Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-10-26
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
Onion eating has become society
fad in Chicago.
Three cadets have been dismissed
from the Virginia Military Institute
for hazing.
The Medical Society of Virginia
convened in Charlottesville Tuesday
IN It's thirty-trst annual session.
The sixth annual convention of
the Grand Division of the United
Daughters of the Coufederacy as
sembled in Danville, Va, Tuesday.
Charles l.. Alvord, ir., note-teller
of the First National Bank of New
York, is fugitive and defaulter
to the extent of 100000.
Sundays Richmond Dispatch is
authority for the statement that DR..
L. ). Dunsway, of Fredericksburg.
has decided to accept the call to
Barton Heights Baptist church.
The jury in the case of Henry f.
Youtsey, charged with completely in
the murder of Goebel, has brought
in verdict of guilty and fixed his
punishment at imprisonment for life.
Judge John Garnett Dew, of the
County Court of King and Queen
county, has been appointed by Gov
ernor Tyler as Second Auditor of
Virginia to succeed the late Capt.
Josiah Ryland.
Three indictments against Rev.
DIR. Henry NJ. Wharton, the evan
gelist, Of Baltimore, who was charged
with fraud and taking money ille-
gally. were handed up Tuesday by
the Monmouth county, n. j., grand
jury.
Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio. ex.
Secretary of State aud of the Treas
ury, and for more than a third of a
century representative in Congress.
and United States Senator, died in
Washington Monday in the 7Sth
year of his age.
Grove Avenue Baptist Church.
Richmond, of which Rev. DIR. j. B.
Hawthorne is pastor, was DESTROYED
by fire at an early hour Saturday
morning. Its erection cost $40. 900
and it was insured for $4,000. The
church will be rebuilt.
There will he important amend
ments offered to the ''Jim Grow" law
at the coming extra session of the
Legislature. One provision will
propose to give to the informers one
half OF the fines of $500 or $1,000
now provided by this law.
John Hayes, an FISHERMAN. resid-
ing near Warham, in Gloucester
county, fell overheard while OYSTER
ing near the mouth of the Kappa
hammock River Friday and was
drowned. All efforts to save him
were unavailing. This is the second
FISHERMAN who has lost his life on
the Rappahannock this season.
The Viceroy, Lord Curzon of
Kedleston, in speech recently said
the famine had affected a quarter of
the population of India and that
even now 100000 of people were
receiving relief. lie further said
that 100000 deaths were traceable
to the famine and that the loss of
the crops involved the loss of so, OOO,-
600 sterling, plus some millions for
loss of cattle.
John Thomas and his son, OYSTER
men, of Matthews county, who are &C.
customed to dredgein the Rappahan-
mock river, were capsized while in
their canoe and both were drowned
last week. They lad left the Rap
for their home on East
river, when storm overlook them.
Seeing they would be drowned, both
dashed their bodies to the mast of
the boat and were found in that state.
They had nearly reached home before
they were drowned. Friends took
their bodies to their homes and thew
were Inferred in the family burying
ground.
The fish steamer Beatrice, owned
by the Atlantic Fisheries Company
and commanded by Captain Billups,
had a narrow escape from founder
ing last week near the Middle Ground.
between Cape Charles and Hampton
Roads. The steamer was loaded with
100000 menhaden fish and was
making her way to the factory, near
Cape Charles, when she was struck by
a heavy windstorm and lost her rud-
der, which left her at the mercy of
I he waves. Capt. Billups anchored
her and remained until this morn
ing, when one of the company's
steamers towed her to the city. The
steamers matches were washed away
and two small boats lost from her
deck, together with her fishing nets.