Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-10-18
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
Mrs. McKinley's condition has
changed for the better.
If the surface of the globe were
perfectly level water would cover it
to the depth of two miles.
Census reports show 51.2 per cent
of the population to be males. In
Virginia there are about 5000 more
females than males.
President Roosevelt's first message
to Congress is expected to advocate
tariff modification to open markets
to American goods.
The Lynchburg Fair and Carnival
opened Tuesday in good earnest, and
with every promise of gratifying
success. Large crowds are in at
tendance.
Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints, better known as the
Mormon church, died in Salt Lake,
Utah, Thursday.
The University of Virginia won
her fourth game of football of the
season Saturday, defeating the team
of mutes from Gallaudet Institute.
OF Washington, by score of "a to O.
Mr.. William HUT, of Montross.
has purchased of Mr.. Frank Thrift
his mercantile business at fuckers
Hill, where he has moved, Mr..
Thrift has secured fine position in
New York city.
Cresceus Friday lowered the
worlds trotting record for half
mile track by one-quarter of a second.
lie passed the quarter in 329, and
half in l'043, three-quarters in 1.36!
and the wire 1904.
The trial of G. +. w. Neely. on
charges of misappropriating postal
funds in Cuba, is in progress at
Havana. Rathbone and Reeves are
also implicated in the entertainments
which amount to about $4,000.
Roland b. Molineux, who was
found guilty of sending poison label
ed Bromo-Seltzer which resulted in
the death of Mrs. Katherine j.
Adams in New York, Was granted a
new trial Tuesday by the Court of
Appeals.
John ID. Rockefeller has pledged
100000 toward the endowment
fund of Barnard College, subject to
the condition that by the lst of
January, 1902, 100000 additional
must be raised by the trustees of
the college.
Georgia will need an appropriation
OF $S25,000 next year to meet the
claims of the Confederate pensioners
whose applications have been gran ted.
This is an increase of $4,000 over
the amount appropriated for the
NNAAShS ySoi.
fredericksburg College football
team defeated the Episcopal High
School on their grounds near Alex
andria Saturday afternoon by score
of % to 0. Randolph Macon defeated
Richmond College in Richmond by
the score of 6 to o.
In addition to being a high Mason
and a leading member of the Royal
Arcanum, Admiral Schley is lead
er IN the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics. The last
uamed order recently presented him |
with handsome badge.
The third year of the Boer war
began last week. The British soldiers
killed, wounded and prisoners num-
Der 1Ol ,O79, nearly twice as many as
the entire number of Beers who have
been in the field. The cost to Eng
land has been nearly billion dollars.
Numbers of British soldiers are de.
serting to the Beers.
The troublesome question of mar
riage and divorce was set at rest for
another three years Tuesday by the
action of the House of Deputies of
the Triennial Episcopal Convention
at San Francisco in rejecting the
canons on the subject which were
passed by the House of Bishops. The
greatest fight of the convention has
been over section 4, canon SO, yir-
lually forbidding the marriage of
divorced person by a priest of the
church. This had passed the House
Of Bishops and been adopted by
yea and nay vote in Committee of
The Whole by the House of Deputies.
When the committee reported its
work to the house, decisive vote
was taken, not only on the trouble
some fourth section, but on the en-
ire canon, which was rejected as a
whole. On the following day these
questions were reconsidered and it
vas decided to let them remain as
hey have been in the past.