The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-12
Dates for Annual Meeting OF
District Conference OF Meth
odist Episcopal Church.
MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL
Action on Several Matters by
Board Of Aldermen-Other
Petersburg News.
Times Dispatch Bureau,
100 North Sycamore stree t.,

| of the NJ. r. Church VIII hold its an
nual meeting on the LIST, I'd and 81 of
August In the new church at Carson.
in Dinwiddie county. of which the Rev.
John W. Eure Is the pastor. Tho Rev.
j. * Joliff presiding elder of the dis
| trict Will preside. the opening sermon
/ Will be preached By the Rev W. II.
ANVIL. and the missionary sermon will
be preached by the Rev. George +.
| Booker. D. D.. of this city. The Pc
tersburg District has twenty seven
| charges on circuits, embracing 100
churches. The conference will be we'll
| attended. and much business of in
terest 10 the churches in the district
Will be considered relating to the
spiritual welfare of the people. finances
education, temperance Sunday schools.
| missions, etc. II Is understood that
the reports from the churches will be
of highly gratifying character. The
conference will elect four lay dele
! gates and four alternates to represent
nual conference.
By reason of the expiration OF their
four-ycar terms of pastoral service.
! several of the preachers in the dis
| trict VIII be transferred at the next
session of the Virginia Conference and
| for the same reason there Will be many
| changes elsewhere.
|
| The Board of Aldermen met in reg
ular session last night, and on a aues-
! ton OF doubtful legality deferred CON
currence until tonight in the emer-
gency appropriation OF $1,000 to Sc
cure supply of water for the canal.
Meanwhile the work preliminary to the
| laying of the pipes to the locks Is in
! progress.
BY almost unanimous vote. the
4 In
passed by the Council granting the
! Virginia Railway and Power Company
| permission to run a track from its
line in sycamore Street into the com
pany's new station, BY very close
! vote the Board decided to abolish one
| OF is standing committees-the Public
Improvement Committee-overriding
the recommendation of the Finance
Committee that the matter be laid on
the table. The duty of this commit
| tee was 10 consider and report on all
propositions for public improvements.
| and Ii has done good deal of work
| |" this line. While some OF the AL
dermen considered the committee es-
sential. the majority thought other
wise. The matter has to he acted on
by the lower branch
Resolutions to appropriate $500 for
the sinking of an experimental arte-
sian well and $4,000 for oilinE certain
streets were referred to the Finance
| Committee.
Motion for New TrinI.
| Judge Mullen has reconsidered his
decision refusing new trial of the
| case of Robert o. Newsom's admins
traitor against the Petersburg Tele-
phone Company and the Virginia Rail-
| way and Power Company, which was
| decided adversely to the PLAINTIFF last
week This was suit for $4,000
damages against the defendant COM
| panies jointly for alleged responsi-
hility for the death of r. o. Newsom.
! The judge. at the July term Of tho
court. will hear argument for a new
trial. based. as is reported. on the
| ground of newly discovered evidence.
Stock Company Organizing.
| a stock company is being organized
In this city for the manufacture of
automobile tires. of which Percy G.
seward. of Petersburg. is the inventor
| Personal and Otherwise.
| Announcement is made of the mar
riage in Washington last week OF
Miss Hortense Pope and Colin s.
Neal, well known young residents OF
| Petersburg.
Judge J. NJ. Mullen adjourned the
June term of the Corporation Court
yesterday. and has gone to Hampton
for few days rest. He will return
by the 24th to hear motions in tho
| ApnomattoN Bank cases.
| II is said authoritatively that fully
| ~ per cent. of the water to be taken
| from the canal will be pumped directly
TO the altering plant, filtered and dis
! tributed TO the city.
| During the storm In Amelia county
last Friday the barn of r D. Cosby
was struck by lightning and burned
A crib and small frame dwelling were
also burned.
The Rev. H. W. Battle. D. D.. of
| Charlottesville. former pastor OF the
| First Baptist Church here, Is visiting
friends in the city.
| The Rev. j. w. Rosehro. d D., for
! mer pastor OF Tahb Street Presbyte-
rian Church, is visiting in the city. and
will preach to his old congrega ton
next Sunday. DIR. Rosebro now nils
the chair of moral philosophy in the
| Southwestern Presbyterian University
! at Clarksvilie. Tenn.
! Fine and refreshing rains. the first
| in many weeks fell here this after
: noon. bringing relief from the almost
! unhearable heat OF the last ten days
! e. l.. Sanders. one of the men killed
| in the accident at Meyersburg Pa,
yesterday. lived in Petersburg for
some time. He was a skilled struc-
tural iron worker and was engaged
| In the construction or the Walnut Hin
! corpoxation viaduct. He made many
| friends here. and only left n few
weeks ago.
| f.. II. Strailman. who died in the
| Retreat for the Sick in Richmond
| early this morning. was a native OF
| Petersburg. and was the son of the
late Francis T. strailman.
Miss Ray INnsey. of Ettrick. will
leave tomorrow for New York and
! Montreal. whence she Will sail in a
| few days for two months trip
| abroad.
| Died of the HeRt.
! Lucy Pegram (colored). aged forty
two years. died last evening in her
home on Shore Street. from the effects
! of heat prostration. She had worlket
| up to 3 o'clock p. NJ. when she was
! stricken,
\ Meeting OF BROTHERS.
| Theodore Glazter a well known cit