The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-27
HE Nl,ACH I!N|E!:
FOR OVER HOUSE.
loaded on Wagon and Ran I a Away.
to the Plant.
NARROW ESCAPE OF IW0cARs
ARagos Dashes Dowa Hill Towards Car ;
s,otornss Ieverses Current, and Gets
Out Of the Other Items
from Manchester.

from Manchester.
MANCHESTER Bureau. Richmond Times
HOS Hull Street.
Traffic on both lines Of the Passenger
and Power Company was delayed about
Z forty-fire minutes last night while one
OF three large engines was being moved
TO the plant on Browns Island. The
heavy machinery was unloadeo
from fat car and placed on wag-
on at Byrd and Seventh Street me
load was TOO much for the mules 10
hold back, and they were pushed along
down The grade With every turn the
speed increased until when the arch was
passed the wagon was spinning along
and the mules in a sweeping ganop. Two
cars had just turned out Of Arch Street
into Seventh, and seeing the danger OF
a collision and the Inability OF the mules
TO stop, the motormen reversed their cars
and ran backward rapidly until they
had given the wagon the whole OF
Seventh Street The mules kept straight
to and across the bridge leading to the
island. 10 one was hurt, and nothing
happened to the machinery.
WEARING APPAREL FOUND.
A light colored coat and vest were
found last night under the steps Of Fifth
Street Methodist Church. AS some OF
the members, who had attended prayer
meeting, were leaving the church they
noticed bundle under one Of the steps,
and on investigation found these articles,
which were carried to the station house.
An overcoat and black fedora. hat were
found Monday night on McDonough
Street, and are now at the station. II
the same person is the owner of both
finds, he must be preparing for summer
weather.
SERVICES CLOSED.
DR. w. NJ. Vines delivered master1ul
sermon last night to a large congregation
at Bainbridse-Street Baptist Church. His
theme was THE Prodigal.s Repentance,
taken from St. Luke, Is. 90 DR.. Vines
has been assisting Rev. q. v. Badly in
revival services for the past two weeks
with good results. The services will close
with the sermon tonight. There will also
be a. service at 10 o'clock TINS morning.
DIR. Vines will return to AsheVil!e to-
morrow.
THE WRONG NAME
Men who are acquainted with the laws
of the city and who are not candidates
for any position are asking why aspirants
for the one-time Council have indicated
on their cards that they are candidates
for the Council, instead of City Assembly.
BY an act approved February 10. 1901.
4 u1lOeT WHICH Il IoodIu VI <aIuSi1l Hull NdS
provided for Manchester. the name of the
lower body was changed from Council to
City Assembly. This act stipulates that
there shall be elected by the qualified vot-
ers of the city on the fourth Thursday
in May, 1902, three members of the City
Assembly from each ward, who shall mold
Office, two for one year and one for two
wears, and at the next election, one year
thereafter. one shall be elected for two
years, and SO on each year, alternating.
In regard to the members of the Board.
the same rule applies, and the candidates.
receiving the greatest number of votes
will have the long term. The terms Of
Office of all members of the present Coun
Gil shall expire on the first Of July. There
is not a candidate for the lower body as
yet who has placed on his card for City
Assembly"
FOUND INSANE.
Mrs. Annie Harris. the young woman
who on Tuesday made an Intellectual at
tempt to take her life, being saved by
some young men. who pulled her from
in front of a moving train on the sea,
board Air Line, was examined by a COM
mission OF lunacy yesterday morning and
ordered to be taken to tho asylum for the
insane at Williamsburg. Doctors e. I.
Rucker and w. p. Mathews and Squire
Jordan composed the commission, Their,
finding was that the woman was suffering
from monomania. Mrs. Harris Stoutly
{ denied being crazy, saying at the time
she tried to commit suicide she was
drunk She said, though, before she
would 20 to the asylum again she would
Izill herself Mr.. W. J. Williams, father
of the girl was in court, and was asked
about the life of his daughter. He was
greatly moved while testifying to the
wilfullness displayed by her when a little
child. He said he had begged her to
come and live with him, but she would
not, telling him she had been married
once and he had nothing to do with her.
She is only eighteen now. At the Jail
yesterday she swore she would kill her.
self before the asylum authorities came
for her.
LIKELY TO Run
Residents of the Fourth Ward have an
idea they are going to induce Mr.. r. c.
Broaddus to stand again for the City As
sambly, whether he wants to or not
Some time ago Mr.. Broaddus said he
would not enter the race for reelection,
but now, when a petition coming from
nearly all the best men Of his ward. ask
ing him to stay in the body, comes to
him, he thinks it duty he owes the city
to serve again. 1t is likely. that Mr.
Broaddus will decide in the matter to-
= Jay. NIL 5otOdOOuS has 1ndOe an le1f1c1ent
and intelligent representative of his peo-
pie
MYSTERIOUS FIND.
prominent city official while walking
through the court green Tuesday after
noon found in a roll about seventy-five
one cent stamps, much tn worse for rain
Not two weeks ago this same gentleman
was passing through the green and saw
: a little boy pick up a photograph. The
little fellow showed it to him, and he at
once recognized it to be that of F. 81.
Fitzgerald. erstwhile clerk of the Man
chester School Board, and now fugitive
from justice. The photograph. which is
now in possession OF gentleman of the
city, was good likeness of the man 1t
had evidently been out in the rain and
bad weather for some time.
Mrs Sarah c. Wilkerson died at the
residence OF her son-in-law. Mr.. W. B.
Taylor, in Swansboro. Va, Monday night
Mt II o'clock in her eighty-first year. Her