Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1905-12-01
NEWS ITEMS.


There will be So Sundays in this wear
1905, thing not to occur again for
more than hundred years.
Ex-President Cleveland has consented
to act as Chairman Of the Advisory
Board of the jamestown Exposition.
Director Roberts, of the United States
mint, in his annual report announced
that the coinage of the silver dollar is
at an end.
Andrew Carnegie, the .multimillion-
ARE and retired iron master, was So
years old Monday. He has given away
SlS9, 600, 900 since he determined to die
poor. '.| w." -t I-At t' .f
Senator and Mrs. Thomas S. Martin
have gone from their home in Abe
marie county to their residence. 1871
Nineteenth street, Washington, for the
winter.
The Newport News Council.has adopt
ed an ordinance requiring all dogs at
large on the streets muzzled, and or
dering the police to kill upon sight all
dogs without muzzles. ..a. .r.. a.
The committee appointed by Con-
gress to consider the advisability of
changing the day for the inauguration
of Presidents from bleak March have
decided to recommend the last Thurs
day in April.
| 80 OIL OF u1 10 da.dw irF .ag
1 The fifth annual convention of the
State Anti-Saloon League will be held
at Petersburg, Tuesday, January 10th,
7:SO p. M, and adjourn the following
Thursday night. A great program is
being prepared % 400 afe'i-g fs--,
j, r.. Burton, u. S. Senator from.
Kansas, has been sentenced to the six
months in Jail and to pay 2, 500 fine
by U. S. Judge Van de Venter for
accepting fees to lobby before the Post
Office Department while Senator. sr.
The oath-bound thirteen. recalcia-
trant students at the Virginia Military
Institute, are down and out. Some of
them resigned and the others courted
dismissal by another insubordinate act.
1t is believed the trouble has ended,
though there is still apprehension that
the class of so may yet resign.
Judge D. A. Grimsley has rendered
a decision in the Louisa Circuit Court
that will interest all owning dogs.
sheep and cattle Mad dogs killed a
lot of horsef, mules and cattle and
claims were filed for same before the
Supervisors, which they refused to
allow out of the dog tax fund, on the
ground that no damages were due for
death by mad dogs. Judge Grimslev
ORDERED the Board to issue warrants in
settlement of the $500 in claims. 81 d
BY recent decision of the State
Supreme Court twelve towns, incorpo-
rated or charters amended since the
new Constitution went into effect. are
declared not in existence; that is. their
charters are void and the towns re-
main. part Of the county. The towns
are; Madison Heights, Bristol. Warren
ton, Mayville, Cedar Bluff, Paramount.
Parksiey, Damascus, Vinton. Pocahon-
tas, Narrows and La Crosse. All but
four of them are in Southwest Vir-
GINA.
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Midshipman Meriwether was on the
stand in his own behalf Wednesday. ON
trial for the death of Midshipman
Branch, at Annapolis, and created
most favorable impression. Yesterday
the court was hearing rebuttal and the
findings may be announced tomorrow.
The trial reveals most unhealthy
code" existing in the navy. Opinion
seems to be that Meriwether should not
be held responsible for an act that was
forced upon him, but that the code
should go and along with it some of the
chief heads that permit its existence.
The most terrific blizzard since 1872
began Monday night and swept the
Northwest, the wind blowing seventy
miles an hour, bringing zero tempera-
ture. Snow was six feet deem in all
northern Wisconsin cities; people snow
bound in homes. Many lake vessels
were driven ashore or pounded to
pieces Monday was the warmest No
vember day in the history of Chicago.
The tail end of the cold wave reached
this section Wednesday night, that dav
having been one of the warmest known
here for0 November d The weather
bureau predicts freezing Temperature
by today for these and the C.,lf s+atas