The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-27
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Negro Woman Badly Hurt BY a. a
Runaway Horse With Buggy.
OPERA CO. o WITHOUT ,I1|.: ]l.I A HEAD II. D
OPERA co: WITHOUT A. HEAD.
Mr.. B.iL. Burrell to Come to Richmond
Il as Superintendent Of the Life insur-
ance Company Of Virginia-The
Car Line Fully Equipped.

Especial Dispatch to The Times)
PETERSBURG, VA, May 26.-The
Methodist preachers meeting was well
attended this morning. R. T. Wilson.
presiding elder in this district was among
those in attendance. Rev Mr.sHatcheI,
where the general conference was In. ses->
sion, entertained the ministers with de-
lightful account of his trip
A horse hitched to a buggy owned by.
Mr.. G. A. F'itz ran away on Bank Street
this morning. Mary. Governs, q colored
woman, who was crossing Bank Street
at Market Street, was struck by the
buggy and seriously injured about the
head. She was attended by Dr.. WI WI.
liam Shipper. After the wound mao
been treated and the woman regalned
consciousness, she was sent to her home.
The Dan Packard Opera Company
reached petersburg yesterday. Mr.. Pack
ard left them in this city. and up to TINS
afternoon his company did not know
where he could be communicated WIFI.
CHANGED TO RICHMOND.
Mr.. B. L. Burrell, who for. three years
has been superintendent of the Lie IN
surance Company of Virginia in TINS CITY,
has been promoted to the superlntehu,
ency of the company in Rlchmoha, anu
Mr.. Howard James, formerly of TINS CITY,
hut now in charge of the company S
business in Norfolk. will succeed Mr.. Bur
rell. The change will take place June ISL,
The suburban electric line between &c
tersburg and Ferndale Park Will soon oe
in perfect condition and equipped with
switches of the latest patent. Inc
switches were ordered last 1ail anu
though the bill of lading was received
some time ago, the switches just reached
here Saturday and a force is at work
putting them in as rapidly as possible.
They are being laid for a ten minutes
schedule between this city and the park.
When the park was first opened there
was an hour schedule. Later thirty
minutes schedule vas found to be neces-
sary and this was reduced to twenty min
utes. The travelling now is such as to
demand a ten minutes schedule between
Petersburg and the park.
VAUDEVILLE.
Messrs. Wells of Richmond and Glenn
ents, of this city, have arranged for lie
appearance of the Bijou vaudeviliians at
the park, and they will give three per-
formances beginning this evening.
The service Of Forty Hours Devotion
began at st. Joseph's Catholic Church
yesterday at half-past ten o'clock. The
laying of the cornerstone of st. Mary's
School was. postponed on account of the
rain and will take place tomorrow
morning at the close of the services.
Miss Annie C. Wilson entertained the
Ladies' Sewing Club Friday. Her guests
We're:
Mrs. Sam G. ~illson. Mrs Preston L.
Roper, Mrs. E. P. Goodwin, Mrs. w. T.
Cooper, Mrs. J. j. .Percival. Mrs. Mont
gcmery Jackson, Misses Mary Beasley,,
Martha Collier, Anne Gill, Alice Collier.
Roberta Gill, Bessie Venable. Leeper
VenabIe. Frances Reames.
Mrs. E. 0 Patterson was host at
delightful luncheon Wednesday. Those
enjoying her hospitality We're:
Mrs Strattoo. Mrs. Preston L. Roper,
Mrs Willie Bragg, hrs. John Lemoine,
Mrs. Sam G. Wilson, Mrs. Montgomery
Jackson, Mrs John Mann. Mrs. E. P.
Goodwin, Mrs. William Cooper, Misses
Whyte, Anne Wilson and Helen Leaven-
worth.