The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-12
THE NE HODlSTS
OF VIRGINIA
Mil Meet in Annual Conference in
Newport News,
TRINITY CHURCH WEDNESDAY
William 0'Boyle, Who Stamped Woman TO
Death and Has Been Under Sentence of
Death for Two Years, Will Have
Hearing in Court of Appeals.

Especial Dispatch To The Tines. ,

! NEWPORT NEWS, VA, Nov. 11-Thc
Virginia Conference of tho Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. will convene IN
| its one hundred and nineteenth annual
i session "Wednesday morning at $50 O'Clock
in the new Trinity NJ. L. Church, dcdi-
Gated in this city a few weeks ago. The
j opening sermon will be preached by Rev.
/, D. G. G. Butts, of Gloucester. His alter
nate is Rev. j. Z. Bosnian, of PaTil-Piacc.
| Richmond, the first Methodist minister
! to have a charge in Newport News.
! AT the ordination of elders a sermon
| will be preached by Rev. ]. T. Mastin,
| financial agent of the Virginia Methodist
| Orphanaga His alternate is Rev. L. y.
Potts, Of the Mount Vernon Church, Nor
! folk.
The conference is composed of I'll
j preachers and "a lay Delegates represent
ing, "a constituency of $3.50 members, us
4 local preachers 100 SuIlday-schooIs, $3.50
4 Sunday-school teachers, 62,262 Sunday
! school pupils. OF the clergymen. 25i are
over by Bishop w. w. Duncan. who pre-
4 sided over the Conference in Norfolk
/ last year.
WORK or THE BODY.
There arc forty-one heads under which
Z the business of the Conference will DC
/ conducted. prominent among which are
the cause OF education, home and foreign
benevolent enterprises, reviews Of the
work of the year and character.of preach
ers.
Among the most interesting reports .siil
be those I'elstiiig 10 the Twentieth Cen
lilTy Educational Fund. OF which Virginia
is to raise S1so,n}a the work being in
charge of Rev. DR.. NJ @. Starr, ureEi-
dsnt of Randalpll-Maron College; ans
the condition Of the Methodist Orphenge
work, the Methodists of this section of
: Virginia, including Newport News, Nor
folk, Portsmouth. Berkiey. Hampton, and
other places, having agreed 10 provide a
central building for the institution. to
cost about $4,000, which amount it Is
understood. has already been subscribed
Every preparation has been made to
properly entertain the distinguished body
and the session, il is predicted, will lie
one of the most pleasant. as we'll as one
of the most Interesting, in the history of
the Conference.
A REMARKABLE CASE
The case Of William O'Boyle. the muir
!. derer of Alma Hamilton, will be taken
1 up in the Court Of Appeals Tomorrow
1 O'Boyie has been in Jail here under SEN
tence of death for over two years for
! the brutal murder of a mulatto woman,
! whom he stamped to DEATH The day,
place and manner of the prisoners death
has been set three times. a stay of exc
cution having been secured in each in
stance. The last stay was of Indefinite
I duration, depending entirely upon the
action of the Supreme Court, which
! granted a writ of error over six months
ago.
The United States training ship Hart
4 ford arrived in port yesterday afternoon
and is now lying in the river off the
! Casino.
The new foundry built by S. ]. Wright
opposite the shipyard will begin opera
lions Friday. 1t will start up with sixty
| employees. but the number will be in
creased to one hundred before Christ
mas.