Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-05-04

A great storm on Mount Vesuvius
last week caused an avalance Of mud.
sand, ashes and cinders, destroying
bridges, railways and houses.
The tallest building in the world j.
being erected in New York by life in.
surance company. 1t will be $50 fee,
high, or five feet higher than the Wash.
ington Monument, and SO feet higher
than St Peters, Rome. 80.
The Rappahannock Valley Protestant
Episcopal convocation met in st. Johns
church, at Tappahannock, Monday OF
last week. The Rev. E. b. Burwell,
formerly of this county, but now OF
Stafford county, was dean. Rev. l.. r..
Combs, of Lancaster, preached the clos.
ing sermon.
Supt- Eggleston announces the fol.
lowing places for the holding of sum.
mer institutes for teachers: Norfolk,
Farmville, Martinsville, Fredericksburg,
Winchester, Covington, Big Stone Gap,
Emory College. Institutes are to begin
June 18th, and last thirty day. The
usual school of methods will be held at
Charlottesville.
The United States Supreme Court de-
cided by vote of FIVE to four recently
that divorces obtained in States which
do not have jurisdiction over both
parties to the marriage are not enforce
able outside of the State granting the
divorce. The effect of the decision is
TO annul many remarriages Of divorced
persons. 1t is also estimated that TO-
GOO children are effected by the opinion.
Scientists have discovered that the
San Francisco quake was not from vol
canic causes They claim that the
whole mountain plateau of 40 miles
that form the San Francisco pennin-
sula has moved lengthwise about six
feet owing to pressure left from geo.
logic times. A strain as it were that
has been relieved horizontally, like a
rock finally severing from it's mate
and moving.
The dry dock Dewey has at last en-
tered the Suez canal and considerable
trouble is encountered towing the huge
monster through, as the canal is only
about two feet wider than the dock in
some places. All other shipping is te
be kept out of the canal for one week,
the time required to tow the dock
through. Should the dock block the
canal complications might arise tina,
would cause the United States govern
ment to have to foot large bill.
Considerable indignation is felt
throughout Virginia at the action OF
the Massachusetts Legislature in put
ting rider upon the jamestown Expo-
sition bill to the effect that the Gov
ernor of that State shall first satisfy
himself that the negroes of that State
will be treated in Virginia as they are
IN their own State. Unless the matter
is reconsidered the prospects are that
Virginia will refuse any part of the
$4,000 appropria ton made by Mas
sachusetts.
This will be season of the seventeen
year locusts. The Department of Agri-
culture-has sent out circular warning
those interested to be on the lookout.
The visitation of the locusts is not as
serious as the noise and the disturbance
they make would indicate. But they
come in such numbers and to fill the
woods with their singing that it appears
to the casual observer plague of in
sects that cannot help doing immense
damage. The range of the brood has
been mapped by the Department of
Agriculture and extends in spots from
Cape Cod to northern Georgia and as
far west as Illinois. The time of the
of the seventeen-yeara adults
from the ground varies somewhat with
the season, but the last week in Nav
or the first in June is about the time
they may be expected.