Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-03
NEWS ITEMS.

Lumber mill men in Virginia, North
Carolina and South Carolina will, it is
said, reduce their output in August in
an effort to force up prices.
VIM. J. Bryan's resolution at the
Arbitration Congress in London was
unanimously adopted. His speech
elected one of the greatest ovations
ever witnessed in that great city.
The world does move. The Com
mandant of West Point has honored
that institution by giving a life size
painting of General Robert E. Lee a
conspicuous place in the mess-hall gal
lery.
The dead-letter fund amounted in
July to $2,14046. This money was
found in the mails and could not be
traced to its owners, owing to incorrect
or unintelligible addressing of letters
and packages.
Effete Boston witnessed a pistol fight
on her streets one day last week. In
broad daylight two bold robbers held up
a business man in his office and got his
cash. They were captured after a
running fight.
Swapping and snarling like dog, and
rolling and writing on. the ground, while
suffering from an acute attack of hydro
phobia, William Garrison, of Pittsburg,
bit three men before he could be over
powered. He was attacked last week
by a mad dog.
Scores of nephews and nieces of the
deceased millionaire miser Russell Sage
will seek to break his will. He left his
one hundred millions all to his wife,
who, though n years Of age, will seek
to rival Carnegie in giving away the
fortune.
A telegram states that Thomas Dixon,
jr., the author and dramatist, has sold
his country home, ''Dixondale,' in
Gloucester county, to VIM. Apple, a
wealthy Philadelphian, for S45, 600 cash.
1t was there that Dixon wrote "Leop-
ards Spots" and 1.-The Clansman.
No two-cent-fare for Virginia. The
State Corporation Commission has
decided the Churchman act, requir-
ing railways inVirginia to issue mileage
books at cents per mile, to be uncon-
stitutional. Acknowledgement Anderson
gave notice ofan appeal to the Supreme
Court of Appeals.
President Roosevelt said recently
that when Congress convenes next
winter he will send a message to that
body recommending that certain legis-
lation for the benefit of the Filipinos
be enacted, failing which he will recon-
mend that Congress take the steps
necessary to turning the archipelago
over to the natives to be governed by
themselves.
Twoyoung ladies' of Smithville, N. j.,
were drowned in Rancocas Lake by the
upsetting of row-boat. They were
accompanied by two young men who
saved themselves by swimming ashore.
The men tried to slip away through the
woods, but Were overtaken, and placed
under arrest, for deserving the drowning
girls. They were observed to be sky
larking in the boat just before it wa,
upset.
Startling statements were mad
before the special committee appointe,
to investigate the marketing of meat
in Atlanta. Inspector Wass said tina
meats had been butchered and sold il
, Atlanta which had been washed in waite
. from a city sewer. He said further
81 have found as much as a carload O
meat that had been killed only thirt
hours and which bore the government
stamp. And ! had to condemn an
have it thrown away
Chancellor Smith of Randolph-Maco
Women's College, Lynchburg, has dc
cided to accept the proposition made b
Culpeper. Twenty acres of land ada
cent to Culpeper as building site an
{ campus has been offered, and an initis
fund of $4,000 been pledged toward
e opening new school for girls to be CO,
{ related with the Randolph Macon syste,
of educational institutions. 1t is to
known as ''Randolph-MaconI Institute,
and will be preparatory to the Woman
College.
0 Miss Beulah Tuthill, pretty woman
thirty years of age, Methodist mis-
sionary, whose ancestors were mission
, aries before her, was member of
large party which was shipwrecked nea
the Island of New Ireland. A horde &
cannibals stole down upon the schoone
and then attacked it with rush, say
Miss Tuthill. Eleven were killed wit
a blow on the back of the head with
great war club. Then the Gambia
dragged the bodies ashore and prepare
: for the feast. They beat on tom-tom
and strange drums. The company to,
the smoking human flesh to pieces wit
y their nails and teeth in mad orgy.
E Juvenile cigarette-smoking which ha
y become an acute problem in Gres
n Britain, has been investigated by
d government committee. Startling ev
It dence of the extent of the evil has bee
= given, one tremendous fact cited bein
d that 500, 100000 cigarettes in two-cer
/ packets are sold in week. Mr.. Castor
y an American business man in Londo,
told the committee that the America
; cirar atfa 10 .ttha xuorSf thinnr ~,