Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-08-24
NEWS ITEMS.

lnere Is general feeling IN official
circles at Toxic now that the incident
of the killing of Japanese seal poachers
in the Aleutian Islands by the United
States authorities recently will be
amicably settled and that no complica-
tion will arise
According to statement issued Mon
day Congress, at it's last session appro-
priated for the fiscal year 1907 $685.
$50, 125.1 representing an increase of
$50, 404, $50. 20 over the sum appropriated
the last session of the Fifty eighth Con-
gress for 1906.
The large grist mill of r. S. Parks,
near Kinsale, Westmoreland county, to-
gether with a quantity of corn and
wheat, was destroyed by fire about 2
O'Clock Tuesday morning. Loss about
81, 500; no insurance. The fire is
thought to have been of an incendiary
origin.
The weather officials say the phases
of the moon have no effect on the
weather, that this was a superstition
prevalent among number of Southern
farmers. but after a most thorough
study weather experts have been unable
to estimate any influence that the moon
has on the weather.
Captain Carter r. Bishop has re-
covered the famous $50, ZOO map of
Petersburg and Appomattox river
which mysteriously disappeared soon
after the close of the civil war. 1t
was recently found in an abandoned
house in Richmond that had been used
many years ago by United States en-
gineers.
The full text of the decision of the
Supreme Court of Appeals in the case
of Button against the Corporation
Commission affirming the right of the
Legislature to appoint Button insur-
ance commissioner was made public or
the 18th. The cardinal doctrine laic
down in the decision is that Legislative
power is supreme after the Federal anc
State Constitutions, these alone being
superior to it.
Orders for the formation of the At
lantic fleet to be reviewed by President
Roosevelt at Oyster Bay September ;
have been issued at the navy depart
ment. The fleet will be the stronges
ever assembled under the American
flag. 1t will consist of 45 vessels, car
rying LIS guns, commanded by 81.
officers, with Is, 225 men. The auxiliar,
and supply ships will carry, in addition
to what is aboard the warships, 7.40l
tons of coal, $500 tons of provision
and $4,000 gallons of water.
The Times-Dispatch of the 18th i
responsible for the statement that tn,
Wabash will probably build parable
road from Washington to Richmond t
be operated by electricity. 1t alsc
states that surveys have been made t,
Millenbeck, a splendid deep-sea harbo
near the mouth of the Rappahannocl
River, in the Northern Neck, abou
eighty-five miles from Fredericksburg
Water rights on the streams along tn,
route have been secured, for the con
struction of dams, and the assertion i
also made that at Fredericksburg Their
would be sufficient power to operate
branch line to Millenbeck on the Rap
pahannock River in Lancaster county
Ex-Judge c. j. Campbell, VIII
achieved such notoriety by publicl
cowhiding Rev. Mr.. Crawford. of tn
Virginia Anti-Saloon League, ha,
another difficulty with q preacher, thi
time Methodist preacher, in the Am
herst postoffice, on the 9th day of Au
gust. Campbell struck at the preache
several times. The preacher grabbe,
up stool and rushed at Campbell.
tussle ensued over the stool. By
ISLANDERS separated them. The preache
was Rev. A. II. Moore, who at one tim
belonged to the Kansas conference. HI
is also the member of the board of SUI
pervisors of Amherst county. The quar-
rel arose over some bitches which
force of hands working the road ad
J~A6 Z" eoSS SoiipDSii ice pOnu nat
cut to drain the road.
The plan to fill in the East Rive
from the Battery to Harlem, thus add
ing a tract of land to New York cit,
nearly eight miles long, and maxim,
New York and Brooklyn one city, ha
come to the front. If the idea shout,
bear fruit, the most gigantic feat of en-
gineering in the history of the worl,
would confront the engineers. Owe
three billion cubic feet of water would
have to be removed, and the space lief
filled with solid land. The cost is al
most beyond computation, but no matter
how great it could be met. Then, il
the course of time huge buildings will
rise where once all was water, and the
city will take on new look. Manhat
tan Island has reached its height as 8
habitable island. Business houses are
gradually pushing the residence dis
tricts into more and more limited space
and the population is sure to decline ir
favor of the suburbs in a very sbor,