Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-11-23
NEWS ITEMS.

NLWS iiEmS,
Countess de Castellene (nee Could
won her suit for divorce, and now Boni
will go begging.
The United Daughters of the Confed.
eracy have passed resolution doing
away with sponsors hereafter.
The aged Senator Platt, of New York,
and his young wife have agreed to sepa.
rate, after less than year of married
life.
An Ohio grand jury has indicted
Rockefeller and his Standard Oil CON-
pratriots. Oil stock is taking an awful
tumble, Rockefeller's pile alone dimin-
ishing sos, 0OO,0 900 in twenty-four hours.
Steam engines will be prohibited
entrance to the District of Columbia on
the completion of the new union station
in Washington. The commissioners will
prohibit the use of anything but electric
engines in drawing trains into the new
union station.
The Supreme Court of the United
States Monday decided the long dispute
between the National Council Junior
Order United American Mechanics, a.
Pennsylvania corporation, and the State
Council of Virginia, of the same name.
The Supreme Court upheld the consti-
nationality of the law under which the
State Council of Virginia was chartered.
A bomb was exploded in st. Peters
Rome. The interior was
damaged but no one was
hurt. The anarchist that placed the
bomb timed it for the arrival of the
Pope, but the Pontiface had not vet
arrived. Since Saint Anacletus, who
was ordained by Peter himself, erected
an oratory in 80 A. d. on the site of the
present basilica to mark the spot where
the remains of st. Peter are buried. no
such dastardly occurrence is noted in
the annals of the church.
II. w. Biggs, station agent at Buffalo
Gap, near Staunton, Va, was about
half mile out on the yard from his
office Friday night when a catamount
came down off the mountain and con-
tronted him. Thinking the animal would
not pass light he set his lantern down,
when the big cat pounced on the Lantern,
extinguishing the light. Mr.. Biggs
drew his pistol and shot three times.
killing the ferocious cat. The animal
had been driven down off the mountain
by the forest fires which are now raging.
Pittsburg, Pa, is having craze of
murders and outrages. Every day
brings new crimes. One of the most
frightful was that of Mrs Jean Mitchell.
nineteen years old, who was found in the
kitchen, held in a kneeling position on
the floor, with both hands nailed to the
draining board of the sink, with blood
running down her arms. Alongside
lay Ratchet, the weapon which had
driven the two big nails and crucifed
the woman. She was unconscious.
When she recovered she merely said
that when she entered her fiat that
morning something struck her on the
back of her head and she felt herself
drawn towards the sink, her hands
pressed against the board, and two nails
driven in. Her husband is charged with
the crime.
Tears and hysterical denials on the
part of women delegates who had heard
themselves called "barbarians and muir
deresses, marked the close of the Con-
vention of the American Humane Asso-
citation in Chicago. Prof. j. Howard
Moore, speaking to 1.-The Cost Of a
Skin," bitterly denounced the wearing
of furs and bird carcasses. Adornment
of such character was evident in all
parts of the hall. Nobody but bar
barian would adorn her head with the
carcass of a bird or the heads of grin
ming weasels, said Mr.. Moore. "Such
things appeal only to the vulgarians.
Such a woman is about as attractive as
If adorned with string of dried skulls.
She excites pity, for she is murderess.
"Furs are the most costly of luxuries
because to secure them men must be
the most constituencies and inhuman.
When l think that in this day of adj
vanced education and supposed refine
ment, brutalities such as are necessary
to secure the furs of these little ami
mails are practiced, am heartily
ashamed of the race to which belong"
The husband of lady present arose to
defend the women and denounced Prof.
Moore. Several woman tainted and
there was quite an exodus from thehall.