Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-10-26
NEWS ITEMS.

President Roosevelt Tuesday made
,hanges, or shifts, in five of his cab
met officers.
President Roosevelt, accompanied by |
wife and daughter, Ethel, has promised
to open the jamestown Exposition April |
20, next.
Since the trouble in Roanoke with
idle negroes a number of towns north
and south have served notice on the
shiftless ones that they must decanp.
Four persons were killed and a hun
dred injured by an explosion of gasoline
near Celina. Ohio. Fire followed the
explosion, destroying buildings worth
500, coo.
Since the Russo-Jappo war a number
of Russian torpedoes have destroyed
vessels off Vladivostok. The latest was
a large coasting ship which was blown
up last week. $50 persons persisted.
Owing to the rain and wet weather
that we are having, farmers have been
thrown behind in their fall work. 1t
is now high time for sowing wheat, but
few have made any preparations.
Edgar Wright and Charles Washing
ton, negroes, charged with the murder
of Thomas Crowson at Metompkin,
have been lodged in Accomac county Jail.
Constable Kellam captured them on
dredge boats in lower Machodoc creek,
on the Potomac.
At August Court for Essex county,
nine leading citizens of Tappahannock
were indicted by the grand jury for
playing games of whist at the hotels of
that place. At the October term the
grand jury recommended that the in
dictments be dismissed, which was
done.
The farm in Essex county known as
"Payne6eld, belonging to the estate
of the late L, B. Andrews. was sold at
public auction at Tappahannock last
week for SIG, 1t was purchased by
S. E. Tuck, of Baltimore. The prop
erty sold for only $500 twelve years
ago.
The Inspector-Genera of the United
States issued an order from President
Roosevelt to the battalion of the Twen-
ty-fifth Regiment of Infantry (colored),
stating that the battalion must give
the names of the men in the recent
Brownsville (Texas) disturbance or be
dishonorably discharged.
The Jr. o. u. A. M. met in Elkton,
Va, last week in annual session: &. r.
Fellow was elected State Councillor, j.
T. Sharpley, Vice-Councillor; A. L.
Bradley, Junior Past Councillor; Thos.
B. Ivey, Secretary and Geo. w. Kinsey
Treasurer. The Council will meet in
Norfolk next year. October 18th has
been set as Mechanics Day.
George Rashid, the leper died last
week near Pickens, w. Va, heart
trouble being the immediate cause of his
death. Rashid left Elkins, w. Va,
some months ago for Leper Colony in
New York, but was turned back at
Baltimore and sent to West Virginia.
Later reports are that he was poisoned
in his shanty and the body was cremated
by burning the house that he died in.
By the verdict of jury last week the
the Standard Oil Company. of Ohio, is
declared guilty of conspiracy against
trade violation of the Valentine Anti
Trust law of Ohio. The penalty is a
fine of $50 or $1,000, which may be re-
peated for each day of the offense, or
Imprisonment from 6 to II months. The
Standard Oil Company has given notice
that it will file motion for new trial.
A mob crying death to the negroesi'
formed at Casey, Illinois, and marched
into the negro district. The negroes
had fled into the country. III feeling
toward the blacks has been growing in
Illinois for several months as aresult of
various crimes committed by the ne
groes. This i'll feeling burst all bounds
of restraint at Casey when it became
known that a negro man cook insulted a
white girl. daughter of prominent
family.
A bull gored to death Frederick
Cowan and his young bride near Martins
burg, w. Va, recently. They haG
been married after an elopement, and
were passing through the pasture, ir
which the bull was confined, FROM the
residence of the preacher to the depot
to catch train for their honeymoon
trip, when the red dress worn by the
girl Infatuated the bull, which charged
upon them, goring and trampling the
groom to death, and afterward taking
the bride on his wide horns, hurting
her high in the air and over barbed
wire fence, producing injuries that re-
suited in her death several hours later