Mullen refused to grant Allen a new trial, and he was brought into court and sentenced, but execution of the sentence was suspended by the court to give Allen an opportunity to take his case to the Supreme Court of Appeals. Allen was bailed in the sum of $1,000.

Off to the Pointillon.
D. Hamilton Willcox, H. T. Lautrh, A. W. Thomas, Charles H. Moss, K. I. Coodwin, Mver Saal, W. W. Townes, Robert M. Kidd and W. C. Godsey, members of Petersburg lodge, R. F. O. K, left last night for Baltimore to attend the national convention of Elks, which meets in that city.

Fire Hanged Stuck.
The store on Lever Street owned by Samuel Lather and occupied by him and George Godwin was discovered on fire on Sunday evening about 6 o'clock. How the fire originated is not known. The building was only slightly damaged, but the stocks of the two occupants, were damaged several hundred dollars by water.

Death of Mrs. Rudder.
Mrs. Anne Rell Rudder, aged fifty-three years, died at the Petersburg Hospital on Sunday night. Mrs. Rell Rudder had been in feeble health for some time. She was the wife of H. T. Rudder, a merchant of this city, and is survived by her husband and six children.

Injuries.  Prove Fatal.
Bosa King, the aared negro woman who was struck by an electric car of the Vircinia Railway and Power Company, in Chesterfield County, on last Thursday morning, died at the Petersburg Hospital last night. A coroner's jury will investigate the case.
Thomas Lee, a negro woman, was struck by a train. 