Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-09-02
NEWS ITEMS.

Naval experts say the battleshir
Louisiana, launched Saturday a,
Newport News, will be the most DOW.
erful lighting machine in the world
The days of the crisp bank. note
are numbered. Instead of being
crisp, the money which the govern.
ment Bureau of Engraving and
Printing will hereafter turn out will
be soft and velvety.
The great beef strike continues.
And now the strikers are planning
Tor such great strike as to make
meet famine possible, thereby caus-
ing an indignant public to force
the packers to terms.
A fleet of eight United States war
ships, monitor and destroyers, headed
oy the battle ship Texas, were seen
lying OF the Westnoreland shore of
the Potomac River, last week, The
sight was an unusual one and was
witnessed by large number of per-
sons in that portion of the Northern
Neck.
The new steel railway bridge
across the Potomac, erected at cost
OF 100000, was thrown open for
traffic Sunday, when the Chesapeake
and Ohio express, arriving at GAO a.
m, pulled into Washington. The
old wooden bridge, known as the
Long Bridge, which has been an eve.
sore for so many years, will be de-
molished.
The roads of Mecklenburg county,
N. o., are among the beat in the
south. The work ON them ia done
by convicts, and the chairman of the
board Of county commissioners bears
emphatic testimony of the wisdom of
the policy of thus utilizing convicts.
he says the county has la5 miles
OF macadamized roads built by con- |
victS; that this is being added to at
the rate of twelve or thirteen miles
and that there is no compar.
ison whatever as between the STYLE of |
working the road under the old sys. |
tenn, and working them with the
convicts.-NeaDs Leader.
After an illness of several weeks
with typhoid fever, Sangi Ogawa.
the twenty-five year-old son of q
Japanese Government official, died |
Monday morning at Dixie Hospital,
Hampton, with typhoid fever.
Young Ogawa next month would
have entered upon the third year
Of his course at Randolph Macon
College, where he was ministerial
student. This summer he had been
and preaching in Mathews
county, where he contracted the
fever. When the Russo Japanese
war broke out the young patriot was
anxious to give up his ministerial
studies and return home to fight for
his country. His parents decreed,
however, that he should remain in
America, and their instructions were
'heyed. Nothing has occurred in
recent years In the history Of Ran
iolph- Macon which has produced so
profound an impression, cast so much
gloom over the student BODY and
faculty as the announce ment of the
ieath of yonng Ogawa. Ogawa was
BORN in Kobe, Japan. in 1882, of a
noble family of statesmen who were
strongly opposed to foreign utilization
md Christianity. At an early age
'angi developed a yearnirg for an
American Christian education and
led to this country under the most
omantlc and positively pathetic
circumstances. lie finally worked
lis way to Virginia and to Randolph.
Macon College, where he shortly
afterwards learned he had been
by his family and all in.
cut off. To the honor and
highest glory of this young man, it
nay be said that he has led his
.lasses in mathematics and higher
English, and has been considered the
most popular young man ut college.
lis parents hearing of hia eminence
L his class work in an American
ollege, have recently become recon.
iled, and were preparing to welcome