Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-11-15


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A car famine prevails in the West.
the railroads being unable 70 move the
enormous grain crops.
A U. S. District Court in California
fined the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railroad $3.50, 900 for rebating.
The Cosmopolitan hotel and the Mid
way Arcade at Pine Beach, Just out
side the Exposition grounds, was de-
stroyed by fire from the explosion of a
gasoline lamp. The loss is SO. 600.
with no insurance.
A movement looking to the erection
OF monument in memory of DIR.
George w. LeCato, who represented
Accomac and Northampton in the
Senate of Virginia several terms. has
been started, and is now in the hands
OF promising citizens in different sec
tons of the two counties. His home.
Wachapreague, is suggested as the
proper location.
An article in the Confederate Vet
eran, the ofticial organ of the Veterans.
says that General Grant, Admiral Far
ragut and General George H. Thomas
applied to President Davis for COM
missions in the Confederate service
Lit IS attracting wide interest and being
eXhaustedly discussed at the meeting
of the camps.
a case which has been occupying the
various courts for more than 100 wears
was ended recently in Staunton. Va.
More than 500, 900 was involved. and
various DEGREES have been entered in
the past. The heirs, numbering nearly
400, were from all parts of the country.
The final decree approving the settle
ment of the receiver involved onlv
about $4,000. One heir represented in
the original suit as an infant died some
years ago at the age of96 years. Nearly
every lawyer at the bar in Staunton
for the last century has represented
some of the heirs.
With the astounding announcement
that Ia, 600 people of Virginia are victims
today of the white plague-a disease
which incomplete figures show is killing
them at the rate of 1000 year-Dr.
Charles r. Grandy, of Norfolk. in a
report read before the Conference of
Charities and Corrections, nailed this
crime squarely upon the door of the
State: Virginia and it's cities and
counties are really spreading consump-
ton through the agency of the tails.
aimshouses and other institutions.
whose inmates, after being infected. 90
home to spread the disease among their
families and friends. A more criminal
procedure on the part of our authorities
can scarcely be imagined"
The chestnut crop in Virginia this
year was almost an absolute failure.
ms means a good deal to certain
class of mountain people, for when
there is full crop the merchants buy
many thousands of bushels and shin to
Northern markets, mainly to Washing
ton and Baltimore, where they are
always in demand. This year they went
as high as 20 cents pound, though
there were but few to be shipped. There
Is light crop of all kinds of mass.
This applies to acorns, hickory nuts and
other things found in the forests upon
which wild animals feed. 1t is said that
short crop Of mass indicates a mild
winter, the older people declaring that
no very hard weather need be expected
when nature thus failed to provide for
the animals of the forest.
While the great financiers of Wall
Street have been racking their brains
Tor some expedient by which to expand
Uncle Sans currency, Mrs. Lizzie |
Matlog, a little Hungarian woman. who
has been in the country less than four
months, and who doesn't even know
the English language, got herself into
a predicament because, as alleged. she
has attempted to solve the problem in
her own way. According to Fritz
Lakotis, cashier in realestate agents
oihce, the woman came to him a few
days ago, and, agreeing to purchase a |
sl2o building lot on the instalment plan. |
rendered a 500 bill of the Confederate
States of America. The initial payment
called for being So, the cashier. who
has been in the country only three years
tucked the ancient note awav
m the cash drawer for safekeeping. and
gave his customer sos in good money.
The woman was arrested, but the case
was dismissed by the justice, who
served In the Confederate Army.