Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-04-06
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWy IlEmy.
Premier Witte has rendered his res
ignation to the Gar.
Five steamers with 6.79O aliens ON
board have arrived in Baltimore this
week.
The Moroccan conference has adj
journed, and Germany is the only power
worsted.
Governor Swanson issued proclama-
ton designating Monday, April 16, as
Arbor Day.
David B. Hill, great man of New
York, visited Richmond this week and
was guest of Gov. Swanson.
Massachusetts, will participate in
jamestown Exposition notwithstanding
the protest of her negro delegations.
Chill is reported to be taking steps
to organize the South American coun-
tries to resist the United States in the
application of the Monroe doctrine.
Bishop A. w. Wilson, who had to
leave Baltimore Conference of the
Southern Methodist church, just closed
at Cumberland, Md, on account of i'll
ness, is threatened with pneumonia.
| j. M. Holloway, the William and
Mary student who was arrested in
Williamsburg by United States Post
Office Inspector Smith, on the charge of
fraudulent use Of the mails, has been
discharged.
Anthracite coal has advanced 80 cents
ton in Richmond in the past two
weeks and is selling now at $3.50 a
ton. Another raise of one dollar on
the ton will take place this week. A huge
strike of miners began Monday.
Permanent organization of the Vete-
rams association of the Blue and the
Gray and their sons was effected at the
Atlanta sessions of the state organiza-
tons of the Civil war veterans last week.
The officers elected were divided between
northern and southern veterans.
Judge Ingram has handed down de-
cision in which he holds valid the act of
the General Assembly in regard to the
assessments made for taxes on real
estate and personal property in the
State last year. The validity of the
act was attacked by large property in
terests.
The resignation of Midshipman Minor
Meriwether, jr., of Louisiana, has been
accepted, and the unexpired part OF
the sentence to one years confinement
within the academy grounds imposed
by the court-martial because of his
fatal fistic fight with the late Midship-
man James r. Branch, jr., of New
York, has been RENTED. Meriwethe,
has left the academy.
A correspondent in the Eastern Shore
Herald says it is time that Congress.
man w. A. Jones should retire and give
the right of way to an Eastern Shore
man. The Colonial Beach Progress
agrees that there are good men on both
the Eastern Shore and Western Shore,
who would be worthy successors of Mr..
Jones in the House of Representatives,
but says further that it believes in pro.
motion and ''that it is high time Mr..
Jones was placed in the Senate"
Horrible accounts are reaching Russia
of canibalism and starvation among
tribes inhabiting the frozen Arctic plain
at the extremity of Asia. During the
last winter whole tribes have died;
members of the Omolons and Ololys
tribes agreed that each head of fam
lily should kill his wife and children and
then commit suicide. The tribesmen
gathered on a plateau covered with
snow and ice when the decision was ex.
ecuted, not single member of the two
tribes surviving. In family of the
Yukahir tribe, a mother and nine OF
her children having died of hunger, the
father, surviving daughter and nep.
hew lived upon the remains, and wher
they were consumed the father murdered
the nephew.
A pretty young women with blonde
wavy hair, stepped up to the ticket
office of the Norfolk & Western depot
and undertook to purchase a ticket 70,
Richmond. The young woman discov.
cred that she had lost her purse. anG
for several minutes was much per.
picked. She was well dressed, having
among her other wearing apparel a
beautiful red silk underskirt, the lowe,
ruffie of which showed as she sat for 9
few minutes in the ladies' waiting-roon
thinking. She did not sit long, but
acted at once. She struck a bargain
with another woman in the room. The
pair retired to the waiting-room and
soon emerged together, but the silk
pettieoat had changed owners. The
vender carried the beautiful garment
over her arm, while she who had worn
it but a moment before walked up to
the ticket office and deposited the
necessary amount that would entitle
her to make the journey. Norfolk Dis
patch.