John Matthews and Junius Knox, negroes, had trouble last night near the rear end, and Knox is in the hospital in consequence, suffering from several pistol wounds inflicted by Matthews. The latter had the police station called to arrest him and would await the arrival of an officer. He was true to his word and was ready for the patrol truck when it came. He said that Knox had asked him.

The number of paid admissions to the Petersburg-Hopewell baseball game yesterday afternoon was 2,400. The association had offered the prize of a 10 gold piece to the person who gave the nearest number of paid admissions, and the fortunate guesser was Captain J. A. Nichols, a surveyor of this city, who, after carefully looking over the crowd, named the exact number. The next nearest guesser was:

The funeral of James Lewis, the light watchman at the Battersea Coal Company, who was stabbed and slashed to death last night by J. H. Henley, an employee at the factory, will take place tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock from the chapel.  Of the undertaking establishment of J. T. Morris and Son, where the body now lies. Today two more arrests were made by the police in connection with the killing of D. Kxwin and D. H. Hanson, suspected of being accessories. The murder of Lewis recalls the fact that a few years ago the night watchman of this same factory was mysteriously murdered, and the mystery of that affair has been cleared up. 