Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-12-07
NEWS ITEMS.

S165, eco, 4S4 richer.
An international committee is raising
a fund for the ten million starving in
the north of China.
Twenty-four lives were lost and hun
dreds injured by an explosion of roborite
at the Krupp gun works, Germany.
G. R. Johnson, a young white man,
was fined 500 in Richmond for writing
an insulting letter 20 sixteen-year-old
girl.
Jno. D. Murrel lag time city, edi-
tor of the Richmond Times-D Dispatch,
has gone to the News Leader in like
position.
State Anti-Saloon League Convention
is in annual session at Charlottesville
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of
this week.
The John d. Rockefeller fund for
higher education embraces the follow
ing appropriations: Richmond College,
$50, 900, and Washington and Lee Uni
NSiSiIy, So,VVV-
The presentation of the silver service,
Virginia's $1,000 gift to the battleship
Virginia, will take place at Newport
News on December Is. Governor Swan
son will officiate.
Eggs are worth forty cents dozen
in New York, and correspondingly high
in other lesser cities. Turkeys are
worth twenty-five cents a pound in
Norfolk and Baltimore.
The explosion of bomb-shell, which
lodged in one of the frame houses in
fredericksburg while the Confederate
war was in progress, caused fire Sat-
urday morning which destroyed two
frame houses on Main street, entailing
a loss of 81, 900.
A fine of $4,000 was imposed upon
the American Sugar Refining company
by Judge Hough, in the u. S. circuit
court last week, for accepting rebates
from the N. Y. Central Railroad COM
pany. A similar fine was imposed on
the railroad the week before.
Captain Andrew A. Cockett, of the
schooner James A. Whiting, convicted
under the new Federal shanghaiing law
of cruelties to his crew and given the
option of serving six months in Jail or
paying fine of $500, has paid the fine
in the form of a certified Baltimore
check.
The jury in the trial of Chester E.
Gillette for the murder of his sweet
heart, Grace Brown, at Big Moose
Lake, N. Y, on July 18th last, returned
verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree Tuesday. Sentence will be
pronounced today Thursday when
iGillette's council will move to have the
verdict set aside.
The Japanese are ''up to snuff. I"
After a years unsuccessful effort to
subdue the head-hunters of Formosa
with bullet and saber, Japanese soldiers
have resorted to the expedient of ex-
terminating the cannibal tribes by the
use of live wires. Wires charged with
many volts are run in among the jungles
which the natives occupy and each day
a patrol finds several dead. The head
hunters are completely demoralized at
this unseen enemy.
The Executive Board of the State
Council, Jr. o. U. A. M, which met
irf Richmond last week to decide on the
course of action relative to the taking
in of the ''loyalist," who lost their
fight with the insurgents" decided
that all of the loyalists could come into
the present stet ANIMATION on the
same basis, withoE regard to person.
atty, by the payment of per capita
tax of twenty-five cents, the first quarter
of which must be paid on or before
March 81, 1907. 1t was decided, how
ever, that no state honors of the 10y
alists should be recognized but that
all subordinate honors shall be. The
recent decision of the supreme court
carried with it an injunction which
restraints the loyalists from acting as a
body or using the name or objects of
the order. Officers of the loyalists.
expressed the opinion that they would
not hesitate to accept the proposition
that is offered them and come into the
fold.
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