Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-10-23
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
State Council of the Juniors is in
session thus week at Newport News
A Montana farmer writes to Vir.
ginia to send carload of wives 10
that State.
observation-disclosures Tillman,
OF South Carolina, slayer of Editor
Gonzales, has been acquitted.
AuctiOneers aud bird dealers are
being iined for possessing hooking
birds and other singing birds which
are protected by the new game law
of Virginia,
Ten thousand young Germans have
been sentenced as deserters. Thew
were drawn for army service this
year, but left the country rather
than so into the army.
The first camp of Sons of Confed-
crate Veterans to be organized north
OF the Mason aud Dixon line was
instituted last week at Pittsburg, Pa.
Among the officers is Thos. B. Lee.
formerly a resident of Tappahan.
mock, and brother of the CITIzEN's
editor.
With numerous thousands of al.
herents Alexander Dowie. the
wealthy philanthropist of Zion CITY,
Ill, has reached New York and
begun his crusade of purifying
Gotham. He claims to be an Elijah
Of restoration"
Wild ducks are making their ap-
pearance in the waters of the Kappa
hammock and Potomac iivers. The
number of gunners has increased
rapidly in recent years. There were
times when the flats and creeks
swarmed with such game. 1t is not
SO now, and some of the species
which were at one time common
have become scarce.
A battle royal before the Corpora
ton Commission will shortly come
oil. The railroads of the State will
resist decision of the Commission,
and will be represented by Hon. ALI.
Thorn, j. Allen Watts and Alex
ander Hamilton. Hon. A. @. Braxton
and ex-State Senator j. L. Jeffries.
late candidate for Attorney General,
will oppose the railroads.
News comes from the Eastern
Shore of Virginia last week that
the two-masted schooner GLADYS
Whiting, while bound from Hog
Island, off the coast, to Thompkins,
on the Eastern Shore, With y heavy
load Of oysters, turned turtle, with
the result that her captain, James
Stubs, of Delaware, and the crew of
three men persisted. None of the
bodies has come ashore rs yet.
The second trial of @. F. Alex
ander. late editor of the Mathews
and Gloucester Tribune, on an in
dictment for arson, was terminated |
last week. The attorney for
the defendant put in a plea of in
sanity, aud the case was heard for |
the second time on that issue. The
jury, brought in a verdict of insanity,
and the prisoner was ordered to be |
to the Eastern State
Hospital.
In the arbitration over the boun-
iary Of Alaska the United States
won. The contention between CAN
ada and this country has been going
On since 1879, and when the Klon-
like gold fields were found to be in
disputed territory England and
America agreed to a commission to
iecide the question, which after
many months has been permanently
Iettled in favor of the United States.
One half Of the draw of the Long
Bridge, over the Potomac ut Wash
ngton, gave way Sunday night under
he Chesapeake and Ohio train going
Vest. The timbers collapsed sud-
lenly into thirty feet of water, and
lpon the wreck was caught one ex-
'ress Car and the tender Of the loco
active. BY marvel no lives were
ost, and only one person was injured,
he fireman being cut oil the fore
cad. The escape of the heavily
oaded passenger train was marvellous.
1t is understood that the coming
assion of the General Assembly will
e asked to amend the game Law by
laking it unlawful for dogs to run
large during the spring, summer
nd early fall months. 1t is hardlyI
ossible for game to increase while
lultitudes of dogs are allowed to
smble over the fields and forests
nd destroy wild turkey eggs, part.
dge eggs, young cartridges, young \
ares and other game. One single
OF is capable of destroying-and
oes actually destroy-hundreds of
lrd eggs, young birds and young
sbbits during the summer months,
I'd no game law, however rigid, will
'er. accomplish much while hun
reds of dogs run at large in everyl