Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-05-04
NEWS ITEMS.

Queen Victoria has left Ireland
and returned to her palace in Eng
land.
The first strawberries of the season
were shipped to New York Monday
from North Carolina.
Chill and Peru are on the verge of
war over the boundary which was
left unsettled by their war of Is years
ago.
Old Point is on the tip-toe of ex-
pectancy regarding the arrival of
the North Atlantic squadron, which
is due early in May.
0berlin Carter, who was con victed
OF embezzling large amounts from
the Government, is now in prison
Carter will be a prison bookkeeper.
The wine cellar of the Hotopp
Wine Company, at Charlottesville,
has been destroyed by fire. $4,000
gallons of wine and brandy fed the
flames. There was ample insurance.
James S. Darling, of Hampton,
founder of important enterprises on
the Virginia peninsula and the
wealthlest man in that section, died
Saturday morning.
The long feud between Rear-Ad-
miral William L. Sampson and Rear
Admiral Winfield Scott Schley and
their friends is officially ended.
Schley is the victor.
The latest note of the United
States government to Turkey is in
the nature of an ultimatum, and
demands immediate payment of the
indemnity without, however, fixing
a time limit.
A terrific explosion occurred
Tuesday in the Pleasant Valley
Company's coal-mine ct Schofield, on
the Rio Grade and Western railroad
near Cotton, Utah. Over 100 peo-
pie were killed and many injured.
"Ham, Jr.," the famous educated
orang outang that has attracted the
attention of scientific men on account
of his almost human habits, died
Monday at Atlantic City. Ham, Jr.,
was quite popular in the city of Bal
timore.
Over five square miles of territory
burned over, over 1000 buildings
destroyed, seven lives lost, 1000 men,
women and children homeless, and u
property loss of $20,Oo0,OOO accord
ing to the latest estimate, insured for
about half its value, are the results
of the destructive fire which swept
Ottawa, Ont. and Hull Friday and
Saturday. No greater calamity has
visited Canada in years.
The Confederate Veteran Camp of
Alexandria has appointed COM
mittee to wait upon the President and
inform him that the only ex-
Confederate employed in the prepare
ton of the records of the navy dur
ing'the war between the States, has
been transferred to another depart
ment, so that the preparation of the
records is solely in the hands of
Northern men.
Stafford county probably furnished
more soldiers to the Confederate
Army than. any county of its size in
the State, and the number of appli-
cants for pensions will perhaps reach
$50. There are now in this county
about twenty survivors of the Fred
ericksburg Artillery, fifty of the
Forty-seventh Virginia Regiment
and thirty of the Ninth Virginia
Cavalry, besides about sixty widows
of the members of the above organi-
cations.
The trial of Rev. j. Z. r. Riddick.
charged with the murder of DIR. w.
II. Temple, will hardly take place at
the April term of the court. The
trial is set for the 3rd of May, but
there is such strong feeling against
the prisoner that it is dou btful if a
jury can be secured in Brunswick
county to try him. If a jury is sum-
moned from another comfy, or a
change of venue is granted, the
case will then probably be continued
till the May term of the court, which
will begin on the 2Sth of this month