The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-22
AL DECORATING
IN PETERSBURG
The Bunting Gave Out and Richmond
Called On.
SYCAMORE STREET is GAY.
The Courthouse and Municipal Buildings
Put on Bright colors-AdmiraI
Melville Expected to Attend
Confederate Reunion.
SYCAMORE STREET is GAY.
(special Dispatch to The Times.)


PETERSBURG, VA, Oct. a-Decorat-
ing for the Confederate reunion is engas-
ing the attention of all. There are few
buildings on Sycamore Street this after
noon that have not been decked out for
the occasion, and each occupant vies
with the other for artistic show.
Every store had sold all the bunting
on hand by 10 O'Clock, and more has been
ordered Some have arranged to pur-
chase their decorations in Richmond, SO
that there will be no delay.
Sycamore Street has presented the ap-
pearance of a holiday all day. Business
men, in the absence OF available decora-
tors, have taken up the work themselves.
Every effort to get through with pressing
work is being made so that the week
may be given to pleasure and entertain
ment.
The courthouse and other municipal
buildings have been appropriately deco
rated a Confederate flag will be placed
in the hand OF Madam Justice at the top
of the courthouse tower
ADMIRAL MELVILLE
Rear Admiral George ". Neville, of the
United States Navy, will attend the re-
union, and will be the guest of Congress
man 1t. X. LaSSlter.
DR. Battle preached an able and elo-
Uuent sermon to the Sons OF Veterans
last night at the First Baptist Church.
Two men We're Killed by railway trains
near Petersburg yesterday. Captain j.
J. Dickinson a. stock raiser. of Castle
wood, Russell county, Va, was killed by
the --nnon-balI train on the Atlantic
Coast Line yesterday morning, a short
distance thiH side of Port Walthall.
Dickinson was in Petersburg Saturday
with q carload of horses for Richmond.
and when the car was transferred from
the Norfolk and Western to the Atlantic
Coast Line track, it was delayed at Dun
ilop Station. Captain Dickinson became
separated from his car in this city, and
yesterday when told that it was at Dun
lop lse at once went out to that station
to look after his horses. Arriving there
he found that the car had been sent ON
to Richmond. and he was heard to say
that he would trace them if he had to
walk to Richmond and he was seen to
start to walk in that direction.
MUST HAVE SLEPT.
Captain Dickinson walked on few
miles, when he sat down to rest and
must have fallen asleep.
The engineer of the cannon-ball train
from Richmond saw an object on the
side of the track just this side Of Port
Walthall as he rounded the curve, and
the side OF his pilot struck it. 1t proved
to be Captain Dickinson, and he was
placed on the train and brought to the
hospital in this city, where he lived only
a few hours.
Captain Dickinson was struck on the
right shoulder, and it was crushed in.
He died from the shock
Captain Dickinson was one of the best
~
ginia, and had been selling in this market
for years. He was about sixty years of
age and married. His body was sent
home last night.
KILLED ON THE TRACK.
Frank Covington, colored, of Durham,
n. c., went to sleep on the Seaboard Air
Line near Burgess, and was struck on
the left side by the pilot of a passing en-
CINE His injuries were fatal, and he
lived only few hours after being
brought to the city.
Covington was in Petersburg Saturday,
and left that day. While conscious. he
said that he spent, Saturday in the woods
by a fire, and started early Sunday to
walk the railroad track. Becoming tired,
he sat down to rest and fell asleep and
knew nothing more until the pilot of the
engine struck him.
Charles Bonner, a North Carolina ne
gro. stole SO from the pocket Of j. R.
Rezabelz, a Bohemian, in Dinwiddie
county, while Rezabel1 was in Peters
burg Saturday. Bonner was caught after
a. chase. and at first denied the charge.
He finally acknowledged the theft and
requested that he be sent to the .peniten-
tiary. The negro was sent on for trial
this morning.
The Methodist Sunday-School Union
at
Church yesterday afternoon. The total
number of scholars registered is 149I;
percentage of attendance for the past
month was So.
AR. Frank eager, aged sixty-two years,
died at his home in Blandford last night.
matboi;st Schoo, for CuInenar