Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-11-23
NEWS ITEMS.

The first pension on account of
the Chinese war has been granted.
A tornado which swept through
Mississippi and Tennessee Tuesday
destroyed much property and killed
over seventy persons.
Silver has advanced to GA cents
an ounce under the influence chiefly
of an increased demand from the
Indian Government.
The eighteenth annual session of
the Baptist Congress of America
opened at the First Baptist church
in Richmond last Tuesday.
The Paris Exposition closed last
week and the demolition of the
buildings has begun. The EXPOSE
ton was quite a success.
1t is said that the value of John
d. Rockefeller's holdings in the
Standard Oil Company increased in
value S2l 100000 in four days.
One of the three indictments
against Rev. II. M. Wharton, of Bal
timore, has been quashed. The
motion to quash the remaining two
will be argued shortly.
All Europe is much concerned
regarding the illness of the Gar of
Russia, as he is the only ruler who
can hold the impetuous Emperor of
Germany in check.
The Republican members of the
Ways and Means Committee Tuesday
decided to make a reduction of $780,
100000 in the revenues, the amount
suggested by Secretary Gage.
The experts at work on the books
of the German National Bank, Mt
Newport, KY, report that they have
so far found a shortage of $4,000
in the books of Frank NJ. Brown, the
missing cashier, and they are not vet
through with their checking.
Mr.. Richard Croker has sailed for
Europe. Before leaving he said:
"This movement by Tammanv Hall
against vice means business. We
have taken up a fight to purify the
city in earnest, and we propose to
carry it to a successful issue"
Mrs. Martha Shackford, widow of
Rev. John w. Shackford, died last
week at the residence of her son. DR..
w. Ii. Shackford, in King & Queen.
Two sons survive her-Rev. Joseph
w. Shackford, of the Virginia Metho-
dist Conference, and DIR. w. H..
Shackford.
The sea of reeds along the river
Nile extends for $4,000 miles and
presents one of the most desolate
scenes the Imagination can picture.
The British and Egyptian govern
ments combined are going to make
herculean effort to clear this river
and open it for further navigation.
The United States surveying corps
Saturday found over 100 dead bodies
in a swamp just west of Galveston.
Texas, on an island where they had
been left by the storm of September
Sth. The unburied dead were in an
out-of-the-way place near the county
road and had not been discovered by
the burying parties sent out after
the storm.
Attorney General Isidor Ravner.
of Maryland, is preparing an opin-
ion In regard to the recent arrests of
Virginians in the Potomac. While
Mr.. Rayner did not wish to make
public the nature of the opinion, he
did say that the best oyster beds in
the Potomac were being depleted
and ruined by the inactior of the
Virginia authorities.
Gov. Tyler was startled by a
frightful shaking of the top floor of
the Capitol building Immediately
above his Office a few days ago. The
wall rumbled as if it would fall. the
chandeliers trembled and the fuse
in the electric light bulb quivered as
the walls shook. The building is
thought to be unsafe. Electricians
were at work placing wires and a /
package fell in the rafters causing
the shock.