Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-10-17
POLITICAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

POLITICAL AND NEWS ITEMS,
Andrew Carnegie says that he has
recently been giving away nearly
$25, 100000 year.
If those political predicters don't
mind, they will elect Martins suc-
cessor before Daniels time is out
Free Lance.
A farmer in this State has started
q crow hatchery. He expects to
make money from the birds he will
raise by selling their heads to milli-
ners for so cents each aud their
wings for 25c. pair.
Mrs. L. w. Hicks, wife of the
pastor of the United Brethren church,
Tiffin, o., will occupy her husbands
place in the pulpit until the congre-
CATION gets new pastor. Rev. Mr..
Hicks resigned to go into the poultry
raising business.
Our little brush with Spain cost
Uncle Sam $73,66S,4 ,44o, according
to the annual report of the Paymaster
General. MANY little items, such as
the loss of the Maine, the Schley-
Sampson trial, the Embalmed Beef
scandal, etc. are ignored.
Messrs. Daniel and Martin, besides
being very able men, have had long
service, and as a consequence not
only exercise great influence in the
councils of their party, but upon
national legislation. 1t is probable
Virginia was never more ably and
efficiently represented in the national
legislature than she will be in the
next congress Baltimore Sun.
Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Cowles, wife
of Commander w. S. Cowles, u. S.
navy, and sister of President Roose-
welt, has been admitted as an elector
by the Board of Selectmen of Farm
ingtou, Conn. Mrs. Cowles can now
vote on school matters in Pennington,
where she lives, when not in Wash
ington. Woman suffragists are highly
elated, as they believe the action of
the Presidents sister will greatly aid
their cause.
Nearly five hundred boys and girls
less than sixteen years of age stormed
a tenement house in New York city
in an endeavor to capture and lynch
Peter Squat, ten years old, who is
alleged to have stabbed Andrew
Hunt, fourteen years old, in aquarrel
which arose over q scrap" game.
About hundred of the boys entered
the house, and the rest of the child
rem stood outside, yelling "Lynch the
Guinea!" and "Hang him!" Two
policemen appeared and cleared the
house. The children loitered in the
neighborhood for an hour before
they were finally dispersed.
In reply to those who haye criti.
cised his denunciation of New York's
"four hundred" or smart set, Henry
Watterson says if money, and dis
honest money at that, is to make
classes in the United States, this
country had better remained part
of the British fabric. "There is
something in a real lord-nothing
in the Lord knows who. The offense
of the Courier Journal seems to have
been the calling of spade spade.
Most of Its critics end by agreeing
with it. They would merely have
us serve baby food, such as too often
marks the protests of the pulpit,
nearly always the protests of the
press"
Jay Cooke, one of the greatest of
American financiers, negotiated near
ly all of the immense loans issued by
the United States Govern ment during
the Civil War. The banking firm of
which he was the head handled over
So, 000,000,000 for the Government,
and its profits, 1t is said, did not ex-
ceed 100000. What would have
been Mr.. j. P. Morgan's profits if
that astute financier had been en-
gagged by the Government to float a
series of loans amounting to $2,000,-
900, 900? 1t has been stated that Mr..
Morgan received about 100000, 600
for financing the United States
Steel Corporation with capital of
about 81, 400,000,OO0. In another
transaction his profit on a $500, ,OO0,.
600 transaction was estimated al
$10, 100000.