Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-06-26
NEWS ITEMS.
A Chinaman and a negro carried
off the highest honors at Yale.

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A Chinaman and a negro carried
of the highest honors at Yale.
A decision recently of the Virginia
Supreme Court confirmed the validity
of the new Constitution. -
A railway line will soon fringe the
famous river, and Jordan will no
longer be hard road to travel.
Any farmer, or other person inter-
ested in the use of fertilizers, eau get
literature without cost by writing to
Department of Agriculture, Wash
ington, ID. G.
Major Holmes Conrad. of Virginia,
and Solicitor General under Cleye-
land, has been called upon by Presi-
dent Roosevelt to assist in prosecuting
the Portofiice frauds.
Two Illicit whiskey sellers in
Floyd comfy, Va, that beat a
preacher who informed on them, were
sentenced to year in the peniteu-
tiary by the U. S. Court on the
grounds of interfering with the
witness.
At the local option election held
in Claremont, Va, last week the drys
carried the town by vote of AZ to
%. When the result was announced
whistles were blown and bells were
rung over the deliverauce of the
town from the saloon.
Gov. Montague has called troops
from seven Virginia cities to Rich
mond to prevent disorder during the
strike. Some small riots have oc.
Cured and few alterations. The
strikers have started new paper,
called The Opinion.
A mass meeting Of citizens severely
arraigned and condemned the menu
bers of Fredericksburg's city council
that signed the recent extraordinary
manifesto taking sides with the
whiskeyites in the pending local OPP
ton fight. The election is on June
30th.
James Lindsay Gordon, formerly
of Virginia, but now of New York,
lawyer, politician aud poet, who has
been called the Henry w. Grady of
Tammany Hall, has become an
evangelist, and win, it is said, devote
his entire time to preaching the Cos
pei, giving up the law and politics.
1t is stated that the Norfolk and
Western will soon establish between
Norfolk and Richmond, Va, the
fastest train In the South, to be
known as the 'faster cannon ball."
and it is declared that it some places
it will run 80 miles an hour. Six
large locomotives, 100 tons each,
equipped with electricity, have been
built for this service.
The Virginia court of appeals has
handed down a decision reversing
Judge Martin, of Norfolk, who held
TO be unconstitutional the law i'm
posing compulsory pilotage upon ali
coasting schooners entering the Vir-
ginia Capes for ports in this State.
Under the present law, which the
highest court of the State upholds,
schooners coming to Virginia ports
from other States must employ
Virginia pilot necessarily.
The celebrated "wood alcohol"
cases, as the suits of DR.. George A.
Bream and four other parties against
Messrs. Gilbert Brothers d Co., drug
glsts, of Baltimore, have been settled
on private terms. DIR. Brehm, who
lives at Rowlaudsville, Cecil county,
Nd, claimed that his eyesight had
been irreparably injured by drinking
Jamaica ginger manufactured by
Messrs. Gilbert Brothers & Co., in
which wood alcohol b d been used
as ali ingredient, and he claimed
$50, 900 damages.
J.Vance Lewis, colored, of Houston,
Tex, spoke at the Shiloh Baptist
church in Washington recently on
"The Southern White Man, the
Negro and Their Relations" During
his speech he said: This South is
the place for the negro. No field in
the universe offers him better oppor.
tunities than the South, where there
is not one industrial gate. closed to
him. The discussion of the social
equality problem is killing us. The
southern negro does not believe in
social equality. He believes in every
race staying in its boundaries, and
when we see man trying to leave
his own people he is regarded by us
as misfit. The white and the black
men of the South are friends; they
are not enemies. When you hear of
a race war in the South give it the
black eve