Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-05-16

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down and 5000 persons made home.
less by the Guatemala earthquake.
The 65th annual session of Vir-
ginia Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
is in session this week in Ports.
mouth.
The next annual meeting of the
Virginia Press Association will be
held at Virginia Beach on June
cath.
A train of naphtha cars exploded
near Pittsburg, Pa, Monday after
noon, % being killed and 300 in
jured. Seventy-five of the injured
ones will die.
-Appomattox was visited Tuesday
by fearful cyclone which did con-
siderable destruction, but no lives
were lost. The cloud wss cone
shaped, with point downwards.
Mrs Soffel, the woman who as
sisted the Biddles to break Jail i'm
Pittsburg bat who were afterward
killed while being taken, has been
sentenced to two years in the peni-
tertiary.
At the annual spring meet of the
Deep Rur Hunt Club, Richmond, last
Saturday afternoon the tandem
driven by Mr.. Anderson with his
"Webs,er," ct the wheel, and Mrs.
Henry r. Harwood's "Jaybird" in
the lead, won first honors.
Paul Leiscester Ford, author of
"Janice Meredith" and other novels,
was shot in his home in New York
Thursday aud killed by his brother,
who then turned the pistol on him
self aud put bullet through his
own heart. Trouble had been brew
ing between the brothers for some
time.
The Virginia State Board of Edu-
cation has dropped Fiske's "History
of the United States" and "Our
Country" another history. The &C
ton is based upon the determined
effort by Confederate veterans and
Others to remove every Objectionable
history from the public schools of
the State.
Over 100000 coal miners laid
down their picks Monday and went
out on strike. The prospect of
long stoppage of work in the anthra-
cite region, with its certainty Of suf-
ferlng on the part of the mine
workers families, and its possibility
of armed outbreaks, to say nothing
Of the shortage Of coal which it
means, ia Serious.
In order that he might die and
give to the world the sensations of "A
dying man DIR. John J.. Cirmau.
formerly of Staunton, Va, killed
himself in Binghamton, N. Y, last
week. He induced death by inhal.
ing the fumes from a pan of char
coal on the floor and left minute
account of his sensations. Carman
was A years of age aud when sober
was apparently studious gentleman
and deep thinker.
1t is estimated that there are in the
city of Asheville, N. c., four thou
sand delegates and visitors for the
meeting of the Southern Baptist
Convention, which began there Fri
day morning. The Baptists of Vlr-
ginia are congratulating themselves
upon the fact that the Old Dominion
leads all other States this year in
contributions of home and foreign
missions. The news has just been re-
ceived and is a source of much pleas
ure to all. During the year Virginia
contributed $4,000 for the work of
the foreign board. Much business
was transacted and tine body ad-
journed Monday. The meeting was
a most harmonious one from start
to finish.
james w. Durham, of Essex coun-
ty, is achieving fame as "boy ora
tor" Year before last he won both
the orators and the best debaters'
medal at Richmond College. He en-
tered the University of Chicago,
where he won the orators medal
the first time he had chance at it.
When the Illinois State oratorical
contest was held at Eureka the Chi
cage University sent the Virginia
student to represent it. He bore
back to the university the FIRST
prize awarded in the Eureka con-
test. Next month Mr.. Durham,
as the representative Of the COL
leges of Illinois, will be in the great
interstate contest to be held at Lin
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