76 miles, out on a strike yesterday. The men are now being paid tl day, but demand 12. Application the Increase recently was now In the hands of CoL A. & drewa. president of the road, _w> strike appears to be purely -fc the trains turn running only a utas behind sohedule time. (Special to The Richmond Vlada EMPORIA, VA, March 4^ Garner lies near death as a r«M having been slashed with a rasor lng a quarrel with hi* brother, ert Garner. The razor barely m his heart. The trouble Is said to have Sti With a dispute lietwsen Can, 'Id and a third brother, Peter. ... Robert left home, but sooarul ed. and went to hia room gad < down, where John Robtnaoa and and Peter Garner were engage conversation. Without any war it Is said, he attacked Carl. When Carl fell, Peter struck ert with a stick. Mr. Robtnaoa ■ 1 pulled Peter back and Robert ! at Peter with a razor. Robed caped and .bis whereabout* MM known. R. B. Garner, the father of the 1 Is one of the most respectable CK of tho county. Settled. (Sped*] to Tito Richmond Vtrafi WILUAM8BDHO, VA., VmB At a meeting of tho TorttS* electoral school board. eoagNMi Messrs. Shelly Renforth JImH man, called to consider the mm the Bruton district board on tHSf board refused to consider either 0 proposed sites, and decided to 1 the school at Magruder. Tho action meets with the app of neither of the contesting po and the patrons havs decided U ; peal to the State board. It t| ported that the electoral board reconsider. • NORFOLK, VA., Mar. 4.— Phillips, who was in corns steamer, Newport News, e folk and Washington Steal pany when the vessel was with the British steamship erta off York Spit early Ttt* lag, has been cited to api the steamboat inspector he cause why his license as should not be suspended for not reporting the aoeU inspectors. The Lord Roberts to-day ed for $10,900 damages by < Newport News. A depu Ststes marshal In a tugbM to intercept the Lord Ri found that that vessel M Baltimore. A hearing was bsM here fore United States Steam* i tors Bray and Tapis whether the steami which went down sf