Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-08-17
NEWS ITEMS.
Topeka joe" the Williamsburg
safe burglar, was taken 10 Richmond
last week for safe keeping.

Topeka joe" the Williamsburg
safe burglar, was taken 20 Richmond
last week for safe keeping.
A bolt of lightning out of II clear
sky killed farm hand i'm Hanover
county last week and rendered ".
II. White. a prosperous farmer, un-
conscious for several hours.
Testimony in the trial of For
mer Secretary of State, Caleb Powers,
charged with the shooting of Governor
Goebel, was concluded at noon Mon
dsv.
The Standard Oil Company has
declared dividend of s. per share,
payable September 10Th. In June,
10 per cent. was distributed, and i'm
March, 20 per cent.
Troubles in the Philippines are
getting worse and worse. 1t now
comes to light that guns aud ammu.
milton are being constantly Struggled
from this country and placed in The
hands of the Filipinos.
The thirty fourth annual conven-
ton of the Disciples of Christ of the
Underwater District, which includes
all those counties east of Richmond.
begun Tuesday at the Rappahannock
Christian Church, Dunnsyille, Va.
Q. Z. Hungington, president of the
Southern Pacific railway, died at his
camp, Pine Knot, in the Adiron-
dacks, at about midnight Monday.
Heart-disease was the direct cause of
death. The deceased was the last of
the great railroad kings and leaves a
fortune of about $50, 100000.
Rachael Chambers and John
White, colored, who reside in Roam
oke, had a quarrel Sunday. After
the war of words the woman drew a
IS caliber bulldog revolver and fired
at White. The bullet struck him in
the middle of the forehead, fattened
out, and travelled around to the back
of his head, where it was cut out.
The records of the courts in Bal
tlmore show that five suits for the
amounts of various promissory notes
given by the Rev. DIR. Henry NJ.
Wharton have been entered at yari.
Gus times. There is no disposition
on the part of the creditors to press
their claims. The general sentiment
exonerates the clergyman from IN.
territorial wrong-doing. He is ex.
cused on the ground that be at
tempted too many enterprises.
The United States coast survey
steamer Blake reached Town Point.
near Norfolk last week. She is pre-.
pairing for her dangerous work off
Cape Hatteras, which is to find the best
available anchorage for the Diamond
Shoals lightship, which guards the
most dangerous point on the Atlantic
coast. The soundiugswill have to be
done by men in small boats, and
their work will be perilous, for the
sea is always wild along these shoals.
Attorneys representing the estate
OF Joseph Welton, the merchant for
whose murder Walter Cotton was
lynched at Emporoia after having
escaped from Portsmouth Jail, have
notified the municipality of their in
tention of suing it. They will con.
tend that Cotton's escape was directly
due TO the negligence of The city's
agents, and that had Cotton not es-
capped he could not have committed
the murder.
A letter from King George county
says; 1.-The farmers here are not at
all pleased with the particular kind
OF Mckinley prosperity which is
said to be sweeping over the coun-
try They are paying higher prices
for everything they buy, and are con-
fronted on every hand by revenue
stamps and the like, while they are
compelled to sell the products of their
ia6or at starvation prices They
complain that potatoes and
other farm products this season
will not net enough to pay the cost
of production and shipping TO
market, and that, therefore, the
farmer is at greater disadvantage
now than ever before. The slight
advance in the price of corn is by
no means in proportion to the high
price of nearly every arti Gle the
farmer has to buy"