Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-02-17
NEWS ITEMS


at Charlottesville by the President.
Capt John S. Wise will lecture in
Richmond and he expects to put the
Booker Washington White House
dinner in new light.
There are sixteen cases of small
pox In the U. s. quarantine hospital
on Fisherman's Island at Cape
Charles. The disease was brought
in by a ship from foreign port.
The North aud South were
brought together yesterday by the
marriage of Gen. Fitzhugh Lees
daughter, Miss Annie Fitzhugh, to
Lieutenant Horace Brown, u. s. A.
Mrs. Mary Rogers, convicted of
the murder of her husband, and
sentenced to hang IN Montpelier, VT,
February 3rd, has been reprieved by
the governor of that State until June
End.
Chas. r. Fishburne, who was
sentenced to five years in the peni-
tertiary for killing DR.. Lefew, in
Roanoke, has been refused a new
trial by the Supreme Court and will
serve the term out.
johann Hoch, a modern Blue
beard, who is accused of having
married more than thirty women
and murdered a number of them, has
been arrested in New York and
carried to Chicago for trial.
Miss Mae @. Wood, Virginian.
formerly reaident of Washington,
contemplates bringing suit against
Thomas @. Plat, senior Senator from
New York, for alleged breach of
promise of marriage. Senator Plat
was recently wed.
Rev. E. E. Northern, formerly of
Richmond county, but now pastor of
the Tabernacle Baptist church at
Newport News, has accepted a call
to the First Baptist church, of Win
chester. Mr.. Northern will take up
his duties there this month.
August W. Machen, who, only a
few months ago, as the superinten-
dent of the rural free delivery sys-
tenn of the country, was more power
full than the Postmaster General
himself; who, courted by statesmen,
was one of the most iuhuert ial
officials in public life at Washing ton /,
and who, when he fell under suspic-
ion, delied his assailants aud made
dire threats against all who dared
publicly to accuse him, has doned
prison stripes and entered upon a
two-year term of Imprisonment.
The Rev. Cornelius Stewart has
completed arrangements for remov-
ing the bricks from the ancient we'll
in the yard of historic Monroe hall,
in Westmoreland county, the birth
place of President James Monroe.
The time-honored we'll is said to
have been dug by direction and
partly under the supervision of Presi-
dent Monroe. It's original depth
was seventy-five feet, and 1T is walled
from bottom to top with bricks.
The bricks recovered from it will be
carried to the town of Colonial
Beach and used in building fiues, etc.
Friends of Thomas w. Lawson,
who is putting the trusts to their wits.
assert that he will present evidence
to District Attorney jerome, of New
York, and ask the criminal prosecu-
ton of New York financiers alleged
to be in gigantic conspiracy to
ruin him. Lawson, it is said, will
show that his books and papers have
been stolen and bribes have been
offered for false aflidavits to be used
against him. One of these brides. il
Is alleged, was as much as $l4O, 900.
Mr.. Lawson also asserts that two
distinct attempts have been made
upon his life since his coffee was
poisoned.
Commissioners of the Revenue
Joseph A. Pullen, of King George
county, who has been an Invalid and
great sufferer most of the time for
nearly four years past, as result of
street car accident in Washington.
had fall some days ago, which, it
Is feared, will prove serious. In the
Washington accident, the bones of
one of Mr.. Pullen's hips were mashed
and mangled, and he was otherwise
badly hurt, so that he fingered be-
tween life and death, and. lay flat on
his back for many months. He
finally recovered sufficiently to move
about By the aid of crutches, and
was attending to business when over
taken by his recent severe accident.
de is one the most useful and
popular men in King George.