Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-11-08
NEWS ITEMS.


British army horses near Cape Town.
1t will be more than a year before
the rebate on tobacco stamps will be
allowed.
The autopsy held over Czolgosz
demonstrated the fact that he was
perfectly sane.
William Manning, colored, of Es-
sex county, lost his barn by fire
Monday night.
An assassin attempted to murder
Tzihsi, Dowager Empress to China,
but was prevented.
John ID. Rockefeller owns up that
he is worth $1,000, 900, 900, and his
income is million week.
Thirty millions dollars is said to be
the cost of naval base in the Phil
ippines, now being considered.
In a recent engagement between
the British and Beers the former
lost 9 officers and So men killed and
18s wounded.
The anarchist clubs of London
celebrated the electrocution of Czol-
gosz by dances in honor Of his
"noble death"
The Eiffel Tower used by the
Richmond Carnival Association has
been bought by the Beach Park
Co.. of West Point, and will be
brought there next summer.
Fears are entertained that Senator
Daniel may never again regain his
former robust health. Hor. Carter
Glass, State Senator aud mber of
Convention, is similarly affected.
II is SAID King Edward has under
gone three operations for cancer of
the larynx since his accession, and
it is feared that he will not live until
the time fixed for his coronation.
The Exposition now being held
in Charleston has set aside day to
be known as "Lincoln Day." to
which President Roosevelt and other
officers have been invited to attend.
Justice William Muir, of Warsaw,
Richmond county, recently SEN
fenced darkey to receive SO lashes,
despite the fact that there is no law
allowing the whipping post in this
State.
London and the British coast has
been under heavy fog for several
days. 1t is impossible to move about
the streets without their being
brightly lighted. The thermometer
is down to zero.
A city alderman of Richmond.
Ind, announces that he will present
an ordinance to the City Council
prohibiting women from wearing
trailing skirts in the streets. He
says that skirts gather bacteria.
A special dispatch from Antwerp
says that detachment of black
troops recently sent by the Congo
authorities to quell revolt at Balm
gis, In kassai, was captured, and
that the soldiers were murdered, |
roasted and eaten.
In addition to the officers elected |
by the Grand Council, Jr. o. u. A.
NJ, at Richmond last month the
Grand Councillor announces the fol-
lowing as the Legislative Commit
tee: w. ID. Hill, r. B. McCally, 1.
w. Crutchfield, w. A. Price and w.
Mcdonald Lee.
Friday the recall of Wa Ting
Fang, the Chinese Minister at Wash |
ington, was decided upon. He will
be offered subordinate post in the
Foreign Office, beneath his abilities.
which, it is believed, he will de-
cline. LII Hung Changes interpre-
ter, Beng, is prominent candidate
for the Washington mission.
Edward S. Stokes, who killed
James Fisk, jr., in 1872 ia a quar-
rel over Josie Mansfield, beautiful
Californian, for which he was sem
fenced to four years, died last week
IN New York. While in prison he
met Richard Croker aud John Scan
mel, who were awaiting trial, and Il
the trio formed a friendship which
lasted to the end.
Fifteen hundred men occupied the
space in the Academy in Richmond
designed for barely twelve hundred
and listened to the address
of Frederick B. Smith, the evange-
list and secretary of the International
Z. M. q. A. Over two hundred
men and boys at the CLOSE made a
public profession of their intention
to lead new life.
On Chincoteague Island, Accomac
county, which has been local option
Tor many years, the vets and drys
are still fighting. An election was
recently held and the vets carried it
BY the face of the returns. Fraud ,
vas so pa!pable that Judge Ross de-
;lared the election null and void. ,
md the island remains "dry," un-
ess Circuit Judge Blackstone should
'everse County Judge Ross.
''To be confined one year in such a |
place as the Secretary of the Navy
nay direct; to do extra police duty ]
lurIng that time; to lose all nav ex- a
'ept So a month for prison expenses, E
md the further sum of $50 to be t
laid him at the expiration of this p
confinement, and to be dishonorably p
discharged from the service of the d
United States" is the sentence i'm
,osed by conrt-martial upon John n
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