Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-11-16
NEWS ITEMS.

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Chicago packers have put beef,
pork aud mutton up Que cent a
pound.
The Southern Educational Asso-
citation will convene IN Richmond,
December 9th, 2Sth and goth.
The large sugar refining compa-
mes have made a reduction of Is per
cent IN all grades of refined sugar.
The annual report Of the Treasurer
OF the United States shows that the
revenues are greater than ever before.
Henry Willard, the railroad mag
nate and finaucier, died at his sum
mer residence at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.
Monday.
Two men were killed and two
seriously injured near Fredericksburg
last week by water tank which had
just been completed topping over.
The trial of Prof. ]. G. Beahm.
charged with the betrayal IF Ethel
q. Akers, his Is year-old pupil,
commenced last week at Manas.
sas, Va.
The Board of Inquiry, which ex-
aniined into the recent explosion at
Indian Head, near Washington. was
unable to locate the cause of the ex-
plosion.
The store of Messrs. Marchapt
Bros, at Mathews Courthouse.
caught fire Thursday night, and but
for timely discovery would have
been destroyed.
The directors of the Standard Oil
Company have declared dividend
of 10 per cent payable to stock
holders November Is. This makes
As per cent in dividends paid
out by the Standard Oil Company
this year.
The new telephone line which is
being extended from the counties of
Mlddlesex, Mathews and Gloucester
to Tappahannock and which will
put that section in direct communi-
cation with Norfolk is being steadily
pushed forward.
Marcus Daily, the discoverer and
owner of the largest copper mines in
the world and the founder of the
town of Anaconda, ontana, is dead.
lie was Democrat and leader of
the faction which fought Senator
Clark so virulently.
Some of the colored public schools
of Westmoreland county have only
two or three scholars attending; a
short corn crop and scarcity of
oysters is said to be the cause, az the
parents cannot buy suitable clothes
and shoes for the children.
One Of the worst marine disasters
of recent date occurred near the Bay
of Fundy, near Halifax, n. S, Sat.
urday when the steamer, City of Mon
ticeilo, went down and "a lives were
lost. The steamer was within four
miles of her destination.
The bodies of five persons, sup
posed to be oystermen, were washed
ashore few days ago on the Poto-
mac river, three at Colonial Beach
and three at the mouth of Rosters
creek. The men are thought to have
been accidently drowned from the
dredging vessels. They could not
be identified.
Within the past week crow-ducks.
mallard, red-head and other varie-
ties of duck, water witches, teal and
the like have become plentiful on the
river between Alexandria and WASH.
iDgton. 1t is estimated that Satur.
day evening there were 10000 water
witches or the flats off -Four Mile
Run, and with them were numerous
valuable ducks. Mr.. Joseph Moore,
who was out an hour, bagged sixty
eight ducks, and other hunters re-
port equally as good luck.
Rev. DR.. III. M. Wharton has
written letter to Mr.. Albert i.
Hunt, the architect, saying that on
account of the malicious prosecu.
ton" of woman in New Jersey he
Will have to temporarily abandon
his plans to establish the winnie
DAVIS Home" for Confederate
Women at Luray. Mr.. HUNT drew
the plans for the building. DIR.
" harton says he hopes to be able in
the next few weeks to make arrange
ments to carry out the plans.