Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-07-29
NEWS ITEMS.

M " y H EmH.
The railroads are calculating on
hauling some twenty thousand
people to the State Fair and Horse
Show at Norfolk to be held one week
beginning Monday next, August lst.
Capt. Joseph Trader, of Mathews
county, who has for some years been
division deputy collector of internal
revenue, has been displaced, and
Arthur B. johnson, of Warsaw, has
been appointed as his successor.
Jeremiah Smith, better known as
"Uncle jerry" for thirty four years
an employe of the White House, and
at one time valet to Gen. Grant, died
at his home in Washington d. g.,
Monday noon. He was one of the
characters of the Executive Mansion.
The Filipinos are giving trouble
at the st. Louis exposition. A num-
Der of them attacked the manager of
a restaurant with knives because he
wanted to close up at night and it is
probable he will die. Several have
been arrested and will be punished.
In the merchants gift library
voting contest, conducted by the
Richmond Ne1Os Leader, the splendid
and costly library was awarded to
the Masonic home in Richmond.
Over four million votes were cast in
all, the Masonic home receiving
l ,093, 40S to the Catholic Union s
7S9,272. The Union. was second
and the other institutions came along
in the "also ran" class.
The British ship Creedmoor was
destroyed by fire near the coast of
Long Island. The ship contained
nearly half million gallons of
naptha, twenty-five thousand gallons
or beuzine and five thousand gallons
of gasoline. The crew fought the fire
until the fore part of the ship blew
up and then charred by fire and SAT-
located by smoke, they took to the
boat and they were all saved with the
exception of one Portuguese sailor
who was driven insane by fright and
who rushed into the flames where he
died.
While making a tour over the fair
grounds at Guthrie, KY, Carrie
Nation, the famous saloon smasher,
spied young John Williams, of Tren-
ton, smoking a cigarette. Incensed
by the sight she hurried up to him
and slapped it from his face. He
produced another cigarette, lighted
it, at the same time cautioned Mrs.
Nation not to repeat her performance.
Deaf to his warning she knocked the
second cigarette from his face. The
young man Immediately knocked her
down and then lighted his third
cigarette in peace.
Under an act of the last Legisla-
ture "a man must take care of and
provide for his family. The first
case under this law was tried in
Richmond last week before Judge
Witt. The husband, a colored man,
was charged by his wife with failing
to support her, giving her only ten
cents at times. The jury found him
guilty and fixed his punishment at
sixty days in Jail. The Judge held
the sentence in allegiance and re-
quired the husband to furnish his
wife with $3.50 each week. A
white man in Manchester has
also been convicted. 1t is said
there are many husbands liable
under this act and it would be well
for them to take warning by this
case.
A score of posses, officers of the
law in Princess Anne county, Nor
folk, Portsmouth, adjacent counties
and in North Carolina along the
border. together with many deter
mined mdividuals-all numbering
probably 1000 men-have for sew
eral days been hunting Frank Satter-
thite, the Princess Anne county fish
erman who brutality murdered his
wife at their humble home at Seatack
Friday night by merclessly beating
in her skull with a huge monkey
wrench. The perpetrator Of the
most revolving murder on record in
Underwater Virginia is at large, armed
with q Winchester rifle, and large
supply of ammunition, prepared to
do battle unto the death in order
to escape the fate that the determined
citizens of Princess Anne have
decreed for him.